Yes. Yes you do
My regional candy product is better than yours
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The fuck am I looking at?
I think he taped moccasins onto a tribble.
GasBandit
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This reminds me of back when I was in the 6th grade in El Paso. There was a little mexican woman just a couple blocks from my school that the kids would commonly go to to buy mexican candy.
I think I may have told this story before.
Anyway, the candy all the "cool" kids were getting those days was this stuff called "limon." It is still sold today, but back then it was packaged a little different - it came in single shot small plastic pouches about the size of a Sweet'n'Low packet, with branding/iconography clearly meant to infringe on 7-up. Inside was this... granular powder. How the kids "did" a shot of limon was simply to tear the top open, tilt their heads back, upend the open pouch over their mouth and flick the side so it all fell at once.
Being the gringo I was, the closest analog I could think of for this was Fun Dip, which is basically flavored confectionary sugar.
Limon is NOT anything REMOTELY like fun dip. It is basically crushed rock salt, squirted with lemon juice, then let dry and then packaged.
So, here I thought I was getting mexican "fun dip," so I did the usual motion - tear, tip back, flick package - and so basically1500 correction: 2000 mg of lemon-soaked salt drops smack dab on the middle of my tongue.
My friends laughed at the face I made for the rest of the year. I've never been able to replicate the look of shock and disgust ever again.[DOUBLEPOST=1498081385,1498081098][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh hey, I found a picture of it. I guess I should have read packaging more clearly back then.
Buzzfeed describes it as "the candy of choice for masochists."
I think I may have told this story before.
Anyway, the candy all the "cool" kids were getting those days was this stuff called "limon." It is still sold today, but back then it was packaged a little different - it came in single shot small plastic pouches about the size of a Sweet'n'Low packet, with branding/iconography clearly meant to infringe on 7-up. Inside was this... granular powder. How the kids "did" a shot of limon was simply to tear the top open, tilt their heads back, upend the open pouch over their mouth and flick the side so it all fell at once.
Being the gringo I was, the closest analog I could think of for this was Fun Dip, which is basically flavored confectionary sugar.
Limon is NOT anything REMOTELY like fun dip. It is basically crushed rock salt, squirted with lemon juice, then let dry and then packaged.
So, here I thought I was getting mexican "fun dip," so I did the usual motion - tear, tip back, flick package - and so basically
My friends laughed at the face I made for the rest of the year. I've never been able to replicate the look of shock and disgust ever again.[DOUBLEPOST=1498081385,1498081098][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh hey, I found a picture of it. I guess I should have read packaging more clearly back then.
Buzzfeed describes it as "the candy of choice for masochists."
That is a stuffed Beaver.
figmentPez
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I may live in Texas, but I was born in Ohio, so I'll post these:
I actually know the Atkinsons. Kids went to school together, daughter took dance lessons from one of their daughters, the main plant is less than two miles from my home and I'm not allowed to go in the store very often, I buy too much.
It all began in 1932 when B.E. and Mabel Atkinson needed to find a way to keep their family afloat during the Depression. As B.E. said, "during the Depression no one had any money, but everyone had a penny." Candy was an inexpensive indulgence that anyone could afford. They started their candy empire bootstrapping their way to success. Mabel created some of the original recipes for the candies we still make today like Peanut Butter Bars.
Peanut Butter Bars and Chick-o-Sticks are the greatest things they make.
That is an abomination from beyond the grave. Kill it with fire!
I accept bribes in the form of cash or money transfers.Bribe this year's Secret Santa organiser.
fade
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Didn't realize these were from Texas. We always got lots of these in our Halloween haul.I actually know the Atkinsons. Kids went to school together, daughter took dance lessons from one of their daughters, the main plant is less than two miles from my home and I'm not allowed to go in the store very often, I buy too much.
Peanut Butter Bars and Chick-o-Sticks are the greatest things they make.
I keep throwing this ugly thing away and it ends up in my pantry staring down at me all diseased and freaky and rotting. It's vile.
Someone please come kill it.
Also, all the food pictures are making me hungry! I have no idea how I'm still awake after my treatment and the post gardening-hand washing hives.
When I think of a stuffed beaver, I think of far more interesting things.
So, are you talking about the beaver, or HickGlans, or...?
There are times when the snoring is unbearable, but no, I meant that thing he shared a picture of above. It's horrid. Maybe that picture is why I can't sleep?
The fuck? I've lived for most of my life in SC and I have never heard of coconut cake. Might be because I hate coconut or possibly because I was raised presbyterian in an area overrun with southern baptists, IDK.
Whenever *I* think of stuffed beaver, my mind immediately goes to The Naked Gun.
--Patrick
We had that stuff in S.W. Oklahoma too. The Mexican kids would bring it to school. We all thought it was rad.
figmentPez
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I buy a kringle every time Trader Joe's has them when I'm there. They haven't had cream cheese yet, though. (I've had pecan, pumpkin and raspberry).
Zappit
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Hmm...Massachusetts regional candy? Other than saltwater taffy, we've got...sigh...Necco Wafers...
You win. You ALL win.
Seriously, you could make honey candy with the bees themselves in the center, and you still win. However, I bet your candy couldn't be a replacement for highway and parking tokens like these can.
You win. You ALL win.
Seriously, you could make honey candy with the bees themselves in the center, and you still win. However, I bet your candy couldn't be a replacement for highway and parking tokens like these can.
figmentPez
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figmentPez
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I like Moxie. I wish I could find it easier.
Of course, I like licorice soda as well.
Of course, I like licorice soda as well.
Try your local Cracker Barrel. Otherwise it's a mostly New England thing.
GasBandit
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Hah, so Kurtz STILL farms us for ideas, I see.