Thursday, April 23, 2015
Selma's Treatsickles Coated Crisped Rice Treats
Rice crispy treat on a stick, partially dipped in white chocolate. The coating adds some sweetness, but in the cloying way of cheap white chocolate. The ingredients list agrees: there's both "white confectionery wafers" (no cocoa butter) and "cocoa confectionery wafers" (has cocoa). But the cocoa variety comes after the coloring ingredients, so I think it's just used for the "seeds". There's no flavor to it beyond the vanilla flavor already in marshmallows and the coating. The low quality of the is a bit of a detriment. For such a great looking treat, the result is a disappointment.
Also, "Treatsickles" in the product name is spelled as it is on the package. I'm not sure if I'd put the word "sick" in my product name (and popsicle does not have a 'k'). I do see they've dropped the 'k' on their website description.
44/100
Friday, April 3, 2015
Russel Stover Lemon Cake Egg
A 1oz egg shaped chocolate truffle. The "lemon cake" flavor is present, but mostly just in giving a muted lemon flavor. Not like fresh lemon at all, kind of how bottled shelf stable lemon juice can't compare to fresh. Like the "Wedding Cake" variety, the interior is a paste, not spongy cake at all. This wouldn't necessarily be bad, but it was unexpected. The filling is wrapped in dark chocolate.
48/100
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Russel Stover Wedding Cake Egg
A 1oz egg shaped white chocolate truffle. The filling is "wedding cake" flavored. I have a bit of a problem with this since whatever kind of cake is served at a wedding is wedding cake (e.g. red velvet). But the graphic shows a slice of white cake with white icing. Pretty boring. Which is about how the truffle tastes. The interior does taste a bit like white cake. There's sort of a vague artificial vanilla flavor about the whole thing.
The texture of the interior is unexpected given the "cake" naming. It's about the texture of the filling of peanut butter cups. Not like spongy cake at all.
58/100
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Russel Stover Cookie Dough Egg
Sunday, March 29, 2015
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:
65/100
There are six flavors:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Razzin Watermelon: The watermelon flavor doesn't come through all that much, but then neither does the "Razz".
- 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.
- Strappleberry: Green apple with a hint of strawberry Bubble Yum.
65/100
Friday, March 27, 2015
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
Thursday, March 26, 2015
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
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