Often, for all their intelligence they can be like small children, fatally attract et to sticky but nutritionally useless sweets.
While most people tell their children not to eat sticky sweets like caramels and cream-filled cookies, what they should be telling them is to stay away from frequent snacks of fermentable carbohydrates, especially the kind that stick to your teeth.
He arrived with a black Hilton tray arranged with three tiny, fragrant cups of thick black coffee and three sticky, straw-colored Oriental sweets.
GREASY burgers, fatty chips and sticky sweets all get the thumbs down in most children's diets these days.
Manali's favourite dhaba, serving Indian sticky sweets, hot chai , samosas and hot veg snacks from early morning to late at night.
The boys were lucky enough to find jobs as coffee vendors, passing from shop to kiosk with their trays bearing coffee finjans, cups and sticky sweets, often trekking out to the lines of lorries awaiting customs clearance at the Allenby Bridge.
Melitta glanced hastily at the soggy mess; it was a torn half-loaf of bread, some cut slices of roast meat, and a large double handful of sticky sweets.
Cudlipp and be Damned - TV portrait of Hugh Cudlipp - "Cudlipp was 'the greatest tabloid journalist of all time' - tantamount to calling him the greatest salesman of sticky sweets in the history of dentistry."
The kits are also available for delivery ($60 at www.getcosi.com), so customers can enjoy the sticky sweets in their own homes.
Watch the sticky sweets being made before your eyes.