WEEKLY CANDY: Zours

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WEEKLY CANDY: Zours

POSTED: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 10:08 PM

Filed Under: Weekly Candy

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Once a week, Team Meal Ticket shares its latest sugar-laden fixations. Do not tell 0ur dentist. IN QUESTION: Our pick for the most slept-on sour candy on the market, Zours are the lip-puckering cousins of well-known Just Born products like Mike and Ikes and Hot Tamales. They feature the same size, shape and consistency as those super-sticky candy classics, but are dusted in magical sour powder and come in sour flavors (green apple, watermelon, lemon, cherry and our fave, the does-not-occur-in-nature blue raspberry). Added appeal is derived from the box art, which features anthropomorphic Zours tripping face after eating bites of fruit. Lemme get some of that apple, I'm going to see The Wall later! AVAILABLE AT: For some reason, Zours are hard to find and it's bullshit! But we've discovered that the Rite Aid at 23rd and Walnut is reliable place to cop. HOW MANY DO WE TYPICALLY EAT IN ONE SITTING: The entire box, real talk. FINER POINTS: Perhaps this is just us on our Rain Man grind, but we very much enjoy ripping open a bag of Zours, categorizing the individual candies by color and then methodically eating them in various two-at-once color combinations (blue raspberry and watermelon together is the jam!). Please tell us that someone out there does this too.

Anthony Sica

Posted 2010-11-10 19:14:25

I love Zours. You can also find them at the Walgreens at the Quartermaster Plaza in South Philly and on Broad and Snyder.

pozloves

Posted 2010-11-10 21:26:24

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Juliana Reyes

Posted 2010-11-10 23:54:58

noooo way, i haven't been able to find these since i was in middle school. i thought they discontinued them.

Steph

Posted 2010-11-11 10:08:52

The Walgreens at 9th & Market often has big boxes of them in the 3 for $3 bin. I'm a little freaked out that we have the same taste for sour candy!

Mike H

Posted 2010-11-11 10:41:11

Idea for a future Weekly Candy: "Super Cola" the Japanese hard sucking candy with the sour outside

Rob Z

Posted 2010-11-11 11:26:38

Love Zours! (And yes, I pair up colors on all the Mike and Ike flavors!)

Ben Kessler

Posted 2010-11-11 13:01:57

Zours are so bangarang. I eat them pretty often. Know what's another slept on candy? Sixlets.

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