Quote Originally Posted by NoNo View Post
Laugh all you want, but I don't trust any of those "just like sugar!" sweeteners. If I want something sweetened, I'm going to use sugar, not a sugar-like substance created in a lab. No one knows what the long term effects of these newer, "safer" sweeteners are. Why take the risk? Oh, that's right. The FDA has never approved something that later turned out to be harmful.
I agree with you on the sugar substitutes, really. (Trichlorinated sucrose...yum... ) At least I know what real sugar does. I took the DHMO comments to be in response to your comment about them being "pure chemicals" because, well, sugar is a chemical as well...

<..and so the chemistry major slunk back into the shadowy corner of the lab, to only be seen during events offering free food>