Maybe for some people but I personally use the terms “too sweet” and “sickly sweet” interchangeably. Many many foods fall into the category of maybe they were once tasty but having eaten them and gotten sick enough times my brain started saying, “nope we’re making this taste bad so you won’t eat it anymore”.
To give you a solid example. Icing. All cake that contains icing is something I would put into the category of too sweet or sickly sweet. Maybe as a child I’d have gone nuts for it then regretted it when my stomach hated me. Now I just don’t like it.
It is not the flavor of the pixy stix being too sweet that causes your sickness. You were trying to bring in things that have no relvance to this discussion, like the effect of sugar on your body, or the quantity of sugar ingested in a short period of time. Not only do those have nothing to do with flavor, but sugar isn’t even required for sweetness. There are many things that taste sweet which contain no sugar whatsoever.
All I’m saying is that no flavor can be too sweet. Because sweetness is a good taste, and it is impossible for a taste to be too good. Eating too much and getting sick has nothing to do with this.
That is a lot of words to say “yes, I disagree with you calling things that make you sick because of their sweetness “too sweet””.
I’m only trying to make you understand what I mean when I say something is too sweet, to address what you said. This is knowledge sharing.
I’m not saying it contains too much of a good flavor. I’m saying it will make me sick precisely because of its flavor (or used to anyway). That fact has made it taste bad over the years, I simply find it easier to say it’s too sweet than to deliver this speech at the drop of a hat every time someone offers me a canoli.
Whether or not it will make me feel sick is directly dependent on one thing, how sweet it is. I consider many things that do not contain any sugar at all to be too sweet.
Giant pixy stix should be renamed powdered emetic. You fascinate me Scott.
I’ve come to see it as a positive over the years. Yes, enjoyment of some things other people enjoy is locked off from me forever. But for the same reason I’m not ever tempted to make a meal out of cake, like I’ve been told others sometimes do. It’s a trade off.
I get the too sweet thing, but it always sort of made me wonder how that worked. Like I could eat a spoonful of white sugar and thats pretty damn sweet but some icings seem like they concentrate the flavor more to make it overwhelming. But how could it be more concentrated than a spoonful of pure sugar? I wonder if its something like the fat in the icing spreads the flavor differently over your tongue?
Also I have a strange love of what @SkeleRym called Archangel Dark Angel cake, the garbage grocery store sheet cakes.
I eat between 2500 and 4000 Calories a day in the summer, when I’m most active. In the winter, I eat far less. I don’t make conscious decisions regarding how much to eat: I eat what I crave whenever I am hungry.
I find that if I’m not active in a given day, sweet things repulse me and I have zero desire for heavy food. If I bike to work, I’m ravenously hungry for literally anything by the time I get to the office.
If I consume extremely sweet things (soda, candy) when I’m not particularly active, I feel ill and unsatisfied.