British Candy.

Remember when George left the United States and returned to the Mothership that is Great Britain? No? Well, let me remind you. George is our intern from the UK.

He looks British, doesn't he? George recently went home to the UK and came back with a bunch of British candy. You can hear us trying it on today's Riot Archive (Wednesday, July 16) or you can hear it in next week's podcast. Either way, here are the pictures:


That is the Kit-Kat Chunky Bar with Peanut Butter. It is basically a REALLY big Kit Kat with peanut butter inside it. It is by far the most self-explanatory of all the candy that we had.


This is the Aero bar and it is what you see Nikki eating in the picture above. It is "minty". It actually tasted pretty good, but I'm not to thrilled about the slogan "Have you felt the bubbles?". It sounds like something you would discuss with a gastric specialist.

Those are the Fruit Pastilles. They're basically like sour patch kids without the sour. George said that it was "manly" candy in the UK so I'm officially a British-sort of manly. REALLY good stuff.


This is a picture of George becoming smug as my body slowly begins to decay. He's holding "Eclairs". They are chocolate wrapped in a toffee exterior. (Kinda like a fat tootsie roll) They were pretty good, too.

This is probably my favorite item of the day. This the back of the "Tooty Frooties". They are like skittles but they are square instead of round. Best part? Look at the little Tooty Frootie on the back that is reminding the British kids to brush their teeth. Who says the British have bad teeth?



I'm dead. The candy killed me.

Seriously, though, the candy made me SICK. I kept noticing a bizarre flavor to all the chocolate. It was very hard to nail down and then I had a thought: High Fructose Corn Syrup. Did the British candy have any or was it straight sugar? A quick glance at ALL of the candy showed me that NONE of it contained HFCS. Instead, the main ingredient in all of it was sugar. I have heard lots of people say that Americans would eat WAY LESS candy if it contained sugar instead of HFCS because HFCS is sweet like sugar but it doesn't spike your blood sugar the way that real sugar does. As a result, you can eat way more of it before your body says "WHOA!". I think they may be onto something because my body shut me down. BIG TIME.

The best part of the candy making me sick was the role reversal that George and I enjoyed. When we took George to Nashville, we ate all kinds of crazy food and he kept saying that he was feeling sick and he would randomly burp. The belching was especially odd to me because the only time I burp I can trace it back directly to drinking some soda so I found it very odd that food alone would make him burp. The tables have definitely been turned! I burped several times while we were eating and it was directly related to the food I was eating. Yuck.

I've had my British Candy experience and while it was good in small doses I will not be importing anything for my next trip to the movies.