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tl/dr I dunno if any of that gets into the addictiveness of sugar, how sugar madness and rum financed European global expansion (one Caribbean sugar island was worth more than Britain's entire North American colonies), how America's growth was run by druglords, etc. Of COURSE America is a druggy culture. It's been that way from up front. Have a Coke.
 
I blame sugar for World War II.

Sure, it was involved in prior wars, especially when mixed with coffee in new European intellectual havens, pounding in leaders' brains, driving the conflicts.

But the war's course was set in 1892, when New England sugar plantation owners in Hawai'i staged a coup (with the help of American warships) overthrowing Queen Lili and illegally taking the kingdom as a US possession, and later military base. Had Hawai'i remained independent and demilitarized, the Japanese would not have attacked and drawn the US into the world-wide conflicts. The European and Asian wars would have remained local affairs with no nuclear aftermath.

Those sugar growers. It's all their fault. Them and the pineapple growers. Yankee imperialists whose greed gave us this polarized world.

Remember that when you see C&H on a sugar packet.
 
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Hypoxia said:
tl/dr I dunno if any of that gets into the addictiveness of sugar, how sugar madness and rum financed European global expansion (one Caribbean sugar island was worth more than Britain's entire North American colonies), how America's growth was run by druglords, etc. Of COURSE America is a druggy culture. It's been that way from up front. Have a Coke.
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yes sugar is addictive
 
IrezumiKiss said:
dominatrixjane said:
yes sugar is addictive
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So is sex, binge shows on Netflix and bacon.
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I don't recall many wars fought over sex, Netflix, and bacon. Well, there was the Trojan War about foxy Helen, and almost a war in Puget Sound over pigs trespassing, but nothing quite to match pirates ravaging sugar empires.

Sugar was not alone. Sugar drove chocolate and coffee consumption and was easily rendered into cheap rum. (Aguardiente rum is still ultra cheap in sugar nations. In Chiapas, a can of beer costs twice a quart of rum.) We've got all sorts of addictions mixed together there. But sugar druglords made monster profits and ruled the world, back when.

Gunpowder is a drug of addiction too, but that's another topic.
 
Ask rea or lukie, they’re the most mental jokers around here.
 
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Sugar actually raises dopamine - a chemical in the brain that is sometimes decreased in people with depression. It would be interesting to find out whether people who eat more sugar become depressed or if they eat it when they are depressed to boost dopamine.

- Neuroscientists have shown, using fMRI to scan the brain‘s activity in real-time, that sugar leads to dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens – an area associated with motivation, novelty, and reward. This is the same brain region implicated in response to cocaine and heroin. -Psychology today.

Personally, I think it is an addiction.
 
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