"I hope I shall before long have the pleasure of enrolling you a member of the Anti-saccharine Society, which I have had the happiness to organise, and which is daily extending its numbers. [...] I purpose giving a festival, to which I shall invite all that is respectable and intelligent in this part of the country, and in which I intend to demonstrate practically, that a very elegant and luxurious entertainment may be prepared without employing a single particle of that abominable ingredient, and theoretically, that the use of sugar is economically superfluous, physically pernicious, morally atrocious, and politically abominable."
Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt, or Sir Oran Haut-ton (London: Macmillan, 1896), via The Economist: "Sick with the excess of sweetness"—which will be the title track of our debut album. Think agressively ugly early goth, like that Christian Death song that goes "Your church makes me vomit." Only replace Jesus with sugar and all literal and figurative sweetness. Is Cleopatra Records still in business?
