Prompt #3: You know those candy frogs? The ones that are transparent green on top and opaque white on the bottom? What flavor are they supposed to be?
Sent in by: Ranjit

Okay, I can solve this one. As Ma always said, Sarah Hepola is one smart cookie. (Of course, Ma also said eating raw cookie dough would make a tree grow in my stomach, but we've let that one slide.) This is the kind of question I can really throw my weight into, because it has an easy answer, you see. It's not some philosophical conundrum or a deep political question thrown at me by a pale guy with onion breath at a dinner party who wants to know my stance on the war, of all things, as if I can just invent one like THAT, as if I can be expected to take a stance on something like that when it's all so damn byzantine and even if I did do all this research to find an opinion, what if I ended up having really strong feelings against our country, and I would just feel empty and impotent, so it makes more sense just to quote Andrew Sullivan or Christopher Hitchens, those well-spoken English chaps who sure are on the up-and-up with this stuff. But anyway. The frogs, the frogs. The flavor of the frogs. Well, we know first off that the white is a complementary flavor. It is an undertone of vanilla or mint or -- why not? -- milk. But as the submissive flavor in this duo, its taste is insignificant. Your taste bud's equivalent of white noise. What is significant is the flavor of the green part. The green part is king. And, like most candy whose flavor is indicated by its color (grape candies always being purple or cherry candies always being red, etc), the frog is clearly flavored green apple. Known in some circles as "sour apple" after Granny Smith apples, used for apple pies and Beatles albums. Unless, and this is not completely out of the question, unless the green means watermelon. Watermelon, while often pink, is sometimes green. Of course it could also be spearmint, or if shapes and colors have anything to do with it, then perhaps it's frog flavored. But that wouldn't be very good now, would it? Well hell, how should I know? I've never tried these things. I mean, I've tried similar products -- the cherries, the Coke bottles, the worms -- but never the frogs. How many do you have to try? They all taste the same -- same flavor, different sugary aftertastes. Wait a minute. What was the question? Oh, yes, I can do this. I know the answer. Are you ready? Because I'm about to blow your mind. The flavor is gummy chalk. Bam! (See what Ma was talkin' about now?)