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On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:27:52 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> wrote:

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> I received an email recipe from ATK, which was for the well-known strawberry gelatin
> salad with a pretzel crust. Without stating the product they were calling "fake," their
> recipe included dairy whipped cream. I am sure the easy recipe called for Cool Whip,
> not genuine whipped cream. It was the only component which could have been a
> substitute for something else. The rest of the recipe had genuine strawberries, genuine
> plain gelatin, and genuine pretzels.
>
> But since when is an ingredient called "fake" without defining what it is a substitute for?
> An ingredient is an ingredient. It was sloppy editing to refer to Cool Whip as a fake
> ingredient without defining what their "real" ingredient was. Don't you agree? Or am I
> being exceptionally cranky....
>

OK, you're cranky - but I want that recipe!


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