I'm not sure if I'm on the verge of a great idea or something stupid. Rumor has it the line between genius and crazy are very close! (Though I bet more crazy people say that than the geniuses : )
After Halloween there is a ton of candy around our house. It's all over the desks at work. It's everywhere! I likely eat more candy after Halloween than I do the rest of the year, almost certainly choclate candy bars. My favorite candy is Skittles, which has 0% chocolate, and throughout the year when I would have the choice of all types of candy at a store, Skittles is the choice of champions. But for some reason we always have a lot of chocolate bars (3 Musketeers, Milky Way, Snickers, Twix, etc) around out house after Halloween. There is plenty of chocolate to eat, perhaps even too much.
Now the problem with chocolate bars, especially the mini bars, is they dissapear so quickly! I can eat one in a single bite and it is gone in a few chews. Satisfying and delicious for about 15 seconds then I'm left alone with that weird candy-film on my teeth. Typically the answer is another candy bar, and it would not be uncommon to eat two to three in a sitting. I mean, c'mon, they're small!
A great invention would be something that keeps the taste of the candy bar in your mouth longer, without requiring you to eat one after the other like a Hungry Hungry Hippo (no puns intended). The makers of the doggie Kong can keep a dog entertained for entire minutes at a time (converted to human time that's like a feature length movie or how long it feels to watch 3 frames of professional bowling), having a simple treat last much longer than normal. Imagine for a moment a small mesh of this rubber, forming a sort of cage, that would fit, say, half a mini candy bar in one end. This "Candy Kong" would allow a candy bar to be chewed for minutes, evenly dispensing the melting chocolate (and caramel, nougat, and candy cookie crunch) over that period of time. Ten times the delicious satisfaction for a fraction of the calories and guilt (and is dishwasher safe!)
I'm counting this post as the copyright for my big idea. Is it a good one? Piece of junk? Maybe it's hard to tell. After all, it is a fine line between genius and crazy.
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Logan loves his kongs. But after his two years of life, he has mastered the skills of emptying the kong in about 60 (human) seconds. I just made him a egg with cheese and put it in his kong. It was gone quicker than I ate my eggs. So as to the human Candy kong, it would be good to begin with. But as soon as we mastered it and learned the trick it would be gone just as quick with eating it without a kong.
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