My sister and my son are texture eaters. My son loves cold tomatoes when they are ripe. He will not ever eat a cooked tomato (or a dried one.) My sister will only eat things that crunch. She will NOT eat (drinking is different) anything that is soft and can't be crunched by her teeth. In other words, I am used to people having specifics with food, so I'm not surprised to hear you like the crunchy sugar (omg YUM) but not the smooshy cream.

Caramel - I'm going out on a limb and guessing you like toffee, too? ;)