I'll blame poverty but I rarely had access to candy and pop. I could go out trick or treating and cover our entire town in one night. That woudl be rationed out by my parents and sometimes forgotten about in the freezer.
Bak then you got one small piece of candy per house now my wife spoils the kids with a little bag containing half a block's worth of treats. Times have changed.
My wife grew up even poorer than I was and she regularly had Pepsi. The luxury of it! We only got pop when we visited our grandparents. They had well water that smelled like sulfur. We'd prefer to dehydrate for a few days that plug our noses while drinking. Somehow those that lived there got used to it.
I don't know if you were paid by Big Nerds, but I had never tried Nerds Gummy Clusters before reading this and now I have a small bag in my office desk.
I think I'm pacing myself pretty well! They're super sweet, so more than two or three at a time feels like enough... but the bag probably won't make it through the work week.
A glimpse into American society through the perspective of candy & sweets. Having moved from the country before my 13th birthday, now at 56, it feels like an alien landscape lost to me due to circumstances. Not that I complain it has given me my own host of individual experiences and has allowed me to look at both American and British culture as an outsider. Thank you!
I do sometimes feel like we are long lost brothers. I swear that yellow #5 in Mtn Dew wards off most illnesses. Though, it will catch up to me at some point. I could live off of cereal alone. My kids are a bit older than yours and have consumed a few buckets loads of sugary goods during their younger days. But, I can report that they have gravitated towards a more balanced diet as they moved through their teens. They are missing out! And, congratulations to your actual brother!
I think I can debunk that theory now having 3 children. I can only imagine how this conversation would go with Thomas. On addicting candy - I am now literally and figuratively in my sweet spot with the peanut butter M&M eggs for Easter. I think it has to do with the shell.
We used to pick out yellow M&M's in middle school because there was an urban legend that yellow 5 it killed sperm (probably true), as if we needed them for something 😂
I have so many things I want to say about this piece in all its splendor, but am so taken by "the Helms Deep of the Wonka Wars." Easily on my Mt. Rushmore of Robbe's pop culture reference analogies.
I'll blame poverty but I rarely had access to candy and pop. I could go out trick or treating and cover our entire town in one night. That woudl be rationed out by my parents and sometimes forgotten about in the freezer.
Bak then you got one small piece of candy per house now my wife spoils the kids with a little bag containing half a block's worth of treats. Times have changed.
We weren't poverty, but were lower middle class, our cars were always broke but we still had candy 😂
My wife grew up even poorer than I was and she regularly had Pepsi. The luxury of it! We only got pop when we visited our grandparents. They had well water that smelled like sulfur. We'd prefer to dehydrate for a few days that plug our noses while drinking. Somehow those that lived there got used to it.
I don't know if you were paid by Big Nerds, but I had never tried Nerds Gummy Clusters before reading this and now I have a small bag in my office desk.
And??? (Also I wish I were paid by Big Nerds)
I think I'm pacing myself pretty well! They're super sweet, so more than two or three at a time feels like enough... but the bag probably won't make it through the work week.
I've never had substance abuse issues until Nerds Gummy Clusters came into my life.
😂😂
A glimpse into American society through the perspective of candy & sweets. Having moved from the country before my 13th birthday, now at 56, it feels like an alien landscape lost to me due to circumstances. Not that I complain it has given me my own host of individual experiences and has allowed me to look at both American and British culture as an outsider. Thank you!
I do sometimes feel like we are long lost brothers. I swear that yellow #5 in Mtn Dew wards off most illnesses. Though, it will catch up to me at some point. I could live off of cereal alone. My kids are a bit older than yours and have consumed a few buckets loads of sugary goods during their younger days. But, I can report that they have gravitated towards a more balanced diet as they moved through their teens. They are missing out! And, congratulations to your actual brother!
I think I can debunk that theory now having 3 children. I can only imagine how this conversation would go with Thomas. On addicting candy - I am now literally and figuratively in my sweet spot with the peanut butter M&M eggs for Easter. I think it has to do with the shell.
We used to pick out yellow M&M's in middle school because there was an urban legend that yellow 5 it killed sperm (probably true), as if we needed them for something 😂
I've always been more partial to chocolate, but just by the vivid description of these I may have to check them out.
Looking for another fuel source for long runs as well 😁
They’ll work for long runs! I think they talked about them on the last Fuel for the Sole episode
I have so many things I want to say about this piece in all its splendor, but am so taken by "the Helms Deep of the Wonka Wars." Easily on my Mt. Rushmore of Robbe's pop culture reference analogies.