Icebreakers Iced Tea Lemon Mints

Icebreakers Iced Tea Lemon Mints really taste like iced tea. No joke. Upon trying these, Brett suggested that someday all our food would be in pill form. I agree with him: if food scientists keep dreaming up artificial flavors like iced tea, food pills may be a possibility.
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m&m's strikes again!

I was happy to see that m&m's has decided to continue their series of flavored candies. They are doing so with great style! Adding artificial flavorings to m&m's seems like a natural extension of the candy.
The mint flavor is delicious. "These are really good," exclaimed starlette Ms. Morgan Rose Stewart, as she chewed delicately chewed the green orb with delight.
The candies come in a package displaying a picture of Harrison Ford, advertising the most recent Indiana Jones movie. Even the m&m's themselves are adorned with little Indiana Jones emblems. The candies themselves are a bit larger than normal m&m's and come in three shades: green, light green, and white. They have a slight crunch, because the filling of the m&m is not pure chocolate, but rather partially chocolate with a crispy filling. The filling lends itself well to the flavoring, giving the whole candy a lightness rather than the heaviness which m&m's usually possess.
Overall, the Mars corporation strikes and wins again with another great candy creation! These exist for a limited time only, so really you should go out and try them now. I found them in the checkout aisle at Walgreens.

http://www.csnews.com/csn/products/confections/product_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003682376

I am not too wild for cherries, but...

Despite the fact that cherry is one of the most widespread artificial flavors, I have never been a fan. However, I boisterously applaud the Mars corporation for their brillant idea! The new limited edition wild cherry m&m's are certainly special.
These m&m's are a little larger and rounder than usual, and they are colored a beautiful blood red. Seriously, the color is almost exactly like the color of a real cherry. The people who made this color should get an award. In fact, I hereby declare the color scientists who spent hours in the lab devising the formula to make this gorgeous color the recipients of my blog's award of excellence.
The flavor of this candy is not just a generic lame cherry flavor that you get on lolly pops at the doctor's office. Instead, it is a flavor that tastes more like the chocolate covered cherry cordials that old ladies give to trick or treaters. It is extremely accurate. --the closest cherry flavor to actual cherry that I have ever encountered.
If I liked cherry flavor, then I would love these m&m's. Even with my dislike for cherry flavor, the flavor is so good that I still kind of like these m&m's. This candy is a fantastic idea with perfect execution. I hope that perhaps there will be more limited edition flavored m&m's in the future. A mint version would be great!
Here's a silly corporate website: website: http://www.m-ms.com/us/wildcherry/

p.s. I just found out that a previous limited edition flavor was raspberry! yum! I wish I could have tried them!

unique and delicious!

The two dollar price tag on this little box of gum didn't even phase me. How could I pass up the opportunity to experience a pomegranate and lemon-aid artificial flavor combination? I was not dissapointed; this extravagant purchase was worth every penny. The gum, which comes in a fancy plastic box, is coated by a hard outer shell, from which the intense fruit flavors burst forth when chewed. The sweet of the pomegranate is perfectly balanced by the tart of the lemon, giving the gum both the zing of citrus and the exotic taste of pomegranate. Who knew that such different fruits could form such a winning combination!? The only drawback to this product is the strange aftertaste left by the artificial sweeteners (which is to be expected with any sugar-free candy.) I love artificial flavors, but sugar should always be real.
In addition to a having a completely unique and delicious flavor, this gum is also nutritious, including 10% of the daily values of both vitamin c and zinc! I reccomend it highly.

my drink of choice

Why drink regular old alchohol when you could drink an exciting flator of soda with a little alchohol in it? Boone's Farm has enough sugar to give you a first-class sugar high for 10 minutes, and enough alchohol to put you to sleep for an hour. It's the perfect bottle to carry with you on a cloudy day in a field where you can first take a brisk jog and then lie on some soft moss and rest your weary tipsy bones.

I enjoy Strawberry Daquiri. It's almost as good as plain old Fanta Strawberry Soda. Watermelon is very very nice as well, but the only adjective to truly describe the vast array of Boone's Farm flavors is DELICIOUS! If you want to feast your tongue on artificial flavorings and feast your eyes on gorgeous artificial colors, try any of the following flavors!

