Starburst Crazy Beans

Starburst Crazy Beans are a variety of Jelly Beans from Starburst (Wrigley). Jelly beans typically start with a jelly bean-shaped core, then are panned with sugar to develop the shell. Cheap beans usually have sweet but unflavored cores with the flavoring and color only added to the shell. These Starburst beans have color and flavor in both the core and shell, and the "crazy" part is that they don't match. That is, the core has one flavor, and the shell has another. You can taste this by sucking on the bean for a while without biting into it (which would expose the flavor of the core). However, each core flavor is paired with a shell flavor. You don't get all the flavor combinations possible.

There are six flavors:

1. Grape-Ade: The grape flavor dominates, but you can pick out the lemon flavor as well if you look for it. Kind of like eating lemon and grape PEZ at the same time.
2. Peach-A-Palooza: A bit of a muted peach flavor. The paired flavor is hard to pick out, but possibly orange. Maybe they were going for Fuzzy Navel flavor here.
3. Tropical Cherry Splash: This one stood out before I started tasting them individually, and not in a good way. "Some weird tropical flavor" I said to myself. The cherry flavor is totally drowned out. Tastes like tropical sunscreen smells (not entirely unpleasant, but strong with tropical artificiality).
4. Razzin Watermelon: The watermelon flavor doesn't come through all that much, but then neither does the "Razz".
5. Banana Berry Blast: The banana is mild which is probably a good thing since I'm not a fan of artificial banana flavor. The berry is fleeting; like I got to lick a Haribo Raspberry once and that's all.
6. Strappleberry: Green apple with a hint of strawberry Bubble Yum.

The package promises "2 flavors in one", but fails to deliver any which are actually good. "Grape-Ade" is probably my favorite here. "Tropical Cherry Splash" is certainly my least. "Starburst Crazy Beans" are an improvement over the generic beans I used to get in my Easter basket as a kid (with flavors like mint), but there are much better ones out there, including regular Starburst jelly beans. They're okay if you want to try a few, but not worth seeking out.
65/100