I’m starting a new experiment. See, last week I had some Thai food from a place in the little town where I work. Then, I tried to get some Thai at a couple of restaurants in the (slightly larger) town where I live—but they both said that they use in sugar in everything, everything, that they serve. Since I had asked someone at the other place in my work town about the sugar, and she assured me that there was none in the items I ordered, I figured I’d go back there again.
But this time when I asked, it was a little slow, and the actual cook was sitting nearby, and he informed me that they also use sugar in just about everything. “Hmm, curious,” I thought, “considering that last week I ate this food and had no problem with it.” And in the heat of moment (read: since I wanted Thai food, reeeeal bad), I went ahead and got some curries anyway. And now I’m purposefully eating sugar, for at least 3 days in a row, to see if I can provoke a reaction. Because if I can’t, then it would seem there may have been something else going on that day when I did the refined sugar challenge test.