Candy Matter

[Marshall Banana]

I can't open my tube of Mentos gum! This is it, exactly, in this person's blog review: <a href="http://ebidebby.blogspot.com/2009/03/mentos-red-fruit-lime-gum.html" target="_blank">http://ebidebby.blogspot.com/2009/03/mentos-red-fruit-lime-gum.html</a>. It looks like I'm supposed to pull off a plastic strip that's located in the space below the lid (absent in the reviewer's pictures). That's what I first tried, though, and a side piece broke off.

I'm not strong enough to force the lid off, and I want my candy! Give me ideas.

<img src="http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m285/fofonda/pixel/usagi/p-usayaba.gif" />

[Rantz]

Can you get something thin but strong in under the plastic strip to force a piece of it loose to pull? Alternatively, you might be able to use a knife to cut alongside the strip to release it from the lid. But mind your fingers! :Eek:

[Marshall Banana]

Despite how dangerous it was, I sawed off the lid with a knife.

New problem: this gum isn't strawberry.

[Momiji]

Well yeah, it has that lime gel inside of it, silly Monda!

[black orb]

>>> Next time use this..

[Shlup]

To open stuff like that I usually hold it in both hands and push the top against the edge of a counter or bottom of a cabinet.

[Namelessfengir]

bite it.... teeth are good for that, course i chew ice

[Marshall Banana]

What I need is a katana!

[Momiji]

Momohime Ichigohime!