Totally understandable, I just really like Mark Sheppard (and his dad) so I wanted to correct that one.

No, Mark Sheppard did play the firestarter guy, but he never dated Gillian Anderson. You're thinking of her boyfriend Adrian Hughes, who was an extra/bit player on the X-Files.

In the show's lore he's a Hessian mercenary, so it's a pretty safe bet he's white.

I take comfort in the fact that this woman will spend the rest of her life cleaning up TP from her property.

My bad, I must have put the wrong code in.

The external battery pack is $35.99, not $26.

Forget the mattress, I think I would have just lit a match and walked away from the house.

Yeah, I explained this downthread to Adam but it's basically just bad wording on my part. I'm in agreement about the ubiquitous nature of it. Though I do think it remains to be seen whether it's actually less harmful than sugar. Corn lobbyists are very careful to say it's 'nutritionally' no different than sugar, but…

I was simply pointing out that it is present in a multitude of items, much as the article itself does.

Many of those products are not exactly what most people would call 'sweet products'. Bread, for example. Or crackers. Or soup.

I have read articles that indicated that HFCS was a bigger issue for people with gout. And the sated issue is important as well, I think that ties into the idea that HFCS and sugar are not absorbed by the body in the same way. The research is definitely ongoing.

Yeah, salad dressing always blows my mind. Most dressings I use don't even have sugar (or if they do it's 1 gram or less), so why I need HFCS in there is a bit of a mystery.

I don't disagree that making all your food is a good way to keep sugar or HFCS out of your diet. Not everyone has that option though, both due to finances and time constraints. That's why I personally always check the labels.

Not a problem. I didn't mean to come across as overly touchy myself.

Poor wording on my part - I wasn't disagreeing or criticizing the article or you, just trying to convey that it really is difficult to avoid the stuff when they seem to want to put it into everything possible. There are even brands of honey that have HFCS now.

And I just listed a massive # of foods that contain it besides 'cereal or bread'. As the article itself points out, it's ubiquitous nature is a problem. There are even brands of honey that contain HFCS now. You have to be very label-aware when shopping these days.

RE: Healthy, I'm aware it's not regulated. And I don't hate HFCS (not sure where you're getting 'hate' from), I am just pointing out (as the article itself does) how ubiquitous an ingredient it is. I was shocked at some of the foods that contained it.

Here's the problem with #4 - HFCS is being pumped into everything. Not just the usual suspects. HFCS is in ketchup. HFCS is in salad dressings (even 'organic' & 'healthy' brands). HFCS is in root beer, iced tea, lemonade, soda, bread, 'heart healthy' cereals, english muffins, crackers, mayo, cough syrup, yogurt,…

Love the new interface, but it has crashed repeatedly since updating on my system. Hopefully they'll get it sorted soon.

Confession time: I didn't know who Ariana Grande was until this morning, when I watched one of those 'Kids/Elders react to' videos on YouTube. I felt very, very old.