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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.

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[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.