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.
 

The Zero Candy Bar (currently produced by Hershey) is billed as "caramel, peanut and almond nougat covered with white fudge".  The first thing you'll notice about the Zero (apart from the sleek silver wrapper) is that covering of "white fudge"-- fairly unusual in the chocolate-dominated array of candy bars. 

A sweet, almond aroma accompanies that first peek at the crisp, white candy bar.

I must admit to being a bit suspicious of "white fudge".  Sure, it looks interesting, but I'm not sure it adds much to the Zero experience-- except a little more sweetness and a protective covering for the rest of the candy bar.  The relatively soft white coating isn't the star of this show, by any means.  For that, look inside the candy bar.

The interior of the bar is made of up a thick layer of nougat and a much thinner layer of caramel.  The Zero doesn't seem to contain whole peanuts or large pieces of peanut.  Rather, very small bits of nut add a little crunch and texture to the creamy, smooth caramel and nougat.  The nougat is brown, but instead of tasting of chocolate (as you might expect) it has a sweet, malted, slightly nutty (almondy) flavor. 

This candy bar is seriously sweet.  If you don't like serious sweetness, you'd probably do well to look elsewhere for your next candy fix.  As for me, when I was growing up, the Zero bar was my mother's favorite.  I've concluded that I inherited my love the Zero from her.

These are dangerously easy to eat.  You may find that you've gobbled down the whole thing without even thinking about it. 

‘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.
 

It’s hard to miss this very distinct container in the shape of a barrel overflowing with toxic waste. This is Hazardously Sour Candy, or at least that’s what the label says. The barrel is part of a whole series of Toxic Waste candy that includes nuclear sludge and short circuit bubble gum.

Each candy is wrapped individually in little plastic pouches. The candies have a slightly sticky surface, so this prevents them from sticking together. The pouches are labeled with the flavors. There are four different flavors, and a bit surprisingly they have just regular names.

• Black Cherry
• Lemon
• Apple
• Watermelon
• Blue raspberry

I administered an apple flavored candy to test subject A (aka my wife) and observed the reaction:
“Eww, that’s gross!”
“It hurts to eat it”
“I don’t like it”
“STOP IT!” (This, I believe, was aimed at me for writing down everything she said, and is not a comment on the candy itself)
“Once you get past the first part it taste fine, but that’s just gross”.

She proceeded to spit it out a couple of minutes later when she had reached the sourness hidden in the core of the candy.

I have to agree with my wife that these candies really are pretty sour, and they are among the most sour candy I have tasted. But the sourness goes away quickly, and after about 15 seconds the taste like a regular sweet candy. So the extreme sourness that’s promised on the container is not really there. There is a second wave of sourness hidden in the center, but that’s not quite as sour as the surface. The container comes with a warning not to eat more than one within a brief time, or you risk irritation to your mouth.

Unless you are a die-hard sour candy fan, these candies are really more of a novelty item. Most people would probably not eat these because they think they taste great. But after the first burst of sourness has gone away the taste is really pretty good. Kids will probably love them, and especially the little scale on the container that names you a FULL TOXIE HEAD if you manage to keep the candy in your mouth for at least 60 seconds.

This candy is distributed by Candy Dynamics, and they even have a website dedicated to it:
http://www.toxicwastecandy.com/

This is the third installment in the series of candies from Wonka’s Edible Garden. I have already learned to look for the orange bag of the Sluggles, and I was intrigued by this new red bag. While the fruit shape of this candy is not as unique as the slug, they are still tasty looking.

Candy that consist of a gummy part and a foam part has been around for a long time (peach rings, for instance). In the last several years, we have seen candies with a soft middle becoming more popular, and I guess it was only a matter of time before this happened – foamy bottom, gummy top and soft center. Surely this is the pinnacle of candy creation.

The squishy centers are a bit less runny than in other candies of this kind. I like these firmer centers better, and it also reduces the risk of a candy having burst in the bag (a common problem with some other soft-center candies).
There are four different kinds of berries in the bag – raspberries, blueberries, cloud berries and goji berries. I’ve never heard of goji berry, I must admit. The candies are shaped as the berries they taste like. They are all very similar in color, ranging from a yellowish peachy to a reddish peachy. The gummy part is slightly translucent, and you can see the glob of soft filling in the middle.

Raspberry – Mmm, very tasty. These are sweet and flavorful with a nice fruity taste. I not sure I could identify the flavor as raspberry if I didn’t know that’s what it is, but even so the taste is very pleasant.

Blueberries – While the color is far from that of a real blueberry, these have a distinct though faint blueberry flavor. The shape is that of a group of blueberries, and not just one. Taste good!

Cloud berries – I remember picking cloud berries as I was growing up. I never cared that much for the raw berries, but the cloud berry jam on waffles or ice cream is very good. Honestly, I don’t really taste much of cloud berries. They taste sweet and are very delicious, but no cloud berry taste.

Goji Berry – I’ve never heard of a goji berry before. Apparently they are a kind of berry that grows in China. They are also known as wolfberries, and they are supposed to have all sorts of health benefits. These are my least favorite flavor in the bag. They have a slight tart and spicy taste that doesn’t quite belong in a piece of candy.

The Wonka Squishy Sploshberries Gummies are great! The goji berry flavor is not quite up to par with the others, and does pull down the overall impression a bit.