Haribo
by zuza_her_mother on November 9, 2008
in students
‘Oh, darn it! There are only three yellow gummy bears in my packet!’
Yeah, I have heard it so many times. ‘Haribo is cheating! They ALWAYS put the smallest amount of my favourite flavour! It is a discrimination – well, you can say it is racism – yes, you can!’
Now you officially can. I made an experiment. Science does not lie. Haribo is cheating, believe it.
I bought ten packets of Haribo’s ‘Gold Bears’, 100g each, which equals 1kg of gummy candies (nevermind the money it cost…). I soon learned that there are six kinds of bears – red (raspberry flavoured), transparent (pineapple flavoured), orange (surprise surprise – orange flavoured), green (apple flavoured), yellow (lemon flavoured) and reddish-pinkish (strawberry flavoured).
So, which one of them is the most popular?
After a quick, one-hour lasting counting, I got the results. But they were not the most exciting! The interesting thing was that amount of items in one packet varies. One packet included forty gummies, while the other one was packed with whole forty-six bears! However, the most common number of candies in one packet was forty-three – I cannot really understand why. The perfect pack should be made of forty-two gummies, seven bears of each flavour, so that amount of every colour is identical even in 1kg, whilst…
Out of 428 bears
sixty-four are yellow,
sixty-five are orange,
sixty-seven are reddish-pinkish,
seventy are red,
seventy-nine are green,
eighty-three are transparent.
On the one hand, personally I am satisfied with the results, as I am a green and transparent gummy bears fangirl and they are two largest groups (yay!). On the other hand, what should yellow lovers say? Or pineapple haters? Transparent sweets make almost 20%!
Now, does anyone want a gummy bear? I have quite a few.