I’m just going to lay off the sweet-tooth jokes and so forth—the local media has binged on puns and double entrendres enough with this story. Suffice to say: you’re going to have to pay about a dime more for candy thanks to a new tax that goes into effect today. The weird thing is, only candy that doesn’t contain flour will be taxed. If it has flour in it, it’s considered food. A Kit Kat is not candy. A Butterfinger is. Huh? I know.

I tweeted about the new tax yesterday, leading several tweeters to complain that it amounted to a "Celiac tax." (Celiac disease is an illness brought on by an allergy to gluten; suffers become sick upon ingesting flour or any other food containing gluten.) It’s an interesting point.

The new tax will also apply to bottled water and beer, though microbrewed beer is exempted. And if you’re thinking you’ll just get your sugar fix from soda, you’ve got about a month to do that. A fizzy drink tax goes into effect this July.