My new crack: Altoids Tangerine Sours. These things are good. What little hope my teeth had of surviving my middle age is gone. I am hooked.

Here’s the Altoids website, but it’s worthless. It’s completely Flashed out and has no mention of the Tangerine Sours. [UPDATE: As of 8/14/2002, the site now includes a section on the new Altoids Sours hard candy. It’s still all Flash and contains no useful product information, and doesn’t rescale to the size of your browser window, but the videos are mildly entertaining.—Ed.] However, Elle has a picture; you can buy them at Target or Trader Joe’s or lots of other places I imagine, but if you have trouble finding them, you can order them from Candy Depot for the outrageous price of $12 for 4 tins (of course, their minimum order is $15!).

WARNING: Altoids Tangerine Sours are highly addictive. A Google search turns up mostly blog raves from fans typing on a Sours high. You have been duly warned.

NP: Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit