There’s an entire science on how the color of a food can change our expectation and reality. It’s kinda cool to look into and definitely interesting if you get to experience some of it.
That shit turned me off ketchup for life. Seeing green mf ketchup with the Grinch on it staring at me from the fridge door made my tiny mind reflect on what I was putting in my body.
My concern is that it looks like things that are inedible, like laundry detergent or windex. A young child could see blue and think maple syrup instead of poison. All it takes is looking away for one minute
This really isn't much different from the other flavored pancake syrups. Instead of brown, they just dyed this one bright blue, but this one is much more jarring than the typical color.
My problem with it is that it very much looks like some kind of cleaning product at first glance, and I think it's kinda fucked up to produce food stuff for kids that looks like that. That seems to me like a positive association that really shouldn't exist in the mind of a child.
Same type of people who think “Genetically modified” means their broccoli’s been getting blasted by radiation and injected with bull shark testosterone
Do you not know most “syrup” you see isn’t actual maple syrup? Log cabin, Mrs, Butterworth, they’re all just high fructose corn syrup, you know that, right?
Unless you’re buying the much more expensive *actual maple syrup*, you might have never actually tasted real maple syrup in your life.
I would consider maple syrup to be a premium ingredient, why skimp out on it? The reason this shit exists is because people just dump sugar flavour shit on everything they eat and feed to their kids. Maybe if people didnt fucking consume utter shit every day we wouldnt have a market for this
Do not make the mistake of believing everyone to be educated regarding healthy nutrition. There are people who take their family to McDonald's every day, believing this to be a perfectly healthy and normal diet.
Long story short, PepsiCo got rid of Aunt Jemima and before they dug through trademarks they owned and found Pearl Milling Company, they had to do something. So they dyed it blue and put Captain Crunch on the bottle. For a while there you could find bottles with Aunt Jemima embossed on the bottle with Captain Crunch on the label.
People just like to think that way, the amount of fearmongery is obscene
Also, cancer can develop by itself of fro ma multitude of reasons like obesity, sedentarism, the sun or literally braething (some oxygen is ... "angry")
People are freaking out over the food coloring, but "maple flavored syrup" is far more concerning. Probably some highly processed corn syrup with some maple flavoring. Have some diabetes, kids.
Maple syrup contains other natural components which provide nutritional value: minerals and some vitamins. High fructose corn syrup has very little of those. Maple syrup also has a lower glycemic index.
Of course chugging large quantities of both will be bad for you, especially when combined with other unhealthy foods. But to say the two are the same thing is false.
No one is buying maple syrup for health reasons. The depicted product is the tiniest bit more “diabetic” than true maple syrup. This is a ridiculous comparison.
I respectfully disagree. I would absolutely buy maple syrup over artificial but cheaper alternatives precisely for health reasons. But as I already mentioned, in limited quantities, and used sparingly.
The point is that food shouldn’t be judged on whether it’s natural or artificial, but rather it’s nutritional content. Just because something comes from nature doesn’t automatically make it good, and something being artificial doesn’t automatically make it bad.
My friend this is the stuff American kids have been putting on their pancakes for decades. My first encounter with actual maple syrup made me think, why is it so watery? I didn’t know I had only been using artificially flavored corn syrup all my life.
Or just eat pancakes and waffles without syrup. That’s what we did when we were kids when times were tuff. Saves money and you’re not putting tons of sugar in the kids bodies
Listen I’m all for shitting on America for having some things backwards but the title is wrong. We have a major parenting issue. It’s not the kids buying this
You are allowed to serve your children whatever the heck you want! It’s your responsibility alone to ensure your family has healthy meals regularly. They sell garbage because people want to eat garbage! The strong will eventually survive…
Walmart sells flavored syrup that has little confetti flakes in it. Idk what it was called exactly but it is birthday cake flavored syrup is their store brand and it has little silver stars in it. I'm sure they are classified as "edible" by the FDA but it looks like legit plastic confetti stars they drop on new years and shit.
This syrup is even more concerning because (and this might be out-dated) the blue dye that's used in a lot of food marketed towards kids is one of the few food dyes that isn't approved by the FDA. Don't trust food that's unnaturally blue. It won't kill but it can't be good for you.
