WEEKLY CANDY: Haribo Sour S'ghetti

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WEEKLY CANDY: Haribo Sour S'ghetti

POSTED: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 8:15 PM

Filed Under: Weekly Candy

Photo | Drew Lazor

Once a week, Team Meal Ticket shares its latest sugar-laden fixations. Do not tell our dentist. IN QUESTION: Combining three of our favorite things (pasta, sourness and endearing toddler-like mispronunciation), Sour S'ghetti is, in our fructose-addled opinion, candy giant Haribo's finest product. Featuring the ancient, 100 percent natural flavors of "blue," "red" and "green" (a very accurate representation of what you get in the Italian motherland indeed), a sack of Double S is a fine sack indeed. (Do NOT confuse it with Haribo's Fruity Pasta, which is also good but not on the same level.) AVAILABLE AT: Just like last week, you can cop a bag at Food & Friends at 20th and Spruce. HOW MUCH DO WE TYPICALLY EAT IN ONE SITTING?: We've been known to annihilate an entire sack of S'ghetti in a single sitting. It's not a game! Its small slivered size allows for easy multi-color grabbage. You know you did good when the sour sugar is all over your couch post destruction session. FINER POINTS: For what it's worth, our first exposure to Sour S'ghetti came at a friend's apartment several years ago. Some straggly-haired, completely drugged out of his gourd acquaintance of an acquaintance showed up while everyone was watching TV, spotted a bag of S'ghetti somewhere on the premises and proceeded to stuff its entire contents into his quivering E-tard mouth while making noises like "mmmaauhhhhhmm." We watched this happen with great bemusement and slight fear. How this candy-bogarting, brain-damaged hippie managed not to ruin Sour S'ghetti for us, we'll never know. If you're out there, Sour S'ghetti druggie guy, we implore you to come forward and apologize for not sharing.

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leah

Posted 2010-10-14 22:04:51

mmm, Haribo goodness!

if you want some more candy spaghetti fun, you should hit up a bodega for Salsagheti - http://www.candywarehouse.com/salsaghetti.html  kind of awesome... kind of delicious... definitely gets points for coming with sauce!

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juliana

Posted 2010-10-15 15:47:24

completely agree about s'ghetti > fruity pasta. does anyone know where to obtain haribo gummi cars? i've only ever had them in the philippines (and even there they were hard to find) -- but something about them made them infinitely better than gummi worms. i think it was their thickness.

Kibby

Posted 2010-10-15 08:48:05

Leah! I have also suggested Salsaghetti for this feature! I am a big fan of the packaging and while I find the accompanying sauce to be disgusting I do love the option of putting sauce on your candy.  
Also, Drew- I had completely forgotten about the drug addict dude that ate all of my Sour S'ghetti and I'm not too pleased about being reminded of that event.  It was traumatic.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:19 PM, 04/03/2011

Someone asked about the Haribo Gummi cars and while this site does not have those, they have the biggest selection of gummi candy that I have ever seen. My favorite is the fruit salad. I agree that having something thicker like the cars is much more tasty!
Look here for sure.

http://www.candyfavorites.com/brand/haribo

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