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" Do You Know The Only State
Without A McDonald's " ?
Without A McDonald's " ?
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" Name A Term Used In Football " ?
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
What is going through Vermonters minds to NOT want Mickey D's?
I really wanna know!
Where's the maple? McDonald's may have gotten itself in a sticky mess with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture (VAA), who says the company's new Fruit & Maple Oatmeal menu item does not actually contain any maple product. That's a violation of Vermont's stringent maple law, and could mean that McDonald's will have to change ingredients or labeling.
"What we understand, is there is no actual maple in the [McDonald's] product being advertised. Vermont maple law and regulations are very specific for how the term maple is used in advertisements," Kelly Loftus, VAA spokesperson told Slashfood. "It is illegal to use the word maple on a product unless the sweetener is 100 percent pure maple. Artificial maple flavoring should be clearly and conspicuously labeled on the principal panel with the term 'artificial flavor'."
McDonald's Fruit & Maple Oatmeal ingredient list includes whole grain rolled oats, brown sugar, food starch-modified, salt, natural maple flavor with other natural flavor (plant source), barley malt extract, and caramel color.
In a written statement, McDonald's says they are "currently in discussions with the State of Vermont to ensure that we meet any applicable state standards."
Vermont officials told Slashfood they contacted McDonald's on January 3, but as of this morning, had not yet received a reply from the company. According to WCAX, state officials will give McDonald's 60 to 90 days to respond.
This isn't the first time Vermonters have flexed their muscles over the sweet stuff. In September, state officials took Pinnacle Foods to task over their new line of Log Cabin syrup because of the "all natural" labeling. As a result, Pinnacle Foods removed caramel color from its syrup to comply with FDA regulations, but kept the familiar maple syrup packaging and "all natural" labeling.
Vermont is the largest producer of maple syrup in the country.
"Maple is Vermont's signature product. We take the regulations that sustain the purity of the product extremely seriously. When we see something out there that says maple syrup, but really isn't maple syrup according to our regulations here, well that's something that needs to be addressed," says Loftus.
Read more: http://www.slashfood.com/2011/01/10/a-sticky-mess-for-mcdonalds/#ixzz23fi19Dge
In a recent ( Jan 2011 ) news story about a flap over the chain's illegal use of the word "maple" in their Fruit & Maple Oatmeal, the reporter said there are 28 McDonald's stores in Vermont
I can count only 25:
Barre (1)
Bennington (1)
Berlin (1)
Brandon (1)
Brattleboro (1)
Colchester (2)
Derby (1)
Enosburg Falls (1)
Essex Junction (1)
Fair Haven (1)
Lyndonville (1)
Manchester (1)
Middlebury (1)
Morrisville (1)
Randolph (1)
Rutland (2)
St. Albans (1)
St. Johnsbury (1)
South Burlington (2)
Springfield (1)
Swanton (1)
White River Junction (1)
1 :For several years, there was a McDonald's in downtown Burlington (walk-in only, no drive-thru or even parking ), but that location closed a couple of years ago.
Vermont was already the only state without a McDonald's in its capital city ( Montpelier ); now its largest city doesn't have one, either.
2 :By state law, the word "maple" cannot be used to describe a product unless that product contains either real maple syrup or sugar.
The original "maple" flavoring of the oatmeal ( still being used everywhere but Vermont ) is derived from the bark of a bush distantly related to the sugar maple tree.
Vermont took issue with McDonald's use of the word, and now Vermont stores offer maple sugar "upon request.