{"id":2905,"date":"2017-06-30T13:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2017-10-29T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T03:15:36","slug":"a-rant-against-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2017\/06\/30\/a-rant-against-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rant Against Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This is a rant, the language may be stronger than usual on this blog, it has to be taken with a pinch of salt, but not sugar!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday I have just lost it while shopping for groceries. I was just about to buy some potato salad when I have discovered that one of the first ingredients was sugar.<\/p>\n

When I said I rather not have it then, the attendant did not understand what my problem was since “they pretty much sugar into everything”.<\/p>\n

I have just replied “because it is disgusting”.
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I am used to the idea that in North America I cannot eat any dessert because they all contain enough sugar to kill a full grown bull elephant and they will try to come back the way they went down. But in reality even innocent looking savory dishes are loaded with sugar.<\/p>\n

I mean what kind of deranged psychopath looks at the humble potato which is already mostly starch and thinks: Jeez how could we make it more unhealthy and less pleasant to eat at the same time? Well, here is an idea: Put sugar on it.<\/p>\n

Seriously, here in Canada<\/a>, over 10% (may be closer to 20%) of the population suffers from type-II diabetes.<\/p>\n

Yet, you walk into a grocery store and you can’t buy anything that is not just raw material that does not have added sugar. Meat products, savory dishes and salads are all soaking in sugar.<\/p>\n

The other day I have bought perfectly normal looking meatloaf in a grocery store, which has turned out to be inedible because it was soaking in syrup. I ate it anyway and felt like throwing up any minute for the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

The impotent and incompetent government is always whining about the rising cost of healthcare. Yet they fail to do anything <\/strong>about it.<\/p>\n

Here is an idea for you: Ban adding sugar where it does not belong!<\/p>\n

Make sure that grocery stores and restaurants provide an option for those of us who are not criminally insane and do not want to live on sugar syrup.<\/p>\n

Really putting sugar on meat, or potatoes for that matter, should be considered as a crime against humanity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As a bare minimum anyone who does that should be forever stripped of their a title as “chef”, and should be banned from owning a restaurant or working in one.<\/p>\n

See Also: The War On Sugar<\/a>, WHO Says Cut Your Sugar Consumption<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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