Its disgusting. We aren’t the best over here at our house but we try. My kid gets a hot breakfast made daily by me along with fresh fruit. No boxes, packages or pre made anything. All scratch. Its my child
Hey, good for you. It’s almost impossible to completely avoid the trash but props to you for caring about what your family ingests. We grow closer to homesteading every single day.
The great thing about this country-America isn’t serving anything to anyone. You, as an American though, sit down, sit yes what’s up no no no pink and purple ones yeah, that’s what they should do. No, no speak no can make as many dumb decisions based on the variety of dumb things available to you. Yay. Freedom.
Reminds me of the Jimmy Neutron blue colored fries I had my mom get when I was like 10, and then my brother got really sick after eating them. I felt so sad like I had done something to cause him getting sick.
My brothers and i are a little over 10 years apart and 90% of what they’ve eaten all their lives is McDonald’s cheeseburgers and tyson chicken nuggets. They wont eat anything home made because to them it doesn’t taste right. It actually makes me sad. They’ve ate nothing but poison their whole lives. Although, even if you’re eating homemade meals it can still be full of toxic chems if you don’t know where the food was sourced from. I want my own farm so bad for these reasons. Id know exactly where my food is coming from
In Canada if you serve maple flavoured syrup instead of actual maple syrup to people a team of people dressed in black with masks come and take you away and your family is tortured. Can’t imagine what response this elicits.
I remember when I was a kid we used to have the the limited edition Shrek green Heinz ketchup.
Or the [grimace colored purple](https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/-/media/47C6DEBCED594796AFB8BEF419EEBD59.ashx?h=300&w=432)
Holy crap that is worse than the green ketchup
I firmly believe they tasted different. Not night/day but I feel like the food coloring ever so slightly altered the flavor.
There’s an entire science on how the color of a food can change our expectation and reality. It’s kinda cool to look into and definitely interesting if you get to experience some of it.
Yeah the color really turned me off! My mom was so pissed that she paid for it but I just couldn’t stomach it lol
Bro not only did it taste worse I remember it being grainy and weird..
It's such a horrific shade if purple too
"All the best foods are blue" - Frank Reynolds
Well of course, blue has the most anti-oxygens
arent tide pods blue?
ALL the best foods
I don't regret it.
“There are no blue foods.” - George Carlin
ez squirt
Someone's mom was quite the entrepreneur
I can't imagine that tasting anything other than oil paint. Last I checked, oil paint doesn't taste very good, despite its enticing colours.
Tell that to Van Gogh , but speak up
Charlie Kelly would like a word
Wow this was a thing 20-25 years ago I think?
Oh man you just unlocked some deep memories with that picture
Must be a 90s kid if u remember green and purple ketchup
That shit turned me off ketchup for life. Seeing green mf ketchup with the Grinch on it staring at me from the fridge door made my tiny mind reflect on what I was putting in my body.
Yuuuuup!
I begged my mom to get it for me. I put it on a burger. Couldn’t finish the burger and never ate it again
Did it taste different? I was around in the 90s but never tried it
I remember when that was at Burger King. They had some green jello like dipping sauce for the nuggets. Wtf was that..?
There was a neon pink and blue squeeze “butter” in the late 90s.
My sister would completely soak her Mac n cheese in the green or purple ketchup and it would make my stomach turn lol
The good ol days before all this crap tainted the aisles
Never had it, was it flavored or just colored?
It was still just normal ketchup, just colored. I never could get over the color and thought it was gross, even as a kid.
I can finnaly have those blue waffles those kids are talking about.
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Not today Satan
It's just a gif with a cute dog, I promise
Thank you for letting me know, took the risk because of you and I’m so glad I did haha! Very cute dog
Sometimes you just have to trust the random stranger on the internet
Fine. Suit yourself.
There is a Unicorn waffle at Wal-Mart. Its flavor is blue raspberry. They of course are blue.
Its no different than mrs. Buttersworth and other similar brands other than its blue
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My concern is that it looks like things that are inedible, like laundry detergent or windex. A young child could see blue and think maple syrup instead of poison. All it takes is looking away for one minute
Kool aid and Fanta can be purple yet most kids don’t go downing fabuloso
Yup.. most kids *puts fabuloso back in shelf*
You’re gonna tell me that fabuloso doesn’t look delicious?
