Chilli Pop
After several months of keeping an eye out for them, I finally
found some Thalia brand Jolly Ranchers. That's Thalia Sodi the Mexican
pop star. For those who missed my earlier musings on this. After having
I discovered the existence of this Thalia, while watching spanish
language broadcasts, specifically the show Pepsi Musica, I later came
across the fact that she had an deal with Hersheys to lend her name to
variants of Hersheys Kisses and Jolly Ranchers. The Jolly Ranchers were
to be chilli enhanced. Frutas Enchiladas!
Before this turns into some exercise in brand-blogging let me
point out two things. First: my sister, niece and nephews (and Matt my
nephew Grant's pal from across the street) - they all hated these. I
think Raine thought I was trying to poison him. I've never seen a candy
make a child look so sad. Well, yes I have: Sen-Sens the licorice
candy, another favorite of mine. But that's another story. Second is
what this means to me. Many (many) years ago on the ship, the USS
Ranger CV 61, we had a case of jalapeno flavered lollipops. The
circumstances of how we acquired these is somewhat lost to me now. I
believe one of the Intell officers got them from his father who had
ordered them believing he could sell them, then discovered he couldn't.
So he turned them over to the Navy. The USS Ranger was home ported in
San Diego. We gave them out to the Pilots and RAN's when they came down
to debrief after a mission. Here among this crowd they were fully
appreciated. By the time the box was gone - I think we had 500 of them
to start - I was very fond of them and have thought about them ever
since. They were green, set your entire head on fire and left a weird
lingering neurological damage afterwards. There are some women I
remember in much the same way.
The original Thalia Jolly Ranchers, her picture is right on
the bag framed in a heart, come in Limon, Mango, and Tamarind flavors
all feature chilli powder as an essential ingridient. Myself, I liked
them, they were all I wanted them to be, and I'm not entirely sure I
know what a tamerind is. For others there was a second bag merely
marked 'exotic' as opposed 'hot and spicy' fruits to which appear not
to contain chilli. I left that bag in charge of my nephews and will get
a report on that at a later date.
11:50:23 PM  ;;
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