C'est la Vie by Jennifer Babcock for July 15, 2009

Because she’s Mona, and she can.

Pizza! Lovely, hot, cheesey, pepperoni-covered pizza! Mmmmm! Oh, Donna, it’s soooo good!

Nothing’s better after a wii workout than a few slices of cheesey pizza!

Mmmmmm… pizza….

But with that 30 minute thing, it’s probably Domino’s, which doesn’t even come close to being pizza.

What doesn’t kill you Donna can only make you stronger!

…Mona the pusher…

Mona will share with the man in her life - me!

DONNA:Put down the Wii, and take a P…izza slice.

If I remember the Saccharin ban, you’d have to drink hundreds of gallons of diet pop per day to get the same amount of Saccharin as the lab rats did. Oh wait, I guess some people almost do drink that much…

I’ve been gone a few days - what happened to the Hawaii trip?

Don’t kick the saccharin ban. My mother told me, Those men wouldn’t be in Washington if they didn’t know what they were doing.”

MMMM!!!! pizza and I still have some left over from last night.

Sugar Free Dr. Pepper was MUCH tastier when they used saccharine…

Well, that was one of the problems with saccharin – you tasted it too much and you couldn’t stop tasting it. The aftertaste is strange and somewhat bitter, but some people got used to it and preferred it. As far as I know, some people still prefer Tab, which is sweetened with saccharine, over Diet Coke.

It’s interesting that saccharin became an derogatory adjective meaning fake or artificially sweet (a saccharine smile).

The usage of “saccharine” that I’m familiar with is not that it’s a FALSE sweetness, but that it’s simply TOO sweet, although that could certainly lead to “too sweet to be real”.

My big gripe about aspartame is that it’s too much of a “fruity” sweetness. I find saccharine to be less cloying.