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SUNDAE SCHOOL
MOCHI GUMMIES
“THE MILKTEA FLAVOR IS MY FAVORITE BECAUSE THERE’S NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT ON THE MARKET.”
leafmagazines.com
Sundae School does weed differently. The brand dabbles in culture in a way that drastically sets them apart from other Cannabis brands. Aside from their edibles, infused drinks and diamond-laden pre-rolls, they have an urbanstoner fashion line that’s graced the runways of New York Fashion Week. REPPING WEED ON THE WORLD STAGE, especially as Korean Americans, will always be an iconic “f—you” to the global powers that continue to uphold the stigma – and all the boring, pretentious people who think potheads aren’t hot. Sundae School is also bringing heat to the edibles game. The level of creativity fused into every mochi gummy bite is impressive and I say that because many edible gummies are the same: fruity, chewy, sugary – and come in geometric configurations. Sundae School’s gummies are not this. Not only are they in the shapes of daisies with big rounded petals, but the flavors and textures of the mochi gummies are one of a kind. They come in four unique, strain-specific flavors: Sour Yuzu with Elderflower (sativa), Sour Yuzu with White Tea (sativa), Brown Sugar Milktea Sundae (indica) and Lychee Dragon Fruit (hybrid). It’s refreshing to see edibles outside the typical berry,
JUNE 2022
melon and tropical fruit flavor paradigm. Each nothing else like it on the market. The other flavors edible contains 10mg of THC, but given how are also delicious, but you can find edibles with small and thin these cutesy, infused flowers are, similar fruit essences. One of the best features of you wouldn’t expect them to have more than 2mg these mochi gummies is that they’re not sweet like of THC. It makes sense that the packaging boasts candy. The Milktea gummy tastes like unsweetened the phrase, “tiny but mighty.” rice tea. The Yuzus and Lychee emit more fruit Texture makes these gummies different from flavors (they’re made with real fruit, after all), but others on dispensary shelves. As soon as I started the entire mochi gummy product line is low in chewing a Milktea Sundae gummy, it felt as if I sugar. I wish more edibles were this way … I would was chewing on the soft, powdery outer layer of be inclined to eat them more. a mochi ice cream treat. Before my The gummies don’t taste like Cannabis, infused mochi gummy experience, I and they’re fast-acting – as in, you’ll SUNDAE.SCHOOL thought mochi was an ice cream ball start feeling the effects of THC about @SUNDAE.SCHOOL 20 minutes after ingestion. It’s nice when (I’m cringing at my reductive Western brain as I type this!), not realizing edibles have a quick onset. It leaves little that only the outer layer of sticky rice dough called room for scarfing the entire bag because you didn’t “glutinous rice” is mochi. Coming to this realization feel them at first. Sundae School’s mochi gummies almost made my brain slide out of my ear! help people transcend that common mistake – and The Milktea flavor is my favorite because there’s look chíc while getting adequately stoned.
REVIEW by MARY CARREON @MARYYYSTARDUST for CALIFORNIA LEAF | PHOTO by TOM BOWERS @CANNABOMBTOM
