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Kitty ([personal profile] runs) wrote in [community profile] stormaktstiden2020-01-07 07:01 pm
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iamnotgod: Many lines curving off into the distance and entangling, shaded in colors from yellow to purple (Default)

There really is an NPR spot on this: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/24/425609156/the-g

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-01-12 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Much of the matter comes down to where people come from; the materials to make sweets don't exist worldwide, and if a group of people are unexposed to sugar, over a long period of time, before it's introduced, then both culturally and genetically they have fewer reasons to take to it.

[So, tradition and sensitivity, essentially.]
runs: (oh *shit*)

[personal profile] runs 2020-01-12 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...Someone denied sweets to people for generations?!

[That's just inhumane.]
iamnotgod: Many lines curving off into the distance and entangling, shaded in colors from yellow to purple (Default)

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-01-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Strictly speaking, there was no one to do the denying.

There was just no one to provide them, insofar as people today would consider them sweets.
runs: (what the heck)

[personal profile] runs 2020-01-13 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
That's ridiculous. There's sweets everywhere. Sometimes you just can't afford them.
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