So, chirrun, here is the saga of
corn syrup in Germany.
+
= There is no such product here.
Well, fooey.
And I got this really good huge plastic thing with four other plastic thingies for my daughter to blow HUGE bubbles outside, including an instruction manual as to how to make your own bubble soap:
-1 cup corn syrup
-6 cups of cold water
-2 cups of palmolive or something like that.
Since there is no such thing as corn syrup in Germany, I googled how to make it (how much do you wanna bet that google sends me corn syrup ads starting tomorrow?):
75 gram sugar
225 g water.
Boil, boil, toil corn syrup.
Ok, I'm a brute, but I can do this!
So, I made corn syrup ala Allemagne (

) mixed the stuff together and out the door we went, me, my daugher and her BFF, who is slumber partying here (they are watching Scooby Doo even as I type this important missive!).
I put the homemade soap in the big plastic tray thingy, my daughter used one of the big, round, flat plastic forms, put it in the water, held it up, moved it ----
and out came the biggest friggin bubble I have ever seen in my life, about 3/4 the size of my daughter. The bubble raised a little and then popped, but instead of disappearing, it deflated like a balloon and I saw this sugary thing forming that looked like an alien life form dropping to the ground.
Happy over our mega huge friggin balloons, we then dropped syrupy aliens from the sky for about 90 minutes. The sidewalk now looks like the crime scene of a cotton candy orgy-massacre something-something.
Thank G-d storms are in the forecast for tomorrow.
And that, chirrun, was the saga of home-made corn syrup in Germany.