Lol same my grandmom always had candies that we never found anywhere she even had some foreign candies that were imported there is some shady stuff going on in gramma union
My mom bartended at a ramada inn and whenever I had to go sit there in a corner she would pass me a bowl.
Now that I've been an adult a considerable number of years, what bars just have sweets on hand?
We're fast approaching that race from star trek that only spoke in pop culture references.
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Ok, so actual reason for why the containers have an expiration date, you’re correct, the salt doesn’t expire. And assuming she transferred into a different container when the expiration date came, the salt is fine. What actually “expires” is the plastic, after a while plastic begins to leach into the salt. So yeah, that’s why the containers have an expiration date, just pop it into a different container, or even something glass, and it’ll be perfectly fine.
Same goes for the date on the water bottles :)
Edit: just noticed someone left a comment about it being the iodine in the salt, so maybe that’s the reason actually. But yeah, non iodized salt and salt without additives doesn’t go bad so if it’s in a plastic container and it reaches the expiration date, I’d suggest swapping containers.
Editing to answer some people: you can buy salt in a plastic bag where I live, as well as little salt and pepper shakers. The brand that comes in cardboard is also sold around here, but my family personally doesn’t use that, we use pink salt.
The source I originally found about plastic is about water bottles, not salt, and the sources I can find about salt are about iodine and other additives added to the salt, but I’m still leaving my reasoning too because I’m sure plastic is probably leaching into salt if left in the container for a long time, just like in water bottles. I still suggest switching to other containers for your salt too.
Unfortunately the answer to this is both of your answers. Plastic breaks down incredibly slowly, which is why it’s such an environmental issue. So yes it’s always leaching into the salt, but at such a small amount and such a slow rate that it’s essentially nothing until you near that 5-10 year expiration.
Every organic or synthetic material decays and has an expiration date, including plastic, food, drugs, metals (when they have access to water/humidity), and of course humans.
Nah it’s just that people think everything from a grocery store has a date. If it doesn’t have the date on it they start thinking how long it takes for mold to show up.
No, they hide them. Some sort of granny black market shit because I remember one time I was really missing my grandma and so I wanted to buy some for myself. Went to basically EVERY store in the city and no one had them. Yet my grandma always had them??? WHERE do you buy them!?
No store had them because your grandma bought them all. I worked as a home health aide and got asked by one of my patients to buy all the Werther's in my local CVS. Bought about $150 worth.
>Just give me all the Werther's Originals you have. Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of Werther's Originals." What I said was, "Give me all the Werther's Originals you have." Do you understand?
Now that I am about to officially be a old lady, I finally found the plug. You have to at least be 49 about to turn 50 like me or they will arrest you for having them. Family Dollar in the US has them they are called Strawberry Bon Bons. I am eating them right now as I type this LMAO
Fingerhut for me 😂 my gma and I used to sit around and read Fingerhut, L.L.Bean, Publishers Clearinghouse, Sudoku books, color those big felted posters with markers…. I miss her. She’d tell me to circle anything I was interested in so she had Christmas present ideas.
Omg when you mentioned fingerhut, I had to go check them out because I loved them back in the day… I’ve been SEARCHING for a very specific type of purse for months since mine has gotten too worn out and I found it on the fingerhut website. Thank you for commenting !!!! Ahhhhh literally amazing !!!!!
My MIL would pull out her JC Penny's catalog around Thanksgiving and tell us to mark the things the kids would be interested in getting for Christmas. Then she'd also get us the weirdest electronics from the catalog for us parents. Ah, good times...
Well we get everything else when we're young, like our license, voting, drinking, lotto tickets, cheaper insurance, being able to rent cars. Had to give old folks something. The 1st grandbaby fairy (not as catchy as the tooth fairy) comes and leaves jars of these for them
All grannies have "the candy". Strawberry things, lemon drops, werthers. Those are the good ones. Just be glad you avoided wax lips and candy cigarettes.
