PIGGING OUT ON SUGAR

The Old Girl carefully checks the sugar content printed on cereal boxes nowadays.
I don't, but know that I should as sugar is the new bad guy in food.
It's hard to get away from the bloody stuff and in New Zealand it is quietly getting worse.


We're not as bad off as in other countries like USA where the sugar lobby has government by the balls and seem to add sugar to everything.

Ever since the anti-fat lobby of a couple of decades ago were making in-roads into people's eating patterns the manufacturers cynically 'reduced' fats and claimed so in the packaging but in order to make their shit poison product palatable they simply added sugar.

Now that sugar has been outed the same cynical crooks bastards marketers are using 'healthy' sugar substitutes like aspartame, Argave syrup, sucralose and a whole lot of other dangerous things.
The problem with these is that it's hard to identify them in the list of ingredients on the packaging.

In Canada and USA and UK where we have recently been living it was noticeable to us that so many things tasted sweeter than we were used to. Milk, cheese, bread, bacon and other staple foods had sugar in one form or other added to make them more 'palatable'.

I had to laugh last night when we called in to a local pub to buy fish and chips to take away (the actual fish and chip shop across the road had just closed). The food was great but bloody expensive as takeaways. There was a long table set up in the dining area where a birthday party was underway. The birthday boy must have been a hunter as the cake that they put on the table was made in the form of a wild pig.

Clever.