Friday, May 6, 2011

Sugar

Sugar, so crystally, so sweet, so good. When I was a kid, we loved sugar. Today, they have sugar substitutes.  These substitutes  cause cancer, they do not taste good. Some of them like sweet and low, the  main ingredient is sucrose (which is sugar), that's just weird. We used to eat "rock candy"  pure giant crystals of sugar on a string. It tasted awesome.  We ate flavored sugar, called Lik-m-Aid, like Kool -Aid powder, but we would  just pour it on our hands and lick it up. Tasted so good. Cotton Candy lots of sugar and air but tastes great. I used to eat Beechnut Instant Mixed Cereal for babies, until i was  12.  I would   put enough sugar in it, until there were swirls of sugar making a pattern in the bowl. That was about  18 tsp of sugar.  A lot by modern standards. My mother  would  yell at me , saying "you'll get  Diabetes".  I don't think you could get diabetes from eating sugar.  I used to think you could get worms from eating sugar, that doesn't seem too logical, now that I think about it.   We used to like the powdered sugar on  italian pastries,  I still like that. Can you imagine asking the  Italian baker to put Equal or Splenda  sprinkled on top of your cannoli,  YUCK. We even fed horses sugar cubes. In the  60's some people even put LSD on sugar cubes.
   We sure did eat a lot of sugar back in the day.  There was a movie called "Them" about  giant ants.  For some reason my friends and I thought if we fed ants sugar they would  grow to be   giant ants like in "Them".  We would feed them for days and watch to see if they grew.  To our disappointment  they didn't grow in size  , just in numbers. There were thousands of ants where we fed them.  Sugar is underrated.
    Support sugar, go to your local Starbucks and steal a few of the  brown packages.  I do that several times a week.