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Lee - 24 Mar 2004 19:02 GMT

Wouldn't it be great if one effect of the low-carb movement is that
restaurants begin to feel the need to mark every item on the menu that
has any added sugar with a big red "S" for sugar?

I'm so tired of ordering things that shouldn't have sugar in them but
do -- a spinach omelette unexpectedly showed up with a sour cream
sauce that obviously had sugar; a cucumber/tomato salad turned out to
have sugar in the dressing; teriyaki salmon with more sugar than soy
sauce in it.

You can ask the waitstaff, but they don't always know, and at a
cafeteria the server will tell you anything you want to hear but won't
know.

I almost do better at restaurants just blatantly cheating on things
with potatoes & flour -- so often, "healthy" items get jazzed up with
sugar.

Argh.

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LCer09 - 24 Mar 2004 19:20 GMT

>I'm so tired of ordering things that shouldn't have sugar in them but
>do -- a spinach omelette unexpectedly showed up with a sour cream
>sauce that obviously had sugar; a cucumber/tomato salad turned out to
>have sugar in the dressing; teriyaki salmon with more sugar than soy
>sauce in it.

Isn't it amazing how we can taste the sugar in everything now? Before LC I
never would have even known. Now it's SO obvious. Yuck!

LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 5'7" 265/219/140
& hubby- 6' 310/238/180

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FOB - 25 Mar 2004 00:25 GMT

I notice that a lot of recipes for non-dessert items have sugar in them when
it's totally unnecessary. My SO doesn't like the sweetness in things so for
the 22 years I have been cooking for him I have been leaving the sugar out
and never miss it.

In news:b6030ffe.0403241002.9d7693e@posting.google.com,
Lee <leelacy@austin.rr.com> stated

| Wouldn't it be great if one effect of the low-carb movement is that
| restaurants begin to feel the need to mark every item on the menu that
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| Argh.

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Jean M. - 25 Mar 2004 00:55 GMT

>I notice that a lot of recipes for non-dessert items have sugar in them when
>it's totally unnecessary. My SO doesn't like the sweetness in things so for
>the 22 years I have been cooking for him I have been leaving the sugar out
>and never miss it.

I caught my mother putting sugar in tuna salad and in meatloaf. MOM!
Is nothing sacred?

Jean M
Loser and Quitter

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Jean B. - 25 Mar 2004 02:19 GMT

> I notice that a lot of recipes for non-dessert items have sugar in them when
> it's totally unnecessary. My SO doesn't like the sweetness in things so for
> the 22 years I have been cooking for him I have been leaving the sugar out
> and never miss it.

Yes, what IS that? Why is there sugar (or, more likely, corn
syrup in so many things now)? It's totally unnecessary and one
reason why I don't even want to see microscopic amounts of corn
syrup in the things I buy.

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steve - 25 Mar 2004 01:32 GMT

> Wouldn't it be great if one effect of the low-carb movement is that
> restaurants begin to feel the need to mark every item on the menu
> that has any added sugar with a big red "S" for sugar?

Amen. What's the need for all this sugar? When I go to the grocery
store I'm starting to look at labels ... sugar sugar everywhere, sugar
sugar they don't care, turning it into money, but for us it ain't
funny.

They'd put damn sugar in friggin' water if they could .... oh, they
did ... coca cola!

You know how these "juice bars" and "smoothy bars" are popping up all
over ... and at one time in California they had "flavored oxygen bars"
(how funny) ...

Well what about a "sugar bar?" You sit in a dark closet watching
extreme violence on TV with <pick the most repulsive> music blaring
into your eardrums and an IV full of syrupy sugar water stuck in your
right arm. It coarses through your veins as your eye balls are bulging
and popping out of their sockets, while the drum beats and bass notes
of the music are exploding producing concussion shocks in your
eardrums.

And a young punk coming out of the joint has a dazed look on its face
and exclaims, "Dude, what a rush! You gotta try this!"

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