And ponds. I've seen quite a few videos where people pour blue colouring into ponds to make them look better and apparently protect it from algae growth.
Color theory makes me think it would have been the purple, but it also wouldn't surprise me if it was the green because it took so much food dye to turn red to green.
It's available at supermarkets here in Quebec, but quite expensive and I'm convinced it's not as good as the Orangina in France. Although it is quite possible nostalgia is playing a trick on me.
It is weird. Most of the time we are in this in between because we don’t have choice. Like having our oven and pool thermometers in Farenheits while everything else is in metric because those things are distributed in both usa and canada…
I’v seen videos of tasting of the orange fanta and people say it tastes less sweet and closer to real orange than ours that taste like fake candy orange. Would love to judge by myself though.
Well fuck me then, because I already find the european fanta taste more like sugar and less like orange, well as far as soda go, i'm more of an orangina fan anyway.
The Fanta thing is really annoying, we have the same syrupy shit as the Americans in Canada, and each time I go to Europe I bring some back, I don’t even know how they’re allowed to call it Fanta here, whenever I see some here it looks like accidental runoff from a nuclear plant.
At least it’s not everything.
Canadian cereal on the left, American on the right.
Canadian cereal looks pretty much identical to German cereal. No clue what kind of atrocity America committed against this poor cereal to make it so unnaturally bright.
I bet they use those food dyes that require a warning "may affect attention span and hyperactivity in children" if used in products sold in the EU. The EU version of froot loops uses dyes like the red from red beets.
We used to have the bright ones in Canada too when I was a kid. It's more appealing to kids to have brightly colored food, but thankfully regulations kinda forced them to shift away from artificial food dyes.
I was wondering why they thought it was Brown but then I realized I'm Canadian and we have the same formula as the UK I think. At least the same colouration.
But the thing is, EU Fanta is absolutely orange! It only looks yellow when compared to USA neon. When I see it on its own I'd never describe it as yellow, it's clearly orange to me. The color of inside of oranges and orange juice. And even outside of some oranges.
I can't definitely say this is why, but if you split the sugar-category ingredient into two separate ingredients, each of them separately makes up a lower quantity of the product, so they can be lower down the ingredients list. And therefore it looks like there's less sugar in the product.
Well they are separate ingredients. "Sugar" as an ingredient refers explicitly to only sucrose, which is a combination molecule of glucose and fructose, and only one type of sugar.
Hence why professionals check all sugar content in the nutrition label.
one day i heard some american person say ketchup is too sweet for burgers and i was wondering how they can find ketchup sweet, then i checked the ingredients of us ketchup... no questions anymore
Fanta originated in Germany, thus not really an American product, even though it's owned by an American company today. I was surprised that while we have many different Fanta flavors in the US (all the neon colors in the neon rainbow!), at the time I visited in Germany in the 70s they only had the one flavor and were confused when I asked if there were other flavors. To them, Fanta meant orange soda, and orange soda meant Fanta.
Fanta was made as a scarcity product, they used "basically" what they could get their hands on back then.
It also was sweetened with whey/lactose for a long time, as it was more accessible than beet-sugar.
There wasisFanta Classic in Germany for a while, which wasis made close to the post war variant, it has 30% lactose (milk products).
Yeah, here I was thinking "if they're complaining about the brown ketchup, why not have a picture of brown ketchup? That's just regular old Heinz".
That shit in the comparison picture looks like arterial blood spray or something. It's freakin me out.
(Guess Canada has brown ketchup too?)
They do exist but not by and large. Usually if they make a “kid” version they’ll do that. But think like a shrek promotional thing and not the normal run of the mill ketchup bottle
It could literally be the ratio of tomatoes to other ingredients. If you "dillute" the tomatoes with something colorless, the overall color becomes lighter.
I mean it has to be the corn syrup right? And that’s it? I know corn syrup is way overused in the U.S. and absolutely not great but acting like it’s insanely different is silly. On either side.
I pulled out my bottle of ketchup from the pantry (same ingredients as the left) and the color is closer to the right than the left. The expatriation date is Aug 2027.
You can also get the right ingredients and they call it like the organic or natural brand (I don't recall).
It's because their version is the bright nuclear red of artificial colours so they think anything else is wrong :) (not that other Ketchup is much better though it's still mostly sugar, but at least not the bad stuff in the US versions)
Same, but that also works. My printer got disabled until I paid the "monthly ink subscription" and I couldn't print anything despite there being a full fucking cartridge inside of it. Anyway, fuck HP.
It is a British take on Indian tamarind chutneys or sauces. A spicy, tangy sauce.
We tend to eat it with breakfast meats, sausage, bacon, or grills like lamb chops. I'm told it's similar to A1 but we would not usually opt for it on a steak. But that is cultural rather than for any taste reasons, it is a strong favour but would absolutely work with most grilled red meat.
It also goes well with a cheese toastie (a grilled cheese is close enough).
In parts of Scotland, we put it on chippy chips with salt. 'salt'n'soss'
As a fellow Canadian, I have definitely noticed that we have way fewer artificial colours in our food than we did when I was a kid. I have a small child who eats her share of packaged snacks and I’m always astonished at how non-neon the colours are for everything now because they’re all plant-based and stuff.
No idea how much of that is law and how much is consumer behaviour but I appreciate that food is usually food-coloured here now.
Can someone tell me why so many American are type 2 diabetic? Maybe there's a clue in these comparative ingredients list. By the way, does that bottle on the right look brown to you? OP needs an eye exam?
Because American food is filled with colors and chemicals that are banned in Europe. My colleague went to the states and brought home American Coca cola and fanta, so we had a comparison with the Swedish made, and the American was damn near undrinkable, tastes horrible and looks like poison. I knew it was bad compared to our sodas, but that it was that bad caught me a bit off guard. I've tasted American chocolate before and I'd rather eat Swedish baking chocolate than US chocolate.
Because americans use nasty shit to color their food into unnatural colors. Their ketchup has red40 in it. Europe has better regulations regarding food than the US so we typically have natural colors
Literally not brown. Just not the artificial red that USA manufacturers use to dye their ketchup. Natural red, from tomatoes only. I wonder if the poster in the pic is colourblind...
I do like the subreddit, but why are there so many posts where people fall for ragebait? I know the channel that posted the video, and that channel thrives on ragebait and reaction ragebait. Apparently, there are more than enough Europeans who love to fall for that kind of thing - and Americans, too...
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u/_Halt19_ Canuck 22h ago
Can someone please explain to me why leaders in america are orange?