Why would a fifty-five-year-old man try such a thing as Skittles POP’d Freeze Dried Candy, you might ask.
I’ll tell you why. The grocery store was out of Nerds Very Berry Gummy Clusters, and a fiend needs his fix. We are in the midst of something like a golden age of candy technological advancement, and you never know when some new morsel capable of leaving your tongue scoured raw by repeated exposure to high-grade dextrose and food starch will hit the market.
But even that knowledge did not prepare me for this.
I have to assume these were discovered by accident, like X-rays, penicillin, and Marilyn Monroe.
As to where I would place the Skittles POP’d Freeze Dried Candy in a ranking of that American icon and two scientific discoveries that have together saved millions (if not billions) of lives, my answer is “above.” Well above.