Comments on: Sweet!: Good News about Between-Meal Snacks

By: sister blah 2

sister blah 2 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:32:11 +0000

Haha!!! This really does explain a lot about Mormon cuisine, doesn’t it?

Who would think that kids are in need of “extra energy”?

By: Dovie

Dovie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:25:58 +0000

I might need to print and frame and hang this in my kitchen, it is that great.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:55:49 +0000

My grandmother was raising her children during this decade. She must have made tens of thousands of cookies during her lifetime. She was such a wonderful mother and grandmother, but I do wonder if her now-middle-aged children are not suffering the health problems of the post-WWII excess of sugar and other processed foods. (Even among those born in the first half of the 1950s!)

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:25:13 +0000

Shshhhhhhhh!

By: Hunter

Hunter — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:32:25 +0000

Maurine: Ardis owns stock in the Crest toothpaste company.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:33:47 +0000

I love running gags, Maurine. Or maybe I’m just sweet.

No, no, it must be that first thing.

By: Maurine

Maurine — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:05:19 +0000

Ardis, I think you are addicted to these sugar ads you keep posting. Either that, or it is your subtle way to improve the economy by having us buy candy and sweets.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:50:14 +0000

Love it, Ardis – but I’m not showing this post to my kids!!

By: Clark

Clark — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:36:15 +0000

Maybe it’s a carry-over from WWII when it was rationed. but the insistence on “locally grown” U&I (Utah and Idaho) gives away the true motive, I think (as #5 alluded to.)

A quick internet search reveals that sugar consumption per person has increased from 90 lbs/year in 1950 to 160 lbs/yr in 2000. And that doesn’t count the rise in other sweeteners such as corn syrup and artificial sweeteners.

But imagine kids running around on sugar highs and no TV to put them down in front of. Beautiful!

By: ESO

ESO — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:21:34 +0000

This explains so much about my ward potluck!