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I average around 30g a day - but then I keep to a fairly strict and puritan diet; I don't add sugar to anything, eat practically zero hyper-processed food, and don't really have a sweet tooth. My indulgences tend to be bitter / sour rather than sweet - espresso coffee, pale ale, and citrus fruit. BTW - you mention India; how old are your figures because I have read that India is actually spiking in sugar intake. Generations of hypo low sugar intake has suddenly been reversed to a hyper high sugar diet similar to US diet for large numbers - such that diabetes is in exponential growth. As an aside to the aside. I think there may be some very interesting epi-genetic studies coming out of India soon - the whole science was put on an empirical footing by research around a dramatic change in diet (WW2 Netherlands etc) and that situation is being replicated albeit in reverse

Big corps like Heinz make different versions for different localities - so it could well be sweeter US Version per 100g Energy 560kJ Total Fat 0g 0% Sat. Fat 0g 0% Trans Fat 0g Cholesterol 0mg 0% Sodium 1067mg 44% Total Carbs. 33.3g 11% Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 26.7g Protein 0g Calcium 0mg UK Version Typical Values Per 100g Per serving (15g) Energy 435kJ 65kJ 102kcal 15kcal Fat 0.1g Trace -of which saturates Trace Trace Carbohydrate 23.2g 3.5g -of which sugars 22.8g 3.4g Protein 1.2g 0.2g Salt 1.8g 0.3g So not exactly the same - and extra 4.5g of sugars per 100g. And a tonne of extra carbs and energy (does hi-fructose corn syrup come under sugars?)

To be honest after reading the ingredients on Wikipedia the "vegan version" sounds marginally more appealing

Today I learned what Swedish Fish are. And no, I am not tempted

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They are really just units - very basic units which require few assumptions and a healthy absence of anthropocentrism - but essential just units. SOME of them are about the energy scale when we realise that we have to include everything into our calculations. At the very largest scale of distance we can forget about everything except gravity, when distance is small and mass is smaller we can forget about gravity, etc. But at the planck energy scale we have to take into account quantum mechanics and gravity in one fell swoop and we cannot yet do this. Martin's explanation is pretty damn good but requires careful reading and study - and I am pretty sure he won't answer any questions as I have a horrid feeling that he died (but maybe that was a different Martin with a great ability to explain physics)

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Chuck Berry - what else?

Sounds like Chicken Tikka Masala - which was not only voted and lauded as Britain's favourite food but was more than likely first cooked in Glasgow or Birmingham. But then Indian food and Indian Restaurants in Britain are a complete national institution - and almost entirely run by a particular group / caste (?) / sect (?) of Bangladeshis

On a reverse note - I have heard that the Japanese do not refer to the amazingly popular puzzle as Sudoku - the most common name for it is "Missing Number" IN ENGLISH; but to make it saleable in the English-speaking world it was rebranded as Sudoku.

EBKAC - Error Between Keyboard and Chair. A variant of PBK

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I think that one was originally about Gerald Ford - I remember my mum telling it about Reagan and explaining that she heard it first about an earlier president. It's good to recycle

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What a voice for an eleven year old. Got a few Black Sabbath fans I know are gonna both love and hate it! Yeah - you almost have to listen to a bit of bubble gum pop afterwards to lighten the mood. Almost...

Yep. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley (although the writer Cohen is still alive). Johnny Cash - Hurt (ditto on writer)

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Or perhaps the fact that women think about these things a lot more and a lot deeper - the best friend saw right through the little deception and correctly surmised that the suitor wanted his troth plighted through indirect means.

So how long before I can get "if it bleeds we can kill it" out of my head?