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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tropical Chewy Lemonhead & Friends
There’s nothing else like the line of candies - a hard and mildly flavored candy core covered with a grainy and intensely flavored coating then a shiny coat. A couple of years ago Ferrara Pan expanded the line with their Chewy Lemonheads. They’re kind of an amped up jelly bean. A chewy jelly center with the same grainy and blisteringly sour layer covered in a light shell. They came in the same flavors we were accustomed to with the Lemonheads and Friends. Now Ferrara Pan is mixing it up again with new flavors, this time only in the Chewy line with their Tropical Chewy Lemonhead & Friends.
It’s an odd name, and kind of misleading. There are no Lemonheads (there are pink-lemonade-heads though) in here, now the name has become a brand and shorthand for a whole line of candies. The unique proposition here is that there are two flavors in each piece. The shell is one flavor and the core is another. (Sounds kind of like Skittles Crazy Cores, doesn’t it?) The flavors are Kiwi-Strawberry, Peach-Mango, Berry-Banana, Cherry-Watermelon and Pink Lemonade-Lemonade. The colors are muted and tropical, definitely different at a glance from the regular Lemonheads which are far brighter.
This blue shell is almost aqua and the inside is supposed to be yellow according to the key on the box, but it’s more green to me. The shell is that blue raspberry flavor that was invented by confectioners and has little relation to any real fruit flavor. There’s no tangy layer between the shell and the jelly center. So it’s a sweet berry outside with a mild banana inside. It’s pleasant enough and did start off the tasting with a tropical bent.
The shell is medium green and the center is a light red. The outside doesn’t taste like much, but there is a pleasant tangy pop between the layers on most of them (some were just all sweet). The strawberry center is floral and tasted a little like cotton candy. It’s mostly an inoffensive piece of candy. Not intense but just a little more interesting than a standard fruity jelly bean.
The red shell on this one has a lighter pink center. (A green shell with a red center would have been rather more like a watermelon though.) The red is intense and bright and the cherry flavor is strong and medicinal without the robust sour cherry note that I was hoping for. (There was also that bitter aftertaste from the food coloring.)
Pink on the outside and yellow on the inside. I don’t really know what pink lemonade is, most of the time it’s just lemonade with a dash of red food coloring, though I think classically it’s lemonade with strawberries. In this instance I think it’s the former. The outside is just a little bit lemony and the tangy layer is, well, only slightly tangy. The center does have a little lemon zest to it. All this really does is make me want a Lemonhead. As far as I’m concerned the Pink Lemonade-Lemonade Chewy Lemonhead is for wusses who can’t handle the real thing.
The outside is a great peachy orange color. The center is green. Experience has taught me that I’m rarely pleased with peach or mango flavored candies. It’s not that I don’t love peaches or mangoes, but they’re very hard flavors to duplicate. Probably because so much of their flavor also depends on the texture. In this case the flavors are quite mild but passable. The peach outside is sweet and like canned peaches (lacking that balsam note that some candies try to include). The inside is a little more woodsy and green tasting, a little grassy and a little like pine. I can’t say I loved the, but I didn’t pick around them as much as the cherry.
I read a lot of other reviews on these when they first came out (I finally found them in stores here in California earlier this month) and I have to wonder if they punched them up recently. Or maybe they’re just plain inoffensive and I’m not angling for a fight. Because Mr. Lemonhead is my bestest lifelong friend. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:11 am
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.Why is it that every time I read Lemonhead, my mouth watered a little bit?
Plus after the article you linked to about Mr. Ferrara’s fight with Hershey, you wouldn’t want to get into a fight with him anyways!
I should just like to point out that the kids coming to my house tomorrow will be getting LemonHeads.
I just hope they don’t get them all!
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but we do grow watermelons here, so yes, they count as a tropical fruit
also, we’ve got a tiny strawberry producing area…but no raspberries, blue or otherwise. And definitely no peaches :D
Cleod - I don’t consider a fruit (or melon) that grows in an area with a freezing winter to be tropical. Not that it can’t grow in the tropics, but that it’s not exclusive to tropical areas so not a “tropical” flavor.
Kind of like calling Apples tropical ... there are actually very few varieties that WILL grown in regions that don’t get at least a frost.
Pink lemonade traditionally has grenadine in it, I believe.
I AM LIVING IN SEVASTOPOL, UKRAINE NEEDING TO BUY YOUR LEMON-HEADS. I AM DISABLED VIETNAM VETERAN N THIS IS GREAT FOR MY DRY THROAT CAUSED FROM AGENT ORANGE. PLEASE ADVISE LOCATION TO BUY LOCALY DESPERATE AATY.
I just purchased these and I would rate them about how you would on your scale. They are decent, but I think I would need to crave them specifically. Chewy Runts blow these out of the water.
I love tropical chewy lemonheads! I recently found my new favorite flavor or flavors i should say. The peach mango blew me away! I didnt know i liked these flavors before then. Thank you lemonhead and friends!
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