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

Sweedish Fish Eggs

These came as a 9.5oz bag of "fun size" 0.5oz smaller bags. The smaller bags could fit in a plastic Easter egg. The candies themselves are standard mini-size Swedish fish (all red) with the addition of hemispherical "eggs" about half the size of "Dots" candy, and in orange, green, blue, and yellow flavors. Yes, I know those are colors, but the Swedish fish flavors are so indistinct that identifying them by flavor is impossible. They do have slightly different flavors, I just don't know what they are (best guess: orange, lime, raspberry, lemon). Despite that, I enjoy Swedish fish, so I like these.
81/100

Twix Egg

Twix in an egg shape for Easter. I usually don't go for "X Egg!", but I was curious how Twix would do it. Would it be the bar shaped cookies? No. It is an oval cookie, topped with caramel and enrobed in chocolate. Pretty much identical to regular Twix, which is why I usually don't bother with egg shaped varieties of other candies. But I do think there is a bit more caramel to cookie ratio in this. Possibly due to the domed top.
75/100

Warheads Sour Dippin' Pucker Packs

Warheads branded Fun Dip. Warheads is known for their sour candy and indeed, the word "sour" is used to describe both the dipping sticks, and the powders themselves. The sour level is just on par with Fun Dip. Also like Fun Dip, the flavors are cherry, sour apple, and grape, but with the addition of orange. The orange is similar to the orange flavor Runts. The flavored dipping sticks are something different, but don't add much until you chew them up at the end.
Overall I'd say it's about the same as Fun Dip, but the sticks are shorter and the powder packets more narrow making it a bit harder to eat without making a mess.
81/100

Strawberry desserts

 

Three types of strawberry desserts. Each the same size, about the size of the mini Hershey's bars (Hershey's, Mr. Goodbar), but with a square base. Like a pyramid with the top cut off. The coating of each seemed about the same, like a strawberry flavored white chocolate or yogurt.

Strawberry Mousse: A think layer of the strawberry coating with a thin patty of something chewy in the middle, possibly marshmallow (especially like the belly of gummy frogs).

Mille-feulle: This seems to be puffed rice (like Nestle Crunch), dried strawberry bits, and the coating also acting as a binder.

Strawberry Tarte: A small biscuit in the middle, topped with little "crystals" of freeze dried strawberry, and enrobed with the coating. My favorite of the bunch since it had the most strawberry flavor.

These were pretty good, and rather unique. Probably not a frequent purchase item (even if I lived in Japan), but certainly worth trying. I'll probably look for them again the next time I'm in Japan since I think their uniqueness makes them a great gift. 86/100