Jolly Ranchers and Mountain Dew are advertised on TikTok and Instagram but contain products banned in the UK.

  • Alien Nathan Edward
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    1110 months ago

    homebrew Jolly Ranchers

    sugar, corn syrup and water will make hard candy. after that, it’s just a matter of dialing in the amounts of flavorings and citric acid for some tartness

    • @pinkdrunkenelephants
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      -810 months ago

      🤔 I wonder if there’s a way to make them with natural sweeteners and not sugar.

      I sense an opportunity

      • @Skullgrid
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        1210 months ago

        I wonder if there’s a way to make them with natural sweeteners and not sugar.

        get out of your own arsehole, do you know what sugar is made of? Sugarcane. Do you know what Sugarcane is? It’s a fucking natural plant.

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        510 months ago

        not really, at least not that I know of. the formation of hard candy kinda depends on how sugar acts once you get it above certain temperature points. there’s probably a materials engineer somewhere that can offer you a sol’n that mostly does what you want but in the traditional world of candymaking sugar does a lot more than just sweeten.

        • @pinkdrunkenelephants
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          -510 months ago

          Fair enough. It’s nice to know that chemical-free options exist regardless. I ought to give making some a try sometime

          • Alien Nathan Edward
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            810 months ago

            chemical-free

            that depends on how you define “chemical”. You are still adding flavorings.

            • @buzziebee
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              310 months ago

              It’s also got C12H22O11 in it