So when I was a little girl my favorite candy was hands down: smarties. Granted Spree and Sweet Tarts were close, but smarties ruled. Then there was a period in high school where I fell in love with Swedish Fish...probably because the vending machine had Swedish Fish. Then in College it was gummy bears. I LOVED gummy bears. I went through a five pound bag of gummy bears in 2 days. Shortly after...I stopped liking gummy bears as much. My new favorite then became twizzlers. I love twizzlers. When I worked at the theater, we served twizzlers and gummy bears and sometimes I would question my choice...and then one day I was bagging gummy bears (fill a plastic cup with gummy bears and put them in a bag) and I noticed that all of my nail polish had dissolved...yes...dissolved. I was still content with my choice.
So yesterday I bought a pound of twizzlers. I like to shop by the pound with candy. Now generally the problems you face with twizzlers are that they are too hard when they get old. This batch....tastes like plastic. I know many of the reviews of twizzlers are that they always taste like plastic, but this is distinctly plastic. I even had one of my co-workers, who enjoys twizzlers, try one and she had to spit it out and chew gum to get the taste out of her mouth. So here are my theories: either it has gone very very bad, they did not put enough flavoring into the mix for this batch, or the twizzlers were still hot when they entered the plastic wrapper and absorbed the plastic taste.
Sincerely disturbing...I think I shall look to gummy worms...I like to eat them by color.
