Like drinks--if they could make one with some flavor, but not tons of nutrasweet or splenda.
This would be the place for my Tab rant. Old Tab was less sweet. When they switched to aspartame in Tab, they racheted up the sweetness, so that it was just an slight variant from Diet Coke. There seems to be a frequent impulse to make artificially sweetened things taste more sweet than their sugared counterparts.
My current pet peeve with cereal is that plain bite-size shredded wheat, which is one of the healthiest cereals there is, is always stuck at the bottom while they're always promoting the sugar honey brown sugar versions.
For older Buffistas, Cereal Box nostalgia: [link]
At least Splenda is basically sugar. Aspartame is gnasty stuff. Then again, I hit my too-sweet button pretty quickly (as in most milk chocolates are too sweet for me), so can't necessarily be trusted.
The first girl I ever fell in love with just told me she's engaged, and my first reaction was "Oh! How cool. Congrats." Instead of the sound of my heart shattering into a thousand pieces like they always say it is. Go me. Being over people rocks.
Thanks, Lilty. I mean, I guess it helps that it was totally unrequited and we were never anything more than friends. But still. It sure was a Big Deal for a while.
The reason I wanted an ice cream maker - because I Know I can reduce the sugar after a little experimentation , without resorting to artifical sweetners. I am glad splenda exsists -- but the minute I found out I had diabetes, I started scurtinizing the sweetners in things - and found it was easy to ratch up the flavor ( ginger, cinnamon, clove, cardamon, citrus rind) so that the sugar wasn't missed. If I have fresh berries - I don't need syrup for pancakes. and If I do use syrup - pure maple - more flavor.
Splenda still tastes like slick ass to me. Basically sugar, but not sugar enough. I'd rather something oversugared than at all Splendaed. It's an instant headache.
I'm like a lab rat with the artificial sweetener. Diet coke--lots. Splenda, mounds of it in my tea and on my Cheerios.
You can have my sweet tooth when my dentist pulls it from my cold, dead mouth. Or probably sooner.
