Larry ([info]larryv) wrote,
@ 2008-04-14 10:43:00
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Passover products never cease to amaze me. You can likely go an entire year without eating pancakes and never noticing. On passover you are supposed to avoid most grain products, except for matzah. But of course some people just HAVE to have pancakes for breakfast. Its just boggles my mind.

Ironically I bet the syrup tastes delicious because its not made with corn syrup. One of the biggest Passover no-nos is foods made from corn. This is actually why Passover is such a big pain in the ass to observant American Jews. Just about every processed food product in American supermarkets contains one of two things: Corn Syrup or Maltodextrin. Corn Syrup you are all probably familiar with. Despite being worse for you by most health experts standards, its cheaper to use than sugar so manufacturers love it. Maltodextrin is a filler. Its sole purpose is to make things look more perceivable as what its supposed to be. For example, its used to make a packet of Splenda equal in size weight and measure to a packet of Sugar. You only need 1/600th the amount of sucralose to attain the sweetness of sugar. The rest of the splenda packet is mostly maltodextrin. You can buy products made with splenda for passover use, but not splenda itself for home use because of this.

On the flip side of this coin though, Passover gives you the opportunity to taste a lot of food how they should taste if made with sugar. Find a Kosher-for-Passover bottle of Coca-Cola. Its the one with the yellow cap. Its so much better. Also be on the look out for Kosher-for-Passover U-Bet chocolate syrup. Best chocolate milk you'll ever have.

On a final note if anyone is interested in attending Sunday night Seder at my apartment please let me know. During the Seder participants declare in Aramaic an invitation to all who are hungry or needy to join in the Seder. Its probably a bit late at that point so I'm extending the invitation here and now in English.

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[info]midnightmadness
2008-04-14 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Wait, passover Coke is made with REAL sugar? I am SO there for that... gonna see if I can find some.

The only reason that corn syrup is cheaper than sugar is because of corn growers farm subsidies. Sugar is actually cheaper and easier to grow than corn. Ironically, things like that and ethanol are now driving prices of corn so damn high that everything from milk to meat eggs (corn feed) to ethanol mix formulated gasoline is ALL becoming more expensive because it's all in such high demand. Frak me. There will be no tears shed from me if food producers start switching from corn syrup BACK to sugar. Not at all.

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[info]njsweetiepie
2008-04-14 04:25 pm UTC (link)
It's because as soon as you CAN'T have something, it's when you absolutely MUST have it. :-)

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[info]zigamorph
2008-04-14 04:51 pm UTC (link)
My grandparents owned a grocery store in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. My mother, who used to help in the store as a young girl, talked about how the difference between soda bottles that were Kosher ordinarily and those Kosher-for-Passover was only that the distributors sent out labels to affix to the regular bottles that said "Kosher for Passover." This, of course, was many decades before the use of corn derivatives instead of sugar.

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[info]cinemahagraphy
2008-04-14 07:45 pm UTC (link)
I'm actually attending my first passover meal this year at my roommates parents house.

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[info]neerggirl
2008-04-14 09:18 pm UTC (link)
I always by extra syrup at passover, it is what we use in my house year round. Guests always ask why it tastes better :)

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[info]sidruid
2008-04-17 04:07 am UTC (link)
Thanks for the invite, but it sounds like my mom wants to do a second night. You know how that is.

I always look to this season to stock up, the sad thing is that its tough to get any kosher-for-passover foods in diversity or quantity in my part of westchester. I'll have to pick something up in NJ.

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