Jon Boyes/ Photographer's Choice/ Getty images. Hans Riegel invented gummi bears (the first gummi candy) and gummi candy during the 1920s. Riegel was the owner of the German candy company Haribo. Haribo went on to manufacture the first American made gummi candy in 1982.
paraphilia â(plural paraphilias or paraphiliae) 1  An abnormal sexual attraction, typically of extreme or pathological nature.
parasitism. 1  Biology. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another. 2  a parasitic mode of life or existence. 3  Pathology. a diseased condition due to parasites. 4  unemployment or refusal to work. employment in work considered nonessential by the state.