Another installment in my "things-that-promise-to-taste-like-other-things" reviews: Cotton Candy flavored Jelly Belly beans.I picked these up at Five Below while I was hunting down the latest Rainbow Brite mini figurines. (I still need Buddy Blue, Canary Yellow💗 and Patty O'Green.) I'm a sucker for all things cotton candy and with Jelly Belly's reputation I'm sure these will not disappoint.
If not for the clearly labeled packaging, their light pink semi-translucent coloring could be mistaken for bubble gum or any other "pink" flavor.
Opened, they smell mildly sweet, but the hard candy shell prevents most jellybean products from having much of a smell. I think that's why jellybean mixes work so well, the shell prevents the other flavors from comingling and affecting one another.Popping a few into my mouth, there's a hint of strawberry with a toasted vanilla sugar finish. It's delicious, but it's not quite cotton candy. It's a bit too bold and fruity for that. Even if it isn't a perfect 1-to-1 recreation of it's namesake, these are addicting. I could easily demolish this bag in one sitting.
Worth noting, while I have favorite flavors in every candy mix, I've found that I prefer variety over one solo flavor. An example would be Starbursts. I love Pink Starbursts, so I thought the all pink pack was going to be the best Starburst pack ever, and yet, I found myself missing other flavors and the variety of the normal mix. Yet, with this bag of only cotton candy flavored jelly beans, I was not bored.
Call me crazy, but I felt like some beans were more strawberry forward than others and it kept me coming back to test this hypothesis over and over again. The bag is nearly gone now, and I still don't know if the flavor variation was real, or just in my head, but they were so delicious that I don't mind. I'd happily buy these again and I think they'd made a great accompaniment to salty movie theater popcorn. This gets a 5/5 for me~!
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