Quiz time

Here’s a quick quiz for you. Identify the following item (clue - it’s a food):

Water, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil (coconut and palm kernel oils), less than one percent of sodium caseinate (milk derivate), natural and artificial flavour, modified food starch, polysorbate 60, Xanthan and guar gums, sorbitan monostearate, sodium polyphosphates, beta carotene (color).

Unless you’re a chemist for Kraft, you’re probably no more clued up than I was. A visitor dropped something off using the container (a good citizen, reusing before recycling) and I was unfamiliar with the trade name. I’d heard it before, but didn’t know what it was. You might have heard of it too – Cool Whip. So I read the contents label to try and figure it out. There are no clues on the container as to what you do with the stuff. I had to ask a local when we were visiting, she just happened to have some on hand and served it with dessert. Yes, apparently it’s some manufactured version of whipped cream. The label scared me, I was wary of the look of it – kinda plastic-y and shiny – and the taste? Well, let’s just say real whipped cream has nothing to worry about. This is nothing like it. Even the colour is too bright white to resemble real cream. I suppose that’s why they call it an by an indistinct adjectival noun combination. So the cows don’t sue them over breach of copyright.