Do not trust Pup when it comes to foods

It turns out my most humiliatingly bad gamble in Vegas this year was the money I plunked down at the Beef Jerky Store for a big bag of candy labeled "Happy Plum." Pup assured me that this stuff was delicious -- sweet on the outside, sour on the inside. Sounds great, right?

Well, Pup, if you like a candy whose top Google hit is a site called Bad-Candy.com, you gotta start thinking about not recommending candy to people.

At first it tasted mildly sweet; then it tasted exactly like lots and lots of salt. I mean, like if salt could be made to taste more salty, that would be Happy Plum.

I brought it into the newsroom to trick other people into eating it. Apparently they did, and they hated it, but there's still plenty left over. It's a big bag. I should've just bought more buffalo jerky.