Gummy Faces - bouncing here and there and all over the places - high adventure that's beyond normal paces - they are the Gummy Faces.
There, now you have the Adventures of Gummi Bears theme song stuck in your head. Enjoy humming that tune for the next three days. Once it's in, you can't get it out!
Speaking of getting things out, Walmart has finally started to roll out their Halloween selection. Finally. It's almost the third week of September! Even the curmudgeons who complain about stores putting out their holiday displays earlier and earlier every year were starting to wonder what the hold up was.
Whereas Target traditionally creates a theme or a set of characters to incorporate into much of their Halloween fare, Walmart tends to go the more generic route. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. I'm not entirely thrilled with Target's little monsters motif this year, so Walmart's broader approach to the season may actually be more appealing.
Gummy candies have become huge in recent years; both in popularity and sheer size. Last year there were giant gummy frogs filled with goo that you could dissect with an included scalpel. This year there are faces. The frog was probably more appealing.
The Gummy Face is about the size of my hand; significantly smaller than a normal human face. That's a little disappointing, especially considering the Gummy Face is made up of a thin layer of gummy candy and is not an entire solid head as you might expect.
The face also looks disproving. He does not agree with the choices you have made. Maybe that's more incentive to eat him. I also would have liked it if they had drawn some eyebrows on Mr. Gummy Face. A mustache would have been great, too, but that's more of a personal preference. A gummy version of Wooly Willy with Nerds-like candy for the hair instead of magnet balls sounds like a cracker jack idea to me.
Somebody get me the number for Willy Wonka!
I didn't think to look at the nutritional information on the back of the box, but I bet the serving size is one face and really, that makes up for any of Gummy Face's downfalls.
Magic and mystery - a part of their history - along with the secret of Gummy Face juice - their legend is growing - they take pride in knowing - they'll fight for what's right - in whatever they do!
I love the little monsters!
ReplyDeleteman, I gotta find that face. I was in Wal-mart earlier checking out the stuff, but either they didn't have it all out yet or this year's selection is crap.
ReplyDeleteI bought the face and stuck it in a picture frame on the living room bookshelf at my parent's house as a little Halloween "treat" for them. Imagine that creepy thing staring back at you from eye-level. Whoa.
ReplyDeletePS: I did check the nutritional facts, and like the face, it's not pretty. A serving size is one-fifth of the face, and that'll getcha 120 calories. That's a lot of calories for what, a nose? Not worth it. I played with it instead, which was much more satisfying. :-D
As if you could stop at the nose. Six hundred calories is a lot for one face.
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