Gummies

The bag is colorful and looks fun. That's really the only good thing I have to say about these Gummy Ice Creams. Each ice cream is individually wrapped in a little hard plastic shell and consist of two cone pieces and one piece that's supposed to be the topping. Sure, with a bit of imagination you can see that it's supposed to be an ice cream, but that's really pretty pitiful. But the shape aside, the worst part about these candies is the taste. They taste horrible! Like the candy plant doubles as an oil refinery at night. I tried several to make sure I didn't happen to get a dud, but they all tasted just as bad. A very definite 1 of 5. I guess the 'Made in China' and 'Artificially Flavored' should have given me a clue, but I was hoping for something much better.

What’s better than fast food? Why, candy shaped like fast food, of course! This bag contains a mixture of five different fast foods – pizza, hamburgers, fries, colas and hotdogs. The first thing that strikes you as you pick up the colorful fun looking bag is how light it is. This fairly big-looking bag only contains 2.72 oz of candy. If you are looking for some candy just to eat, you are better off looking elsewhere.
 

Sour Fries:
The sour fries look great! The little pouch looks like a real fries container, and the shapes of the fries themselves are just like real fries. The taste leaves a lot to wish for though – they are slightly sour on the surface, and have a slight citrusy flavor. But overall they are pretty tasteless.








Pizza:
The pizza comes in a cool little cardboard box of its own. It looks very Italian and pizza-ish. There are five slices in a box. Each slice has a brown bottom and some red, yellow and white globs on top. The taste is actually not bad. If I had a bag of these I would finish is quite happily.

Hamburgers:
Made out of the same material as the pizza. I was a bit disappointed with the look of these. On the front of the bag is pictured a much more realistic burger. But in reality it’s just three pieces of gummy candy stacked on top of each other. They taste fine though.
 

Hot Dog:
The hot dog looks to made out of the same material as the pizza and hamburgers. Making a good likeness of a hot dog out of mass produced gummy candy seems a bit tricky, and I think they made a pretty good job of it. The mustard on top of the dog looks good, but I am not sure what the stuff on the inside of the bun is supposed to be.
 

Gummy Cola:
These look similar to regular Haribo cola bottles, but they don’t taste quite as good. Seems a little bit tasteless to me.


 

Conclusion:
This is a fun collection of candies. They look good, but the taste is just so so. It’s fun as a novelty item, and to give as a gift. But if you’re looking for something to satisfy your sweet tooth, look elsewhere. There isn’t a whole lot of candy in a bag, and the taste of it is just average at best.
One little oddity is that they have both paprika and turmeric listed as ingredients. Not sure what the purpose of these is, but I don’t detect any spicy flavors.
 

‘btw… ur a qt! lol :) l8r’ I admit I needed some help from my wife to decipher the message on the box. The fact that these were displayed in a ‘nostalgia candy’ section in the local store seems a bit odd. To me text messaging (or TXT MSG) is still a pretty new phenomenon, and to call them nostalgia candy suggests that they have been around since at least the early 80s

Honestly, I would not have picked these up had there not been for that second sign that read ‘75% off’. Apparently, people are not feeling very nostalgic at the moment, or at least not when it comes to candy.

These candies are pretty much what you would expect; regular run-of-the-mill opaque gummies with computer lingo abbreviations on them. Some of the colors taste a bit chemical, especially the blue ones, while some others are pretty tasty. Overall, I did not expect much, and these were definitely not as bad as I had expected. But they were not wonderfully tasty either. As with most boxed candy, the size of the box is not a true representation of the amount of candy you get.

Unless you get these at 75% off like I did, I can’t really recommend them. The handful of candy you get is just enough to last you through the composition of one text message; especially if I were the one typing it.
 

Just as the Sluggles (read our review of sluggles) the Sour Puckerooms are part of the ‘Wonka’s Edible Garden” series of candy. What a fun idea – candy shaped like little mushrooms. I used to eat Malaco’s Skumkantareller (foam chanterelles) growing up, so it’s not completely new to me, but it’s still a little different. The puckerooms comes in three different flavors – cherry, grape and lemon/orange, and they have three variations of mushroom shapes. The shapes are a bit two-dimensional, but it’s just candy, after all.
The puckerooms feels a little bit harder than the sluggles, which might just be a result of the coating. They are not overly sour, and someone looking for a distinct sour candy might be disappointed.

Unfortunately, the taste does not quite live up to I’d say they are a step below their companions the Sluggles. They are definitely not bad, but I had hoped for a bit more.
 

Straight from “Wonkas Edible Garden” it’s Sluggles! How can you go wrong with a name like that?

Apparently, these have been around for about a year, but it is not until fairly recently that they’ve begun to turn up on the shelves here in the deep south. The sluggles are quickly becoming a favorite of mine. They come in four different flavors – orange, grape lemon and strawberry. They are shaped as snails, slugs, worms and a something that looks like a slug sitting atop a cushion of slime.

The sluggles are made with natural ingredients with 25% real fruit juice (mostly apple juice, it sounds like). The flavor selection sounds pretty solid – hard to go wrong with strawberry, orange and lemon. I was a little wary of the grape flavor, fearing that it might have the medicine/perfume taste of grape soda.

The gummies are fairly soft, I’d say a little softer than your run-of-the-mill gummy worms. None of the flavors really stand out in a good or bad sense, and I usually just eat these without caring much about what particular color I happen to pop in my mouth.

Strawberry – The flavor is not particularly pronounced, and they don’t taste all that strawberry-ish. They also look a bit faded and dull.

Lemon – These have a distinct lemon flavor that is not too overpowering. I like these, and the bright yellow color is nice too.

Orange – Nice orange taste. Not much of the bitter aftertaste that orange candies sometimes have. I like these.

Grape - I was a little wary of the grape flavor, fearing that it might have the medicine/perfume taste of grape soda, but these are much better than that. Though not my favorite, I feel no need to pick them out to eat separate from the rest of the bag.

Other products from the Wonka Edible Garden are Sour Puckeroom’s and Squishy Sploshberries. You can read those reviews separately.