“Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch, you know that I love you. I can’t help myself, ‘cuz I love you and nobody else.”
• These are the lyrics of a classic Motown song by the Four Tops, who have sung this song for decades. This song mentions sugar, but we do not know if that sugar is XXXX [powdered] or granulated.
Now do we?
• This means that for purposes of this A To Z Challenge, which never seems to end, I believe that the sugar mentioned in the above quote is of a fancy XXXX powdered variety, and not merely your everyday granulated sugar.
It could be true.
• So please, my gentle readers, indulge me as I snap my finger and wink my eye, sharing, what I’m going to say is, a perfectly acceptable post regarding the letter “X.”
Top that, people!
THE SPECTACLED BEAN 
I’ll see your sugar and raise you a sugar, sugar!
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This is wonderful! I haven’t heard, or seen, this in decades. Thanks. What a fun contribution to this ridiculously difficult letter “X” which I’m stuck writing about today.
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It’s the least I could do after all your tenacity this month, Ally Bean!
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Why thank you. Aren’t you sweet!
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Always love a little Four Tops first thing in the morning.
I’m trying to cut back on my sugar intake, which is already slight, by using less in my morning coffee. I really do like sweet coffee with generous half-n-half, but I have reached a point where I have to ask, “Is this Coffee or is it Cream and Sugar?” Artificial sweeteners are a Big No, thanks to migraine.
Anyway, as anyone will tell you, Sugar Is Sugar, so it doesn’t really matter if I would use real maple syrup, honey, agave, or Sugar. I am Cutting Back, period.
(All this Self-Denial is making me feel like a monk.)
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nance, I’ve been singing along to this song since I first found it to put it into this post. It’s a catchy tune which I’ve decided works for this letter.
I don’t do any artificial sweeteners either. I use sugar or not. Fortunately I like my coffee black or with a bit of milk, but I admire your monk-like self-denial when facing your mornings a little less sweetly. 🙂
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Artificial sweeteners give me migraines too, so I nixed them. But oh, how I love a sweet, creamy coffee!
More music! lol
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“Me too” to all that you said. Feeling a sudden need for a cup of coffee with cream…
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That’s exxxxtra sweet. You think you have it bad? I had to come up with X blogs for my science theme and an extra one for a speculative fiction blog. I made the show The X-Files pull double duty. You can see them at http://www.tamaranarayan.com and parallelsanthology.blogspot.com
Two more days. Two more days.
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Tamara, the X-Files is a good choice for this letter. I enjoy seeing how everyone does the letter “X.” So far, I’ve been eXtremely impressed.
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X is the worst. I don’t know if I can manage a fourth year of A-Z in April.
Groovy tune 🙂
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joey, thanks. I figure that a bit of music will smooth over my weak letter “X” post.
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Yes, I’ll agree that X is one eXasperating letter! Love the song! Thanks for getting it stuck in my head for the day!
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Janet, I do what I can to help those who I like. Enjoy your Motown day. 🙂
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Hmmm….I think you are stretching a bit for this one.
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Really Kate? ‘Ya think? 😉 I figure at this point the mere fact that I’m still showing up here is eXactly enough.
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Waiting for Z. 🙂
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Believe it or not I have something good for “Z.” Just you wait…
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How did you know I love this sweet catchy tune? It’s my go to when gardening or mowing. Oh those were the days…when music was truly tops and each tune was pure sugar.
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bitsfromheaven, well said, my dear. That’s one eXuberant comment. And so true.
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It’s very hard to top it because you’ve got such a persuasive way of asking 😀
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Gulara, why thank you. I’ll take that as a compliment.
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It is 🙂 I like your honesty and light-heartedness.
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Thanks. I’m a lousy liar, and being self-important makes no sense to me. Hence, the world gets a post about XXXX sugar. 😉
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😀
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Haha! I only heard that song from watching American Idol group day when the show first started. I have no idea what to do for X…so this seems like a pretty sweet post to me :p
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serenasinclair, thanks for being sweet and accepting my “X” post as is. It might not be eXactly on point, but it’s close enough.
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And now I have that song in my head… thank you?
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Allie P, it’s not a bad tune really. A classic, and if you do the slick moves with it, you’ll be exercising. Very healthy. 🙂
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Three days from the end (long after exhaustion with the challenge has set in) and they throw us a letter like “X”? I am pretty sure you can do whatever you want at this point and get away with it.
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Sarah, that’s my philosophy. Any “X” you can think of is a good “X” to write about. Keep it simple.
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Well, you definitely get points for ingenuity! You have two more letters to go. You can do it! Probably!
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I.L. Wolf, I’m good to go for the last two letters. AND following the challenge suggestions, I have a “reflections” post in mind for next week.
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That’s awesome! This letter was definitely a tough one, just in general. It’s fun seeing how people decided to deal with it.
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I agree. I’ve enjoyed today’s posts. “X” is weird, but fun.
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You got me beat. I’ve just laid down and died 3 letters from the end.
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joanne, just make something up and throw it out there! Say it’s an “X” and no one will care if it is or not. We challenge participants are a lenient lot. 🙂
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Noooo!! Come on, don’t give up now! I’m waiting for a place starting with X – you must have been to Xanadu or an X-rated bar????
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You tell her, Barbed Words. She can do it!
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Sorry. I’m X-hausted 😉
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😉
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Well, I’ve never heard of XXXX sugar so I had to google it first. I knew icing sugar (as we call it) was called powered in America but XXXX sounded more like a specialist movie than a sweet treat…
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Barbed Words, XXXX sugar is an old-fashioned way to refer to powdered sugar. I don’t say it, but it fit into my theme so I used it. Desperate letters call for desperate measures.
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Very sweet post!
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Chez Shea, so kind of you to say so. I’m eXtremely pleased you liked it.
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That’s my teen years ~ The Four Tops! ❤ And thanks for the video on making confectioners sugar! I know I'll give this a try. 🙂
https://meinthemiddlewrites.com/2016/04/28/me-in-the-middle-of-atozchallenge-letter-x/
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Mary Lou, I’m going to try making powdered sugar, too. Who knew?
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Only the finest sugar for that song!! Fun memories!
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Margaret, eXactly! This made for a good “X” post, sweet and memorable.
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I was thinking of flour in bagged marked “XXXX”, but maybe it was sugar… and heck, I only remember it from cartoons anyway. There are a ton of great sugar songs, but not many about flour… not even from the flour power days of the 60’s…
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evilsquirrel13, I remember those cartoon bags, too. I don’t know why powdered sugar came to be 4X, but that’s what the internets tell me… so it must be true, right?
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Clever use of the letter X. And sweet, of course.
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Zazamataz, thanks! We do what we have to do, don’t we? 😉
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