• Colonel Panic@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    thx for the diabeetus

    you know you don’t have to turn it into corn syrup right? that crap isn’t used widely anywhere but in the US

    • Taldan@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Corn syrup is better than our other main use for it: Ethanol

      Problem is that we have such extreme subsidies that vast swaths of farmers are now entirely reliant on corn subsidies. We make far more corn than we have any use for because of it

      No politician wants to be the one to take away the insane corn subsidies because a whole lot of farmers will be upset, and the American public is generally unaware of how wasteful the subsidies are

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      3 days ago

      The crazy thing is, every time I have tried a yank drink with corn syrup that my country has the equivalent to without corn syrup, the yank one tastes like ass without fail, and leaves your mouth feeling weird.

    • flora_explora@beehaw.org
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      3 days ago

      Especially because most of the corn eaten in the rest of the Americas isn’t sweet at all. It’s more equivalent of rice, pasta, potatoes, etc…