i have never had candy in my life.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Candy, also called sweets or lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called \"sugar confectionery\", encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy. Vegetables, fruit, or nuts which have been glazed and coated with sugar are said to be \"candied\". Physically, candy is characterized by the use of a significant amount of sugar or sugar substitutes. Unlike a cake or loaf of bread that would be shared among many people, candies are usually made in smaller pieces. However, the definition of candy also depends upon how people treat the food. Unlike sweet pastries served for a dessert course at the end of a meal, candies are normally eaten casually, often with the fingers, as a snack between meals. Each culture has its own ideas of what constitutes candy rather than dessert. The same food may be a candy in one culture and a dessert in another. Candy is a sweet food product. Sugar candies include hard candies, soft candies, caramels, marshmallows, taffy, and other candies whose principal ingredient is sugar. Commercially, sugar candies are often divided into groups according to the amount of sugar they contain and their chemical structure.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This is going to sound unbelievable, but I have never had candy in my life! My parents just never had sugar in the house -- not even sugar substitutes."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It was probably for the best, excess sugar consumption is a real big problem in our current culture!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Very true -- I know many physicians now think that *sugar* is more of a culprit in health issues than fat ever was. And it's *everywhere* -- not just chocolate, chewing gum, and candy candy. So much else."}, {"role": "user", "content": "They certainly find a way to add it in everything whether it is simple added sugar or high fructose corn syrup or whatever. I try to stay away from processed foods for that reason."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am with you! And it's crazy (but expected) the way that the HFCS industry has tried to remarket themselves as somehow a \"natural\" choice. Just shady, with no regard for what they're doing to bodies. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes it's unfortunate that food lobbying is so heavily ingrained in our society now. Food industries will always do what generates them the most profit without any regard to actual health impacts."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "So true. Have you watched any documentaries that have to do with the food industry? There are some interesting ones that focus on corn and soy"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I haven't, I personally don't like documentaries as I feel like they're mostly selling a story/point of view rather than presenting an objective analysis of the facts."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I can see that. I do try to take a \"devil's advocate\" approach when watching -- without being contrarion for contrarion's sake. I always learn something, even if I'm not convinced of everything, you know?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes I think that's a great approach, be skeptical, but be reasonable at the same time so you can always be learning something even from people you may disagree with about other things. I like your attitude."}]