Artificial sweeteners will kill you...pre 1878.

You see an awful lot about the dangers of sweet things in the media today. Whether you are chugging down a cola laden with high calorie high fructose corn syrup or its diet version loaded with an artificial sweetener like aspartame...you will find all sorts of information telling you how horrible it is for you. One will give you diabetes and obesity related issues, the other has claims to cause all sorts of ailments. But...feel fortunate that we live in a society where sweeteners are so plentiful and safe in comparison to what they once were. You see in the old days sweeteners were not plentiful or cheap . Sugar and honey were the natural options of the day in ye olden times. And well neither was produced in significant quantity to make them affordable to the unwashed masses. But there was indeed a sugar substitute out there that was easy to get/make and did make terrible tasting things more pleasant on the palate. And as much as you hate aspartame, I am sure you would prefe