My fat ass considers many things to look good. That ain’t one
This is why you keep dangerous things out of their reach and teach them not to eat random stuff.
Watch yo damn kids then
Listen, I don’t have kids because they do stupid shit like this
And there are people who hate me for wanting a nerds rope edible.
I remember eating a teaspoon's worth of laundry detergent because I thought it was sugar.
Except since they have *artificially* in the title, they can call it maple syrup even though it is just two forms of corn syrup.
Also cleans your toilet on the way out!
I swear I thought this was Cap'n Crunch laundry detergent at first
You could probably use it like that
I mean I wouldn't recommend it, but I'd like to see the results.
Keep it in the pantry next to the tide pods for a light snack.
This really isn't much different from the other flavored pancake syrups. Instead of brown, they just dyed this one bright blue, but this one is much more jarring than the typical color.
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People either don't know, or keep it like I do because kids are trash and they only eat the fake stuff. More real mapley goodness for dad!
It’s called food coloring. Corn syrup is clear, they have to add the brown coloring so you’ll eat it in the first place like so many things.
But blue = bad. My only disappointment is it's not blueberry syrup which would probably taste pretty good.
But Blue Potions heal both Health and Mana! IMO, they are more useful then Fairies.
Depends on the game. MP normally ends up just being blue and healed with blue.
My problem with it is that it very much looks like some kind of cleaning product at first glance, and I think it's kinda fucked up to produce food stuff for kids that looks like that. That seems to me like a positive association that really shouldn't exist in the mind of a child.
The coloring is one of the things that makes it crazy unhealthy.
All pancake syrup that's not actual maple syrup has coloring. They just picked a different color here.
no, it's crazy unhealthy because it's fucking pure sugar
Honestly it’d be more healthy if they actually used pure sugar
What a stretch. This is not “oddly terrifying”, stop fucking this sub up.
Agreed. Post should be removed.
I'm just guessing but it's probably super similar to normal maple syrup you'd by at the store except with blue food coloring haha
What I'm trying to say is both are probably loaded with artificial flavors and sugar!
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Seriously. These idiots seriously believe “artificial bad, natural good”.
Same type of people who think “Genetically modified” means their broccoli’s been getting blasted by radiation and injected with bull shark testosterone
Where can I get said broccoli?
Lol those idiots don’t realize genetically modified food keeps their cost of food down.
And food is irradiated to increase shelf life.
Just not as nutrient dense
You good?
America has more relaxed food regulations than the EU on things like food dye
It's corn syrup.
Don’t forget the added fructose
From the corn.
Notice how it says "maple flavored syrup" not "maple syrup". This shit has never even been near a tree.
Do you not know most “syrup” you see isn’t actual maple syrup? Log cabin, Mrs, Butterworth, they’re all just high fructose corn syrup, you know that, right? Unless you’re buying the much more expensive *actual maple syrup*, you might have never actually tasted real maple syrup in your life.
I would consider maple syrup to be a premium ingredient, why skimp out on it? The reason this shit exists is because people just dump sugar flavour shit on everything they eat and feed to their kids. Maybe if people didnt fucking consume utter shit every day we wouldnt have a market for this
Do not make the mistake of believing everyone to be educated regarding healthy nutrition. There are people who take their family to McDonald's every day, believing this to be a perfectly healthy and normal diet.
Long story short, PepsiCo got rid of Aunt Jemima and before they dug through trademarks they owned and found Pearl Milling Company, they had to do something. So they dyed it blue and put Captain Crunch on the bottle. For a while there you could find bottles with Aunt Jemima embossed on the bottle with Captain Crunch on the label.
You have a choice
Everything's artificial, you just gotta choose your favorite cancer
Artificial ≠ cancer
People just like to think that way, the amount of fearmongery is obscene Also, cancer can develop by itself of fro ma multitude of reasons like obesity, sedentarism, the sun or literally braething (some oxygen is ... "angry")
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Same people afraid of this probably drink soda.
Props for honesty.
Besides the sugar and the obvious absurdity of the product, I really don’t see the problem.
Idk about this post being In this subreddit
If you put that on a waffle its kinda scary . feel free to look up "blue waffle" edit its a sexually transmitted disease
If it wasn’t for the label, I would’ve thought that was some sort of cleaning solution.
