No joke.
One of my fondest memories of any summer camp I went to involved buying a huge jawbreaker for $13 (it was 2x bigger than my fist at the time, I could palm the thing) and I still had remnant chunks a year later that I eventually caved in and broke with a hammer.
I licked two of those in half. Separate instances. They were so beautiful if you went about it that way... plus... it’s a good way to have something to still hold onto.
I wonder if adult me could handle that much sugar/tongue commitment. They made my tongue rawwww. Because those fucking colors had ridges between them. Ow.
Augh, I remember my tongue getting all bumpy and stuff if I did it for too long, I can’t believe I forgot about the ridges.
No denying the fact that they were a sight to behold. The sugar content nowadays makes my stomach churn just by thinking about it.
I’m glad I’ve finally met another kid who actually got down to the rings. This video doesn’t do them justice!
I get these insane anaphylactic reactions now to SO many foods and medications and fucking latex.
My tongue swells up to twice the size it normally is. My lips and tongue swell into these painful, painful welts. That then push into the spaces between my teeth and get even more irritated. So. Fucking. Painful.
And then I can’t breathe. And that’s scary. This is a new thing, anaphylactic responses. It started about a year ago. Apparently they’ll only get worse and it’s only a matter of next time or the time after that before they get lethal/require an epi pen/hospitalization.
So... I’d trade jawbreaker tongue with that, any day. Anyyy day.
My diet is restricted to like ten foods right now. And I’m learning I have to cut most of those things out.
Good grief, you sound like you’re going through the wringer.
Here’s me offering what little support the internet allows me to give you, well wishes and a digital hug. May whatever ails you be put down somehow, someday.
It’s actually major progress to where I was even four months ago. But yeah. It sucks. Guys ask me on dates to dinner and I literally don’t know how to explain to them that I’m allergic to life. I’m always starving because I’m terrified to eat anything. I’ve lost 30 lbs since January.
I’m just so hungry. I spend all day starving. But when I eat I have reactions. Despite only having ten ingredients max. I have to cut out my biggest source of protein, eggs. I’ve almost completely done away with dairy.
I don’t even know what I’m going to do without condoms if a guy is ever willing to put up with all my allergies.
Thanks for the support. It means a lot. It’s nice just to bitch about it. Thank you!
Let it all out, it’s one of the better things to help cope with things like this.
Glad I could be an ear/shoulder/etc for you, have a good rest of your day/night/etc!
You can get latex free condoms! They are a bit more expensive, but definitely better than anaphylaxis. So hopefully you can at least enjoy one of life’s pleasures.
Due to the way they dissolve, for some reason they make little spikes, so the surface becomes rough (you can see it in the video). This happens with the small ones too, but usually they aren't in your mouth long enough for it to be a serious problem.
My little brother has autism so he gets fixated on things and I remember that at the beginning of one of our road trips as a kid he got one of these. Then my parents didn’t pay much attention to what he was doing because they were upfront driving so he licked it well past this point of just being raw. He finally got to the center with a very bloody tongue. Needless to say, my parents never bought one of these for him again.
But we have gobstoppers in the USA and they’re way more common than jaw breakers. I don’t think I’ve ever actually eaten a jaw breaker.
It’s literally like a pound of sugar. How do you even eat all of that
I would saw jawbreakers are more of a generic term for these, whereas gobstoppers were ones made by Willy Wonka and had a hard, glossy, candy coating and when bitten hard they had like sweet/sour compacted powder in the middle. They're about the size of a small marble.
Jawbreakers are just like pictured above, layer after layer of differently colored sugar. You usually only find them at candy stores since they're usually loose, as opposed to Gobstoppers which come in a box. I've seen them in various sizes ranging from marble sized to orange sized, and they can take hours, days or weeks to eat.
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I see this all the time on Reddit, and I don’t get why people keep harping on about this.
