GIFT
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 10:41AM 
Yesterday I received this lovely gift from a good friend--in honor of Veterans Day, I'm thinking. You can't put a price on good friends, can you? On their heads or anywhere else. What I like about this packaging design is its earnestness in hammering home the point, just in case you might mistake this for a tasteful mainstream product. Adding the value proposition "plump and ripe" was an especially nice touch. By the way, these things taste as wretched as you might imagine, and the mouthfeel is not really like a zit at all. At first I thought it was more like a boil, but now I realize it's exactly like a blister about to burst. But the package designers wisely stayed away from "Blister Bursters" as a name, zeroing in on its target audience instead. Which is another reason for cherishing good friends. They know you so well.
Reader Comments (4)
hard sugar candy is called boiled sweets in UK. "boiled"....get it?
enjoy :)
question: did they actually have that pockmarked, cellulitey 'skin' as they show here on the package (I didn't want to open them, tempted as I was)
No, a little artistic license was taken there. Would have been gilding the lily, anyway. It was perfectly disgusting just as it was. Thank you so much.