I don't love all chewy candy- I love chewy candy that were first a hard candy. For example, Sweet Tarts- they have a sweet outershell and then you start chewing it and now you're eye is twitching from the tart. Mmmm.
Or, Runts (all except for banana- sidenote: who is the genius (aka idiot) that came up with the idea to have an all banana quarter machine- YUCK!
New found favorite: Chewy Lemonheads. I came across these from someone at work (she brought in a HUGE halloween sized bag of these and now I can't stop myself from "stealing" them off her desk. Hey, if you invite me to have a piece of candy from your jar, it's like an invitation EVERYTIME I walk by your desk. I can't help it if your desk is on my way out the door either!)
Classic favorite: CHEWY GOBSTOPPERS....did ya hear me??? CHEWY GOBSTOPPERS!!! (sigh)
And, thank goodness! God bless the genius (aka genius) that had their morning breakfast the day they thought of this! It's just too bad they didn't invent this back in 1995! Yes, there is a story behind this.
I'm sitting in class (I think this was before I was addicted to skipping class, so before my senior year). The desks were shaped in a circle (maybe rectangle, you get the pic, no?)- for some discussion about something important that happened years ago. So, we were all facing each other. I bought a box of Gobstoppers (the hard kind). In the middle of class I pop one in my mouth, thinking I was so cool because I thought Gobstoppers were so cool. As I'm in the middle of my thought the damn Gobstopper gets lodged in my throat!!! You may be picturing me interuppting class, standing up with my hands around my throat...Oh no no no no no.... I am sitting down thinking, "crap, how do I get this thing dislodged and not cause a scene at the same time?" Godforbid, I draw attention to myself. And, I was slightly embarrased. Would you want to be known as the girl who choked in the middle of class on a Gobstopper? I didn't think so.
My thought process (as I am choking) is to stand up and walk to the ladies room and just hack it up. Or, maybe I can pretend to be coughing and dislodge it that way. Or, swallow it down. Meanwhile, my eyes are watering and my throat is hurting! (Just reminiscing about it is causing a lump to form in my throat.) After awhile, which seems like forever, I relax and the Gobstopper magically moves up to my mouth. You'd think, at this point, I would just spit it out and throw away the box...but no. I finish my Gobstopper and give the rest to someone else. And, I vow to never to eat another hard Gobstopper again (which I have avoided for 14 years and counting) Thus, the beginning of my obsession of Chewy Candy.
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