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Re: Wow. There is virtually nothing in this thread I've ever heard of
Posted By: Sam, on host 209.6.138.151
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999, at 20:28:28
In Reply To: Re: Wow. There is virtually nothing in this thread I've ever heard of posted by Mousie on Tuesday, October 19, 1999, at 16:45:09:

> Oh, and Jolly Ranchers are also hard candies in fruit flavors. Very tasty, but not on the level of DumDums.

I'm not so sure. Jolly Ranchers have a very strong taste. They also have a quality I don't think I've seen in any other hard candy. After sucking on them for a while, you can *bend* them with your teeth. For those not familiar with these, they are roughly brick-shaped translucent fruit-flavored candies (that also come in interesting flavors). When you suck on them long enough for the candy to shrink a bit, you can position them in your mouth vertically so that you're biting down on the ends. Holding it firmly in place with your teeth, you can slowly push out the middle with your tongue. As it gives way, you can continue to bite down and bend the candy all the way around so that the two ends touch each other. And it's still "hard," retaining its shape unless you force it to bend some other way. Bend too fast, though, and it will break. Truly a remarkably textured candy.

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