Candy Camp

It was a long, mostly sunny holiday weekend. Camper flaps opened, ponds overflowed with fresh water, and a young kid's thoughts turned to candy.
Meet some of the sugar fiends from Duck Creek Campground in lovely Wyocena, WI. You'll hear more from them this summer.

"I like both of them."

This is Briana (Brooke's twin). She can't decide between Jelly Belly Superfruit Mix or Jelly Belly Sunkist Citrus Mix.

I'll be honest, this buzzing little group of sugar bees weren't all that discerning. Although there was the "I can't have Red 40" girl seen in the top photo chowing down pretty good on a Bluberry Now and Later (blue 1)—let me find another photo of Camille.

"I can't have Red 40."

Here she is, not a happy camper, ha, happy camper. She was testing a box of Sour Gummy Popcorn, making her more of a Yellow 5 sort of girl.

"Just like really sour, like fruit snacks sort of."

For all the grimaces and minor "blechs" (coming from me holyhotcatinatubofbutter the stuff is nasty), Sour Gummy Popcorn from Walgreen's got 5 out of 5 from Camille (who wanted to know if it was currently available for the average consumer such as herself).
It was the only candy not directly from the All Candy Expo.

"I think I give it a Red 40."

This kid, Austin, was cracking me up. Redheads, I knew a kid like that who used to put ants in my hair.
Austin is sporting a Wisconsin tan and sampling a Strawberry/Banana Splits Now and Later.

The Superfruit Mix, despite child proof flavors such as Acai (ah-sah-EE/ah-"sigh"-EE) Berry , Cranberry, and Pomegranate, finally won Briana over. The Jelly Belly Superfruit Mix also contains Barbados Cherry and Blueberry flavored beans.

I got ratings from 2 to "a billion gazillion" (from guess who, later rumored to have slunk back into camp saying he gave one of the candies "a one").

More from Candy Camp later. Next, a lovely guest post from the woman who gave us the definition of maupted—"what you get when you use a muppet as living room flooring"—Jill, aka, Lil Mouse.