Super Lemon. What could be confusing about this? Yet this candy has engendered a number of negative reactions, perhaps reviled only slightly less than the now-infamous tomato candy.
A quick look at the package could help clear up some misconceptions.
First, notice what happens when the Peter Max-inspired lady puts the candy in her mouth. "Oh!" she says, "Powerful Candy." Lesson #1: this is powerful candy.
Second, look at the small diagram showing the technology that makes this candy so powerful. A thin layer of "Lemon Taste Powder," provides the shockingly sour flavor. Then follows a layer of "Mild Lemon Candy," a mild lemon candy -- the lotion after the butt-whipping, as it were. And finally, a core of "Super Lemon Candy," more sour than the Mild layer, but nothing compared to the Lemon Taste Powder. Which leads to Lesson #2: the shockingly sour flavor only lasts a brief time, and once you suck on it long enough (or bite into the thing), it's gone.
So now, if you find that, as one person put it, the "lemon candy made me cry," you'll know that it's nothing more than Japanese candy technology at its best.
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3 comments:
The tomato candy is reviled? But who wouldn't enjoy the hard-candy version of ketchup? (I'm not being sarcastic. I love them!)
I agree with Kathryn up to a point. The tomato candy, indeed is a treat. But much like artificial grape flavor, it is a thing unto itself. Not tomato, not ketchup, simply itself unlike anything else.
As for the discussion by Candypants of the "Peter Max" inspired model, I offer instead that this is a fairly accurate representation of the blow-up love doll seen in the 1978 comedy classic "Foul Play" with Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, and most notably Dudley Moore. Not having seen the packaging before, I am now squeamish about savoring these sour lemon drops.
That's not how you use the candy. Or one of those dolls, or so I have read.
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