SPOTTED: Joy Chocolate Chip Cookie Cones
Joy Cone Co. has been around for over a hundred years, but this year is the first time I’ve ever heard of them. Geez, I really have to do my homework on ice cream cone makers. (Spotted by Robbie at H-E-B.)
COMING SOON: Mystery Flavor Sour Patch Kids
Update: We tried it! Click here to read our review.
Sour Patch Kids now has a mystery flavor and without even tasting it, I’m going to guess pineapple.
Much like Pringles did with its mystery flavor promotion, there’s a cash prize involved if you guess the flavor correctly…and get picked among the hundreds or even thousands of other people who also figured it out. If you’re able to guess the Sour Patch Kids mystery flavor, you could be entered for a chance to win $50,000 and other instant prizes.
From now through July, the Mystery Kid will be revealing weekly clues via Sour Patch Kids’ social media. So if you want to be THAT PERSON who enters the contest without even purchasing a bag of Sour Patch Kids, you can be that person who doesn’t spend the $2.36, which is the suggested retail price for an 8-ounce bag.
The first clue is: It gives laughs and can be a riot, cause when it flies nobody’s silent. (Ugh. It better not be fart-flavored.)
The mystery flavor bags are available at retailers nationwide and folks can submit their flavor guesses at Mystery.SourPatchKids.com. The flavor will be revealed in August.
(Thanks to Sour Patch Kids for the info and images.)
REVIEW: Mystery Flavor Twizzlers
What are Mystery Flavor Twizzlers?
Uh, I have no idea. That’s kinda the point.
How are they?
I think this may be the most successful “Mystery” flavor gimmick of all time, because these Twizzlers taste like… nothing. I’m mystified. The mystery is how anyone could possibly come away from these with an idea of what they just tasted.
I’m gonna try to explain, but I’m not sure I’ll be successful.
There are really no clues on the boring packaging to go off of, so let’s start with what we know, these probably aren’t a flavor that Twizzlers has done before. Just going off the purpley-brown color rules out Strawberry, Cherry, Chocolate, Grape, and Raspberry. I can’t help but feel like a standard fruit wouldn’t be worthy of a mystery flavor anyway.
The smell, which is infinitely stronger than the taste, reminded me of something familiar. I ultimately decided it was Hawaiian Punch.
Tastewise? Man, these just taste like bad Twizzlers.
Twizzlers don’t really bash you over the head with flavor as it is, they just taste like twisted leathery plastic more than anything. If I was blindfolded, I would think I was eating a regular red Twizzler from a bad batch. I tried really hard to concentrate, but my brain just kept thinking, “Oh, this is a Twizzler!”
They’re not sweet, they’re not especially fruity, and there’s just nothing distinct about them.
This could be fruit punch, but it literally packs zero punch, and I don’t think that’s unique enough to base a Mystery Flavor campaign around. Fruit Punch isn’t exciting, and this was, frankly, more like a fruit slap. Nah, it was more of a “poke,” to be honest.
Perhaps I was swayed by the color, but I thought maybe it could be a soda-based flavor. Perhaps cola or Dr Pepper? Ya know what, my final guess is Cherry Cola.
Anything else you need to know?
Nope, scratch that, Wikipedia claims Twizzlers briefly had a Cherry Cola flavor in 2006. Unless this is a rehash of that, I guess I’m just gonna stick with Fruit Punch Poke.
I honestly feel like this could be a prank, with the flavor being “nothing.” That would actually be hilarious.
I’m not kidding. I waited a week to write this review because I wanted to keep eating these while my taste buds were fresh. They always tasted like a sugarless red Twizzler with ZERO aftertaste.
Conclusion:
So, like all great mysteries, this one ends… with zero resolution?!
Twizzlers were a perfect brand to try the mystery thing – they’re literally twists! I don’t know how they failed so miserably.
Please try these and help me understand what the heck I’ve been eating. I’ll revisit them after every guess because I’m definitely gonna have these lying around for a while. At least I’ll have some environmentally safe drinking straws to sip cherry cola through if I could actually manage to tug-o-war another one out of the sticky bag.
Purchased Price: $1.98
Size: 16 oz bag
Purchased at: Walmart
Rating: 4 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (3 Pieces) 120 calories, 0.5 grams of fat, 0 gram of trans fat, 0 gram of saturated fat, 70 milligrams of sodium, 27 grams of total carbohydrates, 14 grams of sugar, 0 grams of fiber, and 1 gram of protein.
COMING SOON: Kellogg’s Special K Dipped Chocolatey Almond Cereal
Later this month, Kellogg’s Special K will debut its Dipped Chocolatey Almond cereal that features chocolatey dipped cereal flakes. According to the press release, it’s the first time dipped cereal flakes are showing up in the US market.
But the cereal isn’t just chocolatey dipped flakes, it also contains cocoa-dusted flakes, and almond slices. The new Special K product will be available in two sizes: a 13.1 oz box ($3.99 suggested retail price) and a 19.2 oz box ($4.99 suggested retail price).
So now that dipped flakes are a thing, when is Kellogg’s going to use this chocolatey coating cereal flake technology on another popular flake cereal it makes.
Yes, I’m talking about Raisin Bran.
I’m definitely not talking about Frosted Flakes or Corn Flakes.
(Thanks to Kellogg’s for the info and images.)
BACK ON SHELVES: Mtn Dew DEW-S-A (2021)
Apparently, this was going to return last year for the 2020 Olympics, but got pushed back to this year. DEW-S-A debuted in 2017. Back then, Mtn Dew was making it habit to add artificial sweeteners to its limited edition flavors to lower their sugar count, which made many Dew fans upset. According to Michael F, who turned in these photos, this version of DEW-S-A has been reformulated without the artificial sweeteners. So DEW-S-A! DEW-S-A! (Spotted by Michael F at Walmart.)