The dumb flavors of Dum Dum
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On Halloween, I hung out with @jlobster on my driveway giving out candy to what were mostly spidermen whilst sampling the many flavors of dum dum lollipops. They really don't taste like food of any sort. My younger daughter wanted to try it last night, so we had a contest. Blindfolded - we had to guess what flavors we were licking and how good they were. My older daughter was both judge and water bearer and gave out points and results at the end. I lost 6-9 out of ~15 flavors. One of my points was for eschewing the 1-10 flavor rating system and giving my mystery pop a negative three.
Here's a post from two years ago when @jlobster and I tried the rainbow of tootsie-pops and Smarties. All disgusting: https://mltshp.com/p/1QHZT
And here's a post of my dog, Lollipop who was incredibly confused as we said the word "lollipop" like 100x during the contest: https://mltshp.com/p/1RCAL
Here's a post from two years ago when @jlobster and I tried the rainbow of tootsie-pops and Smarties. All disgusting: https://mltshp.com/p/1QHZT
And here's a post of my dog, Lollipop who was incredibly confused as we said the word "lollipop" like 100x during the contest: https://mltshp.com/p/1RCAL
i always end up sampling a few things while i hand out candy because few people seem to trick our treat in my neighborhood (but i'm stubborn and won't quit). sadly this year the only fruit-adjacent things i had to taste were sour patch kids, which tasted like puckering during a diabetic coma.