after the war in Norway, there were little in the way of sweets and what we could buy was rationed. But all was not lost, my mother melted sugar in a frying pan when the sugar became liquefied, she put it on a paper to cool off, she then turned the paper turned it around and we had sweets, and I remember it tasted wondrous. Time got better, the rationing stopped and, there were many children with rotten teeth, the school dentists had a lot to do. I was not especially fond of sugary things and because of this I still, except three teeth have got my own. This, however, didnยดt stop me from getting diabetes which my dear doctor insisted were caused by an overindulgence of ***& coca-cola and beer.