How To Make Fun Dip Not Fun
For my son’s Valentine’s Day party at school we went to the store and picked up a box of Fun Dip.
If you were a child of Fun Dip of the 80′s you should remember this stuff. What Fun Dip was was an edible stick (similar to the candy cigarettes of years past) that you stuck in your mouth to get wet and dipped into a flavored power mix that was usually cherry or grape. After you were done with the powder you could eat the stick. So, this was like two snacks in one.
Well, I remember when I attempted a DIY of Fun Dip. I loved tasting the flavored powder and didn’t feel like I they gave me enough to enjoy. So, instead of opening a second packet and enjoying that one I tried to be resourceful and stretch out the lifespan of the first one.
I searched through the cabinets and tried to find something similar to Fun Dip. I did find a packet of cherry flavored Kool-Aid mix. I figured that would work. It’s powder and it has a cherry flavor. What could go wrong?
The thing about being a child is that if two things look alike they must taste alike. Unfortunately, kids don’t understand that Kool-Aid needs to have sugar added to it to be tolerable. I ripped open the packet and saw the red powder inside begging to me to put the Fun Dip stick in there. The moment that powder hit my tastebuds my mouth imploded. On a scale of 1 to 10 of tartness this has to be a 50! They call it cherry flavor, but I didn’t taste any cherry. I ran over to the sink and drank two large glasses of water trying to dilute the tartness in my mouth. That didn’t work. I kept spitting in the sink too. I think that my saliva was pink for the next couple of days from this experiment.
Lesson learned. If I wanted more Fun Dip then I should’ve opened up a SECOND ONE!
Eew. I think my mouth puckered just reading this. Bleah, bleah, spleah, can’t spith thisth outh. Yeach!
Thanks for sharing your lesson learned, – I hope.
Yuck it is so grose
Actually… I think if you wanted to make fundip you’d make what we, in the 90s, called Suicide. One cup of sugar to one pack of koolade. But then run it through a food processor for the consistancy?