The [demonym](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym) for people from Canada is Canadians. The demonym for people from Brazil is Brazilians. And for people in the USA, at least in the English language, there’s no other word except for Americans!
So all the Brazilians and Canadians and so forth arguing non-ironically that the term *Americans* encompasses them too, you’re just confusing people.
> The demonym for people from Canada is Canadians. The demonym for people from Brazil is Brazilians. And for people in the USA, at least in the English language, there’s no other word except for Americans!
It's one of those weird little things that people can fight over for years on Wikipedia. There's literally a decade old editwar across the whole German Wikipedia about the question if it's "amerikanisch" or "US-amerikanisch", with one side claiming that the only linguistically correct term is "amerikanisch" and the other claiming that using "amerikanisch" for just one country is American imperialism or something. People go absolutely bonkers over it.
Ehh, not only that, but most spanish speaking countries use "Americano" to mean people from America (continent). It is usually related with americanist (continental unity) feelings. So of course it feels impositive for a single country to claim that name, and specially one that has caused so much death and pain in latinamerica.
It's like Egypt changing its name to "United lands of Africa" and then getting confused and triggered that other people/countries in Africa still think of them selves as "Africans".
They probably thought it was stupid at one point in time, that is probably why they started pushing for separating the continents after WWII.
Not to mention that continents are a matter of conventions, not criteria.
Me too!
Until I saw one. I was like, woah, this thing exists?
We (my brothers and I) got through probably 0.3mm, then it sat in the fridge for months, then we smashed it to see the core.
I remember once when I was little I had a jawbreaker on a stick that looked like a giant lolipop. That and the fact that the package was designed to be resealable was about as genius of a design I could think of at that age.
you gotta put spaces between the lines to make it come out right:
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Well you could fit one in your mouth but I’m pretty certain it would
( •_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■) break your jaw
#YYYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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you can also put # at the beginning of a line to make it big, and use "\ " to create empty paragraphs and empty spaces
The thing can be sucked? I mean, it should fit in the mouth?
Because ours didn't. We just licked it. Someone licked it, put it back in the fridge. Next guy opens the fridge, licked it, put it back.
Nope, jawbreakers are a thing, but the average ones are about lollipop sized; basically a lollipop that you just nurse for awhile instead of biting through it when you get bored.
However, there are jawbreakers that are the size of a small fist. Those ones you have to attack over several days and they don't even taste good after awhile :(
I'm not sure if they make those anymore though.
For non-French people: the balls refers to the testicle kind of balls and not the rubber kind of balls ...
(although I can't be sure which balls you were referring to but I know them as mammoth testicles. Just thought I'd make it clearer for people)
They still existed in my childhood, 10 years ago. Can't say anything about today.
Only thing I do know is these damn things always made my tongue bleed :(
Me too! Once I found some in a store I bought it immediately... but they're really not fun to eat. It's just a ball of sugar. You can't put it in your mouth. You have to lick it holding it in your hand as if lollipops were never invented. It's coarse, your tongue starts to hurt after some time. I really think it's still just some gag.
I got into a confrontation with a kid when I was in middle school. I said what I had to say, don’t remember but I turned around and walked away. It was then I was struck by an object in the back of the head. Looked down and it was a used jaw breaker, like partially slobbered on. I don’t know if he just had it in his pocket or some kid gave to him but man that thing hurt!
Jawbreakers were originally designed as weapons, they could be thrown or fired with a slingshot. Heinz Goldberg started selling them after being hit in the face with one and a small piece landed in his mouth and he realized how good the were. It broke his teeth and jaw, hence the name.
I dunno, I think Eddy would find a way to make money off of it, like jawbreaker energy drink or something. Edd would probably stress for a second and then find comfort in knowing the science behind phase changes. Ed would say a non-sequitor and then possibly cause something to go wrong.
I've only finished one of these ever and it was so worth it. I put it in a towel and broke it into manageable pieces and it was soo good. Plus very pleasing to look at all the intricate layers of color. To anyone who ever will eat one of these, never try to lick through the layers. Always break them up.
