When my friend/coworker Bryan invited me to try the worst candy ever this afternoon, I just had to know. It's candy, I thought, and it's got a cute monkey on the package; how bad can it be?
Oh, My Stars and Garters! superduper photography tip: Focus on the background, not the subject!
I invited him to photograph my reaction and took a bite. I had been warned, but I wasn't prepared for the cosmic awfulness of Bananko. It tasted like bananas, dirt, and suffering. I hate all those things in candy form.
I gagged and spat most of it into the trashcan, to Bryan's great and loud amusement. Unfortunately it was sticky and grabby and took a long time to completely remove from my molars. And it had been such a nice day otherwise.
Bananko is a product of Croatia, which makes me sad. Haven't they been through enough?