I've been low carb for years and go out of my way to avoid sugar... except for pancakes. Every week or two I get a container of whipping cream and then sit down to a stack of home made pancakes with maple syrup, whipped cream, unsweetened blueberries, and breakfast sausages or bacon. It's like a religious rite at our house. But I feel like crap for the rest of the day. Bloated from the carbs and my blood sugar is all out of whack from the glucose in the maple syrup so I feel listless and achy. But I love the meal so much I didn't want to give it up. Then I had a revelation: Don't have any maple syrup. I never expected I'd like pancakes without MS but they are just as good, praise jebus. And after a couple times I tried some maple syrup again just to see what I was missing. Nope, did not like it one bit. I mean the taste was familiar and ticked all the right emotional boxes but the experience itself was not enjoyable. Now if I could only pull off the same trick for beer.