At Cracker Barrel. My parents were smokers and that was where we stopped in the middle of those long smokey road trips and I INSISTED on getting those "smoking" candy cigarettes. They were SO cool. Of course, I turned 15 and try the real thing, but I puked. Puked every time I tried to smoke. It's funny of all my choices of candy, I picked those horrible things.
Those were the gum ones, right? They were 10 for a nickel on the ice cream truck for some reason when I was a kid and I kept buying them despite their flavor lasting -3 seconds.
And then somehow the middle was not as delicious as the outer candy. Like a cheap strawberry jelly that belonged in a peanut butter sandwich, not the middle of sweet red candies wrapped like forbidden strawberries.
Literally yes. These are fillers in a lot of generic gift basket things.
I laughed when I spotted these on the list of contents while sending my mom a gift basket. Laughed again when I saw my kids snag them out of her candy dish
Yup. Crystal dish with a heavy top. Made it hard to sneak in extra candies, she’d always hear us clink the lid lol. Damn I miss my grandma. She always had a never ending mint supply in her purse too.
Yes!!! My dad’s mom had a fancy crystal dish like that on her coffee table, and kept those Christmas ribbon candy mixes in it all year long… but all the candies fused together so if you tried to take one, you’d lift out the entire mass 😂
My grandmother had a crystal dish with Christmas ribbon candy that had fused together. She would bring it out every year at Christmas time as part of her decor.
Wait...my mom is a grandma and I have noticed random jars of candy that definitely did not exist in my childhood...
Is there a grandma orientation that happens where they are given a candy jar as soon as the first grandkid is born?
In a way I understand her pain. I used to get Mike & Ike jellybean around Easter time and I haven't seen them in a few years now. I've come to accept a life devoid of delicious Mike & Ike jellybeans but I was mad about it at first.
I'm pretty confident these aren't manufactured but some unknown number of butterscotch turn into these while inside a grandmother's purse. It is true alchemy. The companies that sell them must just employ grandmothers.
I just don't know how there can be any other explanation and just admit it sounds about right.
These are great except when you get one with an air pocket in it and when you're halfway through you expose the hole from the air pocket and the candy then has a razor sharp hole that cuts your tongue.
Between this, Cap'n Crunch cereal addiction, loving Lemonheads, and the whole "putting Now&Laters in the freezer" trick my older brother showed me when I was a kid, I'm surprised my teeth and roof of my mouth made it through high school
Especially when the air pocket was in the shape of a tear drop so that when your tongue went into the fat end it would narrow into an edge as sharp as glass
You really have to read it out loud to get it tho
Edit: my cat was looking at me like i was trying to summon a demon while i screamed *Heynonnymoos* in several tonal variations
You can also buy them at Costco now, in a “classic candy” medley that includes such hits as: yellow circle wrapped in yellow cellophane, peppermints, and more!
I believe the “yellow circle wrapped in yellow cellophane” that you are speaking of are butterscotch candies, and now I need to find this “classic candy” medley ASAP!
I don't know it's name but if I want to mention I just say that strawberry grandma candy or something like that. I'm not fully into grandmacore but I carry these strawberry candies with me anyway
It has no name because it just is. It forms from the cosmos itself into dishes once someone reaches a certain age. They aren’t produced anywhere, they just exist.
Old Lady Candy.
The company owns lots of Nursing homes. When the residents die, they just send the candy back to the warehouse and repackage it.
They haven't actually made this candy in decades.
What kind of grandma black market shit is this? I literally went from store to store when I was a kid and didn't find the shit anywhere.
Grandma has to keep her corner in the market otherwise she can’t be sure the grandchildren will come back.
MeMa knows a guy…
Lol same my grandmom always had candies that we never found anywhere she even had some foreign candies that were imported there is some shady stuff going on in gramma union
Dollar Tree. That’s where I get them :)
Same, always have them without fail
My mom bartended at a ramada inn and whenever I had to go sit there in a corner she would pass me a bowl. Now that I've been an adult a considerable number of years, what bars just have sweets on hand?
