Hot Lix

I visited friends in SF last night, in the neighborhood north of Golden Gate Park where my brother used to live. (What's that section called, anyway? Nemmine.) They showed me their souvenir of San Diego.

Hot-Lix -- tequila-flavored lollipop, with worm.

Hot-Lix [tm]
Ingredients: Hydrogenated vegetable starch hydrolysate, Insect larva, natural and artificial flavors and colors.

Some points to consider:

I particularly like the correct use of the singular "larva";
I have never heard of "hydrogenated starch hydrolysate" before, despite my being an inveterate reader of ingredients lists;
I did not taste it -- it remains neatly wrapped;
We jointly came up with the slogan:

How many licks does it take to get to the insect larva center of a Hot-Lix pop?
The World May Never Know!
The lollipop was well-nigh perfectly transparent, so those natural and artificial colors must have fallen outside the unaugmented human visual range.

(I'm guessing, as I don't use augments or cybernetic visual implants myself; they seem sort of puerile and passe' these days.)

-- Pope C

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