• RidderSport@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    Sugar is fancy now? Man my grandpa would be thrilled were he alive. There’s a colloquial term for the farm-houses of sugar beat farmers in Northern Germany, “beat castles”, as they quickly made a lot of money growing the beats in the late 19th century. When sugar became more accessible due to the processing of the beats to refined sugar. The wealth is long gone now, similarly to how salt used to be a luxury good.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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        4 days ago

        Technically, we don’t need raw sugar for our diet at all. So technically correct?

        We also don’t need any sugar substitutes, like HFCS, but you can find that or sugar, in the ingredients list of pretty much all processed foods.

        Yay capitalism!