The End of the World is at hand

[feng_shui_house]

I'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.

Comments

[muscadinegirl.livejournal.com]

Bzuh? Castor Oil? The stuff they gave children when they were faking illnes to dtay home from school? WHAT KIND OF MONSTERS...oh, I know what kind: cheap, stupid ones.

I've had some dirt-flavored choocolate recently too, but I didn't think to check the label. I will next time.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Yes, we shall fight this horror!

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Blech!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It's CRUEL. *sniffle*

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Do they have no shame! It's...it's...sacrilege! Avon is NOT pleased.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Maybe they can blow up a chocolate factory. *sniffle* This is SO Evil and Wicked.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

There's evil and then there's Servalan-sized EVIL...

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I don't think even Servalan would be castor oil in chocolate! Pylene-50, ok.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Brrr...they're even EVIL-ler than Servalan...at least she has taste.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Although not much dress sense... I mean... pearls AND diamonds? I find that tacky.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

She does tend go overboard...

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I hate to imagine her idea of a Halloween costume.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Avon: She could go as herself.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

That... would be terrifying.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cadbury's replaced cocoa butter with palm oil here and caused a huge flap about a month ago. People are boycotting them and they're trying to backpedal. I think they're going to go for a mixture, but people (like me) are buying other brands like Whittakers (good local company) and Lindt.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Good for you. It's *chocolate* not 'brown sweet substance with whatever we feel like sticking in it'.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Brrrr...Ble!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

*shudder*

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I have tasted castor oil in its pure {shudder} form... anyone who puts that in chocolate should be strung up by their nostril hairs.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Oh, I heartily agree! Evil such as that simply boggles the mind.