Sugar Coach

I have a wonderful student form Belaruz.  He's really charming, and he's also a professional soccer coach.  Today when we were in a circle to hear the highlights of each student's interview on forbidden food, he reported on the high school student who is his goalie and has been his "coachee" for the past three years.  He was surprised that she never went to McDonald's.  He said another surprise was that she was now turning down the candy he gives the students after they perform well.  I asked about the recent concern about sugar as an unhealthy addiction, and he said there were a lot of addictions, and I understood what he meant.  Candy was always the standard reward--that better-than-a-carrot incentive for all us little donkeys.  But I wondered whether the new health consciousness would affect him eventually.  Then another student reported on tofu worms.  Still another mentioned the monkeys whose brains are eaten "alive."

"Candy!  Candy!"  I cried out.