{"id":23603,"date":"2008-02-01T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/02\/01\/pass-the-whipped-partially-hydrogenated-soybean-and-coconut-oils-please\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T10:00:01","slug":"pass-the-whipped-partially-hydrogenated-soybean-and-coconut-oils-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080201-01\/?p=23603","title":{"rendered":"Pass the whipped partially hydrogenated soybean and coconut oils, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2003454425_guacamole30.html\"> Kraft &#8220;guacamole&#8221; contains almost no avocado<\/a>, preferring instead to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraftfoods.com\/main.aspx?s=product&amp;m=product\/Product_display&amp;Site=1&amp;Product=2100061389\"> whipped partially hydrogenated soybean and coconut oils, corn syrup, whey, and food starch<\/a>. (Avocado shows up in the &#8220;contains less than 2% of&#8230;&#8221; section.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> &#8220;We think customers understand that it isn&#8217;t made from avocado,&#8221; said Claire Regan, Kraft Foods&#8217; vice president of corporate affairs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Way to go, there, Claire, setting high standards for your company. &#8220;We think customers understand that none of our food actually is what it purports to be.&#8221; Maybe that explains Velveeta.\n The linked article reminds us that guacamole is a popular dish on Super Bowl Sunday, so when you&#8217;re out shopping for your party, make sure you get real guacamole and not  avocado-flavored soybean and coconut oils.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Pre-emptive snarky comment<\/b>: &#8220;Oh, right, just like the advertisements for Windows Vista, which said that The Wow Starts Now. I didn&#8217;t feel any Wow.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kraft &#8220;guacamole&#8221; contains almost no avocado, preferring instead to use whipped partially hydrogenated soybean and coconut oils, corn syrup, whey, and food starch. (Avocado shows up in the &#8220;contains less than 2% of&#8230;&#8221; section.) &#8220;We think customers understand that it isn&#8217;t made from avocado,&#8221; said Claire Regan, Kraft Foods&#8217; vice president of corporate affairs. Way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-23603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Kraft &#8220;guacamole&#8221; contains almost no avocado, preferring instead to use whipped partially hydrogenated soybean and coconut oils, corn syrup, whey, and food starch. (Avocado shows up in the &#8220;contains less than 2% of&#8230;&#8221; section.) &#8220;We think customers understand that it isn&#8217;t made from avocado,&#8221; said Claire Regan, Kraft Foods&#8217; vice president of corporate affairs. Way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}