In the Right Kind of Light, Glass Really Does Look A Lot Like Candy

My wife’s been watching Blown Away on Netflix. Current season, past season, who knows? The work these glass blowers do is breathtakingly gorgeous, even the ones who get kicked off the show for not being good enough. I could never do that, not that I’m the benchmark. One of the episodes, the contestants were making candy out of glass. Having visited an actual glass blowing studio on the Oregon coast, where Penny and I blew glass, it got me thinking. What if you were to combine a glass studio with a candy store? Wouldn’t that be amazing? Or would the customers eat the glass by accident? Only one way to find out.

Some ideas aren’t meant to be tried out loud. A glass store/candy store combo seems like one of those ideas. But what if I’m wrong? What if people are smart enough to know the difference between candy and glass? You could go in and buy a bag of glass candy to go along with your matching bag of hard candy. The glass candy could have a caution label on it, and a disclaimer so nobody gets sued. Or you could just make a game of it, and whoever eats the real candy wins.

You could do the same thing with real money and funny money at the bank.

If you were to locate the glass studio candy shop next to a hospital and a dental office, that could go a long way towards mitigating the risk. Accidents do happen, regardless. The only way to prevent this kind of accident is to prohibit glass blowers from blowing candy in the first place. Nobody wants to do that, and who can blame them? It’s up to parents to teach their kids not to eat glass candy, and it’s up to grownups to know the difference between the two.

In which case, maybe combining a glass blowing studio with a candy shop isn’t such a bad idea, after all.