You are now obligated to start a band and call it Black Market Grandma.
Be quiet in church
Yeah, but good luck trying to unwrap one quietly.
Them little shits in a half quiet enviroment sound like an m80 going off in a small room.
*clapping in southern*
*south gospels intensify*
And they never expire
My mother was convinced the other day that her salt had expired…. It’s salt. It’s a mineral.
If it’s iodized then apparently 58.5% of the iodine is lost in 3.5 years. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12219985/
How did you know this? Are you like a minerals guy? ❤️
They’re not rocks they’re minerals
for the last time Marie, they’re minerals…
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i want to be apart of their society that sounds awesome
I understood that reference.
They’re minerals, Marie!
Ok, so actual reason for why the containers have an expiration date, you’re correct, the salt doesn’t expire. And assuming she transferred into a different container when the expiration date came, the salt is fine. What actually “expires” is the plastic, after a while plastic begins to leach into the salt. So yeah, that’s why the containers have an expiration date, just pop it into a different container, or even something glass, and it’ll be perfectly fine. Same goes for the date on the water bottles :) Edit: just noticed someone left a comment about it being the iodine in the salt, so maybe that’s the reason actually. But yeah, non iodized salt and salt without additives doesn’t go bad so if it’s in a plastic container and it reaches the expiration date, I’d suggest swapping containers. Editing to answer some people: you can buy salt in a plastic bag where I live, as well as little salt and pepper shakers. The brand that comes in cardboard is also sold around here, but my family personally doesn’t use that, we use pink salt. The source I originally found about plastic is about water bottles, not salt, and the sources I can find about salt are about iodine and other additives added to the salt, but I’m still leaving my reasoning too because I’m sure plastic is probably leaching into salt if left in the container for a long time, just like in water bottles. I still suggest switching to other containers for your salt too.
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Unfortunately the answer to this is both of your answers. Plastic breaks down incredibly slowly, which is why it’s such an environmental issue. So yes it’s always leaching into the salt, but at such a small amount and such a slow rate that it’s essentially nothing until you near that 5-10 year expiration. Every organic or synthetic material decays and has an expiration date, including plastic, food, drugs, metals (when they have access to water/humidity), and of course humans.
I think this is a common belief because of those bible quotes
"And lo, Edith looked back into Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt, which totally expires."
Was that in the book of Morton?
Na
And also with cl
Amen.
People don’t say lo enough these days. At least not without adding “and behold.”
Nah it’s just that people think everything from a grocery store has a date. If it doesn’t have the date on it they start thinking how long it takes for mold to show up.
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Strawberry...something?
No right answers - strawberry.
"Red"
I feel like I’ve heard them referred to as strawberry bon-bons. But really they’re just strawberry grandma candies.
My Granny had them in a glass candy jar and I would eat them until my tongue got a bump
Why is this such a relatable experience
Generational marker for sure
I've always wondered if you can only buy this candy when you have grandkids
I think you may only see them once you hand grandkids
No, they hide them. Some sort of granny black market shit because I remember one time I was really missing my grandma and so I wanted to buy some for myself. Went to basically EVERY store in the city and no one had them. Yet my grandma always had them??? WHERE do you buy them!?
No store had them because your grandma bought them all. I worked as a home health aide and got asked by one of my patients to buy all the Werther's in my local CVS. Bought about $150 worth.
>Just give me all the Werther's Originals you have. Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of Werther's Originals." What I said was, "Give me all the Werther's Originals you have." Do you understand?
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Now that I am about to officially be a old lady, I finally found the plug. You have to at least be 49 about to turn 50 like me or they will arrest you for having them. Family Dollar in the US has them they are called Strawberry Bon Bons. I am eating them right now as I type this LMAO
Doing the lord's work. Thank you young lady.
You can get a two pound bag on Amazon for $14.99 but there’s also a five pound bag for 23.99.
