Hi-Chews have become an iconic candy in the US (despite the brand’s Japanese roots) but Hi-Crunch, a freeze-dried version of ...

Last summer, we here at Slate reported on a candy sensation that was sweeping—or, I guess more accurately, bumpily rolling—across the nation: Nerds Gummy ... make the freeze-dried phenomenon ...

Enter: freeze-dried ... Starburst became “Mini Crunchers”; and everything had the word Original before it. (Original what remains unclear.) I was also able to sample some dehydrated gummy ...