{"id":781,"date":"2005-03-07T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2005-03-07T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T05:00:16","slug":"taste-the-gross-purple-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Taste the gross purple rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to campaign Skittles to make a packet of their candies without grape. I just can&#8217;t stand grape-flavored anything and it ruins an otherwise tasty candy. I usually just pick out all the grape pieces before I start eating them, but I think they should cater to me since I am their customer. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>My dislike for grape dates back as far as I can remember. My mom would get frustrated with me when we&#8217;d visit a relative and they only had grape kool-aid because I&#8217;d refuse to drink it. Give me fruit punch or give me death! I don&#8217;t even care for regular grape jelly on sandwiches either. While I don&#8217;t find it as disgusting as other grape-flavored items, I usually opt for strawberry or mixed berry jelly\/jam instead. This is all very interesting since I do enjoy eating grapes of all colors as long as they are seedless.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and who is the ad wizard who came up with &#8220;Wild Berry&#8221; Skittles because those are so gross! I&#8217;m sorry, but candy should never taste like medicine. The cherry in particular reminds me of Luden&#8217;s cough drops. And I should know: I used to suck those down like candy when I was a wee one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to campaign Skittles to make a packet of their candies without grape. I just can&#8217;t stand grape-flavored anything and it ruins an otherwise tasty candy. I usually just pick out all the grape pieces before I start eating them, but I think they should cater to me since I am their customer. What do you think? My dislike for grape dates back as far as I can remember. My mom would get frustrated with me when we&#8217;d visit a relative and they only had grape kool-aid because I&#8217;d refuse to drink it. Give me fruit punch or give me death! I don&#8217;t even care for regular grape jelly on sandwiches either. While I don&#8217;t find it as disgusting as other grape-flavored items, I usually opt for strawberry or mixed berry jelly\/jam instead. This is all very interesting since I do enjoy eating grapes of all colors as long <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=781\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}