Anybody else as addicted to these things as I am? I can go the store, buy what looks to be about a week’s supply of gummi bears, and consume the entire lot within 24 hours.
The Brachs ones are awful - too sweet, and too soft. Gummi bears should have a degree of firmness to them and not be overly sweet. The German import ones are the best (no big surprise). The gummi rasperries are good, but most of the “novelty” gummi items like gummi savers and so on can be done quite well without.
Are there any nasty side effects of mass gummi bear consumption? I’m if anything a bit underweight, so the calories aren’t a huge problem. They contain no fat, yes? Are there any devastating medical consequences to weigh against such an addiction?
Bantmof: we must have been joined at the hip at birth. LOVE the little devils!! I even go out of my way, to Wal-Mart, where, aside from the $0.83 CDN one-pound pack of Twisters (licorice - the red ones are even better than Hershey’s Twirls - twice the price!), the gummy bears one-kilogram “tub” is, IMHO, one of that store’s best buys. Yes, I buy more than one, and yes they are soon thereafter…gone.
Aside from the sugar they contain (and its numerous well-known benefits on general health), I don’t see any major contraindication. Unlike you, I DO have a weight problem. Life’s just unfair.
As a vegetarian, I have to be careful how many I eat. Almost all of them are made of gelitan, which is an animal by-product, and my body is completely unused to digesting animal proteins at this point (four years of no-meat), so if I eat too many, I pay BIG time.
Chocolate covered are da bomb. The best brand is a kind I had in Germany, but I have noticed them here, however, I can’t remember the name. Starts with an H. At this point, we’re lucky I got that far.
The German Gummi Bear brand you’re thinking of is Haribo. My first encounter with them was selling them as a fund-raiser for our German class in high school about 20 years ago. Wasn’t until several years later I began seeing them on store shelves.
I can still remember the slogan on the box:
which basically means:
Works a little better auf Deutsch, I think.
Just checked out Haribo’s web site, which is actually a lot of fun: http://www.haribo.de .
Hello, all. I’m new here, but I’ll jump in. I like them so much that when a good friend was in Germany for 6 years(military), I had him sent me fresh german gummi bears (the absolute best) on a regular basis. Unfortunately, I too have to really watch my weight, so I try not to eat too many of them (much easier said than done). I won’t eat the american ones, just don’t taste the same, knowhutimean?
Yes, Haribo is the best!
I first encountered them while a child in Germany. Every saturday morning a man in a dark green VW squareback would come around and sell them. He also sold Brochen rolls, fresh bread and candy necklaces. It was like the ice cream man here in the States; waited for with great anticipation!
VB
I could never eat a mouse raw…their little feet are probably real cold going down. :rolleyes:
mmmm…Brochen…when I was over there, my host family would get them fresh from the baker every morning. They’d still be warm when I got a hold of one, and I’d have one half with a thinly sliced piece of gouda, which would melt from the warmth of the bread, and one half slathered with Nutella. Every breakfast I’d be in heaven. My host family gave me a 750 ML jar of Nutella, but my host mother ordered me to “not be eating it with a spoon…”
Germany is the greatest! When I was a kid, living in Frankfurt, we not only had three regular ice cream trucks, that gave actual scoops of ice cream as well as spaghetti ice (ice cream shaped like spaghetti with strawberry sauce and coconut “cheese”), but we also had two vans that sold fruit and candy and a van that sold doughnuts and candy, and a beer delivery truck and a pommes frittes van, and occasionaly a man on a bike who sharpened knives. Mmmmm…that was living.
I live in Heidelberg now, and all we have is an ice cream man. Now that I’m old enough to drink it, I could really use a beer delivery man.
Back to the OP, gummi bears are nice, but what I really love are the sour pickle and sour french fry shaped gummies. Those rock, but I don’t know if you can get them in the States.
HEIDI not HARIBO, thats the german ones, HEIDI. I bought some after reading this damn thread. HARIBO makes frogs, cherries, coke-bottles and such too. Damn all this is making me hungry again!!
If you like the Walmart ones, do make it a point to try the German import ones at some point. You can often find them at confectionery stores. MHO is that they stomp the holy heck out of the Walmart ones. They’re more expensive though, so it is a tradeoff.
Not all of them. Geltain is a by-product of cows, not pigs. Most yogurts have gelitan in them. Pectin is the vegetarian alternative to gelitan, it’s made from seaweed. I have found gummi bears made from pectin. Have fun spreading incorrect facts!
love 'em!
love to eat 'em while studying, and love to make 'em have gummi bear sex when I’m really tired and zoning out
sometimes a little sick, but hey it’s fun
I am a fire whose flames lick and spit at the boundless sky forever desiring wonderous consummation
-me
Now that I’m old enough to drink it, I could really use a beer delivery man.