"Corn Sugar": Because You'll Swallow Anything

“The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten up its image with a new name: corn sugar. The bid to rename the sweetener by the Corn Refiners Association comes as Americans’ concerns about health and obesity have sent consumption of high fructose corn syrup, used in soft drinks but also in bread, cereal and other foods, to a 20-year low. The group plans to apply Tuesday to the Food and Drug Administration to get ‘corn sugar’ approved as an alternative name for food labels.”
-I kind of love that the healthiest-sounding alternative the corn industry could come up with to peddle their poison is “sugar.” But whatever, I’m fine with this so long as we get to rebrand our gigantic American asses as “back padders.”