Taste tester: this doesn't taste as good as i remember...
Manufacturers: Just up the MSG and/or HFCS by another 10%.
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Put a little cocaine in it. That will keep them interested.
Best do that with something that hides the taste well. Maybe create a drink so aggressive that it might as well be a cleaning product. Just add some caramel to paint the whole thing black and you're good to go. People will love you coca product.
Better yet, market it as patent medicine.
There's a TV show in Germany, where the guy shows how all kinds of things are made. Comparing products like chocolate from different brands for example.
He basically recreates the product, showing each ingredient nicely labeled beforehand.
It's scary what manufacturers do to make things look and taste like something it's not.
What’s the show called?
Besseresser
Yeah was going to say, the actual answer is, surprisingly a lot.
Cellulose is basically paper. Its in a lot of food as filler. It's not digestible. Has no nutritional value.
We are being fed paper pulp.
There is a great accidental documentary book about this called “The Jungle” by Sinclair.
I'm going to look into it. Thanks for the recommendation
Excellent book. I more remember the housing extortion problem described in that book.
This isn't a High School science fair.
This is a Master of Business Administration.
I feel the heads of development at Taco Bell attended this fare and took it very seriously.
Best advice I can give is eat as many vegetables as you can and skip this crap.
Homemade Rice krispie treats are the only way to go. I remember those as a childhood favorite treat so one day I saw them at the store packaged all shiny blue so I bought them and oh my God those should've been sold as doorstops or drink coasters. Not suitable for human consumption.
Yeah what is even in those to make them taste so terrible?
Homemade ones literally have 3 ingredients. Butter. Marshmallow and cereal. How can you mess that up ?
I'm guessing they mess them up with preservatives.
And/or natural hardening because even homemade ones are best eaten fresh & warm. After a couple days they get harder & less palatable I suppose but my homemade ones disappear into mouths no later than day 2 🤷🏼♀️
Yeah that must be it. Whatever it is has an awful taste and lingers.
Butter. Marshmallow and cereal
This is the first time I have read of "rice crispy treat" and something inside me is screaming, "Where's the rice!?"
The cereal is made of rice or looks like rice ? I guess I'm not sure if it's actually made from rice. But it definitely looks like rice.
If I had to guess, about 30% by weight before things start to seem a little off.