Now you're making me sad.
I'm sorry!
Bear in mind, I just reverted to doing most cooking for myself because it was easier than trying products and rejecting them. I pretty much skip dessert, and I don't miss it. Because my reaction to too much sugar is physical, it isn't so much the taste of too-sweet that turns me off stuff. It's more too sweet indicates I will experience discomfort, therefore it's a warning.
I even prefer my diet ginger ale at room temp because it tastes sweeter cold. But that sweetness won't make me cranky.
Now, whoever thought tomato sauce should be sweet should be shot, though.
I like desserts, dammit, a lot. The fats and the flavouring and the complex carbs do some magical things. But I could lose a quarter of the sugar in commercially available stuff and not miss it for a second.
And don't get me started on drinks. I don't drink any juice other than OJ straight anymore.
whoever thought tomato sauce should be sweet should be shot, though.
Yes indeedy. Tomato sauce should be rich and zesty, neither of which = sweet. You can have rich and sweet (cheesecake, yum) or rich and nonsweet (patê, yum) and I think tomato sauce goes more along the lines of the latter.
Ah see, I was never a big dessert eater, even when I was younger. I like a bite every now and then, but that's it.
Almost everything is too sweet for me, and other than not adding sugar to anything I make at home, I haven't yet found a solution. The collective American sweet tooth is driving the commercial food train right now.
And also: Apple seeds are poisonous; they contain a cyanide compound. However, you'd have to eat apple seeds specifically in quantity to reach critical mass.
It's called "ketchup".
Not even that. I had a cook in college who added sugar to every sauce. Like cups. I could never eat it. A lot of the other folks found it fine.
And now.... the rest of the story.
"ATLANTA (AP) -- The woman who says she gained the trust of suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols by talking about her faith in God discloses in a new book that she ga ve him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal.
"Ashley Smith did not share that detail with authorities after she talked her way out of captivity.
"In her book, 'Unlikely Angel,' released Tuesday, Smith says Nichols had her bound on her bed with masking tape and an extension cord. She says he asked for marijuana, but she did not have any, and dug into her crystal methamphetamine stash instead. [...]"
Of course, the way we know stuff is poisonous is that somebody died of it once.
Probably a two year old.
Almost everything is too sweet for me, and other than not adding sugar to anything I make at home, I haven't yet found a solution. The collective American sweet tooth is driving the commercial food train right now.
I love desserts, but commercial sweets are generally way sweeter than I think they ought to be.
