So for things like energy drinks, weed gummies, otc medications, just stuff that probably shouldn't be desirable for kids or too normal tasting and dangerously bingeable for you- is there some sort of industry standard for how delicious this stuff can be? A scale? Rated 4.5 [dangerous treat]
Red bull has some gay flavors now that taste like jolly ranchers from space, they should be more illegal than the lemonade by right
i wish my sour grape gummy magnesium vitamins werent so sour grape flavored. you're onto something
Idk if they taste the same cause I'm from the UK but there's certain Monsters that tasted so good to 14 year old me that I quickly got very addicted to all the caffeine in there. I'm 22 now and still get cravings. Caffeine is like a faustian bargain
Quebec has outlawed things like gummies, and the government dispensaries sell snacks like beet chips, or lavender and chamomile tea. All the packaging looks like hazmat suits.
I mean, there's alcohol made that tastes like candy. I think the regulatory bodies don't care about how these taste and who that taste appeals to.
5 Hour Energy is like battery acid
To Whom It May Concern: Your cannabis cookies have been denied clearance for sale because they slap dangerously hard oh my god people would die
I recently learned about V8 Energy, which is 80mg of caffeine but just tastes like peach mango If I didn't know the caffeine content I could absolutely stop my heart drinking five of those in an hour
imo every edible should be sold with an cannabis-free copy because I always want to have the delicious taste again once I'm stoned and then the only choice is more edible
Used to be a local place that carried weed nanaimo bars
I wanna find out where these things are because universally it feels like edibles/drinkables end up oily and bitter, but it might just be my sensitive palate
here in quebec when they legalized weed their solution for how to make edibles that legally could not be attractive to children was to take some dried figs and beet chips and put thc on em
we need a Scoville unit. but for yummy treats. Yum unit
was this written 30 minutes before or after a cannabis cookie
sometimes i try a flavor of weed gummy thats so good i get genuinely annoyed that whatever brand it is isnt making a second line of identical cannabis free products
i dont do substances but i DO greatly love soda and one time i had the chance to sip a cherry-flavored weed soda and it was unfortunately the most impossibly delicious soda i've ever had in my life. tasted like eating real cherries straight off the tree, the pure spirit of cherry pie in soda form
It's funny how this works for kids medicine, especially things like controlled substances. Liquid Ritalin - grape-flavored, smells great (theoretically tastes great too but I like my job too much to find out). Quillivant-XR (extended release Adderall suspension) - looks/smells like glue
When I drink one, I pretend I’m a Witcher and am mutating painfully when my “potion” takes effect.
I pretend I'm an android and this is battery acid that I am using as an illegal energy boost
just speaking for the Weed Policy lane: no there isn’t, but there should be! Like, lots of states have rules on the shape of an edible (no cartoons, no human shapes, etc) but nothing about Scarfability.
i feel like gummies is such a horrible form factor for this because like, you cannot overestimate how many gummies i can binge eat in a sitting. weed brownies were the gold standard because a brownie is rich as shit, and even my fat ass can only eat so many in one go.
As a gummy fan I've been lucky in the fact that most of the ones I snag have that gross ass rosin flavor to them. Any bittering agent would work or if they could get them in the same texture range as shrooms they could turn a lot of people off.
they also absolutely need to do this for vapes and vape flavors bc good lord
I love edibles but I've always debated the wisdom of combining something that makes you hungry with food.
I've heard tale of stroopwafel edibles, so i don't think there are depths too tasty for them to plunder.
scale from "dangerously cheesy" to "basically raw dough"
Advil has this pleasant cherry flavor and i think thats kinda fucked up
its so good
The problem here is adults, because taste isn't necessarily a deterrent for small people who will happily munch on playground dirt. Every parent has horror stories about things they found in their kids' mouths. I once saw a cute toddler joyously licking a handrail at King's Cross. In the 90s!
