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and meantime, let s talk about what s being called the sugar bailout, the government might have to step in to prop up stumbling sugar prices and that could cost us more if we want our sugar fix and we all do. we all do. absolutely. let me give you a background here. the department of agriculture is enough for 142 billion hershey kisses. it s in the name of trying to prevent a way of default for processors who have borrowed $862 million under a government support program and now you ve got u.s. sugar prices that have fallen 18% since the loans began in october. and this could leave the program with about an $80 million loss which is the biggest in 30 years and i guess what it also means as prices go up, higher prices for us to get that sugar fix, as you say. cnbc s mandy drury, thank

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