Just back on the sugar thing - remember living in a shared house and you'd run out of sugar, so you'd use brown. Then you'd run out of that, so you'd use castor. Only when you'd run out of icing sugar would someone actually get it together enough to go and buy some sugar.
Ummmmm.... no.

Mummy always kept the cupboard stocked, did she?
No KP, I mastered the art of giving money in exchange for goods and services in my early teens.
Pfft, no thanks. I found that food shopping cut too much into my spliff n' stabbin' time.