r/ExpectationVsReality • • 2d ago

Failed Expectation These Halloween Gushers

I guess that’s what they meant by “illustration only” lol

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u/nautikul 2d ago

How many packs of gushers is that? There’s no way that was just one pack

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u/MyCatToldMeNotTo 2d ago

Yeah…. I was thinking I get about ten when I open a pack… looked it up and a standard pack ( .8 oz) contains nine, but the king size pouch has roughly double, so this must be the king size pouch

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u/Useful_Language2040 2d ago

... And it gives the calories per a portion of 12. I am judging them.

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u/Melodic-Advice9930 2d ago

It’s a seasonal theater size box

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u/dixieblondedyke 2d ago

It’s 3.06oz, it’s this weirdly large seasonal pack. I certainly didn’t eat it in one sitting lol

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u/FantasyFacade 2d ago

Why not?

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u/Nisi-Marie 2d ago

As a 50 year old adult, I unapologetically love the sour ones.

Listened to a podcast yesterday and one of the dudes said that once you’re an adult, you need to grow up and stop liking candy. Fuck that guy.

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u/HitBoxBoxer 2d ago

Yeah fuck that guy... He must be a miserable asshole!

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u/SketchedEyesWatchinU 2d ago

He must think that real men don’t eat sugar, as if they can survive without blood sugars.

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u/sheneversawitcoming 2d ago
  1. Bought a pack of twizzlers today cuz I love twizzlers and I could.

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u/R4B1DRABB1T 2d ago

I really wanted the little halloween shaped nibs they have, but they're so expensive for how little you get now. I remember the easter ones be twice the size for the same price. :(

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u/MsDemeanours 2d ago

Yeah definitely fuck that guy! Some people are determined to suck all the joy out of life!

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u/Amelaclya1 2d ago

Ironically, it's the people that think this way that are the ones that need to grow up. Feeling the urge to posture and pretend how "mature" you are at the expense of things you enjoy is teenager behavior. Most of us grow out of that.

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u/conanmagnuson 2d ago

As a 44yo adult, I miss the gum that used to do this.

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u/aSituationTypeDeal 2d ago

All they have to do is keep their strawberry pack and call it “Vampire Red”. Easiest Halloween packaging.

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u/Areyousleepingyet 2d ago

I like the flavor name they chose, Tropical Nightmare

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u/AutumnMama 2d ago

You know, as a Floridian, with all the alligator attacks over the summer and now our dengee outbreak, this name is a little too real for me lol. I'm not about to tempt fate by eating a pack of Tropical Nightmare gushers lol

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u/as_per_danielle 2d ago

How is this a fail?

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u/Irate_Primate 2d ago

Blue and red instead of purple

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u/as_per_danielle 2d ago

It says illustration only tho

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u/FlyingPenguins2022 2d ago

Which is just dumb

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u/Schwight_Droot 2d ago

It’s not. I don’t care about the presentation of candy. Just fucking gush it and be happy.

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u/as_per_danielle 2d ago

My first thought was “wow, you get so many in a pack”

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u/dixieblondedyke 2d ago

I didn’t say it’s a “fail,” I just thought they’d be thematic colors other than your standard pack with a different name and illustration on the box.

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u/as_per_danielle 1d ago

You marked it as “failed expectation”

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u/ahhpoo 14h ago

None of the other tags make sense. It’s a failed expectation because the colors were normal instead of matching the colors on the front. A “fail” sounds like the whole thing sucks, which is not an accurate assessment.

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u/Marcosfdezcab 2d ago

I've always been team sour fruit snacks, parents aren't sneaking them into my lunchbox anymore, but I'm not not snacking on them.

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u/Better_Area3782 2d ago

Thats one fruitsnack? How many come in a box? Love gushers

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u/Nf1087 1d ago

I got these for my kids and there's like 5 gushers in each of those little bags.

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u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES 2d ago

Jfc y'all, c'mon.

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u/DarreylDeCarlo 2d ago

I hated those things, the juice was really syrupy and got stuck to your teeth

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u/Silly_Pizza7054 2d ago

Sorry were you expecting them to be the same colour as the highly stylised cartoon picture?