Brown Candy

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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