ok so I have a sweet tooth. I have had it since I was a kid. we would bike down to Westlake Drugstore and buy dime candy. Suckers, sweet tarts, chocolate, and my personal favorite- Bottle Caps. remember those? disks the size of two stacked nickels and shaped like, well, a bottle cap. rootbeer, cherry, orange, cola. ah yummy. and then there was Lik-m-Aid. this stuff was looked kool-aid mix with a sugar stick. you get the whole process going by wetting down the stick and dipping it into the sugar pouch. I think the powder was actually all left over from pixi-stix production runs. they would sweep it up pour it back into the hopper and put it in these little paper envelopes.) anyway, the sugar is then transferred to your mouth and viola! what better way to a quick sugar high for a 12 year old? of course these things were darn messy, and inevitably you would be left with more powder than the two sugar sticks provided. (of course the solution was to tilt your head back and dump the remaining stuff in your mouth. hoping not to laugh so hard that it came up out your nose, or down in your lungs, which is a huge problem, until it is all disolved and could challenge jesse owens to a foot race. )
So my hankerin for something sweet and nothing to satisfiy led me to this really bad substitution.
In my attempts to recreate this I have found a way to do this using things found at your local Starbucks.
heres what you need.
1 packet of Raw Sugar.
a wooden stir stick
instructions:
basically its the same deal - Lick, dip, lick dip.
crunch. crunch crunch.
the raw sugar is in a natural brown paper wrapper
its called 'Sugar in the Raw" i recommend it b/c of its texture and its crunchy. it definitely has some appeal
I don't recommend the pink packets, or the yellow packets, unless you are on a diet, or just strange. (its not sugar, people!)
ahh it almost brings me back to my childhood
I will include a picture of this whole thing below.
enjoy.
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