Spain's 'drunken gummy bears' on edge as Haribo bares its teeth

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15 of these alcohol-infused gummy bears = one gin & tonic.

Ander Mendez and his friends were hoping they'd struck it rich when they came up with the idea of selling alcohol-infused gummy bears -- until they found themselves in the sights of sweet giant Haribo.

But these graduates from the northern Spanish port city of Bilbao insist they will carry on producing their"drunken gummy bears" --"because people like them." Each is colour-coded to denote different flavours: blue for rum and pineapple, pink for gin and strawberry, orange for vodka and orange, brown for whisky and coke, and yellow for tequila and lemon.

"We're not doing any harm to their brand and the bears don't even look similar," insisted Mendez, accusing the sweetmaker of trying"to take over" the startup's creation. It began operating exactly a year ago and quickly won an innovative enterprise grant awarded by the local authorities in Getxo, an upmarket coastal town near Bilbao.

 

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