How hard would it be to poison a paper sugar packet, though?
They were when I was a small child in the 60s, and even into the 70s for slightly formal and truly formal circumstances such as bridge club, women’s club meetings, bible studies, wedding reception dinners, banquets, and so forth. I loved snatching some of the cubes to eat. Stolen pleasure.
Packets were already moving in and taking over though. They couldn’t be messed with as easily as sugar cubes or servers and cream pourers.
Where is everybody finding sugar cubes? I’m 53 and have never seen a sugar cube once in my life.
They’re on the shelf at Walmart among other places. They’re just not very conspicuous unless you’re looking for them.
Look on the grocery shelf directly above the 5lb. sacks of sugar. Should be next to Raw Sugar, Splenda, Sweet & Lo, and the rest. Around here the boxes are the same size (roughly) as the 1lb. boxes of granulated.
Walter White did it, no problem. To the right person.
My mom used to buy sugar cubes in enormous packages (at least they seemed enormous to me at the beginning of the 70s). I remember eating some, don’t know how often, but it is curious that I remember at all. Never bought them myself.
The ISS goes nowhere, and so does the song.
Now I have to go sugar cube hunting so I can be all fancy and offer “one lump or two” like Bugs Bunny does to Pete Puma.
Domino “Dots” sugar cubes are still sold. This is from Walmart (where, as has been noted, they are sold(
Domino Premium Pure Cane Sugar Cubes, 126 Cubes, 1 lb - Walmart.com
other companies sell them, too, including C&H and “Sugar in the raw” (which sells brown demerara sugar cubes
https://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Cubes/s?k=Sugar+Cubes
You can also mget suger cubes intended for absinthe drinkers. There’s a whole mystique to serving absinthe in a glass topped with a slotted “sugar spoon” with sugar cubes piled atop, then pouring water over the sugar to dilute and sweeten the absinthe and to turn it opalescent.
But where do you get the absinthe?
It’s now legal in the United States. Can’t help you if you live anywhere else
Sort of, kind of. Absinthe can be sold in the US, but the amount of thujone (from wormwood) is regulated. So, while you can buy “absinthe” in the US, aficionados would argue it isn’t the real thing.
I have learned a new word. It is “tampography”, and it’s the process of transferring designs to 3D objects such as ceramics. This video (youtube) shows a dish being bloorped.
Sugar cubes are also a conduit for ingesting LSD. A liquid drop (or 2) are put into the cube, which can then be ingested. The only time I’ve experienced a sugar cube was when given one in college under these circumstances.
Sugar lumps are common in tea shops and even more up-market restaurants in England.
Alas, I have never been to Old Blighty. I’m born and raised Murican, though I have been to Toronto and once as far as the US Virgin Islands.
In English there is one word that means either black and blue, as in discolored by bruising, or ashen, pallid, or reddish, or very angry. If I was a word that meant three different colours I would be very confused and probably angry too. The word is livid.
If you scroll down you will read a perfectly sensible explanation for this contradictory meanings. Still strange.
In Spanish the word lívido means mulberry coloured, as the result of cyanosis looks, or “intensely pale” (sounds like a contradiction in terms, does it not?) but it is being used more and more often as reddish. The English confusion is spilling over to Spanish.
I just got off a Virgin Voyages cruise, and they had sugar cubes in most of the restaurants for coffee.
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
That’s not the story I heard about absinthe …