Google really is taking over the world. Now you can get Google Gum from the Google Store.
Chew your Google with this tasty pack of gum. It comes loaded in a Google box that’s a perfect fit for pocket or purse.
They’re offering free shipping on everything right now so I ordered a pack. It’ll be a good collector’s item if nothing else. They had Google chocolate poker chips yesterday, but now they are gone … they were $0.75 each. Here’s a picture I snagged though:
Another Friday, another Friday Fun. Today I bring you the Nestle Crunch Squirting Gallery. It’s sort of like those squirting games you play at amusement parks and fairs except there you win fun prizes and here you play the game with your keyboard. It’s actually really tricky (and hard) since the hose keeps moving back towards the center.
You get “prizes” for different levels of scores. After about 10 tries I finally broke the 1000 point mark (once I figured out the trick) but the prize was a screensaver and the link didn’t work! Grrrrrr! Oh well, it’s still a fun game.
I can’t give you a direct link to it since the whole site is Flash, but go to http://www.nestlecrunch.com, point at Fun Zone at the bottom, then choose Squirting Gallery. Have fun!
Steve White is getting ready to tour the south and midwest with his fabulous Pez Theater show. Enjoy sample videos here.
What I do know is that these Pez Theater videos are hilarious. Choose from “Racism Is No Good”, “Love Thy Mother, Beat Thy Wife”, and “Quail Hunt”. Acoording to Steve’s bio, he is a folk artist who has a penchant for PEZ art. From seeing the videos, he has a sense of humor too.
These are some interesting candies. The only carbonated/CO2 candy I could think of was Pop Rocks and when I first saw these, I knew they weren’t like Pop Rocks. They are small UFO-shaped candies, a little smaller than an M&M. The candy itself is the “pressed-powder” variety like SweetTarts, PEZ, and Smarties (US). CO2 Candy comes in three “sparkling” flavors – Cherry, Orange, and Lemon-Lime and come in those popular tins that so many candy come in nowadays. One tin hold 0.68 oz or about 75 candies.
When you first put one in your mouth, they are a little odd tasting and feeling. The flavor just barely hits you and it tingles just a bit on your tongue. It’s not a crazy fizzing or bubbling, it’s just a barely perceptible fizz. The candies aren’t overly sweet, which at first made me think they tasted bad, but the more candy I had, the more I got used to them and grew to like them.
I figured out what candy they remind me of after I had a few – they remind me of the taste of the center of Zotz candy (anyone remember those?). It has an odd, almost bitter taste to it – maybe because of the CO2? I’m not sure. It’s not a bad taste, just a different taste. A coworker of mine tried them and said they were just OK, but he kept coming back to get more, so he must have thought they were pretty good.
I thought since it sort of fizzes it might work as a flavoring for bottled water so I dropped a cherry CO2 Candy into a bottled water to see what happened. Nothing happened. It didn’t fizz, it didn’t dissolve. Nothing. After about 30 minutes of shaking it around it finally dissolved and did flavor the water, but it wasn’t worth the effort.
So, overall, if you like novelty candy that is not too sweet, I’d recommend the CO2 Candy.
Dim sum lovers who can’t resist chicken feet, here’s one candy for you. Check out the cute chicken feet gummy on the bottom left!
It’s bad enough they sell real chicken feet in the meat section of the grocery store, but now they have invaded the candy aisle! What’s next? Gummi bacon?