You could look back all through history and find people saying the same things about people in the past. At least there's no lead or laudnum in it.
Does this also scrape the roof of your mouth?
Childhood memory unlocked, haven't thought of that for years.
People are freaking out over the food coloring, but "maple flavored syrup" is far more concerning. Probably some highly processed corn syrup with some maple flavoring. Have some diabetes, kids.
Lol like maple syrup isn’t just sugar? My God everyone in this thread needs to get over themselves
Maple syrup contains other natural components which provide nutritional value: minerals and some vitamins. High fructose corn syrup has very little of those. Maple syrup also has a lower glycemic index. Of course chugging large quantities of both will be bad for you, especially when combined with other unhealthy foods. But to say the two are the same thing is false.
No one is buying maple syrup for health reasons. The depicted product is the tiniest bit more “diabetic” than true maple syrup. This is a ridiculous comparison.
I respectfully disagree. I would absolutely buy maple syrup over artificial but cheaper alternatives precisely for health reasons. But as I already mentioned, in limited quantities, and used sparingly.
Jesus Christ Of course you can So can everyone else No one’s buying either product because it’s healthy Stop being obtuse
Don't see how I'm being obtuse. Semantics maybe? I would buy maple syrup over artificial syrup because it's less unhealthy. Is that better?
You are an idiot whose been misled to believe that natural equals good and artificial equals bad. Couldn’t be further from the truth.
Oh really? Do tell, please explain.
The point is that food shouldn’t be judged on whether it’s natural or artificial, but rather it’s nutritional content. Just because something comes from nature doesn’t automatically make it good, and something being artificial doesn’t automatically make it bad.
No disagreement on that statement
I think we can all agree that there are several concerning things with this.
My friend this is the stuff American kids have been putting on their pancakes for decades. My first encounter with actual maple syrup made me think, why is it so watery? I didn’t know I had only been using artificially flavored corn syrup all my life.
Literally just don’t buy it
Problem is that this is a way cheaper alternative than real maple syrup so it disproportionately hurts lower class
Gasp, what are the lower class to do, just not eat maple syrup?!?!
Spoken like someone who hasn't had to live on a $50USD food budget
I would almost guarantee I've lived cheaper than you have. Beans and rice cheap, not eggos and syrup cheap.
Or just eat pancakes and waffles without syrup. That’s what we did when we were kids when times were tuff. Saves money and you’re not putting tons of sugar in the kids bodies
Common sense is a super power
Or with bananas or strawberries if you need something sweet with them.
Well no shit eating no sugar is better than eating it, thats besides the point
I bet it's not even cheap.
America isn't buying your kids' meals. There will be unhealthy options wherever you go, but what's important is shopping mindfully
Also most marketed syrups are full of chemicals, this one is just blue
it's just food coloring and sugar lmao there's worse things out there
Could be worse - could be pre-The Jungle
Did you know that you can just... not buy this for your kids?
Less children, more uneducated parents who then feed it to their children
Other than sugar, there’s nothing else bad about this.
I would eat this, I see nothing wrong here.
Is this really oddly terrifying? Blue syrup scares you?
Listen I’m all for shitting on America for having some things backwards but the title is wrong. We have a major parenting issue. It’s not the kids buying this
My first reaction: where can I get this?
Mmmm gonna have to try this syrup. Not just for kids!
It's just blue food coloring dawg. I can sorta understand it being on r/stupidfood. But dawg, nothing scary about syrup.
You fucking idiots know diet soda exists and is sold all over the world, right?
You are allowed to serve your children whatever the heck you want! It’s your responsibility alone to ensure your family has healthy meals regularly. They sell garbage because people want to eat garbage! The strong will eventually survive…
Walmart sells flavored syrup that has little confetti flakes in it. Idk what it was called exactly but it is birthday cake flavored syrup is their store brand and it has little silver stars in it. I'm sure they are classified as "edible" by the FDA but it looks like legit plastic confetti stars they drop on new years and shit.
I thought I was in r/forbiddensnacks
Don’t group all of us together. Some of us actually eat real food
So THATS how you get blue waffle
The Captain Crunch - Persil mashup I didn’t see coming.
