Ah Starburst!

The melody of the starburst tumbling onto the table and the crinkling of the bag as each candy escapes; makes my mouth water in anticipation. The delectable biting taste of the cherry mango starburst makes my lips purse. Fruit chews with mixed fruit flavors make my mouth want more. The peach guava smells like a fruit stand on the side of the road. A soft chew of melon berry is a fruit salad in a tiny square. Don't you just feel the tropical flavor oozing from these devilish little sugar bombs?

Daysha Brooks
Michele Sain

Yogurt covered cranberries and starburst have an interesting flavor and texture when eaten together. First the starburst flavor overpowers the cranberries with its artificial flavors and waxy chewy texture. Toward the end the subtle sweetness of the cranberries and yogurt start to come through before it goes down.

Thomas Herron
Kelli Kreger

hard work equals great food

The stomping of hooves the thunder of the saddle riding is much harder then it seems. Each ride is different each ride brings out the better of me. no horse is the same and no rider is the same so it is a different experience for each and every person. hard work means many things to many people but to me it is all about the prize at the end. A good meal cannot be beat if it is made properly. a juicy moist steak with a warm mango salsa and asparagus made the perfect meal after this crazy ride, but riding is not the only thing that hungers me any hard activity makes me think of food even if it is just clowning around.

Burning calories demands hard work and hard work drives a hunger deep inside. ever since i was young i had a very high metabolism rate making it very hard to stay full for a long time. even worse i was a very hyper kid growing up. My parents could never get me to come inside i was always running around never stopping. i also played a lot of sports when i was younger i ran cross country and wrestled since sixth grade. wrestling really got to me my junior year when i became captain and really had to take responsibility. i was weighing in at 125 pounds at the beginning of the year and within three weeks i had dropped down to 105 pounds. this took a serious tole on my body making me very weak. at the time i did not care because i was doing great taking first in four of our six large tournaments and second and third in our other ones, but by the time the state tournament came around i was getting very weak. i was ready i was ranked fourth in the tournament overall. i couldn't wait for it to come. the first day went well winning my first and only match. that night went badly though i felt very sick and could barely move. i was up all night my parents force feeding me water but i was unable to keep it down. the next day came fast and i knew i was in trouble when my parents had to help me walk to my car, finally we made it to the tournament and i stepped on the scale shocked to see the i was point two pounds over weight. i walked out of the room ashamed of my self. i made it only a few feet before i collapsed in the middle of the hall. twenty minutes later i was found by an off duty EMT luckily he found my parents and told them exactly what to do. i had lost so much weight that i became very sick and spent the next week slowly trying to eat gaining a little weight every day. finally after a week i was back up to 130 and was feeling great until my senior year.

the year was going great for me i had taken sixth at our state tournament and was ready to finish the year strong all i had left to do was get my wisdom teeth out. it was spring break when i got them removed and it sucked for a few days but then the pain went away. it was only three days until i started getting very sick. it started with a sore throat not being able to eat any delectable food at all. from there i started to lose a lot of weight quickly making myself very week. after that it went downhill for me fast it started one day as i was laying in bed as sick as a dog when all of a sudden i could feel my self slowly stop breathing. i started to panic i grabbed everything i cold and started throwing it trying to make myself as loud as possible finally going into shock. luckily my dad found me soon after that and called an ambulance. i woke up in a hospital bed scared for my life. soon a doctor walked in and told me all that had happened and diagnosed me with lemierre's syndrome. the doctor sat down with me and had a very serious talk about what would happen if it was too late( with a 90% mortality rate if untreated), and how i had a very good chance of major surgery. i knew that this could end badly for me so this first thing i asked for was a steak and potatoes, 30 minuets later i was in heaven eating the best steak of my life. i had never appreciated anything more than a simple meal. even though i could not move my right arm i was in severe pain everything disappeared with that first bite. when i got out of the hospital eight days later i was very excited even though i had faced death i realized that i needed to enjoy life so much more. i got home with a buffet of food waiting for me. two months later i was done with all of my medications and i had put all my weight back on. that's when i really started to live i was out everyday doing something. i went to mexico for a week i rode horses all the time i started rock climbing and hiking all of the time, and after every activity i did i always prepared my own food to the best standards i could make, but nothing could bring me back to that little bit of hope that i held on to through that single steak.

Show Don't Tell- Chris, Allen, Cori, Anthony

All the flavors of the cherry, orange, and grape sugar mixed together tasted like I was biting into a sour lemon. The wrapper crinkles as I open it to put the sweet tart candy into my mouth. The candy is colored with an orange and purple swirl. The hard candy hits against my teeth, while the sour and sweetness of it punctures my taste buds. I grew impatient, as I bit down on the hard candy and feeling it explode into little pieces in my mouth. As I broke each piece down, I savored every little piece as if it was my last. Now my heart rate increases as the sugar settled into my body.
The smell of the salsa lingered into my nostrils, and the smell of sweetness and spicy-ness took over my senses. So, I couldn't help but take a bite... or more. The spice of the onion and jalapeno caught my mouth on fire, however the tortilla chip cooled it down. The second bite was spicier than the first, it must be the multiple jalapeno seeds I picked up on my tortilla chips.

Jolly Salsa- Kelly, Eric, Michael, Ben

The saltiness of the crunchy tortilla chips perfectly contrasted the sweet savory juices of the tomato. The anticipation of every bite drowned my taste buds in saliva. As the jubilee of garden fresh vegetables bathe my tongue I begin to feel a tingling sensation of unparalleled bliss. With the last bite a wave of mourning washes over me in a way only reserved for the loss of a loved one. This truly was an epic salsa experience.

The explosion of flavor overcomes my taste buds from a single suckle. It begins to transfer its sweet citrus bite to the surface of my tongue. As the sliver of sweet heaven sits in my mouth I begin to drift to the back to my childhood in a sweet nostalgic daze. Jolly ranchers have a timeless appeal to young and old alike.

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