Candy Adventures

So the exciting thing about being some place new is having new foods to try, and of course that includes candy. However, when you’re trying something new, you can be in for surprises, and they’re not always happy surprises.

When Ben first got here, he saw these ads everywhere for “Cherry Ripe” and it looked like this fruity, maybe red licorice thing. However, it’s really more of a chocolate thing, with bits of cherry and coconut, and since Ben is chocolate-challenged, it wasn’t his cup of tea.

Kerry’s trial-and-error was with Turkish Delight, which she had developed a curiosity about when she read The Narnia Chronicles, and had this great preconceived notion of what it would taste like. The rosewater-flavored jelly wasn’t quite the ‘delight’ she had envisioned.

And then we jointly made the mistake of letting the image, rather than the name, shape our opinion of what Euco-Menthols would taste like. Yes, now we realize the name pretty much says it all, but they looked like really yummy sour cherry candies.

Live and learn…