7/28/2023 0 Comments Nerds jelly beans![]() ![]() (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Dollar Tree! They apparently sell them at Target and other discount retailers too. Interestingly, I had a hard time finding them at first, looking at all the specialty candy stores and whatnot… I finally found them at. And yes, the “Giant Chewy Nerds” that the sell the rest of the year are indeed apparently the same thing. I have this year tried a few of the “specialty” one’s from Brach’s, like the Hawaiaan Punch ones (which to me taste too much like Kool-Aid for my preference) but by far my perennial favorite so far is the Nerds ones. I like the SweetTart ones and the Jolly Rancher ones. I like some of the Jelly Belly flavors, mostly because they’re unusual. so for several years I’ve been trying out all the different sorts, and some are better than others, I’ve found. I hardly ever eat candy, but I LOVE jelly beans! The “classic” jelly beans, like from Brach’s or whatever, really don’t interest me, because they mostly taste like compressed sugar (which, of course, they mostly are). Jelly, Sour, United States, Nestle, Easter These have a variety of artificial colors in them as well as Carmine, making them unsuitable for vegetarians. also has a review (and got hers at Target for $1.99) plus another review from Sugar Hi. I can find no mention of either of these products on the Wonka site (does that surprise anyone?). So, it looks like this is what they’re called in the “Non-Easter Season”. ![]() But the expiration is December 2008, so they were definitely fresh. I bought them, at first thinking they were a clearance item, perhaps a test marketing. The interesting news though is that while I was shopping at Walgreen’s a few weeks ago, I also found this little bag of Giant Chewy Nerds. (See the levels of testing at Candy Blog Labs that I go through?) The tartness gave me a tummy ache after about a quarter of the bag. Still, I found that I couldn’t eat as many of them as I can eat jelly beans. I enjoyed all the flavors (though picked around the green ones after I finished my review). I think they’re a great change-up from the milder jelly beans out there and will definitely appeal to kids, but are still palatable for adults. The centers are clear and have only a light flavor and a vague tartness to them. You can just pop them in your mouth and chew them up, or let them dissolve or nibble away at the crunchy coating. These are fun to eat because there are so many options. Let’s face it, there hasn’t been much innovation in the jelly bean world since Jelly Belly started adding more flavor by using both a flavored center and a flavored shell. Grape: fantastically artificial, like having a Grape Shasta (complete with a slight fizz mimicked by the crunchy shell). They are sour and do taste just like artificial green apple. Green Apple: my mix seemed to have an inordinate amount of these, which is too bad, because they were my least favorite. A nice sort of cotton candy delicate floral strawberry with a dose of sour power. Strawberry: I was afraid this was going to be cherry, it’s not quite the vivid red I photographed, just slightly on the pinker side of red. Lemon: the tartest of the bunch, it does kind of lose its zazz when I got to the end of chewing it up when it was just a big wad of sweet. Orange: a nice mellow orange flavor, with a rather tart flavor layer under the shell. The biggest contribution these beans have to the jelly bean pantheon is crunch. But they’re also vividly colored, so there’s no confusing any muted colors (is this pink or magenta?). They’re hard and have uneven textured shells. Yes, they look like freakish confectionery mistakes or maybe wads of leftover acrylic paint. Where regular jelly beans lack a flavorful punch, each Nerd has a tasty tart layer just below the candy shell. ![]() Where regular jelly beans lack texture, each Nerds Bumpy Jelly Bean has oodles of nooks & lumps on a crunchy candy shell. Nerds just don’t appeal to me much, part of it might be that they’re kind of hard to eat (maybe they should be sold in straws like Pixy Stix?), but I love the idea of them.
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