Have you ever heard someone justify eating certain candy by saying it's low fat...and the candy in question is 100% sugar?

Like, licorice stix or caramel, etc. I don’t get the reasoning at all. There are as many calories in a tablespoon of sugar as there are in a tablespoon of fat. Both pack on the pounds equally.

And before you do the Fluther specialty of jumping to all kinds of assumptions about why a person would feel they need to justify why they’re eating something, let me forestall that now. I would never, ever, ever presume to question something that someone is eating, ever. It is flat none of my business and I really don’t care. However, it’s been my experience that people who are excessively heavy tend to do it all by themselves. Like, if they have a whole bag of candy and they offer you a piece (which I almost always accept because I like candy too!) they’ll say, “I like this because it’s low fat.” I don’t understand the justification….