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Chocolate purists protesting proposal to fudge standards

...Mars has launched a division called Mars Nutrition for Health & Well-Being, which markets chocolate products with health claims.

Guittard, whose family has been making chocolate since 1868, said some big chocolate manufacturers favor the proposed change in regulations because they want to keep prices down on key ingredients by using less expensive vegetable fat, which can contain trans fats, instead of cocoa butter.

That scares him.

If the change is approved, products would still need to contain chocolate liquor, the ground-up center of the cocoa bean.

But a confection such as PayDay Chocolatey Avalanche — which doesn’t contain cocoa butter — would be able to call itself PayDay Chocolate Avalanche.

It seems like a small distinction, but to people like Guittard, it is not.

An FDA spokeswoman said if — stressing, if — the agency decides to consider changing the standards as requested in the petition, the process would take several years.

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Meitus: I won't give up trying to entertain

...I just received word that if I don't lower my Sadly, this means giving up the things I love, including my kids, who have nothing to do with my .

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Second, let's talk about middle age.

OK, let's not.

OK, here's what I want to say.

I was standing at the elevators at work, talking to a coworker, and thinking that I was acting all entertaining-like, when this young woman came off the elevator, causing said co-worker to shift his eyes.

If I had cared, I would have done that thing where you point to your eyes with fingers in a V and go, "eyes." As it was, I approached it scientific like.

What did she have that I didn't?

Besides youth, blond hair and a well-tailored suit?

Nothing.

I should have used my fingers to poke out said coworker's eyes.

But, really, I am not bitter.

Third, let's talk about all those reality shows.

Why would people think it's fun to have someone pretend to crash their wedding?

Now, Deal or No Deal, there's a show worth watching.

I say, keep filling the airwaves with as many cheap, stupid, tawdry shows as possible.

And then lament the lack of viewers.

I find that deeply entertaining on some level.

Fourth, let's talk about places that haven't yet heard of a debit card.

Last weekend, I took my young niece and nephew (really great-niece and nephew, but it makes me sound old, so I'm swallowing the "great") to the D...

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