May 2008 Archives

Part of the inspiration for this blog was that I wanted to order a bunch of candy from Jbox. What a great website! So many interesting, yummy and odd things from Japan. One of the items in that first order was Poifull.

As the package says, now comes with Pineapple! Poifull are jelly bean like candies with flavors Pineapple, Purple Grape, Apple and Green Grape. I love the graphical depictions of the flavors on the bottom of the box, so cute. Or as they would say in Japan, kawaii!

Upon opening the box I was delighted to find that it opened kind of like a Nerds box. Fun.

They're smaller than standard jelly beans and in softer hues. Pineapple is pale yellow, Purple Grape is, um, purple, Apple is pink and Green Grape is green.

The outer shell isn't as firm as most jelly beans, in fact there doesn't seem to be much of a shell at all. It's very soft, hardly any chewing was necessary.

If the box hadn't said that ones of the flavors was apple, I wouldn't have known what the heck pink tasted like. At first I thought it was some kind of melon, after another taste, I thought it was grapefruit. To me, it didn't really taste like apple. Regardless, this was my least favorite flavor.

Green was sort of reminiscent of an actual green grape. I don't particularly care for green grapes (any grape really) so again, this flavor didn't do a whole lot for me. It was pleasant enough but not something I'd want several of.

Purple was another lackluster bean. No artificial grape flavor here, just a vague sweet bland taste. Perhaps I eat too much sugar and have gotten my taste buds used to large doses of sweet, maybe I can't taste subtle sweet flavors anymore. That would be sad.

Yellow was hands down my favorite, I ate all of them in the box! The pineapple flavor was fresh and immediately recognizable, though it didn't have the same acidic tart that a real pineapple has but I really wouldn't expect it in a candy, unless it was a sour candy. I would love a whole box of just the pineapple ones, the other flavors I could certainly do without.

Not sure why some of the beans were heart shaped. It as a nice surprise for sure :)

This item requires no introduction.

*Note: I'm still toying with the photography for this site, pardon the non-uniform look of the pictures.

For my birthday, I received this fabulous product (thanks to my awesome brother and his wife) and needless to say, it cried out to be reviewed.

I love bacon. Bacon rules. I dare you to come up with something that isn't made imminently better by bacon. Sadly this bacon does not taste like bacon but that's ok. It still looks like bacon, a helluva lot like it and just looking at it makes me happy.

So according to the oh so helpful handling instructions on the box, I wasn't supposed to fry this stuff up. Which was disappointing because the best part about eating bacon is the wonderful crackling sounds that go along with cooking it. I don't have a microwave either, so at least I couldn't be tempted to put it in there.

Out of the box, this stuff really does look like the real deal. Pretty uncanny. It's even sticky and greasy, like real bacon! The box even had a bacon viewing window, like real bacon!




It's strawberry flavored and that was immediately obvious once it was unwrapped. The smell was very strong, nearly overwhelming. A nice smell though, like real strawberries.

The gummy was pretty firm, but not hard and had a nice chew to it. My jaws were not taxed to the breaking point with these. The strawberry flavor was clean and not super artificial tasting.
Very well done.

The picture at the right was taken after I took a bite out of it and you can barely seem my teeth marks. The gummy reformed and melded back together after the bite.