Sugar’s Up

Tonight I saw something on the news about there being a great egg nog shortage. That and my friend Ann O’Reilly facebooked a photo of all the Christmas candy being sold out at her local store. It appears that people are so exhausted from the brutal year that 2016 was they have thrown in the towel and given up on healthy eating and are just going for the most fattening things they can find.
Case in point, the Kringle. For those of you who may be Kringle virgins let me describe it to you. It is a very buttery, flaky pastry ring filled with yummy, but caloric center of things like ground pecans or almond paste and topped with a sugar icing. Kringles are made in Racine Wisconsin and can be mail ordered for $20 or so. But for the last few years Trader Joe’s has carried them for $7.49.
The first year they had them during the Christmas season you could almost always find one if not fresh, then in the freeze section. Last year they were sold out by a couple of days before Christmas, but for the most part you could have gotten one for Christmas morning and put it in the freezer. This year the Kringle craze started at Halloween with pumpkin Kringles. That just introduced the concept to a whole new slew of people. Then the election happened and people thought, what the hell. The country is going to pieces I’m just going to eat sugar.
The Christmas Kringles came in and flew out of the store. The whole company was sold out weeks before Christmas. I personally know that my very thinnest friend, who actually does not eat real food, ate two Kringles in early December. She claimed that it caused her to gain five pounds, which I could not see, but I believe her.
I know a lot of people make Christmas cookies. This is not something I have ever gotten into, but it seems that this year every time I open my email I am bombarded with more and more cookie recipes.  
I guess that people are saying, “Sorry Michelle Obama, you have spent the last eight years trying to get us to eat healthy, but we are eating our way to inauguration.” Unfortunately no amount of sugar can change what is about to happen. No reason to be fat and miserable.
I wish that I had invested in sugar stocks right after the election was over. At least I could have made some money during these dark days.