Here’s the thread.
Don’t know if you’ve seen it before.
If a recipe calls for or has sugar in it I don’t worry about it. Like @Alisa said. It’s the sweets. The bags of cookies and chocolates and yes the Gelato Jennifer turned me on too. Oh it was so good @Runningfree
I do try to get my mock tail without simple syrup. That’s why I don’t usually do Virgin daiquiris or Virgin other stuff. I always ask if the bartender has created something special and out of the ordinary.
I use to run a place called Magnolia Cafe in Austin @ELY83 with another lovely lady named Karen. 24 hour cafe.
https://www.austinmonthly.com/a-love-letter-to-magnolia-cafe-west/
I was never an owner. But I ran 2 twenty four hour restaurants at separate times for about 12-15 years each, all while waiting tables. One was a New York Deli. First Kosher Deli in Austin Texas. Katz’s Deli and Bar. And the other was a laid back hippie healthy veggie righteous food stoner type of place. 
Magnolia Cafe. Moving from one to the other was like night and day. And they were both on 6th street/Lake Austin Blvd. sorry to brag. But I was a bit of an icon being on that street 30 years. Hard work but lots of fun.