Big Pappa Chapstick

A couple weeks ago, I received a free sample of Van Holten's Pickle chapstick!  It was a Facebook campaign that Vanholten's ran in conjunction with Alice.com.  Now some people might question how good pickle chapstick is.  Well it moistened my lips and smelled like my favorite pickle in a pouch.  In short, it is a definite winner!

Even though the smell does make my mouth water, I did not attempt to lick it off my lips or taste it.  I do not think it is flavored like the good old lip smackers that were popular from my youth.  Everyone knows lip smackers are still around and according to Bonnie Bell's website, the big fat ones that seemed so popular in my days at Emerson Elementary, are still around.  Doing my research on this blog entry, I ran across a website that talks about retro things.  In the comments section of the website, most people admitted to occasionally taking a nibble from their lip smacker.  One of the comment's made by  a person with the clever alias of choochoo train admitted to eating a whole watermelon lip smacker then throwing it back up.  I have my suspicions that choochoo train, is not alone.  So as with most good research, it changed the direction of my question and next a googled "eating lip smackers."  There were many tales people recounted about eating their favorite chapstick.  Sometimes by nibble, sometimes by lick.  Then I ran across a very important fact:

LIP SMACKERS ARE NOT GLUTEN FREE

These days we all know people who are gluten intolerant, which makes me heart sad, but I digress.  Please don't eat your lip smackers if you are Gluten Free.  Here is a list of the Bonnie Bell products you may ingest  :)

http://eatglutenfreelikeme.blogspot.com/2010/07/lip-smackers-not-gluten-free.html

So to summarize, as you can tell, I do very scientific research for my blogs and I encourage eating chap stick.  I just hope lip smackers will start making pickled flavored lip gloss.  Until then, Van Holten's chapstick will keep my lips moist and my nose happy.