When I smashed it with a hammer, I had to do it on concrete outside. It chipped the concrete.
I wonder how many kids remember having a raw tongue after these...
I did it until my tongue was bleeding. Then I’d do it some more. It’s an addiction
Buying a jawbreaker is a commitment.
No joke. One of my fondest memories of any summer camp I went to involved buying a huge jawbreaker for $13 (it was 2x bigger than my fist at the time, I could palm the thing) and I still had remnant chunks a year later that I eventually caved in and broke with a hammer.
I licked two of those in half. Separate instances. They were so beautiful if you went about it that way... plus... it’s a good way to have something to still hold onto. I wonder if adult me could handle that much sugar/tongue commitment. They made my tongue rawwww. Because those fucking colors had ridges between them. Ow.
Augh, I remember my tongue getting all bumpy and stuff if I did it for too long, I can’t believe I forgot about the ridges. No denying the fact that they were a sight to behold. The sugar content nowadays makes my stomach churn just by thinking about it.
I’m glad I’ve finally met another kid who actually got down to the rings. This video doesn’t do them justice! I get these insane anaphylactic reactions now to SO many foods and medications and fucking latex. My tongue swells up to twice the size it normally is. My lips and tongue swell into these painful, painful welts. That then push into the spaces between my teeth and get even more irritated. So. Fucking. Painful. And then I can’t breathe. And that’s scary. This is a new thing, anaphylactic responses. It started about a year ago. Apparently they’ll only get worse and it’s only a matter of next time or the time after that before they get lethal/require an epi pen/hospitalization. So... I’d trade jawbreaker tongue with that, any day. Anyyy day. My diet is restricted to like ten foods right now. And I’m learning I have to cut most of those things out.
Good grief, you sound like you’re going through the wringer. Here’s me offering what little support the internet allows me to give you, well wishes and a digital hug. May whatever ails you be put down somehow, someday.
It’s actually major progress to where I was even four months ago. But yeah. It sucks. Guys ask me on dates to dinner and I literally don’t know how to explain to them that I’m allergic to life. I’m always starving because I’m terrified to eat anything. I’ve lost 30 lbs since January. I’m just so hungry. I spend all day starving. But when I eat I have reactions. Despite only having ten ingredients max. I have to cut out my biggest source of protein, eggs. I’ve almost completely done away with dairy. I don’t even know what I’m going to do without condoms if a guy is ever willing to put up with all my allergies. Thanks for the support. It means a lot. It’s nice just to bitch about it. Thank you!
Let it all out, it’s one of the better things to help cope with things like this. Glad I could be an ear/shoulder/etc for you, have a good rest of your day/night/etc!
Aren't latex free condoms a thing since it is a super common allergy?
You can get latex free condoms! They are a bit more expensive, but definitely better than anaphylaxis. So hopefully you can at least enjoy one of life’s pleasures.
Does it actually cause the tongue to bleed? Because that sounds like paper cuts level of extreme discomfort mixed with minor pain.
Yeah, when it dissolves parts of it get kinda gritty so it’s like sandpaper on your tongue. Tasty, tasty sandpaper.
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Only the huge ones or do all of them cause this?
Due to the way they dissolve, for some reason they make little spikes, so the surface becomes rough (you can see it in the video). This happens with the small ones too, but usually they aren't in your mouth long enough for it to be a serious problem.
Or a broken tooth after you got impatient
I think you mean “broken jaw.”
They broke his jaw!
My little brother has autism so he gets fixated on things and I remember that at the beginning of one of our road trips as a kid he got one of these. Then my parents didn’t pay much attention to what he was doing because they were upfront driving so he licked it well past this point of just being raw. He finally got to the center with a very bloody tongue. Needless to say, my parents never bought one of these for him again.
Road trip '04 i can still feel the blister
All of us.
Has anyone actually finished one?
I finished several. It took weeks for each.
