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[ocelot]

This morning I was making tea for myself and Leif. I tossed in some turbanado sugar (the brown, less processed type - the same kind as you get from "Sugar In The Raw" packets). I tried a sip of Leif's, and it wasn't very sweet, so I put a few more spoonfulls in mine. It still wasn't really noticably sweeter.

Leif decided he didn't like the tea, so I made him some juice instead in the same cup. A few minutes later he spilled it, and some sort of weird grainy stuff spilled across the table along with the juice.

It seems the turbanado sugar was actually couscous or something. There was a nice big sludge of it at the bottom of my cup. Unfortunately, cooking it in tea didn't make it taste particularly good, or I'd have had a nice breakfast.

Comments

[attilathehoney.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Heh. Reminds me of the time I was at Harris Teeter buying turbinado in bulk and the bag burst or something and the guy went back to get me more and returned with couscous instead.

But you do know that you really have to stir a lot to get turbinado to dissolve properly, right? My manager at work complains that it doesn't melt. I know Alaric often has sludge at the bottom of his mug and I don't and he doesn't when I make up his tea/coffee for him.

[opalcat.livejournal.com]

This is why I use Splenda. It dissolves just from you thinking about adding it to your drink.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Yeuch! That stuff tastes weird. But I know I'm in a minority on the matter.

[figgy-newton.livejournal.com]

No, I agree with you. And I am kind of scared of how they took the carbohydrate molecule and "changed it" so it doesn't have any calories. Real sugar doesn't have that many calories, I'll stick with the natural stuff.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Glad to know I'm not the first to make that particular mistake.

I've noticed it doesn't dissolve particularly well, which is why I didn't really think anything of the non-dissolved stuff in the bottom of Leif's cup at first :)

And yeah, fake sugars tend to both scare me and not taste right.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I figured you probably did what with koyote having to use it when he lived with us. :-) But my manager being quite insistent that it does NOT melt made me ask to make sure.

Alaric goes off on fake sugars quite a bit when he's in rant mode and sees an article on them.

*shrug* I eat in moderation therefore I want the real thing not the fake stuff.

[dempcat.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha