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Default Re Fake Ingredients



"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "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.

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


So what is Cool Whip? Pretendy cream?
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