Am I alone?

Nothing wrong with a drop of Phosphoric acid, we used to mix it in with the glue at work, it makes it set faster.

 

This reminds me of when I was a young man about town. My philosophy for a long time was that sleep is unimportant, as there'll be plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead. I believed this right up until one night, exhausted but out clubbing anyway, I had a bit of a bad chest following a lurgy. I had to cough, so instinctively I put my hands in front of my mouth to prevent a rain of germs from showering everyone, coughed, felt something wet in my hands so had a look, expecting to see snot, and saw my hands covered in fresh blood. That's when I realised that my philosophy was not quite complete. My saying "I'll sleep when I'm dead" needed a bit tagging onto the end of it, and then I realised the complete saying was "I'll sleep when I'm dead, which will be much sooner than I'd like unless I rest for long enough for my body to do some basic maintenance pretty soon"

Sorry, that's a bit of a digression, but I I just thought I'd chuck that out there

 

I was fortunate to have a mom that did not buy us kids sodas. Ginger ale was for a troubled stomach only. So our beverages were, milk, water, juices, coffee, tea. My first taste of a coke was at 16 never liked it. I do not use sugar in coffee. Very little sugar is used in my ice tea in the summer. And don't eat sugar packed cereal. All the artifical sugars are not good for you.
One of them will give me a ragging headache. Other sugar I would eat is found in cakes and pies etc, or candy, which is minimally eaten.

 

How about Liquorice? That's 50 times sweeter than sugar

Might start a new fad for Liquorice coffee

 

I love it, and fully intend to eat my own weight in it one day

 

Licorice is brilliant stuff. It also helps boost your immune system by stimulating your liver and kidneys to flush out more filth, and your adrenal glands to get everything circulating better.

You can also overdose on it, so it would not be a good idea to eat your own body weight in it in one go, not least because you'd probably explode trying, but even if you didn't actually detonate, you'd not be very well at all.

 

I know, I boiled up 2 roots of it for a cough syrup, forgot about the laxative effects, had to run