I may be exaggerating here; I know I’m exaggerating. However, I don’t think anyone can dispute the belief that Gummy Bears are dangerous because they look so cute and have so many calories.

Let’s do what someone who has crossed the line and held a purchased bag of gummy bears in her hand. Let’s look at the label.

One bag has 326 grams of Gummy Bears (GB’s) and forty grams equals one serving which has 120 calories and there are eight servings in the bag. But those GB’s are so tasty and addicting that you just sit there popping them in your mouth and, GOSH, half the bag is gone. Just by eating cute, little, colorful guys – sometimes biting off the head first, sometimes the body – you have consumed 480 calories. Sugar.

The label doesn’t tell you the approximate number of GB’s in a serving and so you can’t count out a certain number of victims, give them names and then decide, no, you can’t eat Harry, Howard, Lewis, James and so forth. You open the bag and there they are, waiting for your pudgy hand to reach in and repeatedly grab.

I believe, since I have eaten some out of this bag, I will have to buy another bag (for scientific research) and count them. Then I will determine a serving and I will look at the little guys . . . and not be able to bring myself to eat them. That will be good for me.

On the other hand, gummy worms are not like cute little bears.

Yes, I spend my time thinking of such things.