The school took sour patch kids out of the vending machine. What the hell else will i eat that is sour then sweet
Warheads?
Pineapple and sauerkraut sandwiches?
Do they still stock Shock Tarts in vending machines? Those were pretty good.
We didn’t have vending machines or Sour Patch kids in school when I was a kid. We sucked on rocks from the parking lot.
And we were happy to do it!
School vending machines offering candy? When I was in school, the kids smoking cigarettes in the quad would have laughed at the idea.
You forgot to tell those kids to get off your lawn.
Lawn? We didn’t have a lawn! We just had some green fuzz that grew in the dirt in front of the house.
Kids these days.
We used to dream of having green fuzz in front of our house! We had to make do with an 8x8 patch of green spray-painted asphalt.
Asphalt? How fancy.
All we had was broken glass.
Well, by green fuzz, I meant rancid mold that that we had to “mow” with our bare hands, but it was green fuzz to us!
Glass? You had GLASS? We counted ourselves blessed to have the sawdust left behind by carpenter ants.
Carpenter ants?? Must’ve been nice. All we had was 100’x100’ lot filled with fire ants, 6" deep.
Pets? Such extravagance.
Ants? Luxury
You may laugh, but back in MY day the Cafeteria Ladies looked at you in Extreme Disapproval if you dared to choose chocolate milk instead of regular milk. We did not have soda pop, we didn’t have any sort of punch, we had our choice of milk or water for drinks. And NO candy. NO vending machines, either.
Most of our playground was asphalt, but we did have plenty of broken glass on it, the better to skin our knees on. And if we complained of skinned knees, the school nurse and/or our moms would put monkey blood (merthiolate) on the wound.
Man, I wish I could eat Sour Patch Kids. I love the taste. But they literally melt my tongue. I have no idea why. I’ve got scars from the last time I tried.
Apparently I’m not the only one this happens to. It’s nasty.
Solid citric acid crystals are quite acidic and corrosive - much more so than dissolved citric acid. I can barely get through a “fun size” bag of Sour Skittles without them wrecking my tongue.