Food Vibes: Taste the Rainbow (Patreon)

Me and Skittles have a relationship similar to my relationship with marshmallow bananas: I don't always want them, but when I do...I have a problem 😂

I've honestly never really had any self control issues when it comes to snacking, but like...every once in a while, I just want a million of the same snack. *Do I have dopamine snacks in addition to dopamine foods?* 👀

With Skittles, I have gone back and forth about a million times, but I also have such weird experiences with Skittles... Maybe weird is the wrong word, but...unique at least.

I watched my dad try to teach SisterUnmuted to swallow pills using Skittles... Not the most efficient, but it worked eventually... Although I feel like Skittles are maybe a bigger candy than necessary for just learning that skill (when I was a kid, I learned with... Advil. Because I started having migraines very early on and the kids chewables didn't help enough after a while 🫠)

Also, though, when I was in university and started having to take birth control to prevent ovarian cysts (I have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, so... I'll probably be stuck on that for...ever 😅🤷‍♀️), I had a really hard time remembering to take pills on a schedule. This was the start of my d̶r̶u̶g̶ a̶d̶d̶i̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ perpetually medicated life 😇

Fun fact: when you forget to take your meds at the right time (or at all) consistently, they don't work very well 😬 So, after 3 more horribly painful cysts and a surgery, I started eating a single Skittle at the time I'd normally take a pill during the fourth week. For anyone who may not know, birth control is sometimes a 21 day set and then you have either no pills for 7 days or you have placebos for 7 days...I had no pills and am forgetful, so... Skittles 😅👍 There were definitely times I wanted to eat more than just one 🫣 But for the purpose of training my brain, and the fact I was taking them at like 8am... I usually managed.

In other, non pill-related Skittles experiences, did you ever have Skittles gum? Was that a thing outside of Canada? When I was a kid, they had Skittle gum for... Honestly maybe only a year. The flavour lasted all of about 10 seconds, but SisterUnmuted and I would genuinely go out of our way to get it and we're devastated when they discontinued it 😅🙈 We actually recently looked for some on Amazon, but I don't recall if we didn't find any or if we just couldn't justify the cost. Also...if it really was discontinued like 15 years ago, that might be some *very* stale gum 😂

I also think I must just always like all the things nobody else likes. Because so many of my favourite snacks over the years have been discontinued. Including: Skittles gum, and tropical Skittles. But the ones in the yellow bag. They had banana, kiwi, watermelon... They were so good. And I bought like 4 packs total before I never found them again... Once again left devastated 😭

Anyway, if you hadn't come to this conclusion, a friend bought me Skittles recently and I feel like I have basically not stopped eating them since 😂 So they have re-entered my life. Wish me luck.

Have any of your favourite snacks been discontinued or just become difficult to find?