Please note that the following item is not an endorsement for the following sugary objects!
Lately, sugar news is mostly upsetting and disheartening. Sometimes the news borders on plain silly.
Turns out that "fancy sugar cubes — plain white cubes embellished with candy-hard icing in various colors and designs — are becoming a common sight at weddings, baby showers, holidays and other special events."
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Thus reports Laura Shin writes in the Wall Street Journal.
Decorative motifs that are hot include obvious ones like flowers, hearts, wedding bells and monograms.
But NFL logos? You’ve got to be kidding!
Much as I hate to cite an article that even subtly sounds like it’s promoting potentially dangerous sugar, I just have to cite this article, where reporter Shin observes that online retailers have jumped onto the customized sugar cubes bandwgaon.
One outfit, Bella Regalo, even sells sugar cubes decorated with purses and shoes. What?
These sweet things don’t come cheap, either. A single cube — we’re not talking an entire box — could cost a whopping $3.
Sure, looking at sugar cubes and thinking they’re cute is way better than ingesting the stuff, but, seriously, must be turn these sweet food objects that adversely affect our healthy into food fetishes?
Special thanks to researcher/writer/former book editor Jennifer Moore, who not only tracked down this absurd news story, but worked up this blog item while I’m vacationing in Miami Beach. It was great — all I needed to do was edit it!