Pudding Cups, Eat Your Heart Out: Flanby

Lunch time dessert just got that much classier. Unnamed, brightly coloured gelatin desserts and generic pudding cups might want to step aside for a moment.

What do they have in France?

Crème Freaking Caramel! Meet Flanby.

It's sold in 4-packs for under 1€, comes in bright packaging, and has silly jokes printed on the top of each foil, so I'm guessing it's aimed at children...

But wait, you say. That dessert is meant to be inverted for serving, you say. That's tricky, you say. Think of the children!

Yes, and good engineering is finding the simplest solution to a problem.

Observe: Flip dessert into cup and you see a mysterious foil square on the bottom.

Peel back the square. Air enters and releases the seal, and voilà! Easy peasy!

How was it? A bit too sweet. I'd place this in the realm of guilty-pleasures/give me sugar and no one gets hurt kind of days, but I've definitely had much worse from the world of packaged desserts before and it was actually pretty good considering the price point.  I found myself having a second one just because I wanted to go through the process of opening one again. Ah, novelty!

"Don't judge me by my photographer. She was hungry."