{"id":486,"date":"2005-04-06T19:37:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T19:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=486"},"modified":"2005-04-06T19:37:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T19:37:42","slug":"altoids-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"altoids revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like Altoids, and I also like sour candy, so when I spied the Altoids sour fruit gum, I was giddy with delight and anticipation. First chew is pretty good, with a nice sour hit, but the gum goes utterly flavorless in a matter of minutes. Not good! But that&#8217;s not the worst of it&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/altoids_gum_cherry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"altoids_gum_cherry.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/altoids_gum_cherry-thumb.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"207\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know if this stuff has an expiration date, but the other day I was chewing a couple of pieces when I was out walking Deedle, and the GUM BEGAN TO DISINTEGRATE IN MY MOUTH. I swear there was some sort of chemical breakdown of the gum, because it became kind of foamy and slimy and soft. It wasn&#8217;t even chewable anymore. It was so disgusting that I had to spit it out, but I couldn&#8217;t get it all out of my mouth! It left a film in my mouth! Then I had this spontaneously disintegrating glob on my fingers because, hello, I was out walking the DOG and did not have tissues or a garbage can handy. Anyway, be warned. Chew Altoids sour gum at your own risk.<br \/>\nA public service announcement brought to you by supereggplant, who does not, as far as she knows, have superhuman saliva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Altoids, and I also like sour candy, so when I spied the Altoids sour fruit gum, I was giddy with delight and anticipation. First chew is pretty good, with a nice sour hit, but the gum goes utterly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candychocolate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}