Who am I to disagree? Standing in a cow field and being "worried" by malevolent looking Frisians was a strange video choice for their breakthrough hit of 1983, but the Eurythmics certainly made their dreams much sweeter after this classic bought them the sweet smell of success.
At that time, my sweet experiences were artificially limited to saccharin.The chemically enhanced and flavoured sugar "substitute" was the nation's tried and tested diabetic/slimmer's beverage sweetener. It was a poor imitation though,with an unpleasant simulated taste, leaving a lingering metallic tang.This was something the manufacturers went to great lengths to disguise. However with unalluring names like Sweet "N" Low, Splenda, Hermesetas and Sucryl it should not have been to hard to spot.
Like a monocular modified pair of spectacles: they do work, but the overall effect is rather odd..
Thankfully those saccharin days are gone....or have they?
The NZ Pharmaceutical Agency (Pharmac) has changed supplier of my tacrolimus anti rejection pills in an effort to save costs on the public purse. The lucky new recipient of the golden contract is Sandoz. Previously Novartis, (a merger of Ciba Geigy snd Sandoz) in 1899, the Swiss chemical giant started to commercially produce .........saccharin!
As I gave up saccharin long ago, (the taste really was excruciatingly bad), I hope my impending reuinion with Sandoz and their lab's products is much sweeter...
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