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Originally Posted by LilaCotton
Hopefully she'll find one now! LOL We just got back from the Oregon coast and the amount of Carl's out there is just pathetic. There's one in Roseburg and it's a dive, and at least one in Salem. We didn't do Carl's in Salem because we went to Quizno's for supper and Jack in the Box for breakfast. In the smaller coastal towns I was in there was no Carl's to be had.
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I've been to Hardee's in the South and to Carl's in Arizona and Nevada. They really aren't the same, just the same ownership. Also, I think Hardee's has been co-branded with someone else over the years [Roy Rogers?] at least somewhere in the east.
Hellman's sure is Best Foods, just a label change. Same for the spice company McCormack aka Schilling in some places.
When I was younger, Suzanne Somers' husband was in commercials saying "Acme - tell a friend" but when I was in Texas, it became AlphaBeta, and the voice was NOT Alan Hamill.
In the local LI area, Quiznos', they of that insipid TV commercial with that non-living thing that can't sing, will make you a no-bread sandwhich, even though they are known for tasty toasted bread sandwhiches.
In my previous post, I wasn't knocking any chain really making a LC meal, but it's quite apparent that just about any food purveyor thinks that as long as you can point to something else that's EVEN HIGHER in carbs, that automatically means that something automatically qualifies as LC.
A minor wrinkle in that particular obfuscation is this matter of "net" carbs. It appears this is a snake oil of a kind that says that merely if a diabetic won't get a blood sugar rise out of it VERY QUICKLY, it's a carb to be ignored [not part of the "net" carbs].
By this token, slowly digestible fiber, complex carbs , sugar alcohols and pure fructose would be allowed to be "ignored"; trouble is that it don't work that way!
A diabetic can benefit from the Atkins regimen; it isn't required to be diabetic to do so however!
And remember to NEVER use any sweetener delivered in a 1 gram packet, since they all contain "less than one gram" of carbs. Problem is that they only WEIGH approximately "less than one gram" of carbs altogether, which really means that the contents is 92%-100% sugar depending on the label name. Splenda, Sugar Twin, Equal, Sweet 'n low, doesn't matter. Look [with your best magnifying glass!] on the label and find out that the main ingredient [well over 90% !!] in ALL of them is sugar, sometimes stated as lactose, or worse "nutrative dextrose". The sucralose or aspartame or sacharrin you thought you were getting is the MINORITY ingredient!
There are two exceptions:
1) Large blue [formerly red] bottles of Equal are NOT the same as what's in the blue packets. It's just the aspartame, but cut with maltodextrin so it's still not quite a free ride.
2) Splenda in the pourable box [as opposed to buying a box of little yellow sugar-containing packets!] is Sucralose also cut with maltodextrin. Same problem. Better than the packet, but not as good as when used in Soda.
Diet Black Cherry Jello also is sweetened with Aspartame with maltodextrin.
Diet Rite sodas [new formula] and a lttle outfit called Jeff's, a maker of a NY diet chocolate egg cream soda, are sweetened with sucralose. In these products there is no maltodextrin or sugar of any form.
I guess we need a new term for food regulations - ACTUAL carb count!
cjl (free-lance carb detective)