They're Here!

The bugs are here! And I have to say a big thank you to the really nice guy from Fed Ex that tracked my packages down and then personally delivered them to my house yesterday afternoon. THANKS!!!

Aren't they really kinda cute?

They really are...until....

You turn them over. Then the cuteness starts to diminish. The molded gummy underside looks very much like the real thing. (Okay, so in a pic it looks not, too bad...IRL it looks worse, maybe because you get the whole gelatinous effect. Eeewww!)

And then you bend the body just a bit at the neck and suddenly the two hard crunchy shell pieces kind of pop apart and underneath there is this gooey marshmallow filling that looks suspiciously like, ummm.....guts.

Would you like to know how hard it is to get past the mental issues this brings up? You KNOW it is all candy, but at the same time...

The kids had no such issues. They loved them. Which was the whole point anyhow.

If you are interested in adding these to your next bug themed event, just go to http://www.orientaltrading.com/ and enter "candy bugs" in the search box. Viola!

Oh, and these things are really much bigger than I anticipated. I was thinking an inch or so...they are more like 1.5" by 2.5". Very cool.

Check out the slightly crunched head. Yummy!

Or not.