Reply #3: I kind of find it funny that, out of all the deceptions the American people have fallen for,

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some apparently consider a preference for slightly higher-quality food ingredients to be worthy of head-shaking.

And yes, I can tell the difference between HFCS and sugar in a soda in blind tests, and yes, I dislike HFCS for public-health reasons. It isn't particularly bad for you (any more than sugar is), but its cheapness means that food manufacturers can make foods sweeter for cheaper, thus giving the consumer a double whammy: more sugar/calories, and less non-sugar flavoring (since the overbearing sweetness would mask that anyway).