Time To Geek Out... Or Nerd Out.

It's not often that I write a review that has almost nothing to do with the candy and everything to do with the package. When this does happen it goes one of two directions, either the package is so amazing that I can't help but talk about it, or it's such a disappointment that it actually lowers the quality of the candy. Let me just say that I wasn't impressed with the way this candy was presented.

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Is It Lazy To Be Mysterious?

One of the trends in candy that almost always frustrates me is the idea of a mystery flavour. While I'm sure there are many marketing reasons that candy companies use this trend, my brain keeps telling me that they're only being lazy. I feel like someone created a weird flavour that no one at the company could figure out. Rather then think creatively and decide on a flavour, I feel like these candy companies just label the candy as a "mystery" flavour. In some cases they label it as a mystery and then let other people guess what flavour it is. Then I imagine that they pick the most popular choice of what people thought it tasted like and just call it by that flavour from then on. I don't know for sure that this has ever been the case, but it's what I imagine.

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I Make Marshmallows Awesome!

Marshmallows have always been on my list of treats that I don't always love. I think as an ingredient they can be good, but on their own I just don't get the appeal. Today I decided to try and figure out how I can change that and make marshmallows awesome. Spoilers, I figured it out.

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Subtle Flavours Should Be Cherished

So as you may or may not know, there is a possibility that I have Covid right now (I don't know for sure as in Canada the only people that can be tested are vulnerable people and those working with vulnerable people). At this point my symptoms are mild and in general I'm still able to do almost everything I did before, except go outside. Today's candy review did remind me that some people lose their sense of taste. This makes me a little nervous because treats like these marshmallows require not only a basic sense of taste, but the ability to taste subtle flavours. I have set up a few fail safes if I was to ever get sick or lose my sense of taste (temporarily). I actually have many candy reviews done in advance that I can post at any time. While we live in crazy times, I always want to make sure you can read a new candy review each week.

Check out this subtly flavoured treat that I'm thankful that I'm able to taste.

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Is Peanut Butter Overused?

 

This week's new candy review is of the Snickers "Creamy Peanut Butter". As far as I know there has already been another Snickers with peanut butter, and in fact I would argue that just about every single major candy company has produced at least one version of their treat with peanut butter. While I do enjoy peanut butter with chocolate, I feel like this ingredient is overused. More to the point, I feel like every candy companies figures that peanut butter will always work. This may be true, but judging by this review I think it's not. Peanut butter has a particular flavour and texture and it doesn't always work with everything, and even when it does "work" it has to be used properly. Peanut butter is not just an ingredient you can slap onto every single candy bar and guarantee a winner.

Find out why this week's featured candy doesn't work, even though it has peanut butter.

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Simple Bars Can Be Original

I feel like the candy industry is obsessed with making super crazy fancy bars. I feel like this is their attempt to make original candy, but they do it by using too many ingredients or by using ingredients that are weird for the sake of being weird. I argue that you can use only a few ingredients, each of which being something you commonly find matched with each other, and still create an original bar. I feel like the people at E.Wedel understand this, particularly with this bar.

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Leg-Go My Candy Corn

Candy Legs - Candy Corn Leggings
by candycritic

Only the corniest title for this blog post.

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I'm Going Nuts, Falling Into Pieces... - Reese's Pieces "Peanut"

Here's the strange thing about Reese's Pieces, I'm not really a big fan. I think the only time I ever asked my parents to buy me a box (or bag) of Reese's Pieces was the first time I saw the movie ET. I will tell you that I am easily influenced by what I see on TV. Every time I bite into a Reese's Piece I, for some reason, expect to taste chocolate. For those unfamiliar with this classic American treat, it's like a peanut butter M&M without the chocolate. 

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Amazing Candy/Junk Food Things That You Should Buy - Cherry Jolly Ranchers

If I can only eat one more flavour of Jolly Rancher for the rest of my life, it will be cherry. If you argue with this and tell me that it should be watermelon then we will have to agree to disagree.

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Back With A Kit Kat - Kit Kat "Mint Choc Whirl"

Last week we unfortunately had to take a small break from updating certain parts of Candy Critic. An emergency came up, but nothing terrible happened and we're back at full force. This means that I'm going to be spending the next week getting things back on track. I always find that when I fall behind on candycritic.org, I either get inspired to start new projects, or focus on improving the focus of the site (writing reviews). I'm not sure what's going to happen this week as I collect myself, but I'm sure something will come out of it.

For our return I thought it would be a good idea to post a Kit Kat review. I like Kit Kat bars, and they're really a staple in our collection of reviews. You can check out all of the Kit Kat reviews we've done so far here.

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The Top 5 Valentine's Day Themed Candies Reviewed On Candy Critic

1 - Chocolate Hearts

Nothing says "I love you" like high quality chocolate, it guarantees that you won't step into the cheap/cheesy side of Valentine's Day treats.

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2 - Lindt Frog Prince

The concept of this treat is kind of creative, but the chocolate beneath the foil is great, so your true love should be happy... unless they used to be a frog.

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3 - Cherry Lovers

This is a great choice if the one you love doesn't like chocolate. Having said that, if the one you love doesn't like chocolate, you might want to reconsider.

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4 - Cinnamon Hearts

I don't totally understand why you'd want to burn off the taste buds of your true love, but these are pretty popular, so what do I know.

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5 - Jelly Belly "Conversation Beans"

If they want something like Conversation Hearts, but want to avoid the chalky texture.

