Korean Red Ginseng

This is the package from the last ginseng candy. It had the unmistakeable musty nose unique to that vitality-giving root. Although it's gummy candy, it was totally unlike the Kasugai fruit gummies -- firm to the bite, almost waxy, the kind of candy that investigators find half-eaten at a crime scene and use it to identify the victim through dental records.

Sadly, my source has not carried these for a few months, so it has gone the way of the melon candies.

This candy also represented my failure as a candyvangelist. "What kind of candy should I have?" you would ask. "Try a ginseng candy," I would say. But most of you didn't. Well, now they're gone. Those of us who ate them enjoyed them. And the rest of you can just spesiate on might-have-beens.