Sugar confusion

[bunnyjadwiga]

Why is it that so many people are so convinced that beet sugar (invented in the Napoleonic era) is *more* ancient and specifically medieval than cane sugar (the original form of sugar)? Why do people think that cane sugar was not available in the middle ages and renaissance?

What can we do to combat this?

Comments

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

people need to learn just how advanced sugar production had become in the middle ages

I tend to come across more people who believe that sugar cane was very very hard to obtain so almost everyone used honey... which they did use of course.

The one that gets me is the total confusion about the sugar refining process and what people consider to be less refined than white (as in brown) is just as refined if not more complicated to make *sigh*