Video Review: Haribo Jogi-Fari (A Taste of Delight, Apparently)
This time, the Jr. Gurus are right on the nose- these are amazing.
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WordCount Wednesdays: Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll
Could these be better than Payday bars? Could anything? Is that possible?
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WordCount Wednesdays: Haribo COaLA-Tatzen
The only reason this candy was made was for some jacked up Product Manager to get his pun implemented on a bag of candy.
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Wordcount Wednesdays: Rowntrees Orchard Fruits Pastilles
These pastilles are plenty good-just not wuite as good as the original flavors by Rowntrees
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Cream & Sugar Cream Filled Licorice. Can we start over?
"Itsugar" - the manufacturer of these has an apt name. I would have liked them more if they would go with "Itsflavor" though.
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Werther’s Caramel Apple Filled Hard Candies
The combo of apple and caramel is a winner. It's so obvious IT'S DUMB, AMIRIGHT? Or is it this candy that's dumb? Dumb as hell, perhaps?
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Jelly Belly Dark Chocolate Covered Tobasco Flavored Beans
Dark chocolate, Tobasco sauce, and a sweet chew jelly bean. Thoughts/comments/suggestions?
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Taveners Blackcurrant & Liquorice
“licorice”? All these years we’ve been gracefully handling the way the Brits pronounce aluminum...
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Katjes Grün-Ohr Barchen (They’re Neu!) Green Ear Bears
Dudes, check this: There’s no end to the amount of “gummy bears” that candy companies make, and...
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Grandma’s Finest Licorice Fruits
Know how I regularly talk about “Grandma Candy”? It generally requires some variation of hard candy and...
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SweeTARTS Gummies: Really? We haven’t reviewed these?
Old school meet middle school. Add in after school, go to college then make candy. Which has nothing to do with these things.
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Mocken Boules: Talk about German Variety
Moucken Boules are Fooken Shoeless! (no idea what that means but I think it rhymes)
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Katjes Fred Ferkel: You’ll Be Fine When You Get Past the Name
Pink pigs with gummy ears. Sounds like a bad dream. But it's the opposite: a good nightmare!
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Bona Vita Ingwer Bonbons : Citrus Ginger Hard Candies
Ginger in candy is almost passé. ALMOST.
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Payday: Peanut allergies? Stay away. The rest of us, Don’t.
When you have mothers and flight attendants scared the world over, you know the candy is good
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Skittles Darkside: Once you go dark you’ll never go bark
These Skittles aren't just dark, they're brooding
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Chocolate Sea Salt Butterscotch Caramels: Name Says it All
If you thought butterscotch kinda sucked yr kinda wrong
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Maynards Threesome of Peaches, Berries, and, well, Berries
When Tool broke up, I was sad. Then Maynard started making wine and gummies and I'm much happier.
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Walkers Nonsuch Original Toffee
What's toffee..exactly? How is it different than caramel? Which is better? And as always, we tackle the persistently tough question "is it hard enough?"
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Trolli Sour Stixi
With a pretty unique consistency, this offering from Trolli continues their track record of excellence overseas
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Sula Toffee To Go “Kaffeecreme”
Caramel goes with salt. This we know. But does it go with coffee? What about white chocolate? Porjk Belly?
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Dewars Fine Candies : Bakersfield’s Finest
I think I might have liked taffy when I was 4, but now? They all taste the same: bland, boring. And now we have more to try...
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Jolly Rancher Sour Bunnies: Annual Gel Fest? Eh.
There was a time when Jolly Rancher was a one-trick pony – hard brick candies in watermelon, green apple, cherry,...
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Jelly Belly Sour Bunnies: It’s What’s for Easter
When the sweet people at Jelly Belly send us Gurus stuff to review, in this case, Easter Candy, I have to ask myself:...
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Trolli Gummi Rocks…..Rock.
Gummi inside, "hard" sour shell outside. New concept, and I LIKE IT.
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Sugar Daddy: A Virtual Spanking?
Everyone needs a Sugar Daddy, unless you actually ARE a daddy, in which case it might be an uncomfortable arrangement.
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Jolly Rancher Chews : Should You…CHOOSE Them? OH NO I DI-IN’T!!!
Hey, it's a review of something you can actually BUY in this country! BUT SHOULD YOU???
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Trolli Valentine Mix: Sour Gummi Candy be Dandy
Don't lie to me about what your candy tastes like. I'm not 19. It won't make me want to sleep with you more. Also, Happy Valentine's Day.
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Haribo Jelly Beans : Yet Another Player in the Bean Game
We’ve reviewed and spoken about jelly beans quite a bit round these parts. Every year before Easter rolls...
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Swedish Jelly Horses : Fruity Syrup
In a world...where one old dude finds a mystical wood horse that smells like syrup. Coming soon to a theater near you.
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Sula Lakritz Toffes : Sea Salt Licorice Toffe
Take something old (caramel) and give it something new (licorice) and sprinkle heaven dust (sea salt) on it, and you've got something completely new
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Haribo Smurfs & Haribo Sour Smurfs : A Tale of Two Different Blue Little Shits
In the Smurf show and movie, they all use "smurf" as a verb, so I'm gonnna Smurf the same.
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Smarties Strawberry Taffy: Thanks (for not) Giving (me any in the future)
It's taffy by nature. Not strawberry by taste. Kids like it too but kids don't know sh*&.
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Brach’s Fall Flavors: Caramel Apple Candy Corn
Now when you think of candy corn, you can think of caramel apples and confuse the hell out of yourself!
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I’ve Seen Hell, My Friends: And It’s Filthy With Spogs
I’m still shuddering. Recently I contacted Aunty Nellie’s Sweet Shop in Ireland to get my hands on...
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Millions : A Chewy Delight From the UK That Your Teeth Might Hate
Oh, you Brits. Just gotta be so damn clever with the candy, don’t ya? You make a candy called Millions, cause...
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Happy Halloween! These are Terrible Coconut Candies!
Bad coconut candy may scare the hell out of you. Run!
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Jelly Belly Sport Beans – Exercising Candy
The concept of eating candy while exercising is just too good to pass up.
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Haribo Tagada Pink’s Got No Stink
We reviewed Haribo’s “Primavera” candies a while back, and I liked them. A lot. Little did I know...
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E-ma Apple Ginger Pearls of Goodness and Sunshine
I had never had apple and ginger as a candy combination before. Now? I never want to not have it.
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Maynard’s Wine Gums : An Un-Reviewed Classic!
THE original wine gum. Or at least, the first I ever had. It was a balmy day in Heathrow airport, November 2002...
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Haribo Strawberries & Cream : Underrated and Delightful
I get the whole Strawberries thing, but I'm not playing tennis over here-don't need or want the cream. Blech. Oh, the CANDY Strawberries & Cream? Oh, I see.
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