Trailing in Judy’s efficient wake through Bed, Bath & Beyond last week like a spoilt teenager with a rumbling tum, I turned in low blood sugar desperation to the hippie food section.
This is not where you will normally find me. Sure, I eat my weight in tofu, but if I am going to eat something sweet the likelihood of my preferred snack being a health substitute is, well, zero. Carob? Kill me now.
I’ve never understood how one teeny tiny bar of what looks like the mulch found in the bottom of a hamster’s cage can add up to 200 or 300 calories. And why the super cheery gung ho manufacturers have to stud their mulch bars with fake chocolate drops and flavouring in a vain attempt to make them look appealing. I’d rather have one square of Green & Black’s.
Anyway, having rejected all the power bars (300 calories? Give me a cupcake not the horse food) but distinctly aware that a no-breakfast-related meltdown was imminent, I saw the word chili floating at eye level. Now I like chili. It sounds more exciting than oats or agave. And, in this case, was attached to a bag of lollipops.
In fact it was all win as far I could see: no chemical nasties, so no danger of my tongue turning green or orange, a bit of a chili buzz and the agreeable sensation of regressing to childhood by sucking on a lolly on a stick. And just $3 for 15. Bargain. (Mulch bars are seriously expensive.)
And even better (as I am nominally on a régime, however much I whinge):
They are actually delicious. There was no whiff of the health counter here as Judy, me and our Bangladeshi cab driver all cheerfully crunched away on the way home.
There’s a great story about Yummy Earth (I’m trying not to wince at the name) & how two dads formulated the products for their kids on their website. (Although I would LOVE to see a five year old eat a chili lollipop.)
{ 1 trackback }
{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }
On twitter, I thought you meant chili-the-stew and couldn’t figure out why (and how) someone would make chili into a lollipop. This makes much more sense.
Mulch bars! Ha! Ha! No, I can’t abide hippie food either. Always seems really pretentious yet tasteless at the same time.
Almost healthy lolipops! Who would have thunk it? Can imagine the sweet plus chilli hit go really well together, yum..
They would make me regress to childhood, like, “I want one NOOOOOW!”
Apologies in advance for lowering the tone, but I misread the photo (because of the light reflection) as Organic Hot Chili Poos. Imagine my consternation at that particular flavour lollipop…