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May 2010Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: Choco Ball
Another product I’ve bought but never reviewed: Morinaga ChocoBall. They’re kind of like malted milk balls but the center is a more like a cookie. They come in a wide variety of flavor combinations, this one was chocolate & chocolate. (Package here.) POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:13 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Albanese Gummy Army Guys
This version of the candy features all opaque green candies in four different poses. They’ve even assigned names: “Bazooka” Bob, “Forrest Fight” Steve, “GI” Johnny, “Sniper” Scott, and “Rifleman” Rich! They’re green apple flavored. I got this 4.5 ounce bag for $1.99 at Powell’s Sweet Shoppe in Paso Robles. It was the first store I saw them in and was a little surprised at the price, considering the fact that I can buy a half pound of Albanese other gummi products at the 99 Cent Store for a buck. But hey, these were cute and unique.
I don’t have much else to say beside the fact that they’re in fact green, look exactly like plastic army guys (except they’re only about 2 1/2 D instead of 3D because they have a flat back). They’re green apple flavored, soft and chewy. Above is Sniper Scott.
So enjoy the photos of the Gummy Army Guys. This is Rifleman Rich.
Apparently Albanese also makes a smaller version of these in red and green - but they’re transparent instead of the opaque army green. Albanese makes a lot of other fun shapes in their gummis, including fighter jets, snakes, butterflies, bears, rings and fish. And that brings us to the last one: Bazooka Bob.
On the whole, a quality product. A little more expensive than the other really well priced Albanese gummis, but still a good deal, especially when you need a themed item. I’m not as keen on the green apple flavor - I prefer their citrus and pineapple. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:50 pm Candy • Albanese Confectionery • Gummi Candy • 7-Worth It • United States • Eat with your Eyes: Babbelaar & Hopjes
Babbelaar is Butterscotch & Hopejes is Coffee POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:00 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Monday, May 17, 2010
Flix Sour Gummy Pop Corn
Sour Gummy Pop Corn from Flix Candy looks like popcorn. But they go one further, instead of making it popcorn flavored, or some other yellow themed flavor they’ve made them apple, strawberry, popcorn & watermelon. You don’t know until you eat them. The package is cute, it looks like the tall box of popcorn that they used to sell at the fair and probably at the movies before people starting consuming it by the bucketful.
Here’s the first thing: a caramel corn flavored gummi sounds fabulous to me. It wouldn’t have a year ago, but after the caramel gummis I reviewed last week I truly believe you could make a great Cracker Jack flavored gummi with real molasses, caramelized sugar and milk. This isn’t that ... so I’ll have to adjust my expectations. I thought maybe I could tell the difference between them by smelling them, but they all smelled like Bed, Bath and Beyond (a mixture of watermelon, strawberry and carpeting). Watermelon (yellow) was tart and fresh, though more sour than I actually like my watermelon to be. The bounce of the gummi was satisfying and fresh. Strawberry (yellow) was sweeter at first and had a good berry flavor but then descended into sour. Apple (yellow) if that’s what I tasted, this one was the most sizzling of the, it was an odd sort of burnt note along with that chemical green apple flavor of Jolly Ranchers. The Pop Corn gummi was either elusive or so similarly flavored that I couldn’t tell. After finding the first three flavors in about 8 tries, I ended up just biting the rest of the pieces in the package. Something smelled vaguely like artificial butter flavor, but nothing tasted like it (but who wants sour buttered pop corn?). These weren’t that good for me, but I get that when watching a movie the look of the candy isn’t that important since I can’t see it anyway. But the flavor mix with apple and watermelon wasn’t high on my list either. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:31 pm Candy • Flix • Gummi Candy • Sour • 5-Pleasant • United States • Eat with your Eyes: Wonka Candy Cane
Instead of being grape flavored, these were chocolate flavored. But still stunning looking. (Package here.) POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:01 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • 
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