Food & Drink Moulding Chewits

Filling my car up this morning on the way to work I tarried a while in the queue and purveyed the fine assortment of confectionary on offer. Still mildly inebriated from the night prior, I happened upon a packet of Chewits and picked them up. As I continued on my commute, whilst eating the Chewits I became overcome with a burning sense of nostalgia.

Let me take you back to a simpler time. When I was a lad, my mother would regularly take my sister and I to our local swimming baths. This was an experience I remember quite fondly not least of all, because after each visit we would be given fifty pence each to buy a snack from the vending machine in the lobby. My sister dilly dallied for an eternity it seemed but each and every time my choice was elementary: Strawberry Chewits.

Chewits have an uncanny malleability. By unwrapping each Chewit and sticking it to the previous, it is possible to mould a good sized Chewit ball. The warmth of your hands makes them more forgiving and yet they retain enough solidity to hold their shape (whatever shape you desire).

Thinking back, I don't recall ever moulding my sweets into any shapes other than:

A - A ball

or

B - A large Chewit shape

This surprised me. Chewits have a lot to offer; almost no other sweet rivals their natural properties. I do vaguely remember trying to re-wrap the Chewit creation with the original wrappers and I can't help but remember this didn't prove very effective. The way the Chewits gathered hairs, dust, pocket lint and general little boy grub was recognised as a problem even by my young self.

I would be grateful to hear any other users' experiences with forming confectionary. Perhaps your sweet of choice was the Opal Fruit? Or even Highland Toffee? I would not presume to judge your preference in this enlightened era. Did YOU overcome the dust-hair-gravitational-issue that I encountered? I would love to hear your thoughts, thank you.


P.S. - If this should be in the 'Modding' sub-forum, then I apologise. Please feel free to move this thread Mods

 

I pulled a tooth out on a highland toffee when i was a kid

I went home blood staining my neat white school polo shirt my mum thought i was in a fight

Till i pulled the tangled highland toffee from my pocket wrapped around my tooth...

 

I am filled with an inner warmth seldom found outside of ladies viewing pictures of felines who want to quote 'haz cheezeburger', the nostalgia is most gratifying.

Speaking of your foreign particle attraction dilemma, I am reminded of one which plagued me eternally and even until this day, when the feeling of some sweety goodness takes me, it plagues me still and prevents my enjoyment of a certain chewy and, indeed, fizzy confectionery item.

I speak of none other than, of course, the Wham! bar. Incandescent pink save for those little green fizzy bits which make you screw your face up from sourness. When opening the tasy delights I always (and I seriously do mean ALWAYS) end up with one, tiny, roughly three millimeter wide and forty millimeter long strip of the wrapper stuck to the bar along the line of where the wrapper is sealed and it is impossible to remove without nearly tearing a finger nail off trying to get under it.

With Chewits I will admit to not a lot of actual modding. My personal method was 'The Hamster' where one would eat one after another until the packet was devoid of further sweets but not a one had yet been swallowed or chewed.

(Just trying to keep your mode of speech going, It's quite fun considering my two languages are English and bad English)

 

Oh the wham bar.... many of time i ate the wrapper of a wham

 

The other challenge was the old 'Eat a Fruit Pastille WITHOUT chewing.'

So difficult.

 

I never take the paper wrapper off of a chewit.

Too much effort.

I WANT MY CHEWIT NOW GODDAMIT!

 

Just to add something, why are green fruit gums so sour in flavour than any other type of fruit gum

 

10/10

 

The endless argument of which is better...

Chewits, Starburst/Opal Fruits or Fruit tella.

I'm a blackcurrant chewit man.

 

Wow, I haven't had those for such a long time.
I used to mess around with the shape of them as well, most of the time I would turn them into gummy bears.

 

As a veteran of those types of chew bar (Cherry lips were my favourite, now defunct, but I've moved onto the Vimto bar), the easiest method is to split the top around the centre of the jaggy bit, then work your way around, splitting it down the seam. If it's a sticky one bend it slightly, it helps get the wrapper off the bar.

I used to enjoy trying to meld together fruit gums into new flavours, but in the end the red ones are the best.

 

I also miss old Fruit Gums, when they had a sort of noughts and cross grid on top and were rock hard for the first minute. We literally used to use them as tools for removing loose teeth.

Now you can squash them between your fingers

 

When did sweets start having flavours? When I was a youngling, sweets were green, yellow and pink with flavours that could never be found in nature...

 

if Opal Fruits (I REFUSE TO CALL THEM STARBURST!) ever made a pack of just stawberry Opal Fruits id be on that **** harder then Relix on cheesecake.

 

jolly ranchers here.. still buy them by the pound

never heard of chewits.. favorite pastry is baklava

 

This, sir, is true. Fruit gums were the strongest gluey substance known to mankind.

 

O-pal-froots! Made to make your mouth water.

 

mm i remember fruit gums, tasty but indeed, no nails for your mouth.

 

Think im gonna have to pick some opal fruits up on the way to my missus, for some of that ol' time nostalgia!