Not Your Average Grape Lollipop

This might be one of the most unique lollipops I've eaten recently. As far as I can remember, no one has mixed grape with a creamy flavour. The possible exception might be raisins, but I feel like grapes and raisins are worlds apart when it comes to flavour and texture. While this is a unique flavour (to me), I recently realized that I actually enjoy real grapes with a certain type of cream on a regular basis. Grapes are one of my favourite fruits to add to yogurt. There's something very satisfying about this combination, particularly the fact that the flavours don't actually blend together until you take a bite. While this grape cream lollipop was pretty good, I'm wondering if anyone in the candy world might be able to simulate the joy of eating grapes in yogurt.

Check out this unusual grape and cream lollipop review.

Does Your Gummy Have A Peel

The latest trend in gummy candy seems to be the idea that you can peel them. The concept is that each gummy candy is made with two different textures of gummy. The outside is a more chewy, durable gummy, while the inside is a soft a squishy gummy. Each of these gummies (so far) are shaped like different fruit that one might peel, like grapes or bananas. As a concept I'm a huge fan of this trend, it's not only clever, but thematically correct (so far). The actual peeling of these candies have proven to be a bit more challenging than I originally expected, but that could improve as technology gets better. The thing I'm looking forward to is the first creative gummy candy company that takes this trend and moves it out of peeling fruit. I feel like there's great promise for a really creepy Halloween candy here.

Check out my latest peel-able candy review.

Go Grab My Treat Filled Alphabet Book

 

If you're a fan of treats, beasts and English grammar, then I have the perfect book for you. Sure you might already know all the letters in the alphabet, but this will keep you in practice, and it's also tones of fun.

Pickup up your very own copy on Amazon, or at bewarethecheese.com/treatsnbeasts/

Get a T-Shirt for Someone You Love

Godfrey the Goose T-Shirt
by candycritic

 I've got #tshirts for every letter of the #alphabet featuring beasts and the treats they love. If you know someone who's name starts with "G", this one will make the perfect #gift.

CC

Gobble Up This Goose T-shirt

Godfrey the Goose T-Shirt
by candycritic

Tell the world how much you love geese and gum!

Check out all the other Treats and Beast merch.

CC

Grape Is The Best?

Whenever I'm given a selection of candies to review, the one question that always makes it difficult is which flavour to choose from. The soda themed caramel corn from this week's review is a great example. There were at least 4 or 5 different flavours to choose from, and I had to make that choice in a busy supermarket with a lot of other groceries on my mind. I don't have a favourite flavour when it comes to sodas or at least one that I know I'll always pick. In cases like this I just go with instinct. I feel like the thought process in this case was that I don't seem to remember trying too many other candies that are themed to grape soda. There are plenty of grape flavoured treats, but not so many that are grape soda flavoured. In hindsight maybe it would have been better to go with a more classic soda flavour, like root beer or cola. Having said that, I don't regret trying this caramel corn and maybe it will encourage me to get the other flavours too.

Find out why this grape soda themed caramel corn grabbed my interest with my latest review.

Check out some of the other things I find at grocery stores by following me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

You can also get some of these treats sent to your front door if you follow me on Patreon.

CC

Grape Soda Discovery

 I'm not sure if I'm grossed out or intrigued by the fact that one of the key ingredients in grape soda is also a key ingredient in rubber gloves.

CC

My Favourite Pocky - Part 4 - My Main Squeeze

Make sure to check out our earlier posts this week where we featured some of our favourite Pockys that we've reviewed in the past. We're in Japan right now, hopefully finding some new Pockys to try. Today's entry is a really interesting Pocky, that's because it's a flavour of candy that you don't really see very often, grape.  Let me clear that up, you do see plenty of hard candies in grape, but you don't often see chocolate based treats in grape, and you certainly don't find too many grape cookies. But that's  not the only thing that makes this Pocky unique.

The flavour itself  was pretty interesting too, it wasn't that fake grape you might expect, it was a slightly tart, slightly more realistic grape. In my opinion, grape is an underused flavour, particularly when you're talking about a real grape flavour. That's what I like about candies like Pocky that keep coming out with different varieties, eventually they get desperate and start to explore flavours that aren't commonly used. Sometimes this ends in a wonderful disaster, but sometimes you get something really interesting. I've said it before, I'd rather try a creative disaster than a sure thing that's boring.

I've seen one other flavour of these Pocky Squeeze treats before, I forget what flavour it was, but I'm hoping to see more. I would be really keen to try this in a raspberry or maybe something interesting like a dragon fruit.

Click here to see what we had to say about this Pocky.

If you want to find out what we're up to in Japan, make sure to follow us  on Twitter and Facebook.

CC

It's A New Candy Review with a Bonus Announcement - Pocky "Grape Squeeze"

I'll start off with the new review, it's Pocky. It's actually my 13th Pocky review, which I think is pretty good. It's also not going to be my last Pocky review (I hope). As far as Pocky goes, this one was OK. It certainly wasn't the best Pocky I've ever tried, but it wasn't the worst either. It also wasn't an average Pocky either.

Click here to read our latest Pocky review.

As a bonus, this week we're previewing the opening for an upcoming video project we're working on. It'll be a weekly video show called "Chris's Monday Morning Breakfast Thoughts". In this show I'll give you guys the rundown of what we're going to be posting in the upcoming week, and maybe cover any interesting news stories that have been going around lately.  We're hoping to post it every Monday on our YouTube channel (but we'll probably post it here too).



If you want to keep up with all our new stuff, make sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

You can also follow us on Patreon to get previews of all our new content before it goes online, as well as our new Friday exclusive Patreon show.

CC

It's Another PEZ Review - PEZ Grape

I told you last week that we would be posting another PEZ review online, and  here it is.  I'm not sure how exciting that is, but it's something we've had to get off our plate. We're still missing a few PEZ flavours, but that will have to wait for another time.

Note - I think next week we'll be having a review-a-thon, and I'm thinking Asian Ice Cream treats.

Click here to read our latest PEZ review.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to find out more about next week's Asian Ice Cream review-a-thon.

Also, follow us on Instagram to keep up with all our Snack Facts.

CC