It's not like America couldn't use an effective weight loss plan. Fear of powdered sugar could turn out to be beneficial to the nation.

"In a startling development, terrorists have provoked a sudden health revolution in the US by turning sugar and flour into suspicious substances. 'The American population is trim, fit, and cranky,' says the president of the AMA, who warned that the national mood, already grim, has been further riled by the loss of comfort foods. In related news, angry sugar-producing nations have organized a cartel to boycott OPEC."

You know us: we will scream for a couple of weeks, and in the (please, yes) absence of any large-scale ongoing threat, we will get tired of acting like rabbits and go back to the lavish use of corn starch and International Coffees.

;)

Mary Anne