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Sweet, Sweet Thursday Three!

Thanks go out this week to well-known potater connoisseur Marc Velazquez, who contributes the following set of questions for just about anyone in the viewing audience. Take a moment to jot down your answers on the back of a 5 pound sack of sugar and put them in the comments, or leave a link to your own blog as we embark on the Sugar High Axis of Weevil Thursday Three!

With the recent announcement by the "fat" police that our children are eating/drinking themselves to death (1/5 of American's calories are liquid, i.e. from sugared soft drinks), it's time to 'fess up on our sugar/drinking habits. This will be a 3X Thursday 3, and to be even more unpredictable, the bonus comes first!

BONUS - Sweet tea: your first choice of beverage, lemon or not, Lipton or Luzianne?

FOR WORKING FOLKS:
1. What do you drink the most at work, and do you bring your own?
2. Nutrasweet (aspartame) or Splenda (sucralose)?
3. Do you keep candy at your desk/work area?

FOR AT-HOME FOLKS:
1. What do you drink the most at home, and do you change on the weekend?
2. Nutrasweet (aspartame) or Splenda (sucralose)?
3. Do you keep a candy stash? Change its location periodically?

FOR TRAVELING FOLKS:
1. What do you drink when traveling? (Marc had “by plane” for this one, but I’ve changed it to be any sort of travel)
2. Nutrasweet (aspartame) or Splenda (sucralose)?
3. Do you chew gum to help your ears pop on a flight? (Obviously, this is for airplanes, not cars or buses or trains, unless you happen to be on one that flies.)

SO, there you go, sweetie-pie!

As for my answers…

BONUS! Neither one--Winn Dixie’s brand of artificially sweetened tea sold by the gallon in the refrigerated case! Mmm. That's good tea. No lemon, please.

FOR WORKING FOLKS: (I assume this does include me, even though I am a civil servant)
1. What do you drink the most at work, and do you bring your own? Diet Coke. Bought from the machine in the basement, because I’m not smart enough to get a case and keep them in the refrigerator. I don’t know why I don’t do this.

2. Nutrasweet (aspartame) or Splenda (sucralose)? What about cyclamates!? Anyway, since Diet Coke has it, I'll guess it must be Nutrasweet. Or so it says on the label.

3. Do you keep candy at your desk/work area? Just eye candy--lots of photos of Miss Reba.

Next batch--

FOR AT-HOME FOLKS:
1. What do you drink the most at home, and do you change on the weekend? Mostly water, weekday or weekend. Except for those times when we have some of that luscious Winn-Dixie tea…

2. Nutrasweet (aspartame) or Splenda (sucralose)? We don’t use much of anything, but we do have a box of Splenda somewhere, and some packages of Nutrasweet.

3. Do you keep a candy stash? Change its location periodically? We’ve got candy all over the place, but no one--kids or us--really get in it that much.

Finally--
FOR TRAVELING FOLKS:
1. What do you drink when traveling? (Marc had “by plane” for this one, but I’ve changed it to be any sort of travel) If I’m driving, it’s usually Diet Coke.

2. Nutrasweet (aspartame) or Splenda (sucralose)? See the question up above.

3. Do you chew gum to help your ears pop on a flight? (Obviously, this is for airplanes, not cars or buses or trains, unless you happen to be on one that flies.) The few times I’ve flown I’ve never needed gum. I don’t chew gum that much no matter what.

So, there you go.