I realise I wrote about the sour sweets Lemonheads last week, well since then I have found some more sour sweets, and I think these may well be in a league of their own! They are also lemon in flavour, just about, but they make your face turn into the image on the front of the packaging!
I thought I would take you through the taste using a time scale so as to describe my thoughts throughout the experience.
- 0 to 1 seconds: Wow!!! Oh boy! Why would they make a ‘sweet’ that sharp. Can lemon burn? It is ridiculously sour, and causes me to have to fight an involuntary reaction to spit it out.
- 2 to 3 seconds: Oh my word that is sour, zingy, and tastes like a really nasty lemon flavoured acid.
- 4 to 5 seconds: Still a very sharp flavour, but notable more lemon in taste, and like lemon rind dipped in extra strong lemon juice.
- 6 to 10 seconds: Settles to an acceptable zingy lemon flavour.
- 11+ seconds: It actually becomes quite a sweet lemon flavoured chew, and is very pleasant.
- After the sweet is finished: There is a nice sweet lemon taste in the mouth, and the memory of the initial hit has gone. Accidentally reach for another sweet and repeat cycle above.
3 comments:
I'd love to give these a try, so will be looking out for them from now on. I enjoy sour things and I'm usually disappointed with sweets that are described as sour being rather bland. It's a shame they're only in lemon flavour since I much prefer the taste of limes. Other than that the packaging looks rather good.
WOW, these sound too strong for me, i search for Mount Fuji, Birmingham on google & came up with their website, where you can buy these, although i guess they have different pictures on different packets.
The website is www.mountfuji.co.uk these are under Food Shop:Confectionery:Japanese POCKY & Chocolates
They are quite near the bottom & this is their description:
Intense LEMON !
At the start the flavour is VERY intense ! It WILL wake you up !
After 30 seconds it calms down and is mellow
(While writing this I have had the blast of lemon that will screw your face up but now ok..)
Addicted now.......ready for the next one......hanging onto the desk, here goes...
Dreich - these are by no means bland, but they do settle nicely.
Anon - Apparently they do Super Grape too.. if they get some of those in the Birmingham shop I will give them a try.
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