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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.misc
Subject: natural imitation ketchup (serious quote)
Message-ID: <2444@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 00:31:30 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 29 00:31:30 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Feb-84 01:20:55 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Excerpt from 1984 Consumer Reports buying guide:

	"Today, sugar is a mandatory ingredient for a product
	called ketchup, catsup, or catchup, according to current
	Food and Drug Administration Standard of Identity.  Tomatoes,
	vinegar, spices or flavoring (or both), onions or garlic
	(or both), and salt are also included in the standard.
	Salt can be omitted as long as the container is clearly labeled
	'no salt added.' Without sugar, however, the product has to be
	called 'imitation' ketchup which leads some makers into interesting
	ironies.

	For some reason, the FDA specifies sucrose, dextrose, glucose
	syrup, or corn syrup as the only appropriate sugars for ketchup.
	But certain ketchup makers choose instead to use honey or corn
	sweeteners, which some regard as more 'natural' sugars.  Thus it
	is that, among the 18 brands we tested, two are strangely and
	wonderfully labeled 'natural imitation ketchup.'

Welcome to 1984.