On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:55:52 +0200,"Vilco", wrote

> wrote
>
> > source:
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...4/26/AR2007042
> 602824_pf.html
> >
> > ...the current FDA standard for chocolate says it must contain cacao
> > fat -- a.k.a. cocoa butter -- and this proposal would make it
> possible
> > to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable oil instead of
> > that defining ingredient.
>
> As seen... in Europe. 2 years ago, IIRC. So, now, one has to check all
> the ingredients to know whether he's buying chocolate or crap.

If you are failing to check ingredients then your are neglecting
to remember the famous axiom of modern life "let the buyer beware".

later
bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com)

--
bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.