Results tagged “3” from Christine's Candyland

Wonka is consistently coming up with the most unique ideas and flavor combos in candy, can always count on them to put something really different out there. A few years ago they had a SweeTarts Rope, which was a cherry licorice tube filled with blue goo that had Nerds in it but it wasn't around too long before Nestlé (which owns Wonka) discontinued it. Obviously they reworked the idea and came out with Kazoozles.

I love how colorful and whimsical Wonka packaging is, makes me that much more excited to eat their candy. Described as Delickoricious, they come in Cherry Punch and Pink Lemonade. I started with Cherry Punch (blue package) and sadly, it was a little underwhelming. The first thing I thought when I bit into a rope was that it tasted like cough syrup, yuck. Candy should not taste medicinal! The medicine taste never went away and eventually it faded to the background a bit. The rope itself had a nice firm chew, firmer than your standard Red Vine and more like those giant red licorice ropes you can get at the ball game. The goo in the middle was yummy, like cotton candy or a Pixy Stix, to me it wasn't very "punch" flavored, just a super sweet vaguely fruity slightly gritty frosting.

The Pink Lemonade was a hair better. As you can see these had big sugar crystals on them, which were a nice texture addition and broke up all the chewiness. The licorice wasn't very lemony, like super watered down Country Time. To combat all the sweetness it would be better if there was some tartness thrown in but the filling is more of the same super sweet variety, dare I say it's the same filling as the Cherry Punch but just in a different color.

I did enjoy these, just not as much as I was hoping and I would probably pick them up again if there wasn't anything more appealing on the shelf though honestly I'd rather just have some Red Vines.

Yes, I know I have been quite the slacker as of late in getting some new bloggy stuff out. For shame! I promise to try and do better. Really.

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.

The original Cadbury mini eggs are my mom's all time favorite candies. Who can blame her? They're delicious, really pretty and are a one-of-a-kind candy. Well, until now.

The name of this bothers me because there is only one Peep in the egg. Why is it called Peeps inside a milk chocolate egg? A quick check of Wikipedia suggests that Peeps is the proper name for singular and plural. Odd.

Anywho, had a hard time passing up a chocolate egg with a Peep inside. I loved Peeps as a kid, would get big packages of them in my Easter baskets and would devour them with relish. After I hit about 15 though, I couldn't handle all that marshmallowy sugar sprinkled goodess. The occasional Peep is a nice treat though.

The egg smelled nice and chocolately upon unwrapping and I was delighted to see that there were little Peeps carved into the face of the egg (might be hard to see in the picture sadly) along with the actual word "Peeps."

I eagerly cracked the egg open along the seam and it broke pretty nicely and easily and revealed the beloved Peep in chick form. Bright yellow and sugar crusted just like it should be.

The chocolate was pretty average, almost like a Cadbury Dairy Milk bar, very sweet and smooth. The Peep was just right, soft and slightly sticky with that great little crunch from the sugar coating.

An interesting thing I noticed when I took a gander at the nutritional information on the package was the serving size. It said that half the package was a serving and that in one container there two servings. This led me to ponder...is half, just the egg? just the Peep? half of each? I suppose it's just one of those mysteries of life that we'll never solve. If only Robert Stack were still alive, I would submit this for Unsolved Mysteries.

I love the Target candy aisles. Especially their seasonal candy aisles. I spied a whole display of adorable animals, with babies, in really nice plastic cubes. I bought the bunnies since they were the most holiday appropriate critter, though it was hard to pass up the pigs, sheep and duckies.

Sadly, their containment system did not photograph well but trust me, it was cute. It even had a white picket fence printed on it! Once I got them out of the box though, they became even more precious. Very glossy, shiny chocolate and not too much damage from transit. They even had fluffy little tails! (well not exactly fluffy, but the chocolate was carved to appear fluffy)

The mommy bunny was about 3 inches tall, and the baby bunny was about half that, 1.5 inches. They felt pretty hefty for their size so I guessed that they were solid, not hollow. The packaging didn't mention it sadly. I spared the mommy some cruelty by snapping her ears off rather than biting them, but in the grand scheme of things, I bet it hurt either way. They broke off pretty clean as you can see, and indeed the bunny was solid.

I was surprised by the quality of the chocolate. Ordinarily, chocolate novelties like this suck in the taste and texture department but these were actually pretty good. Very similar to Hershey's chocolate (again, the packing provided little help, only said that it was distributed by Target Stores) with that very smooth milky chocolate taste and fast melting.

The baby bunny had a worse fate. I chopped that poor guy in half. This one had a minor defect and wasn't exactly solid all the way through, oops! He was yummy too. Another fun Easter treat that kids and adults would love, hopefully they're back next year!

Yes, yes Easter is over but that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy Easter confections! A dear friend gave me a Hubba Bubba Clucker specifically for the reason to review it...and the fact that it essentially craps out bubblegum.

It's kind of a sick toy when you get right down to it. Not only does it crap out bubblegum, but it order for you to get the bubblegum in the chicken you have to take off his head! So it's pretty much a perfect toy/candy dispenser for someone like me.

The chicken (excuse me, Clucker) came with 20 gumballs in pink (4), blue (6), yellow (6), green (3) and light green (1). They smell fruity and are shaped like limes or perhaps slightly pointy eggs. Very vibrant colors though, all hail artificial coloring!

Someone managed to eat the only light green gumball so I can't comment on that particular color's taste (though The Gumball Theif said it "tastes like limes").

Yellow tasted like bubblegum. Kind of disappointing, I was hoping for lemon.

Blue also tasted like bubblegum, boo! I could've gone for a over-the-top blue raspberry or even blueberry flavor. But alas, no, just plain old bubblegum.

The pink is strawberry, very fake strawberry though not unpleasant and it fades to standard bubblegum once chewed for about 10 seconds.

Green was unusual. It wasn't bubblegum (right away at least) but it was not any flavor I could place, definitely not green apple or watermelon. Mystery flavor I guess!