"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "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.
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> So what is Cool Whip? Pretendy cream?

It's a bunch of chemicals.