Orwell, George — Nineteen eighty-four [576]

What was even better than the taste of the coffee was the silky texture given to it by the sugar, a thing Winston had almost forgotten after years of saccharine. — Orwell, George, Nineteen eighty-four, 576

Note

Saccharine vs sugar as the pharmacological shorthand for the Party’s rationing of the past — texture remembered as loss. A single sensory detail carries the whole economic argument.