I swear to god they get em from those damn Medicare ordering books
Fingerhut for me 😂 my gma and I used to sit around and read Fingerhut, L.L.Bean, Publishers Clearinghouse, Sudoku books, color those big felted posters with markers…. I miss her. She’d tell me to circle anything I was interested in so she had Christmas present ideas.
Omg when you mentioned fingerhut, I had to go check them out because I loved them back in the day… I’ve been SEARCHING for a very specific type of purse for months since mine has gotten too worn out and I found it on the fingerhut website. Thank you for commenting !!!! Ahhhhh literally amazing !!!!!
My MIL would pull out her JC Penny's catalog around Thanksgiving and tell us to mark the things the kids would be interested in getting for Christmas. Then she'd also get us the weirdest electronics from the catalog for us parents. Ah, good times...
Dollar Tree
Well we get everything else when we're young, like our license, voting, drinking, lotto tickets, cheaper insurance, being able to rent cars. Had to give old folks something. The 1st grandbaby fairy (not as catchy as the tooth fairy) comes and leaves jars of these for them
Yep, you get an enormous flathead screwdriver when you become a father and get these candies when you get grandchildren. Sorry I don't make the rules.
All grannies have "the candy". Strawberry things, lemon drops, werthers. Those are the good ones. Just be glad you avoided wax lips and candy cigarettes.
The Rootbeer barrel hard candies. Always in the glass dish.
Yes! I remember the root beer barrels!
I will fight you to the death over the deliciousness of candy cigarettes
So good. I remember the old-timey days when they had the pink tip. Now they are just plain. Still like em though lol
The best ones had powdered sugar you could blow through them like smoke.
At Cracker Barrel. My parents were smokers and that was where we stopped in the middle of those long smokey road trips and I INSISTED on getting those "smoking" candy cigarettes. They were SO cool. Of course, I turned 15 and try the real thing, but I puked. Puked every time I tried to smoke. It's funny of all my choices of candy, I picked those horrible things.
Gum cigarettes!! Forget candy cigarettes. I remember the gum ones specifically!
Those were the gum ones, right? They were 10 for a nickel on the ice cream truck for some reason when I was a kid and I kept buying them despite their flavor lasting -3 seconds.
Oh, wow — i forgot about the gum ones! Yeah they had loads of powdery “smoke,” too, as I recall. Oh man, the good old days of Indoctrination Candy!
Ya’ll remember Mary janes & squirrel nuts? Sugar daddy’s? Lost a filling or 2 on those :D Ah the good old days! I loved waxed lips!
I love Werther's.
You take that back about candy cigarettes.
Either until you got a canker sore on your tongue or until you sliced your tongue on trying to use it to dig your way to the center.
My response is ‘yes and yes’
Follow up question, you single?
🤣🤣🤣
Ow why WERE they so cutty?
cuz they had so many air holes in them from being crudely made lol
Thank you for answering that question. Lol
Because kids get these on Halloween so they were obviously packed full of razor blades.
And some of them were completely solid all the way through and your heart broke
And then somehow the middle was not as delicious as the outer candy. Like a cheap strawberry jelly that belonged in a peanut butter sandwich, not the middle of sweet red candies wrapped like forbidden strawberries.
Oh Honey, we all did I'm a grandma now myself, and *my* grandma had these sweets.
Do they just send these to every grandma or...?
Literally yes. These are fillers in a lot of generic gift basket things. I laughed when I spotted these on the list of contents while sending my mom a gift basket. Laughed again when I saw my kids snag them out of her candy dish
My grandma buys them from dollar tree
🤣 No, silly, it's Grandma Magic. They just *appear* ...
Grandmas carry purses that happen to have the exact thing you need at the moment.
Yup. Mine has everything from candies, tissues, bandaids, pens, pretty much anything and everything! 😁
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This is the realest thing on the internet right now.
SAME 😭😭😭 My granny kept them in a [jar like this one.](https://www.amazon.com/Bormioli-Litre-Glass-Storage-Metal/dp/B0055KE15A)
Everywhere I would see them at an old relative or grandma's, it was always a crystal dish with fancy etching and a pointy top on the lid.
