I'm not sure if this is fake or not
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This. People have been using the phrase "post-satire world" for nearly a decade now, and it's completely true.
On the one hand, this is an utterly ridiculous thing for the President of the United States to announce.
On the other hand, I'm 90% convinced that it is true.
We're also in the post-truth world, so it kinda doesn't matter if it's true or not...
Reuters is more of a satire site than The Onion these days.
If that were a headline, it would've been better than what The Onion churns out thesedays. Reality really did a number on them.
Onion just needs to write in an AU where Trump is a bipartisan republican making boring Cabinet picks. It would be a hoot. Followed by sadness.
Inadvertently destroying the corn industry and the overuse of HFCS in foods made here might just be the only good thing he does, and it still wouldn't be on purpose.
Except that we don't grow sugar here, so we'd have to import it, and he'll slap a huge tariff on sugar so now a coke will cost $15 for a 12oz can.
That's probably still a net win for the health of the US population though, right?
Completely on accident, he might actually improve the lives of average people if soda becomes cost-prohibitive.
Not really. After some time both sweeteners turn into exactly the same inside the can. Reactions channel on YouTube has a great video on the topic.
The commenter is saying if Trump drives up the price of soda, it'll be a plus for public health. That's probably true. Using cane sugar in canned coke might not make it taste better (which is surprising to me, honestly) but it will make it more expensive.
The reason they started to use HFCS in the first place is because of.... a tariff.
he'll slap a huge tariff on sugar
He might also only say he will until the stock price is low enough to buy in, and then say he'll exclude it from tarrifs.
Honestly a gigantic tax on added sugars in our food stuff would be great. I want that shit taxed every time the commodity changes hands - from the moment it's a corn stalk or a sugar cane stalk or beets in the ground all the way through to when you are drinking your preferred variety of sugary drink.
Our food system is so broken and the financial incentives, and time saving ones, are perverse and pervasive.
I don't want to kill fast food but I do want it to go back to reasonable portion sizes and it should be cheaper to buy a salad than a burger. That's how our food subsidies need to be structured, not shoveling money into the meat and sugar/corn industry so the worst food can be the cheapest.
He already did slap a huge tariff on it. Brazil makes up ~60% of the world's cane sugar exports and realistically is the only country with enough spare capacity to meet the US's needs. He just slapped a 50% tariff on Brazil because he's angry at them for prosecuting Bolsonaro.
The US is actually one of the worlds top producers of sugar. We make about 65,000,000 pounds of sugarcane a year, plus all the sugar beets we grow. Also, the largest sugar refinery in North America is in Louisiana.
Now the goofball thing is that while it still isn't enough for all the United States, we export thousands of tons. Mostly to Mexico, but also like Canada and Japan, while at the same time we import way more from places like Brazil.
might just be the only good thing he does, and it still wouldn’t be on purpose.
He destroyed the bullshit TPP that was about to fuck over digital ownership with DRM , and that was by accident too,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Intellectual_property
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"We've never spoke to this man." - Coke
I'm sure the CEO got a call from the Whitehouse and had a brief, rambly word salad vomited at them over the phone, and replied diplomatically along the lines of "we will absolutely investigate that as a possibility" in much the same way you placate someone elses precocious child
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Also Trump: I'm putting a 50% tariff on imports from the country that makes the majority of the world's cane sugar (Brazil) because I'm angry that they're punishing their fascist that attempted a coup.
This is the math. They assume that Coca Cola won't raise prices, will import more sugar, raise tariff revenue, and they can have their cake and eat it, too.
Meanwhile, in reality, Coca Cola US already sells a kosher version with cane sugar for Passover every year. So they just keep doing that, bring 20 cases to the White House for a photo op, and maybe do a larger limited run with ads on Fox News for literally 1 day.
Once again, being an idiot has allowed T to negotiate a hard position and force someone to do something they already do.
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"Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar doesn’t make sense," said Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode. "Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and boost imports of foreign sugar, all with no nutritional benefit.”
Corn farmers heavily voted for Trump, but according to them they’re weak and stupid anyway, so now we just wait for the cost of Coke to jump due to importing sugar. ‘Course, he never said anything about Pepsi, so people just flock to the much cheaper Pepsi products and Coke goes under! Brilliant!
"Corn is life. Without corn in everything you consume, you will be sad and everyone will hate you. Drink delicious corn syrup for every meal."
-President of the lobbying group the Corn Refiner's Association
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Jump? Have you bought soda recently in the store? I haven't in years until my wife wanted some... Over 3 bucks for a 2 liter, and a 12 pack is over 10 bucks...
Last time I looked it was about 2 bucks for a 2 liter... And that upset me because I remember when that shit was less than a dollar and I'm not even that old...
Anyway
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A May report by the MAHA Commission, a panel convened by Trump and tasked with identifying the root causes of chronic disease, said substantial consumption of high-fructose corn syrup could play a role in childhood obesity and other conditions.
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He does anything to distract from the Epstein files. And his other failures.
Won't the corn-growers be ticked off by this?
Are we pretending that is something he cares about?
Considering he thinks the people that voted for him are stupid losers, he probably doesn't care.
also weak
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Looks like somebody's been buying up stakes in sugar cane production. Didn't they used to produce sugarcane on Epstein's Island?
Epstein? Are you still talking about him? /s
Yeah, he's definitely not trying to distract from the Epstein files...
Mexican coke tastes better because it uses slightly less sweetener and twice the amount of sodium. There’s a YouTube video by chemist George Zaidan that did a chemistry deep dive on the topic. The acidity of coke breaks down the cane sugar (sucrose) into fructose and glucose (which is the composition of HFCS). There is no difference in flavor between cane sugar and HFCS in acidic beverages, but there are often other differences in the recipes that improve taste. Most notably sodium content.
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I think its saying something when this is easily the best thing hes actually done as president.
In coke, which is acidic, sucrose breaks down into glucose and fructose anyway in the bottle before you drink it.
Cane sugar has equal amounts of glucose and fructose though. High fructose corn syrup has more fructose than glucose which alters the taste.
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Does this mean also production plants outside of USA?
@ijhoo@lemmy.ml yeah, so now Coca Cola will not only pillage so much mexican water (it's an actual terrible problem) they'll also be doing it with cane sugar now. Perfect 😒
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Mexico been having this since forever. Is Mexico our role model? How many decades before cheap government chocolate with no artificial ingredients?
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Now I'm not saying that the em dash means it's LLM or at least not him, but I am saying I doubt he knows about it. The spacing is wrong, though, so maybe it is his work.
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