Abstract This article explores the complicated place of sugar in the display of family connectedness and health in a white, middle class Australian family. In the context of heightened anxiety about childhood obesity, we present the Baker family as a case study to explore the pleasures and tensions that sugar consumption produces in families. On their birthdays, each child has a luxurious “Hammer Cake” coated in chocolate studded with sweets; simultaneously the family members have also been influenced by the documentary That Sugar Film and check the sugar contents on packages as they shop. We analyze how these pleasures and pressures are balanced: how anxieties about sugar are negotiated and managed in food practices and in the making of family through rituals of celebration. We argue that the concept of “contradictory pleasures,” where certain foods are seen as “excess,” but mobilized for celebration, offers a nuanced and valuable framework to illuminate simultaneously negative and positive attitudes toward certain foods in family food practices and how families navigate multiple influences on these practices, including popular culture and public health discourses.

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糖的难以言喻的魅力——锤子蛋糕，那糖膜和矛盾的快乐

摘要 本文探讨了糖在澳大利亚白人中产阶级家庭的家庭联系和健康方面的复杂地位。在对儿童肥胖的高度焦虑的背景下，我们将贝克家族作为一个案例研究，探索糖消费在家庭中产生的快乐和紧张。在他们的生日，每个孩子都有一个奢华的“锤子蛋糕”，上面涂满巧克力，上面点缀着糖果；同时，家人也受到纪录片 That Sugar Film 的影响，并在购物时检查包装上的糖含量。我们分析了这些快乐和压力是如何平衡的：如何在饮食实践和通过庆祝仪式建立家庭的过程中协商和管理对糖的焦虑。我们认为“矛盾的快乐，