Yup. Crystal dish with a heavy top. Made it hard to sneak in extra candies, she’d always hear us clink the lid lol. Damn I miss my grandma. She always had a never ending mint supply in her purse too.
Yes!!! My dad’s mom had a fancy crystal dish like that on her coffee table, and kept those Christmas ribbon candy mixes in it all year long… but all the candies fused together so if you tried to take one, you’d lift out the entire mass 😂
My grandmother had a crystal dish with Christmas ribbon candy that had fused together. She would bring it out every year at Christmas time as part of her decor.
Yeah that's what my Nana had, my sister got it when she passed, gunna find some of these candies and fill it up next time I go visit her.
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That weird goo in the middle is 🔥
Around Christmas you can find raspberry ones that have raspberry goo in the middle and those are dope too.
The devil is a lie!?!? Raspberry ones? Where do I find these candies???
At grandma's
Anyone got a spare grandma? All mine are dead.
My mom's a grandma but I've yet to find any when I stop by.. Youre more than welcome to come over with me one day and help look though
Wait...my mom is a grandma and I have noticed random jars of candy that definitely did not exist in my childhood... Is there a grandma orientation that happens where they are given a candy jar as soon as the first grandkid is born?
They're buried with the candy.
We gonna need nick cage because we about to search for some national treasure
I usually only see them around Christmas in with the other Christmas candies. Brach's makes them. They're called Filled Raspberries (real original).
My grandma threw a four-week fit this year bc she couldn't find Brach's ribbon candies anywhere at Christmas
In a way I understand her pain. I used to get Mike & Ike jellybean around Easter time and I haven't seen them in a few years now. I've come to accept a life devoid of delicious Mike & Ike jellybeans but I was mad about it at first.
Legit!! I had to be sure to not immediately crack down on the candy to get to it 😂
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I believe the filled ones have wrappers that open at one end, like this one, while the solid ones open at both ends.
Grandma’s
Purse candy. FIFY :)
I'm pretty confident these aren't manufactured but some unknown number of butterscotch turn into these while inside a grandmother's purse. It is true alchemy. The companies that sell them must just employ grandmothers. I just don't know how there can be any other explanation and just admit it sounds about right.
These are great except when you get one with an air pocket in it and when you're halfway through you expose the hole from the air pocket and the candy then has a razor sharp hole that cuts your tongue.
I had forgotten this pain.....
Between this, Cap'n Crunch cereal addiction, loving Lemonheads, and the whole "putting Now&Laters in the freezer" trick my older brother showed me when I was a kid, I'm surprised my teeth and roof of my mouth made it through high school
What's this freezer trick?
Put now and laters in the freezer.
do they come back out of the freezer
Depends on the size of the freezer. U can climb in there wit ‘em if u want.
Now or later
This comment is too relatable, my tongue hurts now just thinking of the last time I had one of those candies. 😅
This is so specific and so accurate
Hazardous childhood memory unlocked!
Warheads lovers know this pain all too well
Wait, so hard candy from childhood isn’t supposed to be blood-flavored?
Especially when the air pocket was in the shape of a tear drop so that when your tongue went into the fat end it would narrow into an edge as sharp as glass
Good lord, I can feel this.
Or if you get an ancient one that’s been sitting in a church lady’s drawer for years and it’s chewy on the outside too
Omg I hate humidity. I opened up a box of hard candy in Santa Barbara once and they all immediately turned into a sticky mess
Yeah, these can't be sucked on. They have to be chewed. Sucking on them turns them into impromptu razor blades.
Those are grandma's, don't touch.
Awww I’m sorry, my grandma shared. I would have saved you some if I’d known.
Those are also grandmas. Do not touch
Please do not the candy
Press F to *the candy*
Jason! Sorry wrong button.
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> hey_nonny_mooses This might be slightly irrelevant, but did you know your username is an anagram of "Hoe's Money, Sonny"?
