# Confection

Originally published: 2015-05-24
Canonical URL: /2015/May/confection/

([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/01/the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal/) on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_.)

"I stopped at the poison shop on the way home from work; want a death square?"

_(examining it)_ "This is a well-known brand of chocolate. The wrapper doesn't seem to have been tampered with."

"It's [slow-acting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar#Health_effects)."