If You Were a Sandwich, What Kind Would You Be?

You can always count on Arnold—and a their new line features three varieties: Soft Made with Whole Grain White, Soft Honey Wheat and Soft 100% Whole Wheat Bread. Each is baked with whole grains, yet has a soft texture that pleases even the pickiest palates and each is a good source of fiber.

And now, in addition to these 100% Natural Soft breads, made with no high fructose corn syrup, no sucralose and no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives, if you visit their website, you can have a little fun.

Until May 4th, kids living in the designated contest area (see contest rules) can enter the Arnold Best in Class Sandwich Challenge, a contest to make a creative and well-balanced sandwich recipe using Arnold 100% Natural Soft Breads. Four winners from separate age groups will receive a $5,000 donation to their school and a $1,500 savings bond. Recipes should be submitted at http://www.arnoldsandwichchallenge.com/.

There is also an amusing quiz you can take. At the finish, you will discover just what kind of sandwich you are.

Arnold 100% Natural Soft Breads are available in supermarkets and mass retail locations in the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest with a suggested retail price of $2.99.
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Sandwiches can be pure poetry:

A Sandwich Can Be Useful—

A sandwich can be useful. Thick slices of bread with crusty edges,
The middle soggy from mayonnaise or butter.
A sliver of bird’s meat,
A wedge of Swiss cheese.
Lettuce is crisp, unless the weather is too warm—
Then it is soggy as well.

If, for some reason,
Lunch is delayed,
Instead of sitting outside in the warmth,
On the steps of the Met,
The sandwich can be shoved into your mouth—
Conveniently,
On the way to class,
The sandwich is portable.

Memories are made and can be broken while eating a sandwich.
Over a sandwich you can construct a friendship,
Or, find true love.
But maybe not with tuna,
Or, egg salad.
This, however, can be useful.
A sandwich can fend off an enemy,
An unwanted acquaintance—
A baguette is easily a sword.

Sandwiches are useful.

---Elizabeth Fallon

High Fructose Corn Syrup-- A Honey of a Sweetener?

Have you noticed ads recently quietly sponsored by the Corn Refiners Association? The television advertising presents senarios of one person being apprehensive about accepting a beverage or somesuch made from high fructose corn syrup and the other person assuring them its all natural and so okay.
Buoyed by a recent FDA finding, the CRA has been advertising its product as natural and equal to honey and table sugar.
“Upon careful review of the manufacturing process for High Fructose Corn Syrup, the FDA found that HFCS can be labeled natural,” stated Audrae Erickson, president, Corn Refiners Association. “HFCS contains no artificial or synthetic ingredients or color additives and meets FDA’s requirements for the use of the term ‘natural.’ HFCS, like table sugar and honey, is natural. It is made from corn, a natural grain product.”
Specifically, the FDA stated “we would not object to the use of the term ‘natural’ on a product containing the HFCS produced by the manufacturing process…” commonly employed in the corn refining industry. A copy of the letter clarifying FDA’s views on the use of the term natural for products containing HFCS can be found at www.corn.org/FDAdecision7-7-08.pdf.”
So the conclusion seems to be that HFCS can now be touted as just as good for you as honey.