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.

whoever thought tomato sauce should be sweet should be shot, though.

It's called "ketchup".

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.

Actually, ketchup was originally derived from a Chinese picked fish sauce called ke-tsiap. Tomatoes and sugar came later.

It's called "ketchup".

Also called "Papa John's".

whoever thought tomato sauce should be sweet should be shot, though.

It's called "ketchup".

Ironically, the inventor of ketchup was though to have been shot only to be revealed later to have faked his own death with his new fake blood invention. Only later was the fake blood compound to be found to be tasty on french fries.

I think my purpose-driven life does not involve drugs made with red phosphorus, you know? That is what caffeine is for, and caffeinei s a lot less likely to blow up somebody's house.