Takis Waves - Dragon Sweet Chili

This seemed like the perfect product for me. I love Sweet Chili sauce. I love Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos. I love potato chips, and OG Takis. So when I spotted these chips on the shelf, I had to have them. Into the cart they went. 

Summer Soda Sippin' - Pepsi Wild Cherry and Cream

Summer Soda Sippin' - Pepsi Wild Cherry and Cream 

After writing a few massive posts I wanted to take it easy with a quickie soda review.

Wild Cherry and Cream Pepsi sounds perfect for summer. I originally thought this was going to be a limited edition flavor, similar to Dr. Pepper's Coconut Creme💖, but it turns out this is a permanent addition to their line-up. (Although Coke said the same thing about Spiced and then it bit the dust after less than a year, so only time will tell.)

Ropes are all the Rage

Every fruity candy is releasing a ropes version.

This trend started with Nerds Ropes, which is executed differently than the candies we're looking at today, but there's no doubt that it's the catalyst. Due to Nerds Rope's incredible popularity, it spun off into the even more popular Nerds Gummy Clusters. The star of every Candy Salad Trauma Dump video I've ever seen. From there, filled Sweet-Tart ropes emerged and filled-Swedish candies took over our feeds. Ropes are everywhere! Today I have a bunch of filled candy tubes ranging from sweet, to sour, to marshmallow! 

A Pac-Man walks into a Krispy Kreme...

Pac-Man and Krispy Kreme have a new collaboration, and even though they're more flash than substance, I still had to check them out. (Sorry for any rough typing, I cut my hand making dinner and I am struggling to type well as it heals.) 

There isn't a grand story behind it, or any kind of core memory, I just really like Pac-Man. I have a plug n' play joystick game that I still use (it also has Dig-Dug), a vintage T-shirt from the 80's that is hanging on by a thread, a vintage paper tablecloth, and a promotional Baby Pac-Man cup from the 7-Eleven 1983 series that I grew up using to give our dog, Coco, a bath. It's a simple game where you eat dots, and sometimes fruit or ghosts, and it makes me happy. 

Let's see what these doughnuts have to offer...

Peelerz - Five Fruity Flavors

I already spoiled this in my other post, but these do not peel. At all. The exterior gummy is thick, which should make for an easy peel, but center portions are too soft and sticky. They just won't separate. The closest to being "peelable" was the banana, and it's still no where near are clean as White Peach I reviewed a few weeks ago. 

Therefore the peelable novelty of this candy gets a 0/5. 

Taste-wise, things fair a bit better. 

Quickie Pez Post

My massive peelable gummy post got a little out of hand, so it will be finished up and posted on Monday. 

In the meantime, here is a quickie post I never got around to finishing. 

I've always liked Pez candy, but their appeal comes from it's novelty dispenser, not it's actual taste. Dispensers are highly collectable and have cemented their place in pop culture history (the proto-Funko Pop) but the candy has always been mid. I enjoy it for what it is, and will buy it once every few years, but I've never thought it's flavors were so iconic that it should be used in other products, and especially not ice cream, but here we are. 

Will these actually taste like Pez? Or is this a case of branding being used to sell a generic fruity-bar? I kind of hope it's the latter. 

Peelable Peach Appeal - Tommy & Tim White Peach Gummies

The hype has already died down, but I have a bunch of peelable fruit gummies to try this week! 

The majority of the candies I have are Peelerz, which are made by Amos Sweets. It's a brand sold in many American stores like DollarTree, Costco, and Five Below, but it's actually based in China. For some variety, I purchased these peach candies at Hung Vuong, but they're also made in China. It appears China has the American peelable gummy market on lock.

Quickie: Polar Bear Puccho

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Here's a quickie post from my backlog! 

In case this is your first exposure, Puccho is a bouncy chewy candy similar to Hi-Chew, but it typically has flavored gummi embeds. I've reviewed many flavors in the past, but I hadn't seen this one before. The bag translates to "polar bear," and the visuals make this seem like a shaved ice dessert topped with red bean and fruit. I did a casual search on Google and while the results were rather sparse, it does seem that this concept has been around for at least 50 years. A "polar bear" is shaved ice topped with sweetened condensed milk and various fruits or jellies. 

I'm intrigued. How will this translate into a chewy candy?