5d ago

EU dismisses US demands on food standards and ties to China

www.irishtimes.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/36493283

EU standards, particularly in relation to food health and safety, will never be part of the negotiation, ‘not with the US or anyone else', European Commission says
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250416105427/https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/16/eu-dismisses-us-demands-on-food-standards-and-ties-to-china/
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- And corn oil.
  
  And chlorinated chicken
  
  Don’t forget glyphosate and hormones.
  
  And absurd overuse of antibiotics
- quickly hides the wrappers for the pop tarts and candy bar I had for breakfast
  Honestly, a nutrient-rich breakfast sounds amazing right now. Obviously, the sugar didn’t satisfy.
  
  I've once bought PopTarts when they had "America Weeks" in the Grocery Store. That stuff was really completely nasty. Some dough that crumbles from touching it, with not even the whole thing glazed. Tasted awful cold, and a bit less awful warm.
  I don't get it why they are such a staple. But given they were marked down from 5€ for a pack to 0.50€ in the end, other people didn't seem to enjoy them either. (That was 2-3 years ago)
  
  Oh absolutely. I wasn’t even raised on them because my American parents turned down their noses at them. As an adult, however, a coworker introduced me to the brown sugar cinnamon ones…and they happen to be sold at my place of employment, so when I roll out of bed too late to make breakfast….
  They are objectively awful, and I experience a mild self-repulsion every time I eat a pack. But the sugar is addicting.
  
  There’s an American comedian, Gary Gulman, who has a joke something along the lines of “Pop Tarts were invented as a way to say ‘fuck you’ to poor people.”
  They are objectively terrible; given mainly to the children whose parents did not have the time to make them breakfast, or could not afford a better meal. Fondness for them comes from nostalgia, most likely.
  
  Are they cheaper in the US?
  Because you could get for the same price 2-3 boxes of breakfast cereal, which is nutritionally still shit, but at least it tastes good
- High Fructose Syrup
  
  Whenever an ad says fructose I get the urge to shout fuck those
- Yeah, who's going to pay for all the (living) retirees?

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