I don’t have a photo for you, so you will have to believe me. My gas station has replaced sugar packets with a sweetener dispenser. Options are Sugar, Blue Sweetener, Pink Sweetener and a fourth something. I kid you not.

When the new system appeared, I asked the clerk, “What’s Pink Sweetener and Blue Sweetener?”

“Darned if I know”, she replied.

Meanwhile, right here is someone who made both strawberry and banana artificial flavoring in 12th grade chemistry. (We made vinyl and alcohol, too. But that’s another story.) It was some scary to throw the ingredients together and, voila, it smelled just like strawberries and bananas. Since smell is 99% of taste …

This nerd stays away from artificial flavors when possible. But not alcohol. Just alcohol I have made bc #sanitation.