At 10 this morning, I went into the Starbucks on Main Street in East Hampton and ordered what I always order in the morning.
“Decaf cappuccino grande with one Equal.”
“We don’t carry Equal anymore,” the barista said. “We have Splenda.”
“I don’t like Spenda,” I said.
“Well, it’s over there,” he said, pointing.
“What happened with Equal?” I asked.
“Dunno,” he shrugged. “Next?”
Later, somebody told me that Equal causes cancer. So I went online to read about it. Turns out you’d have to eat 20 packets a day to get cancer. I eat two. One with my morning yogurt and the other with the cappuccino later downtown. And I have been doing this every day for years without getting cancer.
Maybe I’ve just been lucky. So what to do?
After much internal debate, I decided to continue using Equal. I…
