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A Brief History of Gummy Bears

In 1920, Hans Riegel of Bonn, Germany, became frustrated with his dead-end job as a confectionary worker and started his own sweets company, making hard, colorless candies using a copper kettle and marble slab in his kitchen. His bicycle-riding wife was the sole delivery person. The name of his new business was a combination of the first two letters of his own first and last names and hometown: Hans Riegel of Bonn=Haribo.

The hard candies sold fairly well at local street fairs, but not as well as Riegel had hoped. Then, after a couple of years, Riegel hit upon what would prove to be a genius idea: He produced a line of soft, gelatin-based, fruit-flavored treats in the shape of dancing bears (then a popular diversion at festivals in Europe). But while Riegel is often credited as the inventor of gummy candy, he actually just improved upon an already successful, centuries-old, formula.

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“Gummy candies descend from Turkish delight and even Japanese rice candy,” says candy historian Beth Kimmerle, author of Candy: A Sweet History. “But both of those are typically made with rice or corn starch versus gelatin.”

https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/pop-culture/article/history-gummy-bears

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Gummi, German for rubber.  Often rendered as "gummy" in English.  Beloved chewy, fruity flavored candies.  All brands are fine with me, all flavors.  If you do a little research you can find gummis you  never heard of.  I love the worms.  I love the sour ones.  I love all the weird gummi candies made in all the shapes here in America.  

We have gotten them in a shop in Seaside OR shaped like giant fried eggs, pigs, frogs, various fruit shapes, bananas und so weiter.

Daughter and I have been considering if it were possible to make some savory flavored ones ourselves.  Open to suggestions.  Of course tomato, maybe something garlicky?  Not sure.  Olive?  

I will tell on my brother, a little tale.  When he was in school in German class he and his friends decided to insult the teacher by calling her a "gummi aber".  Foolishly, they were using the word aber wrong.  It does mean but, but it does not mean butt.  

It is to laugh.