ugh Xmas gift

well I got this cute little box from someone I sort of know (we email back and
forth) in the bay area. She sent me some cute little chelle pelle skincare items. in
a burlap type sack. something I found after unpacking/sniffing and repacking it was
a foil wrapped twisted package a la hard candies that you find from Brachs or
other brands. I thought it might be chocolate. Nope.. it looked more like a weird
flavor and since it wasn't something that I could pawn off on DH or the kid, I
thought I would try it. I did the sniff test–– no discernable scent.. maybe a hint
of vanilla or brown sugar–y.. fragrance but not much.
Pop the sucker in my mouth andEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
yuck. spit it out promptly, it was SOAP!!!!!!!!!
ugh I have rinsed my mouth out a gazillion times and it still tastes soapy.
what's worse is that I *checked* the wrapper and it doesn't indicate that it is soap
anywhere.

Pop the sucker in my mouth andEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
yuck. spit it out promptly, it was SOAP!!!!!!!!!
ugh I have rinsed my mouth out a gazillion times and it still tastes soapy.

lesson learned.

"Stevie" <privilegemagaz...@charter.net> wrote in message
news:Etipf.2936$Vr....@fe06.lga...
Thanks, Stevie, for taking the punishment for my consistently filthy
mouth.
You are a true Christmas friend :)
Karen
"Life doesn't always parse." Malachy McCormick, A Decent Cup of Tea

well I got this cute little box from someone I sort of know (we email
back and forth) in the bay area. She sent me some cute little chelle
pelle skincare items. in a burlap type sack. something I found after
unpacking/sniffing and repacking it was a foil wrapped twisted
package a la hard candies that you find from Brachs or other brands.
I thought it might be chocolate. Nope.. it looked more like a weird
flavor and since it wasn't something that I could pawn off on DH or
the kid, I thought I would try it. I did the sniff test–– no
discernable scent.. maybe a hint of vanilla or brown sugar–y..
fragrance but not much. Pop the sucker in my mouth
andEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW yuck. spit it out promptly, it was
SOAP!!!!!!!!! ugh I have rinsed my mouth out a gazillion times and it
still tastes soapy. what's worse is that I *checked* the wrapper and
it doesn't indicate that it is soap anywhere.
lesson learned.
Stevie

Pop the sucker in my mouth andEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
yuck. spit it out promptly, it was SOAP!!!!!!!!!

well I got this cute little box from someone I sort of know (we email back
and forth) in the bay area. She sent me some cute little chelle pelle
skincare items. in a burlap type sack. something I found after
unpacking/sniffing and repacking it was a foil wrapped twisted package a la
hard candies that you find from Brachs or other brands. I thought it might
be chocolate. Nope.. it looked more like a weird flavor and since it wasn't
something that I could pawn off on DH or the kid, I thought I would try it.
I did the sniff test–– no discernable scent.. maybe a hint of vanilla or
brown sugar–y.. fragrance but not much.
Pop the sucker in my mouth andEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
yuck. spit it out promptly, it was SOAP!!!!!!!!!
ugh I have rinsed my mouth out a gazillion times and it still tastes soapy.
what's worse is that I *checked* the wrapper and it doesn't indicate that it
is soap anywhere.

Heh. I had a similar experience. I *love* marzipan, those almond paste
candies that are often made to look like like miniature fruit. I received a
box of marzipan apples from a friend, and they looked so pretty. There were
red, yellow and green apple marzipans, complete with little stems. I took a
red one and took a good sized bite out of it, and realized they were really
wax CANDLES. Ick.

Pop the sucker in my mouth andEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
yuck. spit it out promptly, it was SOAP!!!!!!!!!

at least it wasn't wasabi.
i love marzipan, too, BTW.
david

Heh. I had a similar experience. I *love* marzipan, those almond paste
candies that are often made to look like like miniature fruit. I received

box of marzipan apples from a friend, and they looked so pretty. There

red, yellow and green apple marzipans, complete with little stems. I took

red one and took a good sized bite out of it, and realized they were

wax CANDLES. Ick.

Stevie wrote:
LOL!
Don't feel bad! We learned this lesson earlier this year. My Japanese
friend sent us a care package: since she moved away, we'd been missing
the "sprinkles" – packets of seaweed/fish–flavored seasonings you
sprinkle on plain white rice. So she sent us a huge box of sprinkle
packets, all in incomprehensible Japanese characters.
DF had gone through about 1/4 of one particular box which he just
didn't care for too much. Then my friend came to visit this summer. He
brought out this box for lunch one day. And she broke out in
giggles....
Turns out it wasn't sprinkles; it was bath crystals!! Once she got
done laughing (tears running down her face), she was horrified with
herself for not thinking that we might not be able to read the
packaging and realize it wasn't meant to be edible. She really meant
well; she did not mean to poison us! But as DF pointed out, there was
not much reason to suspect it was for the bath and not the rice, since
the illustrations on the package featured things like carrots and
seaweed...
Poor DF: he'd eaten 1/4 of the package before we figured this one out!
He hadn't even spit it out, like you did.... he just thought it tasted
odd. But he figured like most things Japanese, maybe the taste would
grow on him!
jen