A Spoonful of Sugar

What is it with kids and "sweet teeth"? They seem to think that EVERYTHING will taste better with sugar in it. Well, I found out by experimenting with sugar in my citrussy tomato soup that this philosophy doesn't always work. But it was so unbelievable to me that I had to try it twice! - The second time, Grandma made me eat it.

And what about the practical joke? Pepper sprinkled onto chocolate cake? When I played it on my friend, she got another piece but when she did it back...

There was the time Richard and I sat at the table for what we determined to be an eternity. Liver is just never good. There is no recipe on earth to fix it, it simply is not for human consumption. So after the rest of the family was retired to the living room to watch television, and comfortably settled in, Richard and I quietly took our plates outside and dumped their contents over the fence. We were SAVED! Or, so we thought. The next morning we had to have a stern talking to because the neighbor told on us; but we still got out of liver.

Grandma asked us one afternoon if we wanted to make "vinegar taffy". We wondered why anyone would want to make such a thing! But she explained to us that this taffy really was a yummy sweet candy and there was only a little vinegar in it. We were willing to go along because we believed our grandmother would never trick us like that. So we went to the store, bought the ingredients and waited for the next day to make this strange "sweet".
We measured, poured and stirred, heated and stirred some more until it was ready. It had to cool for a little while because we were going to pull it and stretch it with our hands. They had to be all buttered up to keep the candy from sticking to them. We pulled it and pulled it till it turned white and then we twisted and braided it. We let it finish cooling and then broke it into bite-sized pieces, and y' know? Grandma was right!