Call them gummy polar bears.
As if there weren’t enough seemingly incongruous food combinations floating around on TikTok: Social media gourmands are marinating gummy bears in Sprite and then freezing them to create a texturally abnormal flavor.
This phenomenon was started as an ASMR trend by @emiriASMR, who illustrated the auditory appeal of crushing frozen treats in a video with over 9 million views.
Like many food fads on the platform these days, clips of these icy gummy bears quickly spread across social media.
As user Kat Chao explains in her viral tutorial, the recipe involves dipping Haribo-brand gummy bears in a container filled with the aforementioned baking soda and then refrigerating them overnight.
The juice is then poured out and the bears are placed on a plate and refrigerated for two to three hours.
Voila, the end product is not only much bigger, but boasts an “icy smooth consistency” – a stark contrast to the chewy, gelatinous mouthfeel of a normal gum.
No need to just use regular-sized gum — TikTok influencer Julia Vuong reimagined the dish with a one-pound gummy bear, creating the ultimate frozen Frankenfood.
Needless to say, these sticky gummy bears are blowing up the internet with one user X gushing, “These Sprite Marinated Frozen Gummy Bears are so good.”
“There’s something so satisfying to my brain about the little crunches it makes during osmosis,” said another.
However, not everyone was so enthralled.
“Guys don’t make frozen Sprite gummy bears, they taste bad,” warned one X user.
Another called the snack “overrated.”
“It’s horrible, it just tastes like ice,” declared TikTok user Sarah Betts during a video taste test.
However, commenters pointed out that she mistakenly put them in the refrigerator — not the freezer — for 24 hours.
They added that when done right, the bears “should be like jelly on the inside.”
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