When chocolate bars are no longer made with chocolate. About a decade ago, I discovered that pringles chips had no potato in its ingredient list. Yeah, I know considering what the packaging seems to imply. However, American chocolate manufacturers have begun replacing cocoa and its derivatives with chemicals that are cheaper, they apparently also changed the composition of the "chocolate bar" it no longer melts… Now, I have long discussed our business model, we focus on the higher end, "organically" grown crops and sell mostly to high end buyers and our own transformation businesses (aka our meat pie business as an example). Last week an expose was made of the McDonald hamburger that was now mostly if not entirely made out of corn and its byproducts. Now, I have no idea if McDonalds in the UK does this too, last time I had a big Mac was in the 1990s. It seems that the American food industry has decided to double down on ingred...
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