A Tribute to Bad-Candy I Chocolate Bananas
Like the wonderful creators of bad-candy.com, I too feel the need to warn the public of a horrible "tasty treat".
There's a market place called Concessi's that I have been to on many occasions. But the last time I went there brought more surprises than I care to speak of.
It started as a normal trip there for whatever it was dad needed for dinner that night. (We ended up going out for dinner. Go figure) As my father stood in line at the deli counter, he mistakenly told my sister and I to "explore and see if you can find anything we want". Little did he know...
After sampling the interesting jellies they had, we stumbled across the candy section. Unlike the jelly, however, there were horrible things amiss.
My sister and I each picked out a candy to try. Laura made a terrible choice. Chocolate bananas. I have to give her credit, they sound harmless enough. I mean, how does one go wrong with chocolate and bananas? (I can't stand bananas, but that's beside the point)
Splitting the chocolate banana in half brought forth the beginning of the true story. You see, they weren't real bananas, a major disappointment in both our books. Instead, we found a gooey, almost marshmallow like substance, vibrant yellow in color. There wasn't a smell to give a preview of the taste.
I tried my half first. Silly me shoved the entire piece in my mouth. The taste of lemons hit my mouth in a rush. Yes, I said the taste of LEMONS. Now, I'm not an expert, but bananas and lemons don't taste the same to me.
The chocolate part was alright at least, and I decided maybe chocolate covered lemons was just an interesting new taste and I needed to get used to it. I was wrong.
The lemon and chocolate taste melded together, which was so indescribably bad, there isn't a word yet made for it.
A full minute later, I realized where the banana in the name came from. Chocolate Bananas had an after taste! That's where the banana went!
I choked, and stumbled from the impact, but it was no use. There was no one to come to my rescue, as Laura had missed my reaction and eaten her piece.
Thankfully, when I had recovered, I was able to open my candy choice, Happy Hippos. Now THAT is a candy. Little hippo shaped wafers, filled with chocolate frosting and white chocolate cream. The only problem with them was that upon opening, one of the sprinkles lining the bottom of the hippo flew into my eye.
There's a market place called Concessi's that I have been to on many occasions. But the last time I went there brought more surprises than I care to speak of.
It started as a normal trip there for whatever it was dad needed for dinner that night. (We ended up going out for dinner. Go figure) As my father stood in line at the deli counter, he mistakenly told my sister and I to "explore and see if you can find anything we want". Little did he know...
After sampling the interesting jellies they had, we stumbled across the candy section. Unlike the jelly, however, there were horrible things amiss.
My sister and I each picked out a candy to try. Laura made a terrible choice. Chocolate bananas. I have to give her credit, they sound harmless enough. I mean, how does one go wrong with chocolate and bananas? (I can't stand bananas, but that's beside the point)
Splitting the chocolate banana in half brought forth the beginning of the true story. You see, they weren't real bananas, a major disappointment in both our books. Instead, we found a gooey, almost marshmallow like substance, vibrant yellow in color. There wasn't a smell to give a preview of the taste.
I tried my half first. Silly me shoved the entire piece in my mouth. The taste of lemons hit my mouth in a rush. Yes, I said the taste of LEMONS. Now, I'm not an expert, but bananas and lemons don't taste the same to me.
The chocolate part was alright at least, and I decided maybe chocolate covered lemons was just an interesting new taste and I needed to get used to it. I was wrong.
The lemon and chocolate taste melded together, which was so indescribably bad, there isn't a word yet made for it.
A full minute later, I realized where the banana in the name came from. Chocolate Bananas had an after taste! That's where the banana went!
I choked, and stumbled from the impact, but it was no use. There was no one to come to my rescue, as Laura had missed my reaction and eaten her piece.
Thankfully, when I had recovered, I was able to open my candy choice, Happy Hippos. Now THAT is a candy. Little hippo shaped wafers, filled with chocolate frosting and white chocolate cream. The only problem with them was that upon opening, one of the sprinkles lining the bottom of the hippo flew into my eye.