Halloween Candy Reviews Week 4
It’s back…
This week we managed to find two new Halloween beverages: Jones Soda Monster Mojito and Izze Halloween Blackberry. I’m a big fan of moijtos, so I was pretty excited to try Monster Mojito. Surprisingly I was not disappointed. Jones does a decent job of distilling the flavors of lime, mint, and rum into a bottled beverage. It’s quite refreshing.
Izze Halloween Blackberry comes in a cool black can, but actually pours out a nice shade of purple. Izze touts itself as “pure fruit juice and sparkling water” “fortified with vitamins”. It’s not bad – tastes somewhere between a wine cooler and that punch people made when I was a kid by mixing Hi-C with 7-up. The flavor is quite unique and I can’t imagine what kind of food it would go with.
We found these gummy skulls over at The Rocket. They’re a local candy/gift shop with a pretty large selection of zombie stuff up on their website so make sure to check them out. The gummy skulls were a bit tough to chew, but the flavor was awesome. With hints of citrus and raspberry it had both Erin and I wishing we hadn’t left them sit out long enough to get so tough.
These Candy Potion Powders were found at a Target store and comes in three flavors, all mostly indistinguishable from each other. The powders are chalky in texture and dissolve readily in the mouth. Wracking my brain for something to compare them to, I realized they taste exactly like crushed up Smarties. I think these would serve best as an accessory for an Amy Winehouse costume – just add a mirror and razorblade.
Chef Ghoulicious Zit Poppers are another amazing piece of candy technology. There is a clear gummy base with a thin membrane at the top which holds a liquid cherry syrup. The idea is that they can be popped and “bleed” like a zit. To be honest I was dreading these, but it was surprisingly tolerable. The amount of syrup in each candy is very small and not overbearing. Obviously this candy is more of a novelty item than food, but it’s one of the few novelty candies that had a decent taste.
Halloween is the only holiday where you can find so many candies that come with mini costumes, and I’m a sucker for them all. This Vampire Fangs with Oozing Orange Tart Tongue includes a pair of fake vampire teeth and an oversized gummy tongue. The tongue was textured realistically and had an overwhelming orange flavor.
Finally we tried Sheila’s Delights Gummy Brains. Despite coming in both a blue and a pink variety, both colors tasted the same. They have a delicious cherry flavor and were the softest of any gummys we’ve tasted to date. Absolutely awesome.
That’s it for this year’s Halloween candy reviews! We had a fun time doing it and hope that you enjoyed reading about our tasting adventures.
