That's a good story, mosaic! (that's a jittery smiley for all the coffee you drank, even though it was decaf). I'm glad you figured it out. Isn't the predictability of our sugar responses reassuring?

I had that experience with teabags once. I ordered green tea in a restaurant, thought it was the absolute best tea I'd ever tasted in my life, found out the company, wanted to buy boxes of it. I got home and burst into tears over something small. I still didn't get it. The next time I went to that restaurant and got that tea the same thing happened. So I dissected a teabag, and it was full of dried sugar cane pellets. Very tricky to put sugar INSIDE the teabag! I was glad I hadn't ordered 50 boxes of it yet!

: When I go on holiday, I always pack
: my own coffee. Well, I am fussy
: And why not? I have a whole
: checklist of important things,
: coffee, sardines etc, clothes are
: secondary!

: this year, I was rationing it a bit,
: and saw a likely ground coffee
: package in a reputable Spanish
: supermarket. I thought, well, I'll
: try it ! its only a few euro so if
: I end up wasting it, is not the
: end of the world

: I noticed I was drinking double my
: usual amount. I was sort of
: wearing a trail between me and the
: coffee machine. It was Lovely! I
: thought, perhaps I'll take some
: home. A souvenir. Two packs? or
: six? how many can I cram in the
: suitcase. I bet I could smuggle
: some into DDs suitcase. I could
: get some more for now, and take my
: old remaining coffee home. how
: many trips to the supermarket can
: we make? Perhaps they sell it in
: Greece too for next year. Or maybe
: I'll stick with Spain to get at
: that coffee

: so.......... on some level...... I
: KNEW.

: after three days of it and me a bit
: awash with coffee, I decided to
: play with the translator thing on
: my phone and see what the
: delicious write up was on my
: coffee packaging..

: COFFEE WITH GLUCOSE SYRUP

: what? what? how can they put glucose
: in ground coffee? No wonder I
: liked it. It didn't even taste
: sweet and I can detect sweet in
: anything LOL LOL I was so amused
: at myself. My body knew it was in
: there.......... it must have been
: a tiny amount.......... and was
: giving me a good old obsess and
: stockpile. Old pattern

: I had only read the bit that said
: Descafeinado. I didnt think for a
: second there could be anything
: else in it. My label reading radar
: had gone off at the bacon etc but
: I was careless over the decaf

: I was truly amused more than
: anything. Apart from getting
: fixated on it I didn't have any
: repercussions otherwise. Thank
: goodness was a justa that didn't
: lead me on to other Justas. ( just
: a little...)

: Got home and ordered three bags of my
: old faithful