Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!whuxle!pyuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!mhuxm!mhuxl!eagle!allegra!alice!rabbit!ark 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 Article-I.D.: rabbit.2444 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 Lines: 20 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.