Monday, October 14, 2013

Assorted Charms Hard Candies

If you like Charms Blow Pops and thought to yourself that you’d be happier with just the candy and not the gum, they make that. They come in rectangular foil packs called Assorted Charms.

Assorted Charms

There are five flavors: Cherry, Strawberry, Lemon, Lime, Green Apple, Orange, and Raspberry and 10 pieces in the package.  They’re not necessarily distributed evenly among the flavors. I got three cherry and three lime while I only got one lemon, one green apple and one orange.

The fun things about Charms are that they’re square but have a little dimple in the center, and that they’re individually wrapped. So they’re less likely to end up as a sticky single piece like Life Savers. (Of course there’s no pineapple or tangerine in their flavor assortment.)

I’ve seen old candy ads that show that they used to come in single flavor packages, but the only way they sell them now is in the mixed flavors.

Assorted Charms

The pieces are just shy of 3/4 of an inch square.

I like the individual wrappers, as I’m the kind of person who likes to eat the flavor I want, not the one dispensed to me. It’s actually pretty easy to dump them out of the packet without tearing it, and then put them back.

Orange is nice, well rounded, a little tart but not very complex. Raspberry was good, it’s very floral with an overall soft flavor and a hint of tartness. The Cherry is like time traveling to the 70s for me. It’s not quite as “black cherry” as Life Savers, but of course has the same taste as the Cherry Blow Pop. Strawberry is interesting, as it’s pretty uncommon flavor for hard candy. I didn’t care much for it, it was more like a watery popsicle than jam. Lime is quite citrusy, though not very sour. There’s a lot of zest to it, and even a note of bitterness. Green Apple was nice, it was extremely mild at first, but then warmed up with a lot of juice notes. Lemon was a little too tepid for me, I was hoping for something like a sour ball but it had more sweetness than tart/zest notes.

There’s a lot to like here about the simplicity of the candy. The flavor assortment is different from Life Savers, though I can’t say that they’re better or worse. The packaging is truly charming and simple. The package holds only 1 ounce, so you can’t really feel too bad for chomping through all 10 pieces. There’s no nutrition label but hard candy is usually 95 to 100 calories per ounce ...so these are unlikely to be more than 100 calories per package.

There’s no info on the package about allergens, though other Charms products are gluten and peanut free (but please check before consuming).

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Name: Assorted Charms
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Tootsie
Place Purchased: Wegman's (Mechanicsburg, PA)
Price: $.89
Size: 1.0 ounces
Calories per ounce: 95
Categories: Candy, Tootsie, Hard Candy & Lollipops, 6-Tempting, United States

POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:48 pm Tracker Pixel for Entry     CandyReviewTootsieHard Candy & Lollipops6-TemptingUnited States

Comments
  1. These are an old candy, around for YEARS!  I don’t ever remember the single flavor packs, must have been decades ago.  But these were a candy I remember from the 70’s and they were old back then!  Always liked them, and your right, the individual wrapping makes for a better candy experience over Life Savers - which always ended up w/pocket lint all over them once you opened them!

    Comment by Denine The Bicycle-Chef on 10/14/13 at 7:46 pm #
  2. I am also a charms fan myself!I like the lime flavor zesty!

    Comment by artemis on 10/15/13 at 11:08 am #
  3. So are there 5 or 7 flavors?

    Comment by Cat on 10/16/13 at 7:02 pm #
  4. Look up the Army/MRE take on Charms.  For some reason, they just aren’t to be eaten.

    Comment by Dave on 10/23/13 at 6:36 pm #
  5. Nice to finally see a website that list’s all the flavors unlike every other website that left out strawberry and green apple. Is the light pink supposed to be raspberry? What I had tasted kinda like grapefruit or maybe pineapple but didn’t really scream raspberry to me.

    Comment by nonylworm on 1/31/14 at 11:35 pm #
  6. I remember a different kind. These were not like the ones described here. These looked more like square Certs with tiny speckles and were a little more tart. Does anyone else remember those?

    Comment by Alicia Bowman on 2/23/14 at 6:03 am #
  7. I like charms and life savers also butterrum life savers

    Comment by Phillis Bacott on 6/29/14 at 5:18 am #
  8. Yeah,five or seven?  It says five and you list seven.

    Comment by Bridget Delaney on 5/02/16 at 8:01 pm #
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