blake murphy wrote:
> i came across these paragraphs in a recent *straight dope* discussion on
> whether beet sugar contains hydrogen cyanide:
>
> Now: what's the difference between cane sugar and beet sugar? A perfectly
> accurate answer is "not much" €” table sugar is 99.95 percent or more pure
> sucrose, which is chemically the same whether it comes from cane or beets.


Beet sugar smells funny. But I haven't found any difference when
cooking with it vs. cane sugar.

(Why did you use Traditional Chinese for the character encoding)?

Bob