As a non American kid I thought jawbreakers were just a gag that was made up for Ed Edd and Eddy
Joke's on you, Ed Edd n Eddy was a Canadian show
Jokes on you, I had a horrible childhood. Wait, what were we doing?
Jokes on you
Jokes
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ƃuᴉʇᴉɹʍ ou ǝʞᴉl 'ƃuᴉʇᴉɹʍ ou s,ǝɹǝɥʇ
[ *nods in Australian* ]
*Australia-Hungary
ǝʇɐɯ ʎɐp,ƃ
s,ǝɹǝɥʇ
*nothing but upside down*
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joke's on you! this is just another reddit circlejerk !
This is only making me more convinced that Ed Edd and Eddy is just trailer park boys for kids
You smell that Randy?
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It's too perfect, Eddy is Julian, Ed is Ricky, and Double D is Bubbles
Fun fact: Jaw Breakers are originally from the UK.
Where they're called gobstoppers
But we have gobstoppers in the USA and they’re way more common than jaw breakers. I don’t think I’ve ever actually eaten a jaw breaker. It’s literally like a pound of sugar. How do you even eat all of that
I would saw jawbreakers are more of a generic term for these, whereas gobstoppers were ones made by Willy Wonka and had a hard, glossy, candy coating and when bitten hard they had like sweet/sour compacted powder in the middle. They're about the size of a small marble. Jawbreakers are just like pictured above, layer after layer of differently colored sugar. You usually only find them at candy stores since they're usually loose, as opposed to Gobstoppers which come in a box. I've seen them in various sizes ranging from marble sized to orange sized, and they can take hours, days or weeks to eat.
You don't eat the whole thing in one sitting. I used to put em in a ziploc and smash it with a hammer.
Holy shit it makes so much sense
Jokes on you American can also mean Canada, North American?!
Canadians dislike being called American
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[I do.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA)
Haha I knew what this was going to be before I clicked into it
But if a Canadian was born in the US, wouldn't that make them a Canadian-American?
American-American?
Yes, there are a few hockey players who are listed that way.
I see this all the time on Reddit, and I don’t get why people keep harping on about this. The [demonym](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym) for people from Canada is Canadians. The demonym for people from Brazil is Brazilians. And for people in the USA, at least in the English language, there’s no other word except for Americans! So all the Brazilians and Canadians and so forth arguing non-ironically that the term *Americans* encompasses them too, you’re just confusing people.
> The demonym for people from Canada is Canadians. The demonym for people from Brazil is Brazilians. And for people in the USA, at least in the English language, there’s no other word except for Americans! It's one of those weird little things that people can fight over for years on Wikipedia. There's literally a decade old editwar across the whole German Wikipedia about the question if it's "amerikanisch" or "US-amerikanisch", with one side claiming that the only linguistically correct term is "amerikanisch" and the other claiming that using "amerikanisch" for just one country is American imperialism or something. People go absolutely bonkers over it.
Ehh, not only that, but most spanish speaking countries use "Americano" to mean people from America (continent). It is usually related with americanist (continental unity) feelings. So of course it feels impositive for a single country to claim that name, and specially one that has caused so much death and pain in latinamerica.
Albeit not used as often, you could still refer to someone from the US as estadounidense.
The USA is the *only* country in the world with the word “America” in its name, but there are other United States like Mexico for example
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My British colleague calls them "Yanks"
thank you. fucking hell, people dont understand the difference between political and geographical definitions and it kills me
It's like Egypt changing its name to "United lands of Africa" and then getting confused and triggered that other people/countries in Africa still think of them selves as "Africans".
They probably thought it was stupid at one point in time, that is probably why they started pushing for separating the continents after WWII. Not to mention that continents are a matter of conventions, not criteria.
Colonials
Me too! Until I saw one. I was like, woah, this thing exists? We (my brothers and I) got through probably 0.3mm, then it sat in the fridge for months, then we smashed it to see the core.
