Try orange mint lifesavers. They taste much better.
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I like those too ;)
Believe it or not, I'm eating one right now.
ughhhh thanks for NOT sharing!!!!!
Bad spellers untie!
Okay so, somebody has to ask it: Why was the English Lawn Bowling game called Skittles? Or is it turtles all the way down?
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This seems unresolved. Still I search for the answer as well. Hmm. Kudos to the florid description though- "creepy poisonous artificial ingredients with a big dose of high fructose corn syrup derived from genetically modified corn." Ok. Idling on this.
I believe it is from that "lawn bowling" game. There is a video on youtube of Cuba in the 1920's, and it looks like a combination of horseshoes and bowling. The players would huck the ball into the air at the pins, and it was a racous mob scene, trash talk, side bets - there was no lawn, only dirt.
This is probably where chess stole the term, as a room full of blitz games and post-mortems, there is more informal, and sometimes racous behavior which takes place.
I guess I like creepy poisonous artificial candy.....lol OH WELL!