Mints from Korea

herb mints
Originally uploaded by inajeep.

I really tried these and while I tried to stay away from mint reviews these were interesting. Bought in Korea they have multi layered ingredients that I can not identify because I can't read Korean. The flavor is memorable and not wholly unpleasant but it's not something you normally find in a mint. It tastes familiar but I could quite place the herb. Kinda like oregano/basil/clove.

grapefruit candy

grapefruit candy
Originally uploaded by inajeep.

This is hard candy and with the ringing endorsement of "Refreshing in throat" you really can't go wrong.

A review is pending....

peanut buttered roast squid

peanut buttered roast squid
Originally uploaded by inajeep.

Ummm, I won't review this unless I am really bored, drunk or both. I have it and believe the way the squid is prepared it's good for about 30 years. I just can't bring myself to try it.

Coming Soon....

Weird candy. I'm getting my studio ready to take some photos of candy that may or may not qualify as candy. Taste tests are at my sole discretion.

Nutty Peanut Butter Bar

Name: Nutty peanut Butter Bar
Company: Little Debbie / McKee Foods
Presentation?: Plain yellow with white pattern on the background. Green bar. Snack Smart stamp

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Chocolate, peanut butter, rice

Texture? Chewy

Flavor? Not much of it. Tasted peanut butter as an aftertaste among other things.

Price? .80 US - Small

Worth it? No

Category - Candy Bar/Nutrition Bar

Rating: Won't buy again

Notes: The candy bar is mascarading as a health/nutrition based bar. It's does have things like zinc and some other things good for you but the flavor is not something I want to experience again. it's not bad but it's just not good. If I needed a nutrition bar, maybe because it's cheaper than a bunch others out there but that's not my goal in eating a candy bar.

Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar

Name: Reese's Crispy Cruncy Bar
Company: Reeses's
Presentation?: Typical Reese's wrapper. Heavy on the orange and yellow.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Chocolate, Crispy peanut butter candy, peanuts

Texture? Soft and crunchy.

Flavor? Very Good! A little overly sweet. Lots of peanut butter and peanut flavor.

Price? 1$ US - Larger size so I guess there is a smaller one somewhere.

Worth it? Yes!

Category - Candy Bar

Rating: Will buy again.

Notes: This candy bar is the closest I have had to the infamous Scrunch bars from Wonka. The peanut butter candy is light and crunchy. The opposite of a butterfinger. Since this is a brand new candy it was very fresh.

Candy Scabs?

http://store.candywarehouse.com/candyscabs.html

I haven't had a chance to buy this yet but I'm gonna buy it. I don't expect the flavor to be really good but it's a funny idea.

Free Dentyne Gum promo!

Promo Link (http://www.dentyne.com/agecheck.asp)

I dont' know how long it's for but you can choose from Peppermint, Cinnomon or Wintergreen or at least their marketing speak for those flavors. It asks for you Birthday, address(of course) and an email address.

Cookies Reese's

Name: Cookies Reese's
Company: Hershey
Presentation?: Brown & orange wrapper with a picture of the cookies on the front

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? eBay WrapperCash

Content? Chocolate cookie with Reese's peanut butter on top wrapped chocolate.

Texture? Fresh cookie, not hard. Perfect texture

Flavor? There's a party in my mouth.

Price? US $99

Worth it? Oh Yeah.

Category - Marketed at cookie but is really candy.

Rating: I must have more

Note: There are only 4 cookies and I couldn't wait till the end of this review to finish them. I will have to buy more very soon.

Scrunch Bars by Willy Wonka

I finally got some hits on google looking for my all time favorite candy bar. More importantly I was able to find the name and verify that it contained peanut butter. Yes, it was so good it survived 20+ years in my brain but not without some damage like I had forgotten the name and ingredients. Still kinda scarce info on it and no photos.

They could have been more like Scrumdelicious Bars but maybe my mind is dredging up info from the movie.

Gertrude Hawk Peanut Butter Fudge

Name:Gertrude Hawk Peanut Butter Fudge
Company: Gertrude Hawk
Presentation?: Old fashion checkered pattern two color.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Peanut butter fudge.

Texture? Each one I tried was a perfect texture and consistency.

Flavor? Yes! #1 favorite.

Price? Worth it at any price but it's about $3 for a large 4" diameter circle. Puts me in mind of an oversized ReecesPeanut Butter cup.

Worth it? Hell Yeah.

Category - Fudge

Rating: Will sell own mother to get some.


Note: This is my all time favorite. I've had other store bought peanut butter fudge but this one always is fresh and tastes fantastic. It's not overly sweet and I usually have to pace myself from gobbling the entire portion down. I'm just glad they don't sell it in large blocks of it or I'd experience serious financial and medical problems

Cocoa Pete's Maltimus Maximus

Name: Maltimus Maximus
Company: Cocoa Pete's
Presentation?: Cardboard rectangle box with a tanish color with a easy open tear off portion. Not cheap looking or feel.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Malt and milk chocolate

Texture? Good and malty.

Flavor? Good!

Price? 3.20$ US - Expensive! I got ripped.

Worth it? Yes! but only as a treat.

Category - Bite size round nuggets.

Rating: I must have more.

Notes: I ate them too quickly and I want more. I bought them from a Deli in Portland, Oregon that specializes in good food and beer. Interestinginly, this candy treat was created by the maker of Pete's Wicked Ale. I'm a bigger fan of Malted Milk Balls because there is less chocolate.