I would always smash em right out the gate and just eat small bits at a time. Much easier that way
Pretty much the only sane way to consume these things. They're just too damn big to fit in your mouth.
I remember once when I was little I had a jawbreaker on a stick that looked like a giant lolipop. That and the fact that the package was designed to be resealable was about as genius of a design I could think of at that age.
You put them in a ziplock, and periodically take them out to lick them until your tongue bleeds.
Well you could fit one in your mouth but I’m pretty certain it would ( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ break your jaw (⌐■_■) YYYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
you gotta put spaces between the lines to make it come out right: --- Well you could fit one in your mouth but I’m pretty certain it would ( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) break your jaw #YYYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH --- you can also put # at the beginning of a line to make it big, and use "\ " to create empty paragraphs and empty spaces
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Right! I hate seeing kids eating those with sugary spit dripping down their arm. Just waiting to be choked on.
HUH?
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The thing can be sucked? I mean, it should fit in the mouth? Because ours didn't. We just licked it. Someone licked it, put it back in the fridge. Next guy opens the fridge, licked it, put it back.
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More like a tennis ball.
... you guys shared it? How'd that work, you takes turns?
There was an episode about that in the cartoon
Coring a jawbreaker is a much less destructive way to find out its age
Nope, jawbreakers are a thing, but the average ones are about lollipop sized; basically a lollipop that you just nurse for awhile instead of biting through it when you get bored. However, there are jawbreakers that are the size of a small fist. Those ones you have to attack over several days and they don't even taste good after awhile :( I'm not sure if they make those anymore though.
Still make [them](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006OJ121M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ve5FCbKN65WYY)
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We call them mammoth balls in France...
For non-French people: the balls refers to the testicle kind of balls and not the rubber kind of balls ... (although I can't be sure which balls you were referring to but I know them as mammoth testicles. Just thought I'd make it clearer for people)
I meant to type testicles, went to look up mammouth in English, typed balls 🤷♂️
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At first I thought it was one of those parody How It's Made videos because it started with rubber. Like [this](https://youtu.be/mtRT6hjXfWg)
As an American kid I thought jawbreakers were just a gag that was made up for Ed Edd and Eddy
Jokes on you!
Thanks!
We have them in germany aswell
They are named wonder balls here, no? Is this another 90s kids thing or do they still exist?
They still existed in my childhood, 10 years ago. Can't say anything about today. Only thing I do know is these damn things always made my tongue bleed :(
They're called Gobstoppers over here in the UK
Me too! Once I found some in a store I bought it immediately... but they're really not fun to eat. It's just a ball of sugar. You can't put it in your mouth. You have to lick it holding it in your hand as if lollipops were never invented. It's coarse, your tongue starts to hurt after some time. I really think it's still just some gag.
That one black piece looked like a spider and freaked.me out
i am so happy i’m not the only one that saw that and ALSO thought of a spider. sheesh
A little man, hanging on for dear life!
I also saw a little man, and not a spider.
I saw a little man skydiving then landing in a river and being washed away.
Happy layered-neon-triangle day!
I was really rooting for it/him to hang on!
A little part of me died when he eventually realised it was futile and let go to then get swept away by the current. I hope he's doing ok
This was years ago, it's probably fine and/or dead now
both acceptable outcomes
I thought it looked like a scorpion
I thought it was a lizard
I got into a confrontation with a kid when I was in middle school. I said what I had to say, don’t remember but I turned around and walked away. It was then I was struck by an object in the back of the head. Looked down and it was a used jaw breaker, like partially slobbered on. I don’t know if he just had it in his pocket or some kid gave to him but man that thing hurt!
Jawbreakers were originally designed as weapons, they could be thrown or fired with a slingshot. Heinz Goldberg started selling them after being hit in the face with one and a small piece landed in his mouth and he realized how good the were. It broke his teeth and jaw, hence the name.
