Sugary words that set your teeth on edge
Jun 06, 2019
2 minutes
The first artificial sweetener had a terrible name: “sugar of lead.” The ancient Romans invented it, since they craved sweetness but had to make do with honey. Sugar had not yet been imported from India. So they boiled wine in lead pots, which concentrated the fruit
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