Lots of Diabetes in Thailand?

And to follow up the sugar use here.

My wife bought me some drumsticks from a market in KK the other day.

Strange taste, and it turned out they had some sort of sweet sauce on them.

Honestly, sugar based sauce on chicken/drumsticks?

Sugar (based sauces) and chicken is a match made in heaven. Honey-soy is great. I make cola wings (coke and soy sauce). Many chicken marinades have sweet bases. Honestly, I can't believe you think its strange.

I guess we like different stuff.

Just don't fancy sugar sweet chicken.

Come to think about it, Thais (and especially Americans) are crazy about sugar-sweet popcorn as well.

Im not a health freak. Far (away galaxies) from it.

Just have noticed the changes the last 10 years or so.

Sweet chicken tastes are normally combos. eg. sweet-sour, sweet-salty and the extremely popular sweet-chili. They're institutions in the culinary world and especially in Asian food.