What happened to the Gummibaerchen???
Cabra West
31-01-2008, 14:55
Wow... just wow. It must have been easily a year since I last had Gummibaerchen, and what can I say? Somebody must have been fiddling around with the recipe.
The white ones used to taste like pineapple, now they taste like honeydew melon.
The red ones used to tase like berries, now they taste like grapes.
The green ones - well, the green ones are back, after having been declared extinct nearly two decades ago!!! But they're no longer tasting like Waldmeister, they taste like lime now...
What's going on there? :confused:
Lunatic Goofballs
31-01-2008, 15:01
Swedish Fish > Gummi Bears. :p
Cabra West
31-01-2008, 15:02
Swedish Fish > Gummi Bears. :p
Nah, Swedish Fish doesn't come with Waldmeister flavour :p
Kryozerkia
31-01-2008, 15:13
What happened to the Gummibaerchen???
I ate them! :) and I left none for you!
Cabra West
31-01-2008, 15:15
What happened to the Gummibaerchen???
I ate them! :) and I left none for you!
Not true. I've exactly ... *counts* 21 left right here on my desk! :p
Cabra West
31-01-2008, 15:40
I know that in the US Haribo Gummibaerchen come in raspberry (red), orange, strawberry (green), and lemon (yellow). How strawberry got assigned to green, I don't know.
Strawberry? Green? Wow, that's weird.
No, the green ones have always been Waldmeister, my favourite. Now they're lime and I don't really care for them too much any more :(
I would have understood if those were Irish Gummibaerchen, but it's a German pack...
Andaluciae
31-01-2008, 15:42
I know that in the US Haribo Gummibaerchen come in raspberry (red), orange, strawberry (green), and lemon (yellow). How strawberry got assigned to green, I don't know.
Corneliu 2
31-01-2008, 15:45
I know that in the US Haribo Gummibaerchen come in raspberry (red), orange, strawberry (green), and lemon (yellow). How strawberry got assigned to green, I don't know.
Um...I eat gummi bears and not once have I gotten a strawberry flavor with green.
Andaluciae
31-01-2008, 15:59
Strawberry? Green? Wow, that's weird.
No, the green ones have always been Waldmeister, my favourite. Now they're lime and I don't really care for them too much any more :(
I would have understood if those were Irish Gummibaerchen, but it's a German pack...
Oh, dear.
Yeah, I, for one, smuggled about five pounds of Gummibaerchen back home with me last time I paid a visit to D-land. Deliciousness! My sisters were astonished. I knew the glory, though, because throughout my time as a student of German, we had a steady stream of real Gummibaerchen coming to us from teachers.
Cabra West
31-01-2008, 16:00
Oh, dear.
Yeah, I, for one, smuggled about five pounds of Gummibaerchen back home with me last time I paid a visit to D-land. Deliciousness! My sisters were astonished. I knew the glory, though, because throughout my time as a student of German, we had a steady stream of real Gummibaerchen coming to us from teachers.
Our Latin-teacher usually spent all his lunch break in the shop round the corner from school comparing Gummibaerchen bags to find the one that had the most red Gummibaerchen in it.
When we left school, we bought 20 packs, and put 5 bags of solid red Gummibaerchen together for him. :D
Andaluciae
31-01-2008, 16:19
Our Latin-teacher usually spent all his lunch break in the shop round the corner from school comparing Gummibaerchen bags to find the one that had the most red Gummibaerchen in it.
When we left school, we bought 20 packs, and put 5 bags of solid red Gummibaerchen together for him. :D
That is really frickin' cool on so many different levels.
What's going on there? :confused:I told you they added apple! You didn't listen!
(if you look closely, you'll notice there's two types of "red" now)
The Alma Mater
31-01-2008, 19:45
Disney decided to make crap cartoons instead ;)
But the gummibears taste just as chemically as they always have...
Fassitude
31-01-2008, 19:59
He searches my face for news of his fate. His expression is echoed in scores of tiny faces pressing against clear plastic - panting faces of every imaginable colour, creed and non-Aryan origin fogging up the bag like the windows of a Polish bathhouse. *ugh* I stumbled naked through the ruins back towards blander, less complicated confections leaving in my wake a trail of rainbow carnage. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=D0ZMR74qno4)
Hedwig loves Gummibärchen.
United Beleriand
31-01-2008, 20:01
Wow... just wow. It must have been easily a year since I last had Gummibaerchen, and what can I say? Somebody must have been fiddling around with the recipe.
The white ones used to taste like pineapple, now they taste like honeydew melon.
The red ones used to tase like berries, now they taste like grapes.
The green ones - well, the green ones are back, after having been declared extinct nearly two decades ago!!! But they're no longer tasting like Waldmeister, they taste like lime now...
What's going on there? :confused:They come in flavors? Since when?
He searches my face for news of his fate. His expression is echoed in scores of tiny faces pressing against clear plastic - panting faces of every imaginable colour, creed and non-Aryan origin fogging up the bag like the windows of a Polish bathhouse. *ugh* I stumbled naked through the ruins back towards blander, less complicated confections leaving in my wake a trail of rainbow carnage. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=D0ZMR74qno4)
Hedwig loves Gummibärchen.
I loved that movie.
You guys have absolutely no clue, especially you, Cabra. That's what you get for emigrating.
Here's the factual Gummibär-brief for all of you:
Up until 2007 (when the Gummibärchen celebrated its 85th birthday), they came in five colors (red, yellow, white, green, orange) with the respective flavors raspberry, lemon, pineapple, strawberry, and orange. (Yes, this means the green ones were never absent from the mix, wherever that strange rumor came from - I ought to know because I'm one of the few who always pick out the green and white ones first because I adore them above all the rest. That, and they've never been Waldmeister-flavored).
Since recently, they added a new color (light red; I personally find it very hard to distinguish from the other red but it's there if you have good lighting and are looking for it) which took over the strawberry taste from the green ones, and the green ones got reassigned the flavor of "apple", which I must say is most excellent.
That, and they also altered the face so that they are all smiling now, but I guess nobody notices that, even with good lighting.
Dorstfeld
31-01-2008, 22:49
Our Latin-teacher usually spent all his lunch break in the shop round the corner from school comparing Gummibaerchen bags to find the one that had the most red Gummibaerchen in it.
When we left school, we bought 20 packs, and put 5 bags of solid red Gummibaerchen together for him. :D
Verus amator ursulorum cummis, hic magister, et dilectus discipulis. :D
German Nightmare
31-01-2008, 23:42
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6210/gummibaeren9ih.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1kSY5Ltco) <- clicky!
It's been so long since I've last had a Tüte Gummibärchen - I don't even know how they taste like anymore.