Name: Grab It
Origin: Korea
Found at: Freshia, Tustin
Cost: $0.99
Ingredients: Filtered Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar, Corn Starch, Carrageenan, Malic Acid, Glucose, Non Fat Dry Milk, Vitamin C, Aspartame, Natural N Artificial Colors, Artificial Flavors, Salt, Vitamin B2
Why I Bought It:
It was on sale! Plus: test tubes! Who could resist dessert-type snacks packaged in little test tubes? Not me!
Tasting Notes:
The strawberry tasted kinda like strawberry. Same with the peach, the apple, and the melon. It's just about the closest an artifically flavored gelatin snack could get to the natural flavor they're supposed to represent. Think Jolly Rancher with a splash of yogurty tang. The texture is of barely-set Jell-O, and to get the entire contents out, contrary to the name, you don't just “grab it”, you squeeze it — ideally from the bottom, like a tube of toothpaste. Excuse me: a plastic TEST tube of toothpaste.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.