Junk Food Nation, Happy Easter!  I mean, yesterday.  And Passover, too!  I guess I’m a day late on everything.  It’s ok, BECAUSE THE WIZARDS WON GAME 1 VERSUS THE BULLS LAST NIGHT!  Still riding that high – however temporary that is.

Something we can ALL get an Easter chuckle out of is the below video from my Washington Nationals team yesterday. The key moment is the 0:25 mark:

Dude, that Easter Bunny JUMPED INTO TEDDY’S FACE. Who’s idea was this???  Whoever it was, BRILLIANT.  You can’t tell me that’s not high comedy.

Anyways, I had PLENTY of Easter candy yesterday, thanks to IT’SUGAR.  IT’SUGAR is a candy store with 50+ retail stores nationwide, and online at www.itsugar.com. There’s a store here in DC that I walk by all the time – HUGE gummy bears in the window. Gigantic Rice Krispy Treat displays.  But did the wallpaper taste like Snozzberries? I never found out.

Even though Easter is over, IT’SUGAR, weird spelling and all, is still the place to get all of your insatiable sugar needs, novelty candy, and other confectionery delights.  Let’s take a look at some of the stuff they sent me:

IT’SUGAR sent me two 1-lb gummy bunnies, two boxes of extremely inappropriate candy, and the largest set of Peeps I’ve ever seen.

I Mean seriously.  This is a set of sixty Peeps.  Do you know how many Peeps battles I could have with these?  Or how many games of Chubby Bunnies I could play??  AMAZING.

Retailing for $19.99, THIS IS A BIG ASS BOX. When I first opened the parcel from IT’SUGAR, this was buried in the paper, and when I lifted it out, I was like HOLY SH*T WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THESE????

It’s NOT a party without the chicks.  At least, not without 60 of them.

IT’SUGAR also sent me these Camel Balls.  I have to admit, I wasn’t sure if I should put this up on this site, since this site is family friendly. Then I thought, oh who am I kidding – it’s not like parents are reading this site with their ten year olds.

So many things amusing/disgusting about this package.  Liquid filled?  Great googly moogly.

Yep, that’s what each individual gum ball looked like.  Awesome.

Yep, these Camel Balls actually DID have a red liquid sour center.  I’m blushing as I type this.

As for how these Camel Balls tasted, pretty standard gum ball, all in all.  Standard gum ball flavor, candy shell exterior, and the red center did give it a burst of sour, but it mellowed as I chewed.  Not as sour as Tear Jerker’s gum.  $8.00 for this box.

These Dingle Bearies were slightly less offensive than the Camel Balls.  $8.99 for this box of chocolate covered gummy bears.

These Dingle Bearies looked actually pretty good.  Even in chocolate covered form, the gummy bears maintained their bear shape, which I thought was nice.

These Dingle Bearies were actually pretty good, if you’re a gummy bear fan!  Inside, the gummy bear was standard – chewy and sweet.  All of the bears I tried, however, were red – I didn’t get any other color.  Not sure if that was intentional.

The flavor of the chocolate was decent – it’s not the highest quality chocolate in the world, but that didn’t diminish the experience.  Just a nice creamy flavor of chocolate as the gummy bear was chewed, giving you a fruit/choco flavor.

SOME company out there has to try making a gourmet version of these.  I’d like to see these in dark chocolate.

Finally, IT’SUGAR sent me two HUGE 1-lb gummy bunnies.  Holy crap.  These were substantial in size.

These 1-lb gummy bunnies apparently serve EIGHT people. Or ONE Junk Food Guy.

The back of the gummy bunny package had examples of other huge gummies that are also sold by IT’SUGAR.  I think I personally would be horrified by a huge edible gummy snake.  I don’t know why.

As for the gummy worm to the very right…uh…I’ll pass on making any inappropriate Requiem for a Dream jokes.  Yeeeg.

Each of these 1-lb gummy bunnies runs $9.99.  I knew I had to take this gummy bunny down.  A rare Junk Food Guy photo montage!  Let’s do it:

I tried stuffing the whole bunny head in my mouth, but only the ears would fit.  I’d need a different tactic…

I decided that if I couldn’t bite the whole head off, I might as well try to take the biggest bite out of it that I could.  In the photo above, I feel like a dog carrying a dead rabbit.

Lemme tell you, it was harder than I thought to bite through this thing!  It was like trying to sink my teeth into rubber…a mouth full of solid gummy is something I’d never really experienced before.

I managed to take a substantial chunk of of this gummy bunny.

Flavor-wise, I have to admit – it was good!!!!  Like, surprisingly good.  Sometimes when I get oversized stuff, I am suspicious that the quality will be bad.  I don’t know why.  I guess I was afraid this would be stale of have a weird ratio of gelatin to sugar, with more gelatin than sugar to make up for the shape.

But honestly, this was pretty tasty – if you’re into gummy things.  We I chewed my mouthful of fruit-punch-flavored gummy bunny, it tasted just like your standard gummy bear – sweet and chewy.  There was no downgrade of taste, flavor, or texture.  SURPRISINGLY GOOD, let me say.

The overall gummy bunny smelled very strongly of sugar – the Junk Food Gal said she could smell it from a few feet away, even.  I didn’t want to waste this, but I couldn’t just sit on the couch gnawing on this thing.  First, my hand would get all sticky.  Second, this was a LOT of gummy bunny.

Solution? My mom’s suggestion: CUT IT DOWN TO SIZE.

And there you have it!  The remaining gummy bunny cut into small edible pieces, ready for consumption.  Problem: These pieces were all sticking together.  Junk Food Guy solution? POWDERED SUGAR (from my recent Oreo Snack Hack):

There you go – perfectly dusted individual pieces of gummy bunny.  Boom.

So there you have it – the parade of candy that I ate on Easter.  Thanks again to IT’SUGAR for making sure I was loaded up with plenty of candy. Happy Monday, all!

PURCHASED AT: In store or online at IT’SUGAR.com

COST: varied – I tried to put as many prices above in the descriptions of each item.

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Sincerely,

Junk Food Guy