Ok so far in my Halloween challenge we have had biscuits,
chocolate and trepidation. I notice something missing there and in fact
something that’s worryingly rare for my blog as a whole. Can you guess what? If
not why not go back and read all my posts again, go on you know you want to.
For those of you not wanting to trawl through my blogging
archive (I don’t blame you) I’ll give you the answer. My blog is frightfully
devoid of all things chewy, it seems that I have rather favoured chocolates
above all. So when I saw these monstrously cool looking lollipops I thought
what better time to start to chew.
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| The monster looks a bit uncomfortable, there is a reason for this. |
Today’s products are described as marshmallow and jelly
decorated lollipops, they are essentially those jelly sweets with the hard
icing on top. They don’t exactly appeal too many but in a weird way I find the
crunch and taste of the cheap icing rather pleasing. I found two packs of two
and an offer that allowed me to justify purchasing both at once happy days are
here again folks.
So we have four different beasties here a bat, a witch,
Frankenstein’s MONSTER (guys it’s not Frankenstein he’s the scientist!!!) and a
mummy. They all look rather cool although the witch looks a bit orange and
cheerful to be an evil witch perhaps she’s just a trick or treater. These are
actually pretty impressive for their price as each is a different fruit flavour
too. Some are a bit devoid of icing the monster particularly is mainly jelly
but to be honest the designs are nicely done without it.
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| Which Witch is which? Hint- The one on the left. |
First up I tried the bat, he is the most “frightening” of
all four so I thought I’d better kill him off quick. It tasted how I remember
these jelly type pops to taste. Rather sugary with a nice squishy texture that
melts well and with the icing on top that adds an impressive crunch. I was surprised
by how nice the blackcurrant taste is. Not too sugary and not too artificial, a
nice balance has been struck. It has been a while since I’ve had these lollys. Perhaps significant developments
have gone on in the field. It is after all an essential if we want our society
to flourish!
Next up I tried the monster, unfortunately he fell off his
stick. However I can’t really blame him the stick had been strategically placed
where the sun doesn’t shine. He must have annoyed the moulder somewhat to
deserve this cruel and rather unusual punishment. I didn’t have the heart to resign
him to the torment and instead bit off his head! He didn’t have any real
flavour to him unfortunately to the point where I couldn’t even tell what he
was supposed to be. Added to this the lack of icing which seemed to just be his
socks meant he was rather dull as dishwater.
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| Attack bat gets his own photo shoot, blatant favoritism |
The witch went next, another good quality fruity jelly. She
had a taste of Tangerine weirdly not normal Orange, a bit too sweet perhaps. Not
artificially sugary, so still quite nice. She had the most icing too which I
relished in. Lastly we had the mummy, the biggest of the lot of them it had a
nice design. Although the eyes were a bit odd and looked more like a pig snout.
When I bit in I found a nice and subtle Vanilla marshmallow taste which made a
nice change from the fruit. Could have been a bit stronger perhaps, but
otherwise really nice.
Overall I was impressed by these lollipop offerings
especially as they are on offer. My favourite by far was the blackcurrant bat
who boasted a nice flavour and good amount of icing. However all were well
designed and didn’t have the artificial taste I had expected.
Score
8 out of 11
Found
Tesco's Halloween aisle on offer now!
Final Thoughts
I think all this sugars going to have me bouncing off the castle walls.
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