Gary Kleppe wrote:

Jonathan Ng <jonathan@worldy.com> wrote:

     Kodachi exited silently. She was nearly sick to her stomach. The
moment she had just watched had been far more nauseatingly saccharine
than the cookies.

Wait.  I thought "saccharine" was a fake sugar.

And your point? :)

Adding sugar can't make something sweeter than pure sugar, and pure sugar isn't
disgusting at all. Saccharine is disgusting because it has a metallic aftertaste.

Too much sugar would ruin the texture of the cookies, not the flavor.  Akane's
cookies would be sweeter than Kodachi's, but they would be flat, glassy, and
brittle, more like a candy than a cookie.

Of course, Kodachi would know this and triple with the salt instead of the
sugar.  No one can stomach oversalted cookies.

-- David