One of the many new products that were being displayed at the All Candy Expo was this new addition to the MARS family: Skittles Chocolate Mix. They were kind enough to give me a few samples and as I walked away from the booth I looked at the package with a strange sense of curiosity and confusion. I’m wondering how this all fits into “Tasting the Rainbow.” Is the new rainbow shades of brown?
Turning the package onto its back, I see it comes in five flavors: S’mores, Chocolate Pudding, Chocolate Caramel, Vanilla and Brownie Batter. How they consider “Vanilla” a chocolate flavor is beyond me. I’m seeing loopholes already and I haven’t even tasted them yet!
Once back home from the Expo, I gathered my courage and decided these strange new Skittles needed to be tasted. When I opened the packet I was surprised. They actually smell a little coffee-ish as opposed to cocoa or chocolate. I was expecting more of a hot cocoa mix of a smell, since they’re chocolate flavored and all, but I guess I was wrong!
I poured them all out and immediately organized them by flavor. The brownie batter and the chocolate pudding were a little hard to tell apart, maybe because I was using bad lighting, but the former is a dark brown and the latter had a reddish tint to it. S’mores was the most common flavor by far and outnumbered the others followed by a tie with brownie batter and chocolate pudding, then vanilla, with chocolate caramel coming in last with only five pieces.
Smores: Sweet at first, but once you start chewing it a graham cracker-like flavor appears. There’s a tiny hint of toastiness to it too. No chocolate flavor to be found.
Vanilla: Very buttery. I feel like I’m eating cake frosting with this. Very, very sweet.
Chocolate Pudding: Pretty flavorless. I chewed these and smacked my mouth quite a few times trying to find the flavor. It’s just sweet, with a hint of cocoa, but it’s practically not there. Disappointing.
Brownie Batter: Ugh… this tastes like… someone took fake, store-bought chemical-y brownie mix and blended in a tablespoon of cold butter. Maybe that’s what brownie batter tastes like to some people, but whoever it was obviously never had the homemade stuff. Yuck.
Chocolate Caramel: Again, this just tastes sweet. I don’t get any chocolate flavor or any sort of caramelized/burnt/milky sugar. Just sweet.
I feel strangely about these. My two favorite flavors of the bunch, the Vanilla and the S’mores, didn’t taste of chocolate at all (not that they should have, considering that only 1/3 of a S’mores is chocolate and vanilla is, well, vanilla) and the other three didn’t even have any flavor – much less chocolate flavor. So try these if you’re curious because they’re not awful by any means. (For the record, I did finish the entire bag.) These just aren’t chocolatey like I expected. I imagine there will be many people who will enjoy these, but I’m just not one of them.
wow CHOCKALATE Skittles? i ONLY JUST heard of it im glad i google random stuff i wanna try them soooooooooooo bad !!!
but (tear-drop) i m wearing BRACES~!!!!!!!!!! ahhhh im almost crying now i wonder if they’re gonna come out with topping flavors like butterskotch and carmal and strraberry ah thatssss RIGHT they already do have strawberry but u know a different type!……………….
HOPEFULLY they dont try sushi! ha id STILL try it tho!!!!! ha i wanna try the ice cream flave tho…….. sounds good………….. mmmmmmmm……….. yep frist thing 1ce i lose the braces im eating ALL the flavors of skittle ha
These are kinda okay — I don’t see a chocolate skittles addiction coming on, but they’re OK. Sour Skittles are really the only kinda Skittles that need to be on the market :O)
I’ve changed my mind. 1/2 a bag is all i can tolerate. This stuff is pretty uneventful — give me fruit skittles!
Chocolate Skittles Are Simply The WORST candy EVER!!! Don’t Buy Em’ They Are A Complete Waste Of Money!!!
I have been eating Skittles for as long as I can remember, probably close to 20 years, and I say these are the worst things I have ever tasted. I don’t see these lasting long at all.
The worst candy ive ever tasted in my life i like the rest of them better when i saw there was a new one i thought it was going to be good and all but when i had them in my mouth i spit them out the second i chewed it once!! please i hope they dont make one like that again make a mint one or something i love mint its the best but please no more chocolate! the worst skittle ever in history! anyways im going to finish my red pack of skittles right now
Uggh! These things tasted like wax!
oh my god. i totally agree with you. i only ate a few of them. none of them tasted like chocolate at all. i just wrote skittles and told them they should have left chocolate to m&m’s. and that all of the flavors just tasted like corn syrup. blech.
i really like them people say that they taste gross but you really got to get into the flavor not just popping one in your mouth but a couple of the same kind like the chocolate pudding one that’s mine and my brothers favorite and it’s a strong taste for me but i kinda gotta agree with most people it sounds really gross like the chiocolate pudding one that just didnt work for me at the first but when i tasted it it was good
Because of Halloween, the new product “Chocolate Mix” ‘Skittles’ invaded my home. Having always loved and respected the product I shrugged and threw a few in my mouth. I’m not sure what I expected but a mouthful of mushy sugar-tasting sugar was not it. The fruit flavored Skittles in a Rainbow of colors is a happier product than the depressing spectrum of light brown to dark brown. Perhaps this product is not marketed to people with taste buds– like small children who will eat paste or Crayons; but I really resent these little rabbit pellets being marketed any where in civilized society. New Hope, Pa.
I am completely addicted to chocolate skittles! I bought them in fun size bc of Halloween and now have a ton left over…I can’t stop eating them but I better soon. They are haunting me.
Omg , I love being a human being! :D:D Look at what we are discussing here! It is so POINTLESS compared to anything else in the world but at the same time its SO interesting!
Btw, I bought a bag of chocolate skittles and they taste really weird…and I agree with the “loopholes” in terms of the whole chocolate concept! I mean… Vanilla is not a chocolate! neither is caramel, or even Smores (at least not that much). They should have made tropical flavours with a shell of chocolate, or just stuck to the tropical flavors.
I tried putting a few of them in my mouth to feel that “coffee flavor” someone was talking about, but I just burnt my tounge and now my stomach feels weird.
Too bad I bought such a big bag…! Oh well, I might just give it to some homeless guy.
Right now i’m eating them,they dont taste to good.
:S
they.
are.
gros.
the end.
anything chocolate works for me.
A coworker brought a case of these into work. I guess he didn’t like them. I don’t either.
I was on a road trips a few months ago and I saw these things in a gas station store. I thought, I love chocolate, I love skittles… lets see what these things are all about.
So, I bought them and opened them up on the road. First, what I was hoping was that these didn’t have the same funny chewy skittles texture.. I popped one in my mouth and was greatly disappointed to find they had the texture, and they were overly sweet… I decided with in the first few that I didn’t like these things. HOWEVER, I ate the whole bag just to try to find something I liked.. I didn’t.. the whole bag was a big disappointment and I will never buy them again.
Stick to the Rainbow, Skittles.
Oh, and I thought these were just as crappy as the mint ones.
Blah blah- these are not even sweet- just hard to chew! I dare say no chocolate was harmed during the making of these-
CHOCOLATE SKITTLES!! My enemy. I was a naive 3rd grader(I’m now in forth grade)chowing on my Halloween candy when I came across the chocolate skittles. I love chocolate and I love skittles so I thought these were gonna be great. Wrong assumption. I was barfing the rest of the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bad move,Mars. Bad move.
they tasted so good i kill my dog! ruff ruff, i ruv chocorate skitterls!
Chocolate Rain!! YUM!
Tay Zonday!