Sugar and stuff.

This handout was very easily much too long to read in one sitting.
I don't think i will ever actually fully read this article. However, from what I did read in depth about this handout, here is what I got from it:
The global importance of sugar was apparent from the moment it was discovered. Naturally, us as humans like things that are pleasing to use.
I have a bit of a segway, more of a question directed towards someone who is good at both history and maybe biology, but were our tastebuds designed to recognize sugar before we even discovered sugar? It was just something I pondered. Maybe it was a development, and similar to the way that Darwin argues that evolution is dependent on the environment, maybe the first humans to discover sugar adapted their taste buds, and as the years have rolled on, we as humans have slowly developed more and more of an appreciation for sugar. I personally enjoy liquid sweets, such as soda and chocolate milk and such.
I also would like to question the importance of sugar amongst the other commodities of high value; gold, silver, fur and such. Was sugar in not enough of abundance? Was there not enough of a labor force to harness enough of the sugar to yield a low enough market value? I see various spots throughout the article where sugar is described as something that was, back then, quite rare. It was known so some as "honey from reeds." And in another spot, sugar is described as dependent on exportation in order for the trade to flourish, only by its nature. I believe that that fact assumes that any small food additive is just as dependent on exportation for "survival," for lack of a better word. Such ingredients may be salt, spices, and maybe a few others.
It appears odd that some of the evidence and those who wrote the anecdotes are having a hard time adjusting to sugar as a daily usage item. They take it so seriously, especially in #3, where in his second paragraph, he says "I will endeavour to convince you, that whatever additional duty shall be laid on sugar, it will be at the cost of the sugar planter, at least for some years."
Now, I have not read further than that, so contextually I am unsure of what he is speaking about, but the aspect of seriousness struck me.
Sugar is a very serious thing.

First blog post!
Actually it's like the 20th or something, since I'm using the same link for this blog as I did for the class preceding this one, World History I.
But for all intents and purposes, this is the first blog!