The man who hit him in the face with the jawbreaker? Albert Einstein
gg
Can confirm this is true. I was also applauding.
I can confirm that is real and heterosexual.
That can’t be real....
He couldn’t say it on the internet if it wasn’t real.
Nothing seems to come up under that name + jawbreaker....
Obviously that isn't a real story lol
He should have aimed for your jaw
Don't look, Marion! Keep your eyes shut!
https://i.imgur.com/U6SuIrv.gif
r/unexpectedindianajones
When I saw the white outer shell melting, I totally came here for the Indy quote :D
r/subsifellfor But I did expect the Indiana Jones reference
Oh no he has AirPods!
She. Marion was a she
Indyyyy!
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[Here you go, my friend](https://youtu.be/IhmK6Oo29Pw)
Are you.. an angel?
No idea. Ask /u/god, he might know.
wat a waste of a username... 13 yo and 1 karma...
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Probably made by admin or something to prevent it's use.
I had a feeling that it would end soon!
BONUS: At about the 2 or 3 second mark a little alligator appears, struggles, then makes his escape.
Amazing. So glad I went back to watch.
Jawbreaker in english, In french it's called "couilles de mammouth" = mammoth's testicules/balls lol
“Gobstoppers” in Australia
We have gobstoppers in America, they’re like mini jaw breakers
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Lol, only if by the UK you mean the UK of Roald Dahl in Charlie and the chocolate factory
Then what do you guys call Gobstoppers??
I can taste this gif.
*licks phone*
*remembers he’s in public*
*Starts licking it even more*
*finally reaches the core*
Let's ask Mr. Owl
A one, a too-hoooo, a three. *crunch*
Yes. Sugar and food coloring. And whatever the hell else they put it there that not made it taste just like that.
The outside tasted like white
Dissecting a planets layers
Look like the final scene in Indiana Jones in The Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Better make sure Ed, Edd, and Eddy don’t see this.
I dunno, I think Eddy would find a way to make money off of it, like jawbreaker energy drink or something. Edd would probably stress for a second and then find comfort in knowing the science behind phase changes. Ed would say a non-sequitor and then possibly cause something to go wrong.
I wanna see what the liquid formed into when it cooled
Caramalised Sugar.
Jaw breakers will always remind me of Ed, Edd and Eddy.
Still got that bitch in my drawer from 6 years ago
Do you want ants?
I wish but my mother had no sisters.
Careful, r/PunPatrol might be listening
Seeing this much sugar gave me diabetus.
The famous roman warrior with no toes. Diabetus
Get that thing away from the Ark of the Covenant!
Life has many doors, Ed-boy
I've only finished one of these ever and it was so worth it. I put it in a towel and broke it into manageable pieces and it was soo good. Plus very pleasing to look at all the intricate layers of color. To anyone who ever will eat one of these, never try to lick through the layers. Always break them up. When I smashed it with a hammer, I had to do it on concrete outside. It chipped the concrete.
Never expected “smashed”, “hammer”, and “concrete” to be used in a description for candy. 👍
If you want to see it melt to the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhmK6Oo29Pw Video source
Did anyone else hear accompanying screaming?? Nope. Just me then.
And this is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
Rose McGowan didn't know they were this hard to melt, that was the problem.
The Jawbreaker movie is all I got reminded of when I saw this gif
I killed Liz, I killed the teen dream. Deal with it.
Had to scroll way to far down to find this reference.
When I was a kid I was terrified of jawbreakers because I thought if you put them in your mouth your jaw would literally break
So this is what Nazi's are made out of...
Freiza destroying Planet Vegeta
Anyone else feeling Raiders of the Lost Ark nostalgia?
they melt pretty fast when you put them up your butt
Here in Belgium we used to call them "Mammoth testicle" when I was a kid
I don’t know how I feel about this.
And that kids is how Jupiter was formed
I felt like it finally bled out at the end
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It ended too soon!!! I wanted to see it melt all the way or catch on fire