These have a powerful strawberry flavor. Still chemical, obviously-not-derived-from-actual-strawberries strawberry flavor.

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Picked these up en route to Nashville after dropping off all of my belongings in Philly. It was some small, country, wooden shack of a gas station in the middle of nowhere that had a surprising assortment of gummies, including a very stale Trolli special edition Michael Jordan gummy shoes. All the other people in this gas station were maskless and white.

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Very shortly after opening this bag of candy, we were back on the road and getting pulled over for driving 81 in a 75. The man who took my partner's liscence and registration was suprisingly soft spoken for a cop. He was a pink-cheeked ginger and had the intonation of a dainty country boy. Strawberry cop.

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I think my little sister had a strawberry shortcake doll with the same creamy fake smell of this candy. We had the early-2000s Strawberry shortcake cartoon remake on dvd along with some pillowcases and maybe a sleeping bag. One of my brothers liked watching the show. He was relentlessly teased for it in our conservative, emotionally-stunted family.

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I didn’t eat the whole bag and left a few in there when I got out of the car. They melted the next day into a big amorphous blob that I straight up scraped off of the inside of the bag with my teeth. It still tasted so good.

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5/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★