My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey into Hell

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18 points·gmays··7 comments

No wonder, she fell into an expensive Carinthian tourist trap. 3000€/night.

My father did water skiing in Maria Wörth and met my mother there. My aunts still live there (owning hotels). It's beautiful, but a trap.

You can get the cheapest rooms in Austria there for around 30€, but then you have traps like this and Pörtschach and more.

https://archive.ph/shLE1

That was pretty funny. Not sure what I took from it, but I like her sense of humor.

Caity Weaver's been great at least since her days at Gawker.

Are there other authors like that writing for nytimes? Im considering a subscription. Im in EU so not really interested in the US and local NY stuff.

> Had he been American, I could have conveyed the depth, breadth and velocity of my sugar consumption with a single concept: Cookie Monster, but less particular. Did they have “Sesame Street” in Austria? I feared confusing him if I asked. To play it safe, I said something even more bewildering: “Picture a monster that just ate candy all day long. That’s me.”

> Whether because of jet lag or a shortfall of resuscitative sugar compounds careering through my bloodstream, by lunchtime the first day I was so leadenly tired — even though the only other tasks I had accomplished so far were stripping off my spandex workout clothes to have my body rubbed with salt like a chicken carcass and stripping them off a second time to have my body rubbed with oil like a potato carcass

Stunning writing that had me laughing out loud throughout the entire article.

Just to add, the german speaking version of the Cookie Monster is called Crumb Monster (Krümelmonster).

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