"Nancy2" > wrote in message
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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....
>
> N.

Maybe they didn't want to use the name brand. There are other brands of
crap like Cool Whip.