A Spoonful of Sugar

In her youth, nanny used to advocate a spoonful of sugar; to help the medicine go down.

However, as she has grown older, nanny has become less tolerant of “sugar coating” the pill; she firmly believes that people must live according to her rules and beliefs, and follow the latest “food fad” scare story.

Currently nanny is campaigning against salt, but she also has other food groups in her sights. One of her acolytes “let the cat out of the bag” this week, by stating that sugar was next on the list of poison food groups disapproved of by nanny; shades of the Mikado (“I have a little list…”) here I fear.

However, the British public are not so easily cowed into submission; coming to the rescue are a legion of London taxi drivers, who have been on a diet that encourages them to snack on sugar products such as jelly babies.

The results have been interesting, contrary to the “scientific evidence” that nanny will be producing in her forthcoming campaign against sugar, they have lost weight.

Nanny is reported to be most annoyed at this attempt to undermine her authority.

Once salt and sugar have been placed in the list of “proscribed substances”, it is really anybody’s guess as to which basic food group nanny will attack next; maybe it will be your favourite?