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Coming this April, new Star Trek Gummies! They’ll debut just before the new movie comes out. Check out the cool box and (you know it’s coming)… Live Long and Prosper!
March 27, 2009, Santa Monica, CA – Taste of Nature, Inc. the manufacturer of Cookie Dough Bites, Muddy Bears, Sqwigglies, The Simpsons Fruit Snacks, Cotton Candy Swirlz, Care Bears Gummi Bears and Shari Candies has announced this month that they will be debuting Star Trek Gummies at All Candy Expo in May of 2009. The candies will be available for sale starting at the end of April of 2009 – a couple of weeks before Paramount releases the blockbuster Star Trek movie on May 8th.
The 3.5 ounce Star Trek Gummies are available in open stock 30ct and 12ct cases as well as 72ct floor shippers! The suggested retail price is $1.29 to $1.49.
Star Trek has had a loyal following for decades. With the combination of the built-in fan base, high profile Summer release of Star Trek and the sharp Star Trek graphics, a brisk sell-through is virtually guaranteed.
In my household, we don’t stand on romantic ceremony – I pick my own Valentine’s Day chocolates. So I have no one but myself to blame if I don’t get it right.
This year, I was too distracted to mail-order something in time. I am usually happy to take a rain check on a holiday – if George Washington can move his birthday around, why can’t I? So I was going to order something later.
But they had a big display of these Knipschildt chocolates at Whole Foods. I find it very hard to resist their boxes, covered with rough, colorful hand-made paper. I try to remind myself that I don’t eat the paper, but it doesn’t always work.
So I ended up with this lovely Valentine’s heart. Unfortunately, while the paper didn’t disappoint me, the chocolates did. They are beautiful to look at as well, but after the intense flavors of my recent experiences with Theo and Chuao, these just didn’t measure up.
Mockolate products have an awful reputation, but it isn’t as if it’s not deserved. Despite what the candy companies are spouting in an attempt to appease/brainwash their constituents, there is a noticeable difference between a real piece of chocolate and mockolate.
But to immediately write off all mockolate products would be a disservice to a handful of candies out there. You see, mockolate can work well under certain circumstances. The most successful mockolate products I have encountered were always candies that weren’t considered chocolate, but wanted a chocolate flavor.
To me, no product accomplishes this as well as Tootsie’s namesake product, the Tootsie Roll. Having been doled out since the late nineteenth century, these babies hold a niche in the candy universe.
The concept of this candy is a cool idea. Gummi bears that give the caffeine buzz of an energy soda without the crash an hour later? Awesome! And, as I’ve mentioned previously, I find biting the heads off gummi bears to be a lovely form of stress relief, so all in all, this seemed like a dream product.