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You Can't Rely On Anybody - Zip "Double"

If you've read this blog, or if you search through candycritic.org, you'll find that I have a love affair with certain candy brands. This love affair doesn't come from them sending me free candy, or even out of nostalgia. The thing that makes me love a candy company is when they produce good candy. It's even more astounding if I fall in love with a candy company that's fairly big, or even more rare, gigantic. Cadbury is one of those few brands, they're a huge company that sells chocolate all over the world. They also produce some of the best mass produced chocolate bars that I know of.

The thing is, sometimes the ones you love, disappoint you. You still love them, and you hold out hope that it's not a decline, but just a misstep. This Zip "Double" bar is what I hope to be a small misstep from the  people at Cadbury. It's not a horrible bar, but it's way too average for a brand that's made me happy so often.

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Lots Of Australian Candy This Week - Freddo

When we left for Australia, I didn't think that I would be picking up too many treats. My plan was to pick up maybe 4 or 5 treats and review them on the go. It started out pretty well, but at about the halfway point of the trip, I realized that I was going to be getting a lot more Australian treats than I expected. I was hoping to be able to write all of my reviews while I was in Australia, but that didn't happen, I ended up coming home with a pretty good collection of treats to review.

This week we'll post a bunch of the treats, but I get the feeling that a few are going to be sitting in our reserve to post on a rainy day.

Click here to read our first review in our Australian review-a-thon.

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Back From Australia With An Australian Candy Review - Chokka The Quokka

We're back, and I'm spending most of my time going through everything that we've done. I wasn't really expecting to have so many new treats to review, but I think I'll be posting many Australian candies on the site for the next few weeks. I think I might even squeeze in a review-a-thon. The trip was great, but I'm glad to be back home and back at it.

Click here to read our first candy review from this trip.

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Classic Candies I Haven’t Reviewed And Why - Part 2

Lucky Elephant Popcorn - I've always been a little bit nervous about reviewing Lucky Elephant Popcorn. I've always had fond childhood memories of this treat, but I'm not sure it actually holds up on its own. I'm thinking that if I break down Lucky Elephant Popcorn, and look at it objectively, it's just sweet, bland popcorn. Sure it's bright pink, but is that enough?


Regular Lays or Ruffles, or Pringles - Every time I find myself in a store, facing the wall of potato chips, I always seem to find a flavour so interesting, or weird that I have to try it. I do eat regular potato chips, but only at parties, and almost always with some kind of dip. Some day I might have to go out and specifically buy plain potato chips to review, but only after I've exhausted all the other amazing flavours available.


Hot Tamales - I don't like spicy food. I see Hot Tamales as the quintessential spicy candy. It's not the hottest candy out there, but it's really the grandfather of hot candies. I actually think candies that are hotter than Hot Tamales are more interesting to me because I'm curious as to how hot they really are. Hot Tamales are hot enough that I'm scared to eat them, but not hot enough to make me interested.


Cherry PEZ - I've reviewed three flavours of PEZ so far, orange, grape and lemon. I've enjoyed each one of these flavours, but cherry has been my favourite flavour since childhood. The reason I've never reviewed cherry PEZ is because I've haven't selected the flavour of a package of PEZ for as long as I've been doing this site. Any PEZ candies that I've reviewed on this site came with a PEZ dispenser. I guess it's just been my luck so far (or maybe they never package PEZ dispensers with cherry PEZ), but I have not tasted cherry PEZ in years.

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It's Another Snack Review - IWAB "Sweet" (Sweet Hearts?)

One of the biggest problems about reviewing candies and snacks from all over the world, is figuring out exactly what I'm eating.  This can be a problem because I won't know what to expect (although this can be an advantage sometimes too), or it can be that I don't really know how to eat it (see this video for the best example), or as is the case with today's new review, I don't really know what it's called. While not knowing the name of a treat might seem like a small problem, it becomes a big problem when I'm trying to post the reviews on our candycritic.org. I take my best guess, and sometimes just make up the name based on what the foreign writing kind of looks like (as is this case).

If you happen to speak and read Thai, I would greatly appreciate a translation of this package. Until I get one it's going to keep the name IWAB.

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We Got Some New Treats On Our Trip to Bali/Singapore - Dairy Milk In Lickables

This latest trip to Bali and Singapore was not supposed to be about snacking, it was one of the rare occasions where we went somewhere that I thought I wouldn't find too much to review. I was very wrong. Today's new review is just the tip of the iceberg, and we'll have more treat reviews from this trip going up over the next month, or even two. These Lickables were probably the most mysterious of the treats we found, and I couldn't wait to crack open the package and figure them out. As it turns out, everything inside this strange package was pretty disappointing.

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It's A New Episdoe of In Hindsight All About The Wunderbar!

It's been a while since we did an episode of In Hindsight, and we're really happy to have the chance to eat another Wunderbar. If you're not familiar with In Hindsight, it's where I look back and an old review, and re-taste the candy again. I compare my notes and see if the old review holds up.

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It's Time For Us To Give You Our Thoughts

In this month's Breakfast Thoughts we talk about some of the news in the candy and junk food world, and also talk about some of the new content we've been posting on Candy Critic lately.

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It's April, And We Have An Episode Of Monthly Morning Breakfast Thoughts, And A Review - Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Miniatures Stuffed with Reese's Pieces

On paper today's review should have worked. It combines two of the great classic candies that have worked for so many years. This candy just proves however that not everything can go together perfectly.

Click here to find out why this candy combination didn't work.


Also, we have a new episode of Chris's Monthly Morning Breakfast Thoughts, and I decided to take on the pineapple challenge. Most of the time when I say "I decided to take on", things end horribly, but apparently there are exceptions.

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