I mentioned in a previous post that I have a love affair with gummy bears. The 12-color variety are simply superior to the original 5-color assortment (sorry, Haribo!) I’m seriously considering including gummy bears in my dissertation acknowledgements.
A fellow gummy afficionado had never heard of these marvelous gummies, so I shall enlighten everyone in the ways of the 12-color gummy bears. They all have A’s on their bellies. I assume the A stands for Awesome!
12 colors of gummy goodness!
12-Color Gummy Bear Flavor Guide
- Red: cherry
- Light red: strawberry
- Pink: grapefruit
- White: pineapple
- Purple: Concord grape
- Blue: raspberry
- Light blue: watermelon
- Green: Granny Smith apple
- Light green: lime
- Light yellow: banana
- Yellow: lemon
- Orange: orange
While I previously claimed that I eat them in no particular order, that’s not 100% true. I eat all the white and pale yellow ones first because I don’t particularly like those flavors. Then I move on to the red and purple ones which I don’t like quite as much as the others, although I’ll note that for cherry and grape flavored candies (some of which give me a headache from the cheapo flavorings), they’re pretty darn tasty. After that, it’s a free for all!
A note on gummy bear selection etiquette: 12-color (and ordinary) gummy bears are usually available in bulk foods bins at the grocery. It is rude to discriminate against your least favorite flavors by picking through the bin in anything other than the most rudimentary fashion, e.g., what the scoop readily permits. Also, if you pick through the colors, you will almost surely look like a blatantly crazy person to everyone else in the bulk food aisle.
I didn’t know there were 12 flavors…now I have to go on a hunt. I get my usual gummy bear fix from my daily vitamins but this is so much better!
Oh and I am the type to sit there with a scoop and tong and only pick out the blue and red ones.
Wegman’s has them. And there aren’t really rules about picking out your favorite flavors, but you know… The lesser flavors make the better ones taste even more awesome! I would be sad if someone else took all the watermelon-flavored gummy bears before I got to them.
I’m partial to Gummi Worms, myself. The health food store has some that are allegedly natural flavors, which hope is true. I like the fact that you can bite them in half while eating them…. But they still pull my fillings out, so I’m on the Gummi Worm Wagon.
I’ll go for gummi worms in a pinch – especially the “sour” ones. Luckily I have no fillings to pull out!
We have little blue whales here in Canada.
They have that mysterious Slush Puppie blue flavor to them.
A must…
http://bit.ly/weT0Kw
Whales, eh? I’ll have to search them out next time I wander across the border. It’s not very far out of my way.
The whales might be Quebec specific, darling. I’ve never seen them outside of this province. And when it comes to candy, I get around.
I love gummie bears. In fact, I need some now. I like to eat candy in colour groups in ascending order by number. Like, the two red ones, then the seven orange ones, then the 10 green ones…and if there’s a tie, I eat my least favourite ones first, like you. People who just eat whatever, without order of any kind, are reckless and immoral, obviously.
Suffice it to say that I end up in Montreal more often than one might expect. Next time, I will go on a hunt for the blue whales.
My preferences for eating candies by color order hinges on flavor differentiation. I always eat M&Ms according to numeric rules that combine frequency, symmetry, and color preferences. The blue ones really screwed that up.
You so get it. Candy organisation should be a super power….
I’ve been to shops where all of the different flavors are in their own bins. That’s when I choose my favorites, ha.
Oooh, I haven’t seen that kind of shop! Of course, I rarely enter candy shops as such. What they have at the grocery store is more than enough!
I do all of my grocery shopping at Wal-Mart, where there is no candy in bins. What can I say? I’m a Southerner; that’s how we roll, ha.
When you first mentioned these (previous post) I didn’t associate, but seeing the picture, I remember them! I’ve had these, long ago and in another life.
Of course, for me they are now forbidden. Gummy anythings contain gelatin, and this vegetarian had to let that subset of candies go.
Aw, that’s a bummer on the gelatin point, but I know what you mean.
I really should take it easy on the gummies because the sugar isn’t kind to me, but when I’m under as much stress as I am lately, it’s really hard to do that.
Crumb. After I heard about the 12 flavors I went on a serious hunt, but it was to no avail here in Seattle. Perhaps the folks here are simply not destined to have 12 flavors of gummy bears.
We also don’t have many “bulk” aisles anymore, which is a shame because that was my favorite part of the store as a child.
You can order them online. That’s where I found the flavor details, because there were a few that I couldn’t figure out from taste alone…
I’m shocked that backwater Upstate New York has something that the glorious Seattle doesn’t!
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I think they should make 12 flavor gummy worms. Yum. They have these at my local candy shop. :9
We definately have blue whales in Ontario at the Bulk Barn but even better – the red wavy gummy candies – so GOOD! What I can’t find anymore is these red hard super sour rough on the tongue candies that I loved as a child…any ideas?
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