A Conversation for Talking Point: The Great Sweet Debate

Medication

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Uncle Ghengis

Strange to think that many of the things we now call sweets started as things like 'breath-fresheners', digestion-aids, and ways to make medicines more palatable. Mints, Licorice, Aniseed (and probably others too) started as medicines... Go figure.


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