"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 7/17/2014 1:17 AM, sf wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:54:20 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/11/2014 3:27 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>>>> On Friday, July 11, 2014 9:32:51 AM UTC-7, sf wrote:
>>>>> Want to know why we pay so much for sugar? Farm subsidies, that's
>>>>>
>>>>> why.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The One Percent (documentary)
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have pretty much given up sugar. I have a little 2 lb box in my
>>>> cupboard for guests who think they need it in their beverages. I
>>>> don't use that stuff any more.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The only thing I really use sugar for is to make sugar water for the
>>> hummingbird feeder.
>>>
>> People here can be high and mighty... all, what - 15 of us (and a few
>> of them are duplicates)? We're old and many here have diabetes, but
>> somebody is buying it and they are buying a lot of it.
>>
>>
> There's nothing high and mighty about it. People who don't bake or use it
> in coffee or whatever simply don't buy a lot of white sugar. No one is
> saying other people aren't buying it.

When I was younger, I bought tons of sugar. I kept my canisters on the
counter because I went through it so fast. That's not the case any more.