More McSweeney's Treasures
My love for McSweeney's knows no bounds (well, except for the sestinas, which I find clever but not terribly compelling). Imagine my delight upon discovering Reviews of New Food, and in particular this one, from Alana Marie Dease, which has one of the best opening lines of a food review ever:

Kellogg's Disney Princess Fruit Snacks do not actually taste like princesses. They also don't taste like artificially flavored strawberry, grape, orange, and cherry. I don't know which is worse. What do they taste like? I spent a lot of time thinking about this while sucking on them. My husband said, "Can't you be like a wine taster and spit them out?" Sage advice, but no go—it's one of the enigmas of the food/snack world. Just like no one knows how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop and no one can eat just one potato chip, it's impossible to put a fruit snack in your mouth and not eat it. And after eating all 10 pouches of them over the course of three days (read: 89 princesses and princess-y shapes, minus 1 Cinderella I dropped and 2 glass slippers my husband ate), this is what I've decided: They taste very sugary and vaguely familiar. Not quite like strawberry, not quite like grape, not quite like that fruit I was just about to eat but decided to forgo in favor of something less troublesome (the skins!) and less dangerous (the seeds!). Come to think of it, they taste like pure corn syrup, with a hint of red #40. Leave it to Disney to put sugar and fun in one easy-to-open package.

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