One story covered in the news yesterday related to the amount of sugar contained in the festive coffees on offer in the various pricey cafes over here. One offering contained 23 teaspoons of the stuff. Difficult to imagine what room was left in the mug for any actual coffee. A number of patrons of the outlets were featured rightly expressing astonishment over what they were unknowingly imbibing.
Perhaps all this relates in some way to the number of people one sees who somehow don't quite look like they should. I'm referring to those who seem over-inflated, as if they've accidentally become bigger than they really are. The kind of individuals whom I suspect would have looked quite normal in size some thirty years ago when they weren't being surreptitiously over--sugared all the time. It strikes me that such over-inflation wasn't something I was aware of in any degree in Japan, despite the substantial goodies on offer in places like Tokyo.
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