In 1981 I read William Dufty’s Sugar Blues and discovered that sugar wasn’t food so much as a socially acceptable addiction with a spoon.
If sugar were invented today, we’d probably ban it, tax it, regulate it and then discover it had been quietly funding the Church and State. It’s addictive, ubiquitous and, in excess, demonstrably bad for you. Yet there it sits, sweetly waving from almost everything we eat.
By the end of chapter two, I’d made my decision: no more sugar in my tea or coffee, and certainly none on the morning cereal. I felt virtuous, liberated and, frankly, rather pleased with myself.
What I hadn’t realised was that I’d merely stopped putting sugar in things. I hadn’t stopped eating it.
It was hiding everywhere.
And it still is.
Here’s where you’ll find it these days.
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