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Maybe I'm Jewish and I want to keep kosher. Maybe I'm not. It is my decision what goes into my body. Not yours. Not some company's.

There are a lot of foods I don't eat anymore. I happen to love chocolate. But I don't want to eat chocolate with PGPR in it, therefore I don't purchase Hershey's anymore. Is PGPR "bad" for me? Umm, no. When you were a child, you had (and ate) "wax lips" which are PGPR with some color added. It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR

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>It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR

You're weird. Chocolate originally comes in bean form; some brilliant South Americans got the idea to grind it up with sugar and water and drink it. Chocolate in solid form is a pretty damn new idea and hardly even counts as a food; it's a pretty weird concoction to be a "purist" about. Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from?

I have a few friends that keep pretty strict kosher, and I think they're weird too. But at least I can get a handle on it because it's written in book they feel like following the rules of. I don't really understand this extreme fetishism we have for what we eat that people pull out of their anal area.

>Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from?

Cadbury Flake.

I'm a Fruit and Nut person myself ^-^

It's called a preference, dude. Having a preference doesn't make you weird. I happen to prefer chocolate bars with over 75% cocoa content. It is just what I prefer.

Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird.

Also, chocolate as a drink originated in Mexico and they didn't mix sugar with it. They mixed ground chili peppers.

I don't think he's denying your right to have a preference - that being said, avoiding things with a rational reason seems mighty weird to me.

So you prefer chocolate bars with >75% Cocoa, I can get that - so do I. I like the taste of pure dark chocolate more than the taste of milk chocolate, say.

So, if you were avoiding HFCS for health reasons, or taste reasons, I totally get that. But "I just dont' want it in my food, mmm'kay?" seems weird to me.

> "Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird."

Oh come on, now you're just taking this personally and getting rude. At no point did previous poster suggest that either you or him "blindly consume" anything put in front of you.

Rude? I'm not sure I follow you.

My point is that the opposite of having preferences is just consuming everything. It is just as "weird" as having very distinct preferences.

I also think it is rude to call someone weird but maybe I am alone in this.

I can't speak for the previous poster - but many people I know (including myself) take pride in being weird; after all, what is there to be proud of in simply being the same as everyone else? I doubt "weird" was meant as an insult - I certainly didn't get that tone from the previous poster.

The rudeness comment is in reference to your rather aggressive response to what I perceived as a bit of idle observation. He indicated that preference without rational reason is weird (and to be honest, I'm inclined to agree), and you responded by insinuating that he would blindly eat anything presented to him, which is clearly not the case.

Agree. Also, in the case of chocolate there are other important reasons (chocolate slavery) to refuse buying from industry giants. http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/

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