Tango Sours Watermelon (Morrisons) By @SpectreUK

I do like watermelon. It can be pretty sour on its own, but in a fizzy drink it might make my face twist a little. This new sugar free Tango Sours Watermelon could be a refreshing way to wake yourself up after a big lunch.

On opening the can there was a good fizz and sharp watermelon aroma. A mad almost pink fluorescent colour, this Tango Sours Watermelon made my face twist and my toes curl with sour watermelon, and a fizz that threatened my nose hairs. I loved it. Definitely a waker-upper.

Tango Sours Tropical (Morrisons) By @Cinabar

This one definitely grabs your attention on the shelf. The can is a bright, punchy design with an explosion graphic that makes it pretty clear what you are in for. Inside, the drink pours a golden colour with plenty of lively fizz.

It is worth noting straight away that this is a sugar free drink, so it is low in calories. As always, that will split opinion a bit depending on how you feel about sweeteners.

Going in for the first sip, the sour hit is immediate and pretty intense. To be fair, the can does not hide this, and it delivers exactly what it promises. It is the kind of sharpness that makes your tongue tingle and tighten slightly, and at first it feels very pineapple forward.

Give it a moment though and things start to settle. The harsh edge softens into something much more balanced and enjoyable. The tropical flavours come through more clearly, with apple and mango adding a sweeter, fruitier note behind the sourness. After a few sips, that initial shock actually becomes part of the fun. It turns into a refreshing, zingy drink that feels a bit different from the usual fizzy options.

There is also a sour watermelon version out now, which we will be trying soon.

Tango Zero’d Thirst Trap (Ocado) By @SpectreUK

I haven’t written about pop or soft drinks for a while. I say ‘pop’, because that’s what we generally call soft drinks in these parts.

I noticed Cinabar had bought this eight pack of Tango Zero’d Thirst Trap, which is sugar free. ‘Sugar free’ helps keep my calorie count down so I can eat more chocolate. I have a few Easter Eggs I need to polish off.

This new Tango Zero’d Thirst Trap is an apple and peach drink, with orange pineapple flavouring. On opening the can there was a predominantly peach aroma from the pink fizzy liquid inside.

On drinking this pop is strong in sweet peach and pineapple, with a light sourness from the apple and a little orange at the back of the flavour.

This is a very thirst quenching pop drink to rival other fizzy tropical drinks on the market. It certainly has a different flavour to the others. It tastes almost like it could be a child’s chewy sweet. I reckon It’s great as a drink all the same.

Tango Mango Editions (Iceland) By @Cinabar

Just because it rhymes, I think they should have made this ages ago. For the warmer weather, we have Mango Tango, which is surprisingly pleasant to say. It is also very summery-sounding, with thoughts of tropical weather and holidays. I will add that this is a sugar-free edition; these are becoming more popular, but I know some people are completely put off drinks that are made with artificial sweeteners and not proper sugar. I don’t mind either.

I poured the drink into a glass, and it was nice and fizzy, and well as a dark orange colour. The flavour was lovely; it was sweet and fruity and had just a touch of a sharp tang. It was the sort of sweet-tasting drink that was easy to guzzle. I think if it was a hot day, a can of this straight from the fridge would be the perfect accompaniment. 

Also, did I mention that the name Mango Tango rhymes, so it was obviously meant to be. 

Tango Paradise Punch (Sainsburys) By @cinabar

This feels like a very summery new flavour for a soft drink, but I still couldn’t resist buying it even in February. Tango Paradise Punch was presented in a very 90s neon-colored pack that stood out beautifully on the shelf. I wasn’t completely sure what flavour to expect, but I was still looking forward to giving it a try.

The drink is a dark pink, almost red colour, but the flavour is far more golden. It is quite fizzy too, as you would expect from Tango. There is a lot of citrus burst with the taste and a lovely smooth sweet mango mixed in. There's also a berry aftertaste, possibly strawberry, that gives it a nice, sharp finish. I really enjoyed the drink; it has a good flavour combination and is more complex than I expected.

This drink may have a summer vibe, but the pack of cans I bought won’t last me that long. I can just sit inside in a jumper and pretend it is warmer outside than it is.

Tango Berry Peach (Tesco) By @cinabar

Here we have new summer flavours, but if only we had the weather to match. Today is a Bank Holiday in the UK, which means an extra day off for those of us with office hours. There is a tradition (or running joke) in the UK that it always rains on a UK Bank Holiday and today it has been grey and drizzling, so it is living up to its reputation. We still managed to have a nice day though; lunch out and board games in the afternoon. To go with the gaming, I’m trying out this new drink; Tango Berry Peach and it is a very Summery sounding flavour.

I poured the contents of the can into a glass and it was a seriously pink and fizzy concoction. The drink looks quite pretty in the glass. I have to point out that this is a sugar-free drink because I know that will put some people off. The drink is sweet though, seriously sweet, but my sweet tooth was fine with it. There was a lot of raspberry taste, with the peach as the after flavour adding a mellower taste to the zing berry. This Tango Berry Peach is a lovely and refreshing drink and would be perfect on a hot day, if the British weather could just organise that it would be perfect.

