One of the newest limited edition candies on the block are the Carnival Skittles. They immediately stand out in their playful yellow wrapper amongst all the other candies and I was lucky enough to find them in a convenience store that is close to where I work.
The package happily displays the flavors of a “carnival”: Bubble Gum, Cotton Candy, Green Slushie, Candy Apple, and Red Licorice. The smell of the opened package is very sweet and fruity and it’s hard to distinguish any of the flavors in the aroma. The candies are really pretty; whoever chose the colors did a great job with the color palette.
Red Licorice (red): How can I describe this one except that it tastes of red licorice? Really. It has that mysterious blend of fruity/floral/sweet flavors that makes red licorice too addicting. The only thing that spoils the illusion is the texture. Yum!
Bubble Gum (pink): Very fresh and tastes exactly like pink bubble gum. I even get that cool, chewy texture sensation in my mouth as I eat it, but that could easily be my overactive imagination since the flavor is so real. I really enjoyed this one, which is odd since I’m not big on bubble gum.
Candy Apple (yellow): Sweet is the first flavor, but that soon mellows out into a fresh golden delicious apple taste. Don’t be fooled, this is not the same sort of apple flavor you find in gum and Jolly Ranchers. This isn’t tart or sour, but sweet and mild.
Green Slushie (green): This tastes of a very concentrated lemon lime soda. Starts out with a nice tart lime flavor and finishes out with a sweet aftertaste. It’s tangy, but in a subtle way, similar to how carbonation fizzes on your tongue.
Cotton Candy (blue): Very sweet and has a subtle berry aftertaste to it. Classic example of how a sugar candy manages to carry a slight flavor yet still taste of just sugar. It might be my imagination, but this really captures the tastes of pink fuzzy cotton candy.
I was very pleasantly surprised with these. I’m not a big Skittles fan to begin with, so I was pleased with how much I ended up liking these. I think it’s partly due to the fact that it’s hard to fail at flavoring candy after candy. So if you see these, be sure to give them a try. I’ll certainly be reaching for more!
I found these at a Dollar Store, and I was really surprised at how much I liked them!
July 6th, 2007 at 9:10 amOh my god. These look amazing! But I don’t really associate green slushies with carnivals. I would have done SnoCone, Funnel Cake, and… “Cakewalk” maybe.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:59 pmOh, and the packaging is kind of AMAZING.
July 6th, 2007 at 3:00 pmI’d love to try those! They sound really good, like the ice cream flavoured ones they had a few summers ago. :)
July 7th, 2007 at 4:27 pmReading this is almost like spoiling them for myself, but as if I wasn’t psyched enough for your incoming box Sera, well…now I’m…really psyched? Yeah, can’t wait!
July 8th, 2007 at 6:20 pmWe have these in Australia also, same colours but the flavours are different – red is jam donut, pink is fairy floss (cotton candy), blue is bubble gum, green is toffee apple, and yellow is buttered popcorn. I’m not a fan of the bubble gum flavour either, but it’s not too bad in skittle form *grin*
July 9th, 2007 at 8:34 amI too am not a fan of skittles, normally. I tried these at the reccomendation of my sister, and last night my husband found the large size bag of this flavor at Wal-mart. These skittles must have crack in them, because they are addicting.
July 24th, 2007 at 6:32 pmI’ve tried those before. there awesome. especially the the green slushie ones.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:38 pmDude I need those! But there is hardly any limited edition candy where I live.:-\ Ohh well ill keep searching
July 28th, 2007 at 10:25 pmwow, the wierdest thing. I live In Newfoundland Canada, and we got the exact same flavours of skittles, but they wherent called carnival, nor where they in a yellow package. The packaging was actually black, and it just said “Limited edition flavours” All the names and flavours where identical though. Go figure.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:12 pmi live in london and the skittles are boring when i went america they had such sesational flavored sweets its just nothing like it.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:50 amwow! I like the packaging and the sound of these…I’m from the UK so we only get the ‘Original Fruits’ and ‘Crazy Sours’ flavours. I wish they would bring these and the other varieties to this country I certainly would buy them!!!
June 15th, 2008 at 8:12 amI once ate them, when a friend of mine bought them from the easters show. I live in Australia, by the way. But the flavours from the packaging was different.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 pmPink Cotton Candy- The pink colour
Green Apple Toffee-The green colour
Jam Donunt-The red colour
Bubblegum- The blue colour
Popcorn-The yellow colour (A friend gorge herself silly, and so when she was offered more of the popcorn flavour, she refused…LOL)
i wonder i think the chocolate skittles are nasty
September 29th, 2008 at 8:29 pmeugh americans are so lucky.. we had those… they were okay except for jam donut and popcorn… erf… popcorn… yuck. oh yeah and sensations or whatever they are called? chilli and berry and mint and rasberry do not go togeter.. chilli berry skittles made me sick…
October 5th, 2008 at 4:33 amdo they still sell these? i desperately need them
November 26th, 2009 at 5:30 am