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Bill Enos
Film God

Posts: 2081
From: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 02-12-2002 12:38 AM

I had the opportunity to try a red Twizzler for the first time a couple weeks ago. Interesting stuff it is. Almost no taste, lots of color, does not dissolve at all in the mouth, just chew it up and swallow the debris. As an experiment I placed an inch long piece in water. For several days the only change was some minor fading of the brilliant color, no effect on solidness of it. Finally after 8 days, the color had turned to light pink and the material had become slightly mushy. At 10 days it finally broke up when prodded. Is this stuff just flavored plastic or what? This sample came from a newly opened package dated many months out. It must be virtually indigestable. I guess they buy it based on appearance.

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Mark Lensenmayer
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1605
From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 02-12-2002 08:02 AM

My wife LOVES those things. Just happen to have a package handy. Ingredients: Corn Syrup; Flour; Sugar; Cornstarch; Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Salt, Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, a Preservative, and Artificial Coloring (includes Red 40). Yum, Yum.

Made by a division of Hershey.

"Did you know...Strawberry Twists are a low fat candy! That's right, the same great Twizzlers you have known and loved are low in fat, as always. Nothing has changed. Twizzlers makes mouths happy!"

Of course, 3 Twizzlers do have a total of 120 calories, but only 5 of those from fat!

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Dave Bird
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Perth, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jun 2000

posted 02-12-2002 08:12 AM

Years of research (by me) as a kid, shows that you CAN dissolve this stuff by biting both ends off and using as a straw for pop. The pop seems to dissolve it and make it mushy (along with your gut). Other than that, I agree, it's like "swallowing the debris".

As a fan of licorice, I always scold my wife when she asks for "red licorice". My mother was from Cheshire, and I got my taste for the stuff when Marks & Spencer's still had stores in Canada, loved those little licorice wheels with the gummy candy in them. Also, eating the "raw jello", the gelatin you make by dissolving the concentrated cubes of gelatin, yummy!

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John Pytlak
Film God

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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 02-12-2002 09:43 AM

With flour listed as the second ingredient, it's likely the gluten protein that makes it so impervious. Gluten is also an ingredient in many glues!:
http://www.malinowski.com/glutenfree.htm

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Paul Harnden
Expert Film Handler

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From: Chandler, AZ, USA
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 02-12-2002 10:18 AM

John said, "Gluten is also an ingredient in many glues!"

Well then that's prolly the reason for the texture and the taste.

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Michael Gonzalez
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Grand Island , NE USA
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 02-12-2002 10:21 AM

Flavored Wax

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Arthur Allen
Film Handler

Posts: 99
From: Renton, WA, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 02-12-2002 10:29 AM

There still are Marks and Spencer stores in Canada. There's a small mall shop in Coquitlam, B.C. and a large two level mall store in Victoria, B.C., a large ex-pat British community.

(Whoops, I guess they have closed their Canadian stores since I last visited. Canada is not listed on their official site)

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Wes Hughes
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 175
From: Raleigh, NC, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 02-12-2002 07:39 PM

Twizzlers are DISGUSTING...but I sell TONS of them.

I like Red Vines a little better.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-13-2002 05:25 PM

At the '95 ShoWest, Tom Hanks said he judges a theatre on whether or not they carry Red Vines or Twizzlers. Can't remember which ones he prefers...I think it's Vines.

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Greg Mueller
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Port Gamble, WA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-13-2002 05:41 PM

I like red vines. It's the only thing I have to smuggle into the local Regal since they changed to Coke. I tried a package of twizzlers once..... once.

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Christopher Duvall
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 500
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 02-14-2002 02:52 AM

Red Vines or Twizzlers, Red Vines or Twizzlers. Well, from my observations, I would say it would depend on what coast you are from. I have never heard of Red Vines until I came for a training visit to Portland OR. back in 97. I, at the time, lived on the East coast. Any of the transplanted East Coasters in Vegas swear by Twizzlers, but don't say that to the natives or anybody else from the West. Personally, I hate both. I just don't like eating plastic...

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