How low on avocado do you need to be to not be allowed to say that it’s guac? 3.5% will certainly do it.

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    This got me curious so I looked up the nutrition page on Tesco’s website… The two main ingredients are water and tomatoes lol

    INGREDIENTS: Water, Tomato, Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Modified Maize Starch, Avocado (3.5%), Soured Cream (Milk) (3%), Lime Juice from Concentrate, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Whey Powder (Milk), Sugar, Garlic Purée, Jalapeño Chilli (1%), Coriander Leaf, Dried Egg Yolk, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Salt, Colours (Lutein, Copper Complexes of Chlorophyllins), Stabilisers (Xanthan Gum), Dried Red Pepper, Glucose Syrup, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid).

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      That actually doesnt sound too bad. Though I’m surprised with the artificial colors that this is what went with.

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      at least they’re up front about their bullshit. unlike “american cheese” that has “pasteurized processed cheese product” in fine print. or “ice cream” with “frozen dairy product” in fine print. when i worked at starbucks we had to call it a “chocolatey chip” frappuccino instead of “chocolate chip,” because the ingredients didn’t fit the legal definition of chocolate

      i’m also impressed they called it “rapeseed oil” instead of canola oil. though maybe there are new rules about that

      edit: ok, “canola oil” is a stupid americas thing–i withdraw my impressedness

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        Here in the USA something that says “guacamole inspired” would for sure have zero percent avocado lol

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        "american cheese” that has “pasteurized processed cheese product” in fine print. or “ice cream” with “frozen dairy product” in fine print

        Maybe this is just because I live in Wisconsin where the dairy and alcohol lobbies are both extremely strong, but most not-icecream is labeled as a “frozen desert” and those terrible plastic Impersonations of cheese also aren’t labeled as cheese at all.

        Granted the graphic design does a ton of the heavy lifting. On the “frozen desert” it shows a scoop of ice cream in decidedly ice cream like packaging and says the flavor really huge, then in much smaller print below that “frozen desert” and I think Kraft Singles just shows a picture of cheese and the branding without actually specifying what the product is

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        Hasn’t it always been called rapeseed in the UK?

        As I understand it, canola oil as a term is used predominantly only in the US and Canada, with canola itself being a portmanteau of Can -adian and Oil

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        Canola is a North American thing. AFAIK the British are familiar with the term “rapeseed” and don’t need the rebranding.

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          canola is a specific cultivar of rapeseed, regular rapeseed contains more erucic acid. there is no good reason for this because erucic acid has no proven health impacts on humans but they did it anyway

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        Honestly not sure why people get so upset about American cheese. It’s just cheese with an emulsifier in it that softens it. Best burger cheese by far.

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      Except it has sour cream another dairy products in it. Those don’t belong in guacamole under any circumstance. Even tomato is iffy and shouldn’t really be in there.

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    Reminds me of “fruit drink with natural flavors.” Not actually juice, just juice adjacent.

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      “Yeah I dunno, Jake…I was just this very moment enjoying this bomb-ass salsa when it hit me…this epiphany just washed over me…I think I want to be a power bottom.”

      pauses putting guac covered tortilla chip in mouth “…o…ohmigawd…you’re not gonna believe this, Mike…”

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    I mean I drink oatmilk, and I think it’d be perfectly reasonable to say “milk-inspired drink,” but yeah… looking at the ingredients I’d stick to guac or plain avocados, unless cash is real tight.

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        oh well, if it has everything real guac has, that wauld be useless. some people can’t eat guac because of the lemon, but i doubt they removed that.

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          It has everything real guacamole has except also dairy and it’s mostly tomato. It should also not have lemon in it but I guess if you’re allergic to lemon doesn’t matter what citrus you put in. That seems like a pretty rare allergy though.

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    I saw “tortilla chips with avocado”, it had %0.04 dried avocado powder in it. So lower than that?

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    Is this like the whole wasabi thing where cheapskates use horseradish instead?

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      Almost everyone outside of Japan uses horseradish, not just cheapskates. There isn’t very much real wasabi.