Apple Blossom, Blackberry Ridge, Blueberry, Blue Hawaiian, Country Kwencher, Fuzzy Navel, Hard Lemonade, Kiwi Strawberry, Mango Grove, Melon Ball, Mountain Berry, Orange Hurricane, Pina Colada, Raspberry Hard Lemonade, Sangria, Snow Creek Berry
Strawberry Daiquiri, · Strawberry Margarita, Sun Peak Peach, Wild Island, Wild Raspberry.

I really wonder what Country Kwencher tastes like!? Also, What could Wild Island be? Let's go to a gas station and then to a mossy field and find out! If we wanna get doubly rushed with sugar and then doubly sleepy we can drink the Strawberry Hill flavor which has 9 percent alchohol instead of the usual 4!

Be sure to go join the Boone's Farm fanclub at http://www.boonesfarm.net/ !

Every Boone's Farm drinker will relate to the quotes in the testimonials section: http://www.boonesfarm.net/index_files/Page337.html

mints with which to wash your paws

Upon seeing Howard's Violet mints in the impulse buys section of a New Orlean's Walgreens, I knew that I had the next subject for my blog!

The C. Howard website describes the mints as having a "floral flavor and fragrance which makes for a unique candy experience." While I agree with the use of the word "unique," I hold strong objections to the use of the word "candy."

The general consensus among the New Orleans crowd was negative. Most tasters noted the strong soapy flavor. Laylee stated, "It tastes like soapy water!" She also commented on the "longlasting aftertaste," which left her mouth tasting like she had downed a bottle of dial. In Memphis, things didn't go too much better as my mother scrunched up her face, remarking that the mint tasted, "very medicinal, and was, "horrible."

I agree with the negative feelings amongst the tasters. The Violet mint experience for me was extremely soapy, BUT the flavor and scent of this soap is most definitely a lovely violet. Perhaps these are not really mints at all. I will put them in the bathroom and see if people wash their hands with them.

Still in the midst of the suds, there is hope for the Violet mints, as Jo commented that, "it tastes better after the initial soap taste goes away." Better yet, my loveable round-bellied father believed that the violet was a rather weak attempt at a grape flavor and stated, "I'd have another one if someone offered one to me!"

http://www.chowardcompany.com/products.htm

FIZZIX: the future

During our weekly stroll through Kroger, Laylee, Brock, and I stumbled across a dollar fifty managers special on FIZZIX fizzing lowfat yougurt snack. Carbonated yogurt?!? We HAD to experience it ourselves. We chose the 'blueberry rage' flavor, (because of the reference to RATM) and we checked out. With EXTREME CURIOSITY, we sat in Brock's car in the parking lot and opened the tubes. Laylee and I were filled with utter enthusiasm for this exicitng new product, but Brock had some trepidations.

As the cool, fizzing substance hit my tongue, I began to literally laugh out loud. I could hardly believe what I was feeling as the yogurt bubbled like a witch's caldouron on my tastebuds. Laylee had a similar response of elation and disbelief. She seemed to enjoy the sensation, also stating that, the FIZZIX "is not so much fizzy as it is dangerous!" Filled with fear, Brock was the last to make the plunge into the universe of fizz. He was not a fan, comparing FIZZIX to "gooey bubble gum."

When all is sucked and done, I think that this product is TOTALLY RAADDIICAALL! It is one of the strangest things I have ever eaten. The flavors are interesting (nothing new), but the texutre is so revolutionary that.....I don't even have words to describe it. Laylee, a woman with a taste for living on the edge, appreciated the riskiness of this snack, even commenting that, "If you let your tongue hang out in the tube for long enough, it starts to sting!" While Brock's opinion was more negative, that's okay with me, because he gave me the other nine-tenths of his unsucked FIZZIX. With the weight of responsible journalism on my shoulders, I decided it was necessary for me to finish his tube, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Carbonated food is the future: soon there will be carbonated chicken and bubbling grapefruits.