{"id":5367,"date":"2010-09-22T20:57:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2010-09-22T20:57:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:57:19","slug":"on-chocolate-covered-gummi-bears-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5367","title":{"rendered":"On Chocolate-Covered Gummi Bears and Other Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I discovered the greatest food invented by the mind of man.<\/p>\n

Juice-filled gummi bears.<\/p>\n

Long have I had a passion for gummi bears. I liked going to a candy store at the mall and filling a bag with scoops of gummis right out of the bin. I like gummi bears soft and chewy. I don't like the gummi bears that are hard.<\/p>\n

And sometimes, just sometimes, they are really<\/i> hard.<\/p>\n

These juice-filled gummi bears, though. They're fantastic<\/i>. Especially when they're sour. Ohmigahd, when they're sour<\/i>. Wow.<\/p>\n

Greatest food invention. Ever<\/b>.<\/p>\n

But, gummi bears can go wrong. Oh, yes, they can so easily<\/i> go wrong.<\/p>\n

Like chocolate-covered gummi bears.<\/p>\n

Herein lies a tale.<\/p>\n

When I worked for EB Games in Raleigh, the shopping center where I worked had a World Market. Fantastic, wonderful store, I miss it every day. (They had a fantastic wine and beer department, hence my longing for World Market.) I could buy digestive biscuits there. I could buy Maynard's Wine Gums there. I bought Turkish Delight there (and thereby lost any respect I had for Edmund Pevensie, because I couldn't believe he would sell his family out to the White Witch for such an absolutely awful<\/i> concoction). I bought Jelly Babies there (and, what was the fourth Doctor thinking, really?). I bought O'Mara's Irish Cream there, and I wish I could find it in Maryland because it was fantastic, especially in the Mint variety.<\/p>\n

I also bought my sister a ukulele there. I thought she needed one. I don't think she's ever played it.<\/p>\n

You could furnish your house there. You could buy Christmas cards there. I think they even had clothing, though that didn't really interest me. Suffice it to say, World Market carried a lot of everything<\/i>.<\/p>\n

One day, searching for a snack for the store, I saw chocolate-covered things on the shelf there. I tried, first, the chocolate-covered coffee beans, bought the little tub, and took it back to the store.<\/p>\n

They were tasty. They also made me really<\/i> hyper from the caffeine, no doubt.<\/p>\n

When they were gone, I went back, in search of another snack.<\/p>\n

Chocolate-covered gummi bears!<\/p>\n

Naturally, this appealed. I love chocolate. I love gummi bears. Combine the two? Why, it must<\/i> be magic.<\/p>\n

Oh.<\/p>\n

They were gross. They were beyond<\/i> gross.<\/p>\n

Words fail me.<\/p>\n

The chocolate didn't mesh with the fruit flavors of the gummis within. Nor did the harder chocolate shell mesh with the softer, chewier gummi.<\/p>\n

They were difficult to eat. The tastes involved were too disparate. The end result was, as we would say today, Epic Fail. On a conceptual level, on a practical level, on every<\/i> level, chocolate-covered gummi bears were a misfire.<\/p>\n

Some things are simply not meant to go together.<\/p>\n

But when things do<\/i> go together — like peanut butter and chocolate or peanut butter and banana or M&Ms and cheese pizza — it's magic<\/i>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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