24th August 2010 / Comments (6)
Minnim
Woman's Weekly: 5th April 1969
Yes, I clearly have a thing about sweetener ads, but I was amused by this one, because I came to the conclusion that it must have been named after the noise you made when tasting the product.
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Why can't things still cost a "half crown". Surely they could have created a decimal equivalent.
Well, according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimalisation#.C2.A3sd_conversion, half a crown was 12 and a half pence: an awkward amount, given that two shillings were 10p.
My cousin has seven sugars in her tea. Allen & Hanburys make my Ventolin. Yum.
My Grandad used to take 6 sugars in his tea, he had false teeth though :oP
I'm not surprised that he had false teeth ;) You may as well offer people like that some tea with their sugar...
If a teaspoon of sugar is 16 calories (which, according to the internet, it is), a saving of 3000 calories in a week equates to 187.5 teaspoons of sugar, which is about 27 per day. So assuming you have 3 teaspoons of sugar per cup of tea or coffee, you would have to drink a constant 9 cups a day to consume that much. Blimey!
By Judes
August 24, 2010 @ 2:46 pm / #
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