Sweet squid search suffering sad stalemate
October 19, 2015 4:21 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for sweets shaped like tentacles/squid/octopuses for a gift but apparently in this day where everything exists on the internet, these don't! Has anyone seen anything that would work?
I've got a friend's birthday coming up and we have an in-joke about how much I hate tentacles, so every time he goes out to eat and orders food with tentacles, he sends me a picture of his food and I get grossed out. I have his main present sorted, but want to get him a gag gift of sweets shaped like tentacles, but they don't seem to exist! Or my google-fu is weak, one or the other. Can anybody help?
*I'm based in the UK but probably just about have time to order internationally if I needed to.
*I'm willing to find tentacle molds and try to make my own but am a bit worried they'd be inedible as I haven't made jelly sweets before, or tempered chocolate.
*I have a back-up in-joke plan of sweets shaped like vegetables, so if anyone can find those instead, that could work too.
I've got a friend's birthday coming up and we have an in-joke about how much I hate tentacles, so every time he goes out to eat and orders food with tentacles, he sends me a picture of his food and I get grossed out. I have his main present sorted, but want to get him a gag gift of sweets shaped like tentacles, but they don't seem to exist! Or my google-fu is weak, one or the other. Can anybody help?
*I'm based in the UK but probably just about have time to order internationally if I needed to.
*I'm willing to find tentacle molds and try to make my own but am a bit worried they'd be inedible as I haven't made jelly sweets before, or tempered chocolate.
*I have a back-up in-joke plan of sweets shaped like vegetables, so if anyone can find those instead, that could work too.
quinndexter's got it. The search term you want is "tentacle gummy".
posted by satoshi at 4:39 AM on October 19, 2015
posted by satoshi at 4:39 AM on October 19, 2015
Response by poster: Amazing! I'm clearly too British for the Internet of octopus sweets. Thanks!
posted by theseldomseenkid at 4:40 AM on October 19, 2015
posted by theseldomseenkid at 4:40 AM on October 19, 2015
Here's octopuses.
If you're feeling adventurous enough to attempt ordering from a Japanese site, there's an octopus/squid DIY candy kit of the sort that is all the rage there (instructional video).
posted by drlith at 4:42 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
If you're feeling adventurous enough to attempt ordering from a Japanese site, there's an octopus/squid DIY candy kit of the sort that is all the rage there (instructional video).
posted by drlith at 4:42 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
You would probably also be able to find a marzipan octopus or squid (there are definitely veggie-shaped marzipan candies).
posted by jeather at 5:44 AM on October 19, 2015
posted by jeather at 5:44 AM on October 19, 2015
Or cut one end off of several gummy worms and stick them to one end of a Swedish Fish from which you have removed the tail end. (Use water to weld together two Swedish Fish, back-to-back, for added bulk.)
posted by wenestvedt at 10:26 AM on October 19, 2015
posted by wenestvedt at 10:26 AM on October 19, 2015
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Alternatively, here's some moulds.
Found by searching for octopus 'candy' instead of 'sweets'. 'Jellies' would have been next.
posted by quinndexter at 4:36 AM on October 19, 2015