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May 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010

Flix Sour Gummy Pop Corn

Gummy Pop CornThe world of gummis is filled with candy that looks like other things: soda bottles, centipedes, spiders, body parts (brains, whole hands, eyeballs, lips), dinosaurs, rabbits, birds, flowers, butterflies, toads, frogs, sharks, fast food, fruits, vegetables, cracked eggs,  and of course bears.

Sour Gummy Pop Corn from Flix Candy looks like popcorn. But they go one further, instead of making it popcorn flavored, or some other yellow themed flavor they’ve made them apple, strawberry, popcorn & watermelon. You don’t know until you eat them.

The package is cute, it looks like the tall box of popcorn that they used to sell at the fair and probably at the movies before people starting consuming it by the bucketful.

Popcorn Gummi

Here’s the first thing: a caramel corn flavored gummi sounds fabulous to me. It wouldn’t have a year ago, but after the caramel gummis I reviewed last week I truly believe you could make a great Cracker Jack flavored gummi with real molasses, caramelized sugar and milk.

This isn’t that ... so I’ll have to adjust my expectations.

I thought maybe I could tell the difference between them by smelling them, but they all smelled like Bed, Bath and Beyond (a mixture of watermelon, strawberry and carpeting).

Watermelon (yellow) was tart and fresh, though more sour than I actually like my watermelon to be. The bounce of the gummi was satisfying and fresh.

Strawberry (yellow) was sweeter at first and had a good berry flavor but then descended into sour.

Apple (yellow) if that’s what I tasted, this one was the most sizzling of the, it was an odd sort of burnt note along with that chemical green apple flavor of Jolly Ranchers.

The Pop Corn gummi was either elusive or so similarly flavored that I couldn’t tell. After finding the first three flavors in about 8 tries, I ended up just biting the rest of the pieces in the package. Something smelled vaguely like artificial butter flavor, but nothing tasted like it (but who wants sour buttered pop corn?).

These weren’t that good for me, but I get that when watching a movie the look of the candy isn’t that important since I can’t see it anyway. But the flavor mix with apple and watermelon wasn’t high on my list either.

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  7. Krunchy Bears


Name: Gummy Pop Corn
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Flix Candy
Place Purchased: samples from Sweets and Snacks Expo
Price: $1.49 retail
Size: 3 ounces
Calories per ounce: 92
Categories: Candy, Flix, Gummi Candy, Sour, 5-Pleasant, United States

POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:31 pm     CandyFlixGummi CandySour5-PleasantUnited States

Eat with your Eyes: Wonka Candy Cane

Wonka Candy Cane

Instead of being grape flavored, these were chocolate flavored. But still stunning looking. (Package here.)

POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:01 am     CandyFeatured NewsFun StuffPhotography

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Eat with your Eyes: Stars

Candy Stars

I bought these sour jelly stars a couple of years ago just so I could take a picture of them. And eat them.

POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:47 am     CandyFeatured NewsFun StuffPhotography

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Eat with your Eyes: Mushroom

Champignon Caramel

Michel Cluizel Champignon Caramel - it’s quite an engineering achievement. The cap is an almond crunch covered in chocolate, the stem is filled with caramel, covered in dark chocolate then white.

POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:29 am     CandyFeatured NewsFun StuffPolls

Friday, May 14, 2010

Eat with your Eyes: Red

Red

These are a different kind of red lentil. They’re Kopper’s Milkies, like M&Ms only made with smoother milk chocolate. (Original review here.)

POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:07 am     CandyFeatured NewsFun StuffPhotography

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