Comments Maeve has made

  • Coincidence?

    I was reading through my weekend back-up of RSS stuff, and came across an article at CrunchGear about HCFS - link here.

    The same Audrae lady responded with a similar canned blurb, though far longer.

    Seems awfully coincidental. I expect they've got people on press duty to scan the Web send out this kind of crap anytime one of them finds anything online that even slightly infers anything not good about HCFS.

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    I read food labels for many things these days, but main among them is HCFS. I notice that I feel much better without it in my diet and generally only splurge if I'm going out to eat and want a soda (not often). Usually I just get club soda instead.

    (yes, this comment is damned similar to the one I posted on CrunchGear... I'm at work and lazy...) ;)
    On The story behind the corn industry's cloying ad blitz posted 1 year, 1 month ago 12 Responses

  • Corked wine

    While I'm no expert (learning slowly, but surely), I believe "corked wine" generally refers to bad/ruined wine caused by TCA contamination (from www.cellarnotes.com, the first google site that came up "A 'Corked' wine is a wine that has been bottled with a cork that is contaminated with TCA (2,4,6-Trichloroanisole). TCA contamination usually comes from corks but can also come from barrels, other cooperage or even, apparently, from wood within the cellar including walls or beams. The term 'corked wine' is applied to all wines with TCA contamination because corks are the souce of most of the problems."

    So, your reference to wine sealed by natural cork as "corked wine" might give some the wrong impression (easily fixed by actually -reading- the article, but still).  

    Just wanted to comment and give you a head's up. :)On Umbra on wine bottle stoppers posted 1 year, 2 months ago 8 Responses