Thats the down side with those giant gummys. They’re a weird re-make of the sweet – they’re not made in the same way as a gummy bear, they’re made from gummy bears – its another company buying gummy bears in bulk, melting them down and re-setting them. Unfortunately doing that changes the texture and flavour – they’re almost leather hard – a bit like trying to eat a skateboard wheel – and its difficult to describe the change to the taste but something about it makes your tastebuds sore.
I speak as someone who had research this to make a foot tall jellybaby for a TV show (and who now uses the mould to make huge novelty yorkshire puddings at 🙂 )
I haven’t really had many proper jobs. (i bet that doesn’t surprise anyone) The most unusual leaving gift I have from a real job though is a set of beer mats in a picture frame. Several months before I left I’d been out on a quite spectacularly boozy night out with my workmates. A fews days later our administrator was looking for something in her bag and pulled out a big bundle of beermats. On them – inexplicably – she’d minuted the whole evenings conversations in biro – writing round the border of each one – non of us, including her had any recollection of that. So now I have them framed in the downstairs loo.
