Originally Posted By macnak81 well they wouldn't really be maglev cars , but designed and themed to look that way. definitely not the gas powered noisy smelly cars we have now.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<HFCS was brought to earth by Lucifer to destroy human life as we know it.>> 20oz bottles of soda haven't helped any either. So anywho, I did not ride Matterhorn yesterday. However I did ride Space Mt., which I haven't ridden for a couple of years. I was very pleased with Space Mt's seats which have a very nice lumbar support built in. That's all Matterhorn needs.
Originally Posted By Manfried If Nemo is going belly up, is it because it is obese from all this talk about it and sugar?
Originally Posted By ecdc >>I'm not one of those guys saying HFCS is the devil's spawn compared to sucrose. I'm saying that the American food industry is putting it into hundreds of things we eat that we'd never add sugar to on our own, without most of us realizing it.<< This.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost ^^^Yes, but isn't it a substitute for sugar so if they weren't using it they would use sugar. What exactly is gained? Or lost?
Originally Posted By ecdc >>What exactly is gained? Or lost?<< Sure they'd be using sugar...if we're talking about foods that require sugar. But they're not just putting it in foods that require it. They're putting it in...well...nearly everything because that makes it taste better. And if your salsa or your pasta sauce or whatever tastes sweeter and better than some other brand because it has HFCS, then odds are you'll buy it more. So what's to be gained? More sales.
Originally Posted By ecdc Soapbox: There's equal blame to go around. Too many of us are lazy about our eating. For most of human history, a huge portion of our day revolved around our food. From hunting and gathering to a shift to agrarian-based culture. In the past hundred or so years though, we've been told we don't have to spend so much time on our food. We have the commercials of the busy moms whipping up some hamburger helper in 10 minutes. But if you're lazy about your food and you buy it from someone else who prepared and packaged it, than chances are you won't know what's in it. Propaganda from food companies shouldn't be laughed off or dismissed as no big deal because we all learned in kindergarten about nutrition. It's just as powerful as Fox News--I'm looking at you, mawnck That said, you cannot expect to have dinner ready for a family of four or five each night in 10 minutes and expect to be all that healthy. At least not a hot meal. I'm no saint - my family had burgers and fries from the local Five Guys last night. But most of the time when I cook, I spend at least an hour using fresh, whole ingredients as best I can. (I think there's some value in "organic," but mostly it's been co-opted as a marketing term.) Off-soapbox.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Hi -- I created a topic about the Devil's High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Sugar. <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/MSGBOARD-T-124117-P-1.ASP" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/MS...-P-1.ASP</a>
Originally Posted By Manfried Soapbox--- ecdc, they are using it instead of sugar because it is cheaper. As to putting it in other foods, they were doing that with sugar. Again, it is a sugar, just not granulated sugar. So look up the actual science of what it is. ---Soapbox Now back to your regular Nemo Belly up programming.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Nemo will be back in a moment. >>>So what's to be gained? More sales.<<< And a better tasting product for the consumer...how awful! Talk about nerve. Question...does a food have to not taste good to be good for you? Cause if it is I'll opt for the shorter life span that I can enjoy. I only plan on doing this life thing once.
Originally Posted By oc_dean <a href="http://www.cnet.com/i/bto/20080908/Thread-Offtopic-Derailed.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.cnet.com/i/bto/2008...iled.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Propaganda from food companies shouldn't be laughed off or dismissed as no big deal because we all learned in kindergarten about nutrition. It's just as powerful as Fox News--I'm looking at you, mawnck << I'm not giving the food industry a free pass by any means. But why do they even need propaganda here? You don't get a free pass on "HFCS is evil" until you have some proof. And the majority of the proof offered so far has been on the same level as creationists and climate change deniers. But we're just supposed to believe it anyway because "well everybody knows the food industry sucks"? Nope, not good enough. If you have a reputable scientific study showing there's a problem specific to HFCS, then let's see it. Princeton's study wasn't it.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<Please -- join us in the HFCS thread>> Okay Jim, we'll pick up the Nemo Sub discussion over there. ;')
Originally Posted By bravebrother Back on topic...... Innoventions is a collosal waste of valuable space that brings in very few park patrons. I believe we can all agree on this and all agree innoventions must and should be replaced sooner than later...
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I agree 100%, but you have to wonder if the sponsors disagree. While they probably aren't filing in and out of there like Tower of Terror something tells me that the numbers are probably pretty stellar for a permanent trade show. Just think about how much revenue that building generates for DLR.
Originally Posted By Manfried I think if WDI would actually put some imagination into it, like Walt did, Innoventions could be a fun way to present products of the future. But I think they just sort of go through the motions.
