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the body's favorite con artist, sweet enough to forgive almost anything.
means A sweet crystalline carbohydrate, usually sucrose, used to sweeten food and drink — and the broad family of related compounds the body burns for energy.
from A well-traveled word. It rides into English from Old French 'sucre,' which took it from Medieval Latin 'succarum,' itself borrowed from Arabic 'sukkar.' The Arabic, in turn, traces back to Persian 'shakar' and ultimately to Sanskrit 'śarkarā' — originally meaning 'grit' or 'gravel,' a nod to the gritty granules of the stuff. So the word followed the actual trade route of sugar itself, from the cane fields of India westward across centuries of merchants' tongues.
- reward hijack
- lights up the same brain regions as cocaine
- former currency
- once traded ounce-for-ounce against gold
- war fuel
- powered the brutal Atlantic slave economy
- never spoils
- pure honey can outlast a pharaoh
- sneaky names
- hides under 60-plus aliases on labels
domino sugar refinery — largest sugar refinery in the us, processing 4.6 million tons annually in brooklyn
sugar act 1764 — british tax on molasses that sparked american colonial protests and revenue act protests
mauritius sugar industry — accounts for 70% of mauritius's export earnings, dominant since 1800s
coca-cola sugar wars — ongoing litigation over high fructose corn syrup vs cane sugar reformulation debates since 2000s