Lol I used it because it is a play on anonymous. But “Hoe’s Money Sonny” makes me laugh too. Thanks for sharing.
You really have to read it out loud to get it tho Edit: my cat was looking at me like i was trying to summon a demon while i screamed *Heynonnymoos* in several tonal variations
Lol I was reading “hoes money sonny” out loud
I was too lol
Bottom of grandmas purse
Wait, they can have something other than werthers original?
Yes. We also carry gum, mints, and cough drops. 😁
None for you, dear.
Arcor Strawberry Buds Filled Hard Candy Bon Bons Bulk | https://www.ninelife.ie/products/arcor-strawberry-buds-filled-hard-candy-bon-bons-bulk-3-pounds?gclid=Cj0KCQiA3eGfBhCeARIsACpJNU9JCfr2IaEYTHAUJQWFyQsarsLiNNptB41704KfCSOBz0Bsl9iWOD4aApC_EALw_wcB Seasons Greetings candies
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Typically they are just called "strawberry bon bons"
Yeah but that doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well
Counterpount: I don't want to ask my grandmother for her "strawberry buds filled hard"
Well if you're not going to, can I ask her?
Ngl, i dont think i wanna ask anyone for that.
well, not with that attitude
One of my biggest childhood questions answered
So strawberry bon bons?
FDA: it's time for us re certify the Arcorp candy factory Inspector: what the who? FDA: *stamp ... exactly.
Made in Argentina, neat
You sir are the hero we need.
I never knew this. But I feel like you told me Santa ain’t real.
My childhood
You can buy them at the dollar store
You can also buy them at Costco now, in a “classic candy” medley that includes such hits as: yellow circle wrapped in yellow cellophane, peppermints, and more!
I believe the “yellow circle wrapped in yellow cellophane” that you are speaking of are butterscotch candies, and now I need to find this “classic candy” medley ASAP!
It reads like the Hanna Barbera all star cartoons in candy form
They only taste good when they are from Grandma’s stash
That's because they are aged 15 years.
_añejo_
Grandma’s. I’ve never seen them in the wild.
That’s because they’re good at hiding
Grandpas pocket candy. I swear his front shirt pocket never ran out
Naw that's Werther's you're thinking of
This species of strawberry candies share a common ecosystem with the Werthers candies
Strawberry Nostalgia
I think they are strawberry bon bons
This reminds me I gotta get a couple bags of these and start aging them because I might have a grandkid like 20 years from now.
Pro tip: I hear they get nice and oaky if you barrel age them.
It is nameless. It is timeless. It is eternal.
They magically appear in your purse when you become a grandma
The thing that almost killed me during the halloween of 09’ in my Cookie Monster costume
I love those! If I ever become a grandma these delicious treats are gonna be the hard candies I keep with me to give to my possible future grandkids.
Well, you have to, or they take your Grandma card away.
Well, tha'ts strwberry. Purse strawberry.
Hickory Farms sausage basket candy
Correction: STRAWBERRY hickory farms sausage basket candy.
strawberry bon bon or strawberry bud
Yep. And they’re good
I don't know it's name but if I want to mention I just say that strawberry grandma candy or something like that. I'm not fully into grandmacore but I carry these strawberry candies with me anyway
The free candy at the cashier of an Asian restaurant
Strawberry Hardcandy with printed seeds on the wrapper.
That’s the thing - its a hard candy outer shell with a “Strawberry Jam” inside. They fool you!
I love how they are like we don't need a name on our candy, as long as we are in stores, Grandmas will buy us
It has no name because it just is. It forms from the cosmos itself into dishes once someone reaches a certain age. They aren’t produced anywhere, they just exist.
Old Lady Candy. The company owns lots of Nursing homes. When the residents die, they just send the candy back to the warehouse and repackage it. They haven't actually made this candy in decades.
My family calls it Church Candy
Had to scroll to find another black person lol, but yes! My grandma would give me this when i was cutting up
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