Uncle Bob
Chef Extraordinaire
Seems the deadline has been extended to June 25 to contact the FDA. Could it be "they" are listening??
jasonr said:As for brands like Bakers, who cares what thet put in their chocolate? Nothing could possibly make it any worse than it is.
What difference does it make?
If you bake with "Baker's" brand chocolate or some such trash, then it can't get any worse.
And if you bake with quality chocolate like Callebaut or Lindt, then it doesn't matter either, because no quality brand is going to start putting vegetable oil in their chocolate anyway, right?
There still needs to be cocoa - what they would be replacing is the cocoa butter.How do they propose to make things taste like chocolate if there's no cocoa in them at all?
The lobby group is made up of companies like Nestle & Hershey (not absolutely sure both of these companies are involved as it was awhile ago that I read about this, but it was this type of company), not the companies that make fine chocolates, but the giant corps that make tons of money on so-so candies that contain chocolate.And, why would there be a DECREASE in purity, when common opinion and strategy is going the other way?