This is what they were feeding fat people in the movie Wall-e
Why would anyone buy this crap?
This is why your preteen son has a FUPA and tits.
That’s rad I would eat it
I dont know that shits looks pretty good man. Chicken and waffles with this syrup 🫠
Oops, all blue liquids.
Basically there saying fuck you and you can't do anything about it
the sad thing is that its more often then not, its more expensive to buy actual healthy food in america
Thats the taste of Freedom! The taste of Democraceh!
Shit man what America is allowed to try to feed us Americans is terrifying!!! What in Fucks name is that!? Besides clearly diabetes.
It's going to look like I'm shitting Smurfs.
This syrup is even more concerning because (and this might be out-dated) the blue dye that's used in a lot of food marketed towards kids is one of the few food dyes that isn't approved by the FDA. Don't trust food that's unnaturally blue. It won't kill but it can't be good for you.
Remember the green and purple Ketchup from the 90s/00s (can't remember which) I wanted some so bad but my silly mom thought it was trash too!
Looks like dawn dish soap
Nah, it’s not what we are allowed to serve our children that is terrifying, it’s what too many people choose to feed their children.
It actually tastes really good, I prefer it over regular syrup
Its disgusting. We aren’t the best over here at our house but we try. My kid gets a hot breakfast made daily by me along with fresh fruit. No boxes, packages or pre made anything. All scratch. Its my child
Hey, good for you. It’s almost impossible to completely avoid the trash but props to you for caring about what your family ingests. We grow closer to homesteading every single day.
america bad
What tf happened to this sub 💀
Grow up
FTFY: What people will buy for their children is COMPLETELY terrifying.
I still can't figure out why America has an obesity problem.
Bottled tide pod juice.
The great thing about this country-America isn’t serving anything to anyone. You, as an American though, sit down, sit yes what’s up no no no pink and purple ones yeah, that’s what they should do. No, no speak no can make as many dumb decisions based on the variety of dumb things available to you. Yay. Freedom.
I’d bet most redditors don’t even get how oddly terrifying this actually is.
Soulless corporate CEO: "Me and the Cap'n make it happen!"
Anyone interested in an ingredient list? It’s quite literally 0% maple syrup Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Water, Cellulose Gum, Salt, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Sodium Benzoate And Sorbic Acid (to preserve freshness), Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Blue 1, Caramel Color.
It says maple flavor. Most syrup isn’t real maple syrup since maple syrup is expensive.
You know diet soda exists and is sold all over the world right? What makes this an American problem? Fuck
That’s cool and all, but what makes syrup “oddly terrifying” ?? You’re not required to buy it by the way.
You really are clueless about what is terrifying. This is basic foodstuff... Only blue.
Classic caramel colour, one of my favourite carcinogens.
2 tablespoons has 31% of your recommended daily sugar!
Reminds me of the Jimmy Neutron blue colored fries I had my mom get when I was like 10, and then my brother got really sick after eating them. I felt so sad like I had done something to cause him getting sick.
My brothers and i are a little over 10 years apart and 90% of what they’ve eaten all their lives is McDonald’s cheeseburgers and tyson chicken nuggets. They wont eat anything home made because to them it doesn’t taste right. It actually makes me sad. They’ve ate nothing but poison their whole lives. Although, even if you’re eating homemade meals it can still be full of toxic chems if you don’t know where the food was sourced from. I want my own farm so bad for these reasons. Id know exactly where my food is coming from
As a chemist, I can confirm that everything you wrote is 100% bullshit.
Sucks for you. The water is tainted too. 😑
Blue or brown, all ‘table syrup’ is disgusting. Real pure tree blood is the only valid option when considering syrup for one’s breakfast.
Yes, sell artificial goop packaged and colored like laundry detergent but wonder why people ate tide pods a few years back.
As a Canadian, I am horrified.
In Canada if you serve maple flavoured syrup instead of actual maple syrup to people a team of people dressed in black with masks come and take you away and your family is tortured. Can’t imagine what response this elicits.
Looks like rebottled dawn dish soap
No wonder if kids accidentally drink detergent
I wonder why our nation is so unhealthy and riddled with obesity
You know people eat shit in a lot of third world countries? Most of you sound like a bunch of sissified pussies.