Cocoa Pete's Nuts So Serious

Name: Nuts So Serious
Company: Cocoa Pete's
Presentation?: Cardboard rectangle box with a pistacio greenish color with a easy open tear off portion. Not cheap looking or feel.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content?Hazelnut butter, pistachio and chocolate

Texture? Great, nutty.

Flavor? Very Very Good!

Price? 3.20$ US - Expensive!

Worth it? Yes! but only as a treat.

Category - Bite size round nuggets.

Rating: I must have more.

Notes: I ate them too quickly and I want more. I bought them from a Deli in Portland, Oregon that specializes in good food and beer. Interestinginly, this candy treat was created by the maker of Pete's Wicked Ale.

Cadbury's Snack Shortcake

Name: Snack Shortcake
Company: Cadbury
Presentation?: Yellow wrapper, eye catching but nothing special.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? N/A

Content? Shortcake covered in chocolate

Texture? The chocolate was fresh as well as the shortcake.

Flavor? Good to very good.

Price? No price. Bought from Belmont Station in Portland Oregon. Specializes in UK candy products and lots and lots of beers!

Worth it? Yes

Category - Candy bar

Rating: Yum.

Note: Great texture and easier to eat then a packet of Keeblar's version which is sold as a cookie.

Hershey's Kissables

Name: Hershey's Kissables
Company: Hershey
Presentation?: Silver soft package. Very colorful candy. Red, Yellow, Orange, blue. Shapped like little pyramids or Kisses. The candy itself looks a little mishappen. They would really work in cookies.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? What make this candy special? Chocolate and a thin candy coating

Texture? Nice, not a hard stale choclate and the candy coating isn't thick enough to be annoying when crunched.

Flavor? Good chocolate. Standard from Hershey.

Price? US currency .80 from a candy machine at work.

Worth it? Yeah or Nah

Category - Loose.

Rating: Good. Will buy again under the right circumstances.

Notes: Candy coated milk chocolate much like a plain M&M. I perfer M&M peanuts I wouldn't buy these instead of M&Ms. I have to say that the texture and a little nicer than M&Ms and I would buy them instead of plain M&Ms to go with Popcorn.

Jaw Buster

by Ferra Pan -
Jaw breaker of multiple colors. Sold individually. No sour tart in the middle like most others.

Ferrero Rocher - Fine Hazelnut Chocolates

Little golden foil wrapped orbs of chocolately goodness. mmmmmm

Name: Ferrero Rocher Company: Rocher They are located in Sumerset, NJ !!! Presentation: Round golden tin wrapped balls. Content? What make this candy special? Hazelnut in the center surrounded by a very fine smooth chocolate. Texture: Wonderful, the crispy thin shell of chocolate with finely chopped nuts mixed in crunches easily. The hazel nut is not hard on the teeth. Flavor? Excellent! Price: $99 for 3 but during the holidays they sell them in larger numbers and different configurations (pyramids, boxes, etc) Worth it? Yes, my absolute favorite candy. Category - One bite but some with a more refined sense might use 2 bites. Rating: I must have more.

Reeses's Peanut Butter Lovers

Will be reviewing this candy shortly.

Hershey, PA H.B. Reese Candy Co.
Peanut Butter colored wrapper.
Limited Edition
Taste, Vote and Win. Never tells you what you win except at the very end of the details on the back of the wrapper. Trip to hershey, Pa or a t-shirt.

Chew-ets Peanut Chews

Name: Chew-ets Peanut Chews
Company: Just Born. Inc - Previously from GoldenBergs
Presentation?: Wrapper is red but not brightly so. Peanut Chews name is yellow and orange faded letters. I give it a middle of the road rating. Nothing memorable

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? No.

Content? Peanuts, dark chocolate, nougat,

Texture? Chewy and more chewy

Flavor? Brings back memories of eating them. Still hurts my teeth too. Dark chocolate cuts the sweetness.

Price? US .60 from store.

Worth it? Yeah

Category - 5 peices of rectangled bite sized Candy bar like goodness

Rating: I must have more.

Notes: This is a nostalga candy for me Carmel/nuget like substance with peanuts wrapped in a dark chocolate. There is plenty of sugar but you don't get an overly sweet feeling from it. My mom used to bring them home when I was a little kid. The candy is made in Pennsylvania and I Goldbergs was bought by a rival Just Born Inc who makes marshmellow peeps, Mike & Ikes and Hot Tomalies. I don't see this candy at all much outside of the area but now it's a new company, who knows. The competive version of this product wasn't as hard and was milk chocolate. I'm glad they went w/ the old receipie.

TAKE5

Name: Take 5
Company: Hershey's
Presentation?: Red wraper w/ title in gold and white. Nice and professional but a little subdued. It put me in mind of the 100,000 grand bar wrapper.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Pretzels, Carmel, peanuts, peanut butter, milk chocolate

Texture? Great flavor, pretzel is fresh and crunchy w/out being too hard. It's not tough to chew and the flavors are disernable.

Flavor? MMMMMM

Price? .99 US

Worth it? Yes!

Category - Candy bar

Rating: I must have more.

Notes: This is a keeper. It comes in two smaller bars. I finally found a new candy bar worth buying. It's light and easy to eat (unlike a full-size snickers) and it contains the right amount of ingredients. I'd buy this over most other candy bars.