www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/8a18mo/fuck_you_shaun_casey/

by ID10-TWinner of the 2nd DIYorDIE World Mixing Championship

Shaun Casey is the president of FlavourArt North America

It's just subbing a little OoO Cream Milky Undertone for the FA Milk, if you're just here for the recipe. The original recipe is posted in the April Recipe Thread.

The original recipe post for Saturday Morning Macaron had a link for DIY Vapor Supply, the only place to find FA Milk in North America. I edited that out real quick once someone pointed out that FA Milk wasn't there anymore, and set out to find out what the deal is.

Just got off the phone with DIY Vapor Supply. The good news is, they're bottling up more FA Milk and it will be available there again. "A few days" is the ETA I was given. The same goes for FA Custard Premium.

The bad news is, once their supply runs out out, they won't be carrying any more of either of those. I'm told they're only going to be selling those two in 10ml bottles because of high demand to "allow more people to get them." They also won't be re-stocking FA Butter, FA Pandoro, and a few others, but they won't be limiting the size of those because they aren't in as high demand as FA Milk and FA Custard Premium. Get 'em while they last, boys.

Why won't they be selling those anymore? Because FA North America has exclusive rights to sell flavors to vendors in North America and FANA doesn't offer those flavors from FA's "kitchen line." So why doesn't FANA just sell Milk, or Custard Premium, or Butter, or any of that other yummy stuff? Because diketones. So vendors who buy wholesale FA flavors from them aren't allowed to buy and sell any flavors from Italy or the UK and they are now enforcing that with threats of blacklisting, apparently. Ok, seems fair enough, right? Stop selling flavors we don't offer or you can't sell any FA flavors at all. Your customers aren't smart enough to make decisions about the potential harm of Diacetyl, Acetyl Propionyl or Acetoin on their own, we'll make that decision for them.

FANA wants to take away your delicious diketones.

Is it just because they care so much about harm reduction that the mere possibility that a diketone might hurt someone is just too much to bear? LOL, maybe. Or maybe it's fearmongering for profit. Maybe it's trying to harm competitors and sell more diketone-free flavors, such as by working with the FDA and its Canadian nanny-state equivalent to try to maximize profits by getting regulations in the US and Canada to force diketones out of commercial juice and sell more dike-free flavors. Do that to commercial juice, I don't care. But making DIY more difficult and expensive, and much less tasty, by not letting vendors sell flavors you won't carry, because carrying them would make it impossible to sell yourself as the diketone-free flavor-maker? Fuck you.

I'll buy the Pazzo line from my usual vendors because I doubt FA made that stuff themselves. Profits from it probably support some mixers in the DIY community, and they're exclusive to FANA as far as I know. But from now on, I'm boycotting the rest of FANA and only buying FA from the UK or Italy. I don't expect anyone else to take on the bother and expense of doing the same, but it'll make me feel better.