The Product Formerly Known As...

As I grow older, I find myself repeating the same things I often heard my Grandmother say when I was a child. Sayings that didn’t make much sense to me at age seven make great sense to me now, such as, “For Pete and pity sake”, which is exactly what I said when I read about sugar producers suing corn sugar producers over their new advertising campaign. Apparently, the sugar industry doesn’t care for the corn industry marketing “the product formerly known as corn syrup” as a natural product equivalent to sugar. Never mind we’ve just been through all this same nit picking with the food police, or that the majority of health experts agree that sugar and corn sugar are nutritionally the same. In other words, sugar is sugar, is sugar. What’s quite obvious is that the sugar industry was enjoying the large boost in sales they received at the height of the high fructose corn syrup bashing frenzy. Now that HFCS is being marketed for what it is, another form of natural sugar, sugar producers have seen their previous gain in the sugar market go down, resulting in lost profits. And what happens when you have a loss in sales? Evidently, you sue.