It’s not on the wrapper, but still… September 14, 2007 ~ 9:46 am
Posted by Julie in : Random Insanity , trackbackFun-sized candies are the DEVIL, people. I caved yesterday when I was in Rite-Aid and bought some, ostensibly for my office. (Well, the huge bag of fun-sized Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids were for them. The smaller bags of fun-sized Skittles and Twix are residing in my desk, because we all know my workmates are scavengers and would eat them in five seconds flat and then I would have no Skittles or Twix for me, and heads would roll.)
Fun-sized candies seem like a good idea when you pick them up. “Ooh, they’re small, I can have just a taste of the candy that I like and not totally blow my diet.” (We’re Americans. We’re all watching our weight, even if we say we’re not. Except for the people who don’t care and have gone over to the dark side with Ronald McDonald.) And then you have your taste of the candy you haven’t allowed yourself in a really long time, and all hell breaks loose. You might as well just tie the whole bag of fun-sized candies to your gaping maw, feedbag-style, because you can’t stop. Or maybe it’s just me. I mean, why else would I have eaten a bag of Skittles, one of Swedish Fish, one of Sour Patch Kids, and a Twix yesterday on top of the nuggets I had from Wendy’s for lunch, felt like utter crap last night because of it, and still be eating a fun-sized bag of Skittles as I type this. At 10:42 AM?
I think a key ingredient in fun-sized candies might be crack. Or at the very least? Weed.
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I’m so with you there. And it’s so deceptive, the fun-size, because you’re always, “Oh, it’s so little. It almost doesn’t even count. I can have 7 and it won’t even be the same as eating a whole candy bar.”
I have a love hate relationship with them.
Fun sized candy does not last long in our home either. They’re like Lays. You can’t eat just one. Bag that is.
I love your openness about how much you actually ate. I would probably only admit to 1/2 of it.
I see Masterfoods has managed to suck you in with the whole evil plan behind their marketing - We’ll make them smaller and confuse the masses into eating more.
At least you have one thing going for you. Even if you eat the whole bag, in order to have more after that you will have to throw down some cash. For some people, that’s enough to deter them. I, however, work in an office which deals directly with said candy company and let me tell you there usually is no shortage of their various goodies. What’s more, the account manager that handles the stuff seems to be kind of sweet on me (no pun intended lol) so he lets me have free roam of his candy closet whenever I want. Thankfully I’ve been able to train myself to be happy with three small pieces of Dove dark chocolate per day although I will say that there are some days when much more is necessary. So much in fact that if it were alcohol, I would be drunker than a skunk and passed out on the floor! lol
I never got the name “Fun Size”. Unless your idea of fun is opening, say, forty of them, because, after all, they’re tiny, they taste so, so good, I haven’t had a candy bar in however many months, come on, just one more… and then the guilt after having eaten twelve thousand calories in one sitting is lots of fun, too.
~Sighs~ I knew I should have gone back to bed before this…
Now I must call the PS and beg him to find me a Fun Size bag o’ Rolos…
Snack-sized candies and chips are going to take over the frickin world! Have you ever tried the chocolate covered cheese cake bites? They are located in the freezer aisle of your local market. They are Satan. Beware!
you can’t just eat one, you maybe onto something with the weed idea
Sparky~Exactly. It’s the Munchies.
Lois~Those things and I are old friends. Back when I was in college and working at a grocery store during holidays, we would often find boxes of those cheesecake bites that were “damaged.” Since damaged goods were fair game for us to eat, you can decide who caused the damage.
Pan~Sorry!
Leslie~Also, the crash when coming off the sugar high? That’s a ton of fun.