# I have a confession to make **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592 "2013-03-22T01:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/1 "2013-03-22T01:00:21Z")
I come to you, fellow 'dopers, hat in hand to share with you my secret passion. Much as it shames me to admit it, I have from some time now harbored a craving, a near obsession with gummy bears. That’s right…I love the things. Some folks love circus peanuts (I admit, even the thought of them turns my own stomach), and some folks like fruit cake (same), but me…I really, really love gummy bears. The kinds you can get in the states generally suck (I favor the big, 3 lb bags of Haribo gummy bears you can get at World Market), but even though they aren’t as good as the ones I remember in Germany, I still love them. Especially the red ones! As I write this, I’m snarfing down a bag of the things while sitting in my hotel room and unwinding from the day. I just wanted to share this pointless, mundane secret passion with everyone because…well, just because. nomnomnomnomnomnom… ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/2 "2013-03-22T01:00:48Z")
Cocaine is a hell of a drug. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/3 "2013-03-22T01:21:10Z")
I’ve used gummy bears as ear-equalizers on planes. Which once led to the then-scary, now-amusing time when I had a panic attack in a plane and was yelling with gummy bears in my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/4 "2013-03-22T01:26:18Z")
I can get the 3lb bag at Target stores around me. I could hear the screams of horror from the Gummy Bears the day I learned that. Haribo Gold, though, are the only ones for me. I can’t resist them either. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/5 "2013-03-22T01:31:17Z")
[QUOTE=EmilyG] I’ve used gummy bears as ear-equalizers on planes. Which once led to the then-scary, now-amusing time when I had a panic attack in a plane and was yelling with gummy bears in my mouth. [/QUOTE] Glad you clarified that. I was thinking you were stuffing gummi bears in your ears. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/6 "2013-03-22T02:01:26Z")
Picking this out of the teeth of MPSIMS and sticking it in Cafe Socirty. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/7 "2013-03-22T02:05:44Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Cocaine is a hell of a drug. So are gummy bears apparently, if you can find yourself in a hotel scarfing a 3-pound bag of them. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/8 "2013-03-22T02:05:49Z")
If it makes you feel any better, I really, really love the gummi cola bottles. I occasionally go to a nearby candy store with my friend, and her face falls when, every time, I head right for those tasty little candies. She doesn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/9 "2013-03-22T02:11:05Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Glad you clarified that. I was thinking you were stuffing gummi bears in your ears. I thought they were in both. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/10 "2013-03-22T02:56:00Z")
You people are all sick. Those things are disgusting. I look down on you. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/11 "2013-03-22T03:21:23Z")
I’m partial to the gummy sour worms they have at the movies. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/12 "2013-03-22T03:39:00Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I’ve used gummy bears as ear-equalizers on planes. Which once led to the then-scary, now-amusing time when I had a panic attack in a plane and was yelling with gummy bears in my mouth. > [@gotpasswords](#): > > Glad you clarified that. I was thinking you were stuffing gummi bears in your ears. Whereas I was wondering how she got past the earwax taste. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/13 "2013-03-22T03:45:20Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’m partial to the gummy sour worms they have at the movies. The vitamin ones are my weakness. I have eaten 200000000% of my daily vitamins before by finishing an entire jar. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/14 "2013-03-22T06:06:03Z")
Soak 'em in vodka. ---
**Author:** ![angeleyes612](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@angeleyes612](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angeleyes612)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/15 "2013-03-22T07:36:33Z")
My husband has the same disorder as you, specifically the same kind as you. He would eat them all day everyday if I allowed him to. After the gummi bears are gone he will smell the bag until the smell has disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/16 "2013-03-22T09:37:30Z")
Now you can have them on your walls too! > **[You're on candied camera! Amazing portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Mona Lisa...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252852/Haribo-gummy-bears-used-Johannes-Cordes-make-artwork.html)** > > Johannes Cordes, 57, from Meppen, Germany, uses thousands of the gelatinous treats to make each of his colourful masterpieces. ---
**Author:** ![Mann\_Slaughter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mann\_Slaughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mann_Slaughter)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/17 "2013-03-22T10:04:56Z")
Welcome, “XT”… My name is Slaughter, and I too am a gummi bear addict. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/18 "2013-03-22T13:52:15Z")
Yes, the Gold Bears are the best. I have to buy them by the small bag. I am completely unable to control myself once the bag is opened, if I bought 3 pounds of them I might die. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/19 "2013-03-22T15:56:20Z")
I feel that way about strawberry twizzlers. I will eat a whole bag straight through. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592/20 "2013-03-22T16:01:46Z")
I just wish (and am glad I can’t get) they made the big bag of gold Haribo gummies in all red. Or even the small bag. It would probably kill me if they did, as I’d be even more tempted to buy the things then (my habit is up to about a 3lb bag ever other week at this point…though, now that I know you can get them at Target, that might change, as World Market is a bit farther away and I don’t always know if the town or city I’m in has one, whereas Targets are everywhere). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-confession-to-make/653592.md?page=2)