What is Fun Dip, you ask? It’s powdery sugar dust you eat off of edible chalk…ok, it’s not chalk, but it sure looks like it. It’s packets of goodness in various fruit flavors with a pure-sugar candy stick put there for your enjoyment. It’s a treat seemingly forged exclusively for kids – but a few of us with Peter Pan syndrome still love it. It’s anything you want it to be. It’s Fun Dip!!!

Fun dips come in individual packets containing one flavor and one stick, two flavors with one stick, or in packets of three flavors with two sticks. I have no idea why they don’t give you three sticks. Again, this is one of life’s great mysteries. Each of the flavors is compartmentalized into their own little envelopes. It takes a masterful skill of paper-ripping to separate the flavors without lots of spillage, so scissors are recommended. The pack I picked up had three different flavors so by this logic; I assume my package of Fun Dip to be three times the fun. Also take note of the clever atomic dust creatures representing each flavor – I think they are a cute mascot.

To eat the sandy candy, you’re supplied with two Lik-a-Stix. Again, while they may look like chalk they taste sort of like a really bland Smartie. When picking up your package of Fun Dip, always inspect it closely to make sure that your Lik-a-Stix is still in one piece. Ain’t nothing worse than broken Lik-a-Stix. I’ve seen grown men cry over a broken Lik-a-Stick. For those who’ve forgotten, here’s how it goes: you lick one of the Lik-a-Stixs, when finished, you must rush said stick into the envelope of sugar before your saliva dries. If done correctly, the sugar will pile atop your stick like magic. Yeah, some of it will spill. Yeah, most of it will spill. But the grains of sugar that touched the saliva portions of the stick? Those will stay. And those sugary grains will eventually end up back in your mouth and your tongue will thank you for it. My tongue is personally thanking me for the cherry, grape and blue raspberry goodness right now. Basically, Fun Dip is a more “fun??? version of Pixie Stix. Pixie Stix are for suckers and cry babies. And the Sheriff ain’t no crybaby. Except when my Fun Dip packet is empty…and the lights go out in the house. Then the tears flow.