I usually go for the flashy snack food items with the colorful packaging. I resisted buying the Brown Candy for the longest time, but something about it’s frank plainness appealed to me and I stuck it in my cart. Then left it on top of my fridge for a couple of months. Frank plainness is one thing, visibly stained packaging is another.
The ingredients are simple: sugarcane and water. I am assuming the stains are just water seeping out, as it tends to do. The price was right, $1.99 for one whole pound and it can be preserved within Bghteen months.
I opened it with trepidation, fearing it would be sticky, but it wasn’t, really. A little, but it’s made with sugar cane. What worried me more were the patches of white scattered throughout the bars. I chose to assume that it was where the sugarcane had refined itself – after all isn’t sugar a preservative? It wasn’t furry, and smelled okay, so I went ahead and had a nibble.
It tasted like sugar. But not as sweet. Like some sort of weak-ass sugar for the elderly. It wasn’t bad, but I can’t see myself eating any more either. Furry or not, those white patches look sinister.
China has a way to go before it can compete with the big dogs in the cute Asian snack food industry. Perhaps they would like to hire me as a consultant.
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Brown, watery, and leaky. Well, there’s not much I can say about that.
You area brave woman, those patches would have kept me from taking even a tiny bite. You deserve more than watered down sugar as a prize.
this is actually brown sugar that a lot of chinese use in their dessets. its not really candy. lOL
rina beat me to the punch. its not really meant to be eaten like that. its used for cooking.
Wow, brown candy doesn’t even sound like something I would try and forget the white patched it would have ended up in my trash bin.
My Mom uses that Brown sugar to cook ..
it’s not meant as a snack food to be eaten out of the bag.
Use it to make desserts or sweet soups
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