{"id":1274,"date":"2010-08-29T00:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T05:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2010-09-26T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:11:09","slug":"sin-a-mango-ginger-chew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Sin A Mango Ginger Chew"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n[Editor’s note: This chew was guest reviewed by the BadGardens as your usual JSFRer may have a mango allergy and really doesn’t feel like scientifically proving that fact. Ergo, guest review]<\/i><\/p>\n

The mango chew looked tasty. It was from Indonesia, said the box. The ingredients were:<\/p>\n

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\n“Sucrose, Maltose, Tapioca, Mango Juice , Mango Flavor, Starch, Peanut Butter.”<\/p>\n

Peanut Butter? Eh … why not? Some kind of stabilizer, like esther gum — maybe?<\/p>\n

Cannot say with certainty. Popped it into my mouth, and it was tasty, but nothing spe– wait. Hot. Not cayenne hot, but … ginger hot. How?<\/p>\n

Double-checked the ingredients. No ginger. Flipping the box over and over. The picture on the front … does look suspiciously like a mango nuzzling up to a ginger root. Hrm. And then, on one corner, the words “Mango Ginger Chew.” Maybe the front of the box says “Warning: Ginger” in a language that I don’t read. But nowhere in the ingredients list. Peculiar. I am an inveterate ingredient reader. Tapioca? Nah. Starch? That’s generic enough — it might be that “starch” is the missing ginger.<\/p>\n

I have nothing against ginger, but I cannot take much of it. Ginger beer is too strong for me — and when I’m not expecting it, well….<\/p>\n

And finally (several days later, but I will collapse them for the benefit of the reader), on the package of the itself — only visible in small type underneath the flap — are the true ingredients of the chew: pain, evil, and mango.<\/p>\n

Or if you’re feeling less over-the-top and more down-to-earth, try “Sucrose, Maltose, Choice Ginger, Starch and Vegetable Oil Mango Juice Mango Flavor.” Mangoes eschew commas.<\/p>\n

Choice<\/em> Ginger, no less. This means the ingredients on the box are the ingredients of tasty, tasty lying.<\/p>\n

Seriously — what’s up with having two sets of ingredients on one food? I cannot imagine that this box is used for anything else. I assume that there’s a different (less gingery and more peanutty) type of mango chew, and one of the box sides got mixed up. I almost feel bad for the person who expected Choice Ginger and got Peanut Butter.<\/p>\n

Packaging-wise, it’s good. The box contains several (ten?) individually-wrapped snacklets. They’ve been out of the box for at least a week now, and still the individual snacklets are fresh when I open their individual wrappers (as they should be).<\/p>\n

So, down to the actual snack itself. Chewy-wise, it’s comparable to a salt-water taffy, but a bit more firm. Not quite dig-it-out-of-your-teeth-with-your-fingernails, but a good chew. The mango taste is good, but it’s all up front at the beginning … then the ginger taste starts to come in, and comes on strong. I find that it’s a little too strong for my full and proper enjoyment, but not so strong that it limits me to one at a sitting.<\/p>\n

I give it a good solid<\/p>\n

Rating<\/a> of 3 Wasabi Peas<\/strong> out of a possible 5 plus or minus based on your feelings about ginger (lots), mango (little), and chewy sweets (fairly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,32,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-peas","category-carameltaffy","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}