WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

No better time to eat ice cream...just after some stick in the mud has shown you horrible pictures of rotten teeth and blamed ice cream (seriously, does this actually happen to people just because of sugar, IRL? I mean, I would think some lack of oral care would be involved in this process).

EDIT: This page snipe is in response to Starmage!

Dental care is usually heavily involved. However refined sugar has more downsides. It is contained in everything. Big corporations include sugar in pastry, dairies, hamburgers, sauces are full of it. Sugar, of course, is an addictive substance. It is needed by our body, but the way we are getting it from various candies and products which are supposed to be sugar free is incorrect and unhealthy and ruins our organism. Ruined mine at least.
We can get it the healthy way in fruit. Its hard not to rely on bursts of energy from a chocolate bar, ice cream or snickers. In games sweets should give you mana not health.

I watched the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch and had a craving for a nice cheese. So, I went to Schnucks, bought a brick of bellavitano, the card recommended pairing with raspberry's and a stout ale, saw that raspberry's were on sale for a dollar a pack, so I had cheese with raspberry's and a Samuel Adams creme stout ale. There are few things in this world that one would choose over ice cream. That's one of them.

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I have no idea what these cheeses are but they're probably yummey-delicious-oishii-ne
as for sugar, I've been ditching it generally and sweetening things with Stevia instead. Its a natural compound and not only it has no calories, it also interestingly doesn't feed any bacteria so it helps a bit with dental maintenance.
I normally dread artificial sweeteners but since Stevia is natural (and tastes great) I'm opening up to it. When I make actual sweets, tho, I'm not afraid to use sugar, except I tend to go for brown unprocessed sugar, honey or other natural sugars as they're nutrient rich.
Still bad for your teeth tho.



Also fun fact: There's an artificial sweetener, Xylitol, which has been claimed to actually KILL bacteria, since its very similar to the simple sugar, the bacteria tries to eat it but can't digest and winds up starving to death.
I can't attest for it but it also seemingly is perfectly capable of caramelizing and being used as a fantastic substitute to sugar so I might try it one day...

I ate two condensed milk-filled churros covered in plain white sugar yesterday. .-.

Ive yet to taste an artificial sweetener that makes the food taste better than it would taste unsweetened. Stevia tastes like sugar for about 10 seconds and then makes my mouth tastes like it's rotting for the next 3 hours.

Because it's still applicable.

Because it's still applicable.

it actually tastes great on tea with lemon and stuff. But its because I don't use a lot of sweetener to begin with, and while adapting, I did sugar/stevia ratios and played around with what sat well with stevia and what did not.
Basically anything that has a strong flavour profile will sit well with stevia, and distract you from anything strange.
Also stevia is --not-- an artificial sweetener.

Anyway, I still use a lot of sugar and stuff. Just not with drinks. Like when making caramel or baked stuff (I would never ever use stevia to sweeten pudding or pancakes or a cake)

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