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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Mandy’s Old Fashioned Confections: Butterscotch & Caramel
In reality Mandy’s is distributed by ASA Foods, a 16 year old Southern California importer. They also make candy under the brand Fusion Gourmet, their best known candies are the Bali’s Best Coffee and Tea candies. All of their candy (as far as I know) is made in Indonesia ... a place that certainly knows about coffee. While I may make fun it, the packaging is nice. The Butterscotch Flavored Hard Candy was nicely priced; I picked up this package for a dollar at the 99 Cent Only Store. It says it has 40 individually wrapped pieces and weighs 5 ounces. The ingredients are decent too:
Each piece is individually wrapped. Sealed tight. Yup, no moisture getting in there. They’re a little tricky to get open, but having spent some time in high humidity areas recently I can appreciate how that would make these even more appealing. The candies are cute little disks, they’re just shy of one inch around (about the size of a quarter). They’re smooth and have a satisfying clink when dropped on a hard surface (and an unsatisfying tendency to split into a bajillion pieces when dropped on a hard surface). The package calls them Rich, Creamy and Buttery and I’m inclined to agree. They are wonderfully smooth. The melt is slow and silky, though not sticky. The butter flavor is good, though artificially flavored it doesn’t taste like microwave popcorn. There’s a light note of salt and a milky background to it. They’re like little toffee pieces, easy to crunch. Far to easy to crunch. That’s the way I was eating them, just crunching them up. Sometimes they’d get stuck in my teeth a little bit.
The description on the back of the package also says that Mandy’s makes an Orange Soda variety. The package depicts the candies as dark brown in color, like coffee and cream. But the reality is not quite that way (though really not disappointing either). I put the caramel and butterscotch ones next to each other. See if you can tell the difference:
I don’t remember which is which. The ingredients are pretty much the same, too:
Again, it’s ultra smooth. The lightly salty hard caramel is very satisfying, especially when I crunched them up. Though the flavorings are supposed to be different, they really don’t taste much different. Buttery smooth, salty, slick and satisfying. I enjoyed both quite a bit, especially as it’s extraordinary hot this week, I get to enjoy a creamy treat that can take the heat. They’re a good deal, a really nicely sized piece and don’t have artificial colors in them. There’s no statement about gluten or nuts on the package. They’re not Kosher (nor Halal). The freshness date was “best by May 2012.” They’re pretty diet friendly - even though they have 125 calories per ounce (about the same as toffee or caramel) the little pieces are only 4 grams each and 16 calories each. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:35 pm
 
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Werther’s…no? Do they taste alike? I loves me some Werther’s.
Matty - they’re similar to Werther’s, a little bit different shape. But they don’t have that authentic caramelized sugar flavor. They’re far more fun to crunch though.
Cannot find Mandy’s caramel hard candy in the market. would like to buy it here. Thank you
Looking for Peppermint drops filled with chocolate.
Thanks,
Diana
WHERE CAN I BUY YOUR BUTTERSCTOCH CANDY IN THE SANFERANDO VALLEY ?
where can i buy in the n. dade county area. used to buy at lorenzo’s in n. miami beach but they seem to not carry anymore
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