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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No corn syrup. Things were sweetened with real sugar.  [/quote]

There was corn syrup. It was cheap and accessible.

We used to put it on our pancakes.  We were poor and corn syrup was cheaper than maple syrup.

Corn syrup was in all the sweet stuff.[/quote]

Yep, KARO corn syrup was in everything back then.[/quote]

It did not start being added into food until 1970. It was determined "safe" by the FDA in 1976.[/quote]

Karo corn syrup was around since the early 1900s.

http://www.karosyrup.com/about_us.html

I have my mom's old cookbook from the 1950s and recipes call for corn syrup, especially candies and caramels.[/quote]

And pecan pie.[/quote]

My grandmother made homemade baby formula in the 1940s and 50s using condensed milk and Karo syrup.  [/quote]

Mine too. I wondered if this had an effect on diabetes. My grandma gave birth in the 1950s. Breastfeeding was frowned upon and during her 10 day hospital stay they wouldn't bring her babies to her to nurse so she had no milk left when she went home. She cried about it telling me. My dad was fed with evaporated milk and sugar solely. All 3 of her kids have diabetes (not overweight though). [/quote]

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