Peel Back The Curtain

When we sell snacks here on Meh, things generally go one of two ways:

1. I, the copywriter, buy into the hype and express my genuine belief that the snacks in question look pretty tasty. Then, in the comments, people find some ingredient that more-or-less guarantees they’ll be absolutely vile, and those who do bravely make a purchase return several weeks later to confirm this.

Or…

2. I roll my eyes at the item in question and put together a write-up in which I essentially dare customers to buy them, so terrible will they be, I assume. I then check the forums and find out that, apparently, I am the only person who hasn’t heard of them, and, in fact, they’re beloved.

Today’s product falls under category 2.

Last time, I made all these GIFs together showing how difficult they might be to peel, before saying:

Of course, the natural question to ask while watching this is… why?

After which, I launched into some explanation about the joys of peeling glue off your fingers and playing with your food as a kid.

But the real answer to this question of why seems to be much simpler: they’re good.

Here are some of the responses from the last sale:

• “Our kiddos love these bloody things. Guess I’m in for at least one mixed.”
• “My kids love these”
• “I tried these at Christmas and they were pretty good.”
• “These are great, I love them! It’s more fun to peel them in your mouth.”
• “My wife loves these things, but we can rarely find them.”
• “These aren’t half bad.”
• “I unironically love the banana flavor… Can confirm the lychee are also tasty. About to find out about the rest.”
• “They’re delicious, but hard to peel. Best to eat them without peeling, especially if you have big sausage fingers like me.”

We don’t usually get this many positive comments about the products we sell in an entire week. And for weird little clumps of chemicals that look and taste vaguely like fruit, no less.

The world is a strange, strange place.

But of course, if our last sale was also your first experience with these, please share your thoughts in the comments.