Originally Posted by
TMOliver
That's my opinion, but don't bother trying to sell it to those for whom High Fructose Corn Syrup is to be avoided at all costs. The choice of sweeteners by commercial food/beverage manufacturers seems to have been largely dictated by price and ease of use.
I agree that the HFCS pocket-paranoia is overblown, but for a number of products, like soft drinks, the change in sweetener is associated with a change in other parts of the recipe. CocaCola and Sprite outside of the US often use sugar and have a distinctly different taste not just associated with the returnable glass bottle they come in.
Not sure which rum you were talking about, blackstraps have appeared recently.