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.