How Did They Get Us Addicted to Sugar?

How Did They Get Us Addicted to Sugar?

Sweet Lies, Bitter Truth1s, and Corporate Power

A Kasa de Franko Spanish Social Event
(This conversation will be conducted entirely in Spanish)

🗣️ What to Expect

This is not your high school Spanish class.
It’s a guided, unfiltered group conversation where you’ll:

• Practice real Spanish by diving into a scandal that touches every plate on Earth.
• Learn the vocabulary of capitalism, addiction, health, and manipulation.
• Explore how sugar went from a rare luxury to an everyday poison — powered by empires, slavery, and marketing genius.
• Question why the same corporations that sell sugar also sell “wellness.”

If you like your Spanish mixed with history, politics, and cultural critique, this is your kind of sweet.

💥 The Sweet Scam

It all started with a guy in China.
Once upon a time, sugar was rare and expensive.
Then colonial empires built plantations, industries exploited enslaved labor, and food companies discovered how to market sweetness as happiness.

The result? The cheapest, most addictive legal drug in history — hiding in almost everything we eat.
We know it’s killing us. We still can’t stop.
And that’s not an accident. It’s a business plan.

🧠 The Questions We’ll Tackle (in Spanish)

• How did sugar become so addictive — and so unavoidable?
• Is this about personal choice, or a system designed to hook us?
• Who profits when our health declines?
• Why is sugar-free marketing often just another trap?
• Is it even possible to quit?

📖 Light Theory, Heavy Conversation

We’ll touch on:

• Naomi Klein — how corporate power and branding turn sugar into not just a product, but a cultural identity we consume without question.
• Baudrillard — how sugar operates not only as a substance, but as a sign in consumer culture, symbolizing comfort, reward, and status.
• Michael Moss — how corporations engineer “bliss points” to make food irresistibly addictive.
• Robert Lustig — how sugar hijacks the brain’s reward system, acting like a drug while avoiding drug-level regulation.

No academic jargon. Just sharp ideas you can argue about — in Spanish — with people who aren’t afraid to dig deep.

🎯 This Event Is For You If…

• You want to practice Spanish through meaningful, spicy conversation.
• You enjoy connecting history, politics, and culture.
• You like to laugh while dismantling the system.
• You’re not afraid to discover your soda addiction is political.

🎤 What’s Going Down?

• A breakdown of the Sister Hong case
• A crash course on gender, power & viral morality (in Spanish)
• A guided group convo with vocab support and discussion prompts
• Laughter, discomfort, clarity, and maybe a few existential crises

👥 Group Size Policy

🕗 1 attendee: 7:00 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
🕗 2 attendees: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
🕗 3+ attendees: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Don’t miss this eye-opening Spanish experience where capitalism, history, and language collide! 💥🌍🗣️

✨ Why Don’t You Join Us?

Don’t come if you’re looking for polite small talk about the weather.
Do come if you’re ready to speak Spanish, question the system, and leave with a new way of looking at your kitchen cabinet.

Sugar may be sweet, but in this conversation, the truth will be bitter.
Bring your curiosity. Leave your excuses. And maybe… hide your candy stash.