16 thoughts on “Sweet!: Good News about Between-Meal Snacks”

1. Awesome.

   Clearly this message has really taken root with the youth of America in the last 60 years.

2. Those of us born back in the first half of the 1950s were simply morally superior to those who came later. We could eat all that sugar and get away with it.

3. Is that from the Improvement Era, Ardis?

4. Yeah, it’s the Era, Reed. (That’s my excuse to post this ongoing binge of sugar ads here.)

5. When was it that the Church divested itself of its sugar holdings?

   Actually, the commercial availability of sugar literally fueled the industrial revolution. The wide available of foodstuffs in post-war America, however, rendered that a bit anachronistic.

6. I always knew it! Pass the cake & cookies.

7. This explains so much about my ward potluck!

8. Maybe it’s a carry-over from WWII when it was rationed. but the insistence on “locally grown” U&I (Utah and Idaho) gives away the true motive, I think (as #5 alluded to.)

   A quick internet search reveals that sugar consumption per person has increased from 90 lbs/year in 1950 to 160 lbs/yr in 2000. And that doesn’t count the rise in other sweeteners such as corn syrup and artificial sweeteners.

   But imagine kids running around on sugar highs and no TV to put them down in front of. Beautiful!

9. Love it, Ardis – but I’m not showing this post to my kids!!

10. Ardis, I think you are addicted to these sugar ads you keep posting. Either that, or it is your subtle way to improve the economy by having us buy candy and sweets.

11. I love running gags, Maurine. Or maybe I’m just sweet.

    No, no, it must be that first thing.

12. Maurine: Ardis owns stock in the Crest toothpaste company.

13. Shshhhhhhhh!

14. My grandmother was raising her children during this decade. She must have made tens of thousands of cookies during her lifetime. She was such a wonderful mother and grandmother, but I do wonder if her now-middle-aged children are not suffering the health problems of the post-WWII excess of sugar and other processed foods. (Even among those born in the first half of the 1950s!)

15. I might need to print and frame and hang this in my kitchen, it is that great.

16. Haha!!! This really does explain a lot about Mormon cuisine, doesn’t it?

    Who would think that kids are in need of “extra energy”?

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