The End of the World is at hand
Oct. 18th, 2009 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feng_shui_houseI'm not talking about the ozone layer and global warming, mutant frogs/starving polar bears, hurricanes, droughts, red dust storms, floods, blizzards, Tasmanian devils and koala bears with incurable disease, killer bird/swine/hippopotamus, etc. flu epidemics, economic crashes, evil insurance companies, inadequate health care, energy crises, drug-resistant VD, AIDS, sexy fashions for small children, popcorn-popping cellphone radiation, terrorism, warfare, Microsoft, or pollution.
No. I'm talking about CHOCOLATE. In a moment of weakness, I bought 3 bags of old favorites to hand out this Halloween. As I haven't had many kids come by in recent years, I chose chocolates that I like & which had no gluten on the labels, in case I have to spend the next four months eating them myself.
One ingredient in the Mounds and Hershey's fun-size bars, PGPR, was a mild puzzle, but I recalled that it was a non-gluten emulsifier, so I got them, along with PGPR-free M&M's. I googled PGPR today. It is a derivative of the CASTOR BEAN PLANT.
They're replacing cocoa butter with castor oil! I ate a Mounds and a Hershey's and can report that it makes them taste like DIRT. BOYCOTT PGPR!! SAVE THE WORLD.
No. I'm talking about CHOCOLATE. In a moment of weakness, I bought 3 bags of old favorites to hand out this Halloween. As I haven't had many kids come by in recent years, I chose chocolates that I like & which had no gluten on the labels, in case I have to spend the next four months eating them myself.
One ingredient in the Mounds and Hershey's fun-size bars, PGPR, was a mild puzzle, but I recalled that it was a non-gluten emulsifier, so I got them, along with PGPR-free M&M's. I googled PGPR today. It is a derivative of the CASTOR BEAN PLANT.
They're replacing cocoa butter with castor oil! I ate a Mounds and a Hershey's and can report that it makes them taste like DIRT. BOYCOTT PGPR!! SAVE THE WORLD.
