Sorghum and sugarcane provided molasses and sugar. The slaves called syrup long sweetening and sugar short sweetening. Their sweetening was more often long than short.

Waiting for my blorbo to return to my screen like a WWII housewife waiting for her husband

If we actually replied to every single message sent to you, we'd all be stuck in an endless loop, replying to one text after the other until we all died (Remember when everyone ended every textversation with a single smiley?)

But Bertran has been taught the Arts of Court, / To guild a Face with Smiles; and leer a man to ruin.