He praised the silliness of Andy, the deadpan humor of April and "the sweetness of Leslie realizing how much she likes Dave the cop".
The problem with those is that a disconnect ultimately develops between the amount of sweetness the brain tastes and how much glucose ends up coming to the brain.
You can customize your order on the app like you do in the store, explaining what kind of sweetness you want in it and how much cream.
Yet in a wine panel tasting of Douro reds one recent afternoon, the conversation kept coming back to port, and in particular, how much these dry wines reminded us of port, without the sweetness, of course.
But on the night it happened it was a touchingly human reminder of the weight and size of a career, of how much it takes to get here and how comparatively little genuine sweetness there can be.
Alas, no matter how much we accumulate, we feel that underlying awareness that the sugary sweetness of sensory pleasures will end and we'll once again realize how exposed we are to inevitable losses and separation.
For a man who was always a cautionary rocker - "In Between the Lines" was about recognizing how much more there is than what they show you -- the reckoning now is tempered with sweetness.
