• @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    Damn, that’s a lot of sugar. Everything else seems to be sold in “reasonable” amounts, why is the sugar so out of proportion?

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      I’m assuming that’s the wholesale price. I can’t imagine a single family buying 10 lbs at a time.

      • NielsBohron
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        8 months ago

        I can, given that most families did a hell of a lot more baking/cooking themselves instead of going to restaurants, buying processed food, etc.

        Edit: plus, I forgot about making their own preserves and canning food, both of which require a fair bit of sugar, too.

        • oce 🐆
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          78 months ago

          Preserving fruits for winter was what came to my mind.

          • NielsBohron
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            Well, lots of demand for an extended period of time (ie centuries), plus a crop that grew well in areas that didn’t take to traditional cash crops, and sugar was relatively easy to process into a form that shipped well even back in the Age of Sail (molasses and rum).

            Frankly, there are a lot of reasons that sugar cane was a popular crop.