July 01, 2004

You are what you eat


Can you guess what this is? I fished it out of the freezer for a snack last week, and had munched through it before I read the side of the packet. It reminds me of the adage about those who love the law or sausages shouldn't see either being made.

UPDATE (July 2nd). Answer in the comment section. And another food labelling revelation here.


Posted by Monasette at July 1, 2004 12:13 AM
Comments

I give up. What was it supposed to be?

Posted by: ExpatEgghead at July 1, 2004 11:09 AM

Sounds like chocolate pudding, except one doesn't freeze chocolate pudding.

Posted by: Caya at July 1, 2004 03:12 PM

An orange flavoured chocolate coated ice-lolly perhaps?

Posted by: Smoke at July 1, 2004 05:08 PM

It's the ingredients of a choclate eclair - by Weightwatchers (and no, I didn't buy it)

Posted by: John at July 2, 2004 09:39 AM

Thanks for the Trackback. Newstalk 106 used to do a competition based on ingredients. they would read out the ingredients label from something found in the house (food or non-food) and listeners would have to guess what it was they were talking about. It was quite a popular competition.

Posted by: David Stewart at July 2, 2004 04:18 PM

It's an amazing list since if you were to make a proper eclair, it would be just water, flower and salt, with cream inside.

I haven't been the same since I read Fast food Nation. I've had mu suspicions for years about the burgers, the chicken nuggets and the fries. But the milkshakes? Please, not the milkshakes...

Posted by: John at July 2, 2004 05:25 PM

Most of the chemical names are just that: chemical names for ingredients we all know by common names. The bureaucrats force the food manufactures to use them rather than common names we might know. Carrageenan should be familiar to most Irish: seaweed.

I am reminded how several years ago the organic/natural foodies complained about MSG in their food. MSG is made from vegetables, not Iraqi oil. The manufacturers changed the name from MSG to the more eco-friendly (and larger category) of “Hydrolyzed vegetable protein.” Many ingredients naturally contain MSG, but are not required by the US or European food and drug agencies to be labeled as such. These ingredients include hydrolyzed vegetable protein, kombu extract and “natural flavoring or seasoning.” And the whole foods crowd laps it up now.

Posted by: Larry at July 4, 2004 10:47 PM