Tango Dark Berry (Ocado) By @Cinabar

I was quite excited to see a new flavour from Tango on the Ocado website, these cans of Tango Dark Berry looked rather interesting. I will start by saying it is sugar free drink and does therefore contain sweeteners which I know will put some people off completely but I’m quite happy with diet flavours, so that is my disclaimer. I’m used to artificial sweeteners, sorry folks.

The Tango Dark Berry is a mix of blackcurrant, blackberry and apple and it pours out as quite a dark purple coloured drink. As you would expect with Tango there is plenty of fizz and bubbles. The flavour reminds me of blackcurrant and apple as the berries come through first and are tart but are then softened by the sweeter softer apple flavour. I pick up mostly on the blackcurrant over the blackberry but that might be because I’m used to that favour being mixed with apple in cordials and that is what this reminded me of.

There was plenty of flavour and it was a lovely drink, I’m glad I bought a six pack of cans as they are nice and refreshing on these warmer days. Here is hoping the weather holds out too.

Tango Strawberry Watermelon Sugar Free Drink (Poundland) By @Cinabar

I’m still on the hunt for refreshing soft drinks, even if the weather has stepped back a bit toward more traditional cooler temperatures at this time of year. I actually found this new flavour Tango Strawberry Watermelon sugar free fizzy soft drink in Poundland, and managed to pick up a few cans.
Once home I chilled them and then poured it into a glass. The drink is a pinky red in colour and was rather fizzy, I had to wait for the bubbles to settle before being able to completely fill my glass. I liked the flavour ever so much, it was sweet with plenty of strawberry and a heavy handed portion of watermelon that was very refreshing. I thought the Tango Strawberry Watermelon delivered nice strong fruit flavours, and that the combination of these fruits was a brilliant idea.Who knew strawberry and watermelon would work so well together, it was practically summer in a can. I have no idea why watermelon isn’t more popular, it is such a refreshing flavour and I’m really pleased to see Tango use it, I’m hoping some other companies make some watermelon flavoured items and it becomes a bit more mainstream. It is the perfect refreshing fruit for summer, now all we need is the sun to show up again.

Tango Blue Raspberry Shock Rocks (BHS) [By @cinabar]

Firstly I’m not sure that Tango Blue Raspberry exists as a drink in its own right, although I have seen it as ice pops. I love raspberry, and the ice lollies that turn your tongue blue are particularly fun!
This particular product, Tango Blue Raspberry Shock Rocks, is raspberry flavoured popping candy with a lollipop in a very eye catching pack. The packaging builds up the potential flavour, it looks explosive, its looks “shocking” with its zig zag shape. It builds you up for something that is going to be a proper flavour sensation! The zig zag shapes make it easy to open too, I think this might have been accidental, but they work really well as “tear here” points.

Once the bag was open I found a cute lollipop which looks like a thumbs-up symbol, in a pale blue colour and a portion of popping candy. If I was being picky I’d say it was a small portion of popping candy, particularly for the packet size. There was more than that shown in the picture above, but not loads more.
The popping candy did have a very good pop and tingle. The flavour is sweet, but mild in terms of the raspberry. There was a sweet berry taste, but not the powerful hit of flavour the Tango Shock Rocks packet eluded too.
I thought it might make my tongue blue too, but the colour wasn't quite strong enough. The thumbs up lollipop was hard, and sweet. Although it was blue in colour, I couldn’t pick up on much raspberry flavour, but it was still pleasingly sugary.
I can’t help thinking something with such punchy packaging should have had a more punchy raspberry flavour, the berry taste was mild throughout. I like popping candy, and this did deliver the pop and crackle I was hoping for, so no complaints there, I just wish they’d been a little more generous with the filling. I wanted to overload my taste buds with a good portion of the popping stuff!

By Cinabar

New Tango Jaffa Cakes (Sainsburys) [By @Cinabar]

I've seen the Tango brand used for different sweets and goodies, but this is the first time I've seen it used in conjunction with biscuits. Well cakes I suppose, I never can quite tell…
Anyway the box brandishes the Tango logos and has the theming all over it. There are even mock warnings too about just how zingy they are going to be. “Handle With Care”. I was quite excited to see how strong they were going to taste. They are actually made by Huntley and Palmers whom I assumed paid for a license to make them.
Inside the box are two packs of twelve biscuits. Both are sealed separately so there is no need to scoff them all in a hurry. The biscuits look smaller than I'd hoped, but that is always then way when goodies are hidden away in an opaque packet.
I gave one a try and found the Jaffa cakes very pleasant. “Will The Tangy Orange Get Ya”? No as it turns out. They didn't live up to the promise of ultra orange sharpness, they were sweet and and pleasant with a nice flavour. The chocolate cracked nicely on the firm jelly layer and sponge gave easily. I liked the taste, and the flavour combo. Worth picking up if you like Jaffa cakes, but there isn't anything new taste wise sadly.

By Cinabar

Tango Orange and Apple flavoured Chewy Bonbons (Poundland) [By @SpectreUK]

Orange Flavour
Produced for Rose Confectionery Limited by the Britvic Soft Drinks Company, these Orange Chewy Bonbons quoted on the front of the packet; “Because good taste always hurts”. Opening the 150g packet with some trepidation I noticed many spherical white/orange bonbons. I somehow expected the bonbons to shