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By Tatiana Zarnowski, April 27, 2006

Last updated: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:03 AM EDT

Kristin Herb isn’t likely to want chocolate pudding for dessert for awhile.

Carlisle High School’s 11th-grade principal got her fill of the sweet concoction Wednesday when she trolled a shallow tub of pudding in a variation of bobbing for apples.

"I actually requested chocolate as the flavor," she said before muddying her face to raise money for the high school life skills class. After pulling five objects out of the goo with her mouth, she changed her tune.

When will she eat chocolate pudding again?

"I don’t know that it will be very soon," she admitted.

Accepted the challenge

Herb did a face-plant in the pudding in a challenge to principals sponsored by Giant Food Stores. Life skills teacher Pat Richards and her students filled a two-foot rectangular container with canned pudding and buried five objects inside.

Then, as part of the festivities at the high school’s annual Spring Fest week, Herb removed her glasses and dunked her face in the pudding in front of an audience of jeering high-schoolers.

"That’s how she always looks," one boy yelled when Herb emerged with her face covered in brown goo that hung off her nose.

"It’s cold," she complained after taking a plastic toy person out of her mouth.

As she went for the second item, Herb’s hair dragged in the pudding. "Oh! The hair!" a student yelled. She surfaced with a ring of teething baby keys, wiped her eyes and tossed her head, slinging pudding.

Herb next hauled out a rubbery, stretchy squid — and spat a mouthful of pudding on the ground in disgust. "It just kept coming and coming," she said afterward. "I pulled it out and it just kept stretching. It was pretty gross."

Harder to find

Items No. 4 and 5 were harder to find. Herb came up for air twice while searching for the fourth object, a nubby bouncy ball.

Her last find was a toy dog bone — to the delight of several students, including sophomore Courtney Drake. "It was hilarious," she said. Hundreds of students milled on the lawn in front of the high school’s McGowan building for the annual carnival.

Springfest 2006 also included a hot dog eating contest, dunk tank, a "jail" where convicts had to raise money to get out, inflatable sumo wrestling and a sidewalk art show.

The week rounds out with a battle of the bands today, Spring Fling dance Friday and a dodgeball tournament Saturday.