I saw a commercial for these on TV during my recent trip to Boston. A fiber candy to replace products like Metamucil? Sounds nasty. Luckily, the TV commercial listed a website so I looked into it a bit. The website says:
Tastes like candy. And it’s fiber. FiberChoice Fiber Drops give you more fiber than other supplements. And the sweet orange flavor makes fiber so much easier to take.
How about that slogan – “Tastes like candy. And it’s fiber. ” I just have an image in my mind of candy-coated Frosted Mini Wheats . Anyway, if this interests you at all, drop by the website and you can sign up for a FREE SAMPLE of fiber candy! WooHoo! I signed up and my free sample is on the way. More on this topic when my sample arrives…
A few days after writing my original post on the new Bacon and Rotten Egg flavors of Bertie Bott’s (from Harry Potter) Jelly Belly jellybeans, my wife bought a pack for me to try. I have tried Jelly Belly jellybeans before, but I had never tried the Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. Turns out I was in for a treat (and I use the term loosely). Jelly Belly describes the pack as
A 1.6 oz. box of beans featuring 20 different flavors. Joining the Bertie Bott’s lineup are two new flavors: Rotten Egg (yuck!) and Bacon. Also included are milder flavors such as Green Apple, Grape Jelly, and Blueberry. Note: Boxes are randomly assorted and may not contain every flavor.
For this review, I’m only going to cover the “gross” flavors, if you have had Jelly Belly jellybeans before, you know what the good ones taste like.
PICTURE
FLAVOR
DESCRIPTION
Bacon
This truly did taste like bacon… just sweeter, and a bit gross. This was edible though not tasty.
Black Pepper
This too tasted just like its flavor – just like black pepper you would sprinkle on your food – only sweeter. In fact, the ingredient list includes black pepper.
Booger
I was expecting this to be thoroughly gross but instead it was rather tasteless as far as jellybeans go. I actually kept this one down and didn’t think this was too bad (but it wasn’t good). I’m not sure what that says about me.
Dirt
This one too tasted a lot like dirt. How I know what dirt tastes like, I’m not sure. This one too was edible, but not at all tasty. I did manage to keep it down.
Earthworm
I really wasn’t sure what this one would taste like, not ever having tried to eat an earthworm. I wasn’t surprised though when I had to spit it out after only a few chews. Wow – that was bad.
Earwax
Here’s another that I really had no idea what to expect. I figured it would be bad though. I was right. I gave it a couple chews and out it came. No way was I eating that one.
Grass
I didn’t actually get to try this one. There was only one in the box and my sister-in-law wanted to try it so I let her. She said it did taste a lot like grass and she was able to keep it in and not spit it out.
Rotten Egg
One of the worst smells you can think of, rotten egg is a smell everyone knows and hates. I was expecting this one to be bad, really bad. It was. I think I chewed it once or twice and I had to spit it out. It’s amazing the flavors they can “create”. Wow – I needed some water to get that taste out of my mouth.
Sardine
As I’ve said before, I don’t really like seafood, so I expected this one to be a spitter-outter and I was right. It was awful. It’s uncanny how much it tasted like seafood. YUCK.
Soap
Unfortunately(?), since the boxes are random and you are not guaranteed to get all flavors, I didn’t get any soap-flavored beans in my pack. It’s a shame too, I could have used some soap to wash out the other tastes.
Vomit
This was the one I was really dreading. I had read on the web somewhere about someone trying this and not being able to get the taste out of their mouth for two days. I fully expected to have to spit this one out, and it was bad, but not so bad I had to spit it out. It did taste like vomit (I can’t believe I’m writing that), it just wasn’t overwhelming enough to make me sick. I guess that’s a good thing.
These were sooo much fun to try. I tried a few one night with my four year old daughter and we had such a good time trying them. The others I tried with my family and my in-laws the night before Thansgiving and it was so much fun. I encourage you to get a box of these for your kid(s) and try them yourself too. Have fun with your kids and with some candy!
Unlike other mints where you have to build the MP3 player yourself, Frisk mints has come out with an official MP3 player that looks just like the Frisk mints package. It sports 256MB of storage, an FM-tuner, an OLED display, and a USB port. More details can be found at Gizmodo.
Being in the U.S., I had never heard of Frisk mints, so I poked around a bit and found the Frisk Power Mints website. Evidently, Frisk is a mint that was started in Belgium and they are available in Europe, Japan, and possibly elsewhere. They are sugar-free and come in Peppermint, Lime Mint and Euca Menthol, Orange Mint, Salmiak Violet, Spearmint, White(?), and Sweetmint, and have a really cool-looking dispenser (seen on their homepage). According to what I read online, they are not quite as strong as Altoids. Their slogan was (is)? “one mint will freshen your breath, but two will kill you” and “the idea behind the marketing is that for meeting a girl, take one mint, but if you’re meeting God, take two.” Since the chances that I will get to try a Frisk mint is slim, if you have tried Frisk mints, please feel free to write a mini-review for us in the comments section.
Speaking of mints, I’ve been on a mint kick lately and have two new mint reviews waiting in the wings. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: Be sure and take a look at the first Frisk commercial on the Frisk website. It’s hilarious!
I can only think of a few occasions that I have eaten marshmallows – very occasionally by themselves, but more often in other things like hot chocolate, rice crispy treats, on peanut butter and fluff sandwiches, in chocolate candy bars, in s’mores, and in cereal (Lucky Charms!). Marshmallows just aren’t something I eat solo.
Enter Plush Puffs – the gourmet marshmallows. Is that an oxymoron? Gourmet marshmallows? Not according to the makers of Plush Puffs. These marshmallows are truly gourmet. They come in a variety of different flavors such as Caramel Swirl, Chocolate Chipetta, Maple Pecan, Orange Honey, Peppi-Mint, Toasted Coconut, Sydney’s Cinnamon, Vanilla Bean, and Sam’s Sour Lemon.
I recently got to try all of these flavors of Plush Puffs, and I was surprised at their dense texture. The only marshmallows I have eaten are the ones that come in the big bag in the grocery store and these are much different. I had heard that you could make your own marshmallows from scratch but I wondered why you would want to. Now I know why.
I tried all of the flavors by themselves and they were all very good, but the Plush Puffs website suggests many different uses for the marshmallows in recipes and I think they truly shine in the recipes. My wife tried a Honey Orange marshmallow in a cup of hot chamomile tea – she said it was very good, but she put too much marshamallow in it so it was too sweet.
I tried the Maple Pecan toasted on top of a pancake as the website suggested and it was really good. I also tried a Peppi-Mint marshmallow in a cup of hot chocolate and that too was great. The Plush Puffs website lists many different recipes to use the Plush Puffs in like using them in s’mores, melted on sweet potatoes, in coffee, rice krispy treats, marshmallow nachos, and lots more.
Plush Puffs would make a great Christmas gift for cooks looking for a new ingredient to lend some pizzazz to an old or new recipe, or anyone that just loves marshmallows. For gift-giving, you can choose a “Take two Combo” (two bags of Plush Puffs), or a gift basket that includes a basket of three bags of Plush Puffs. All of these are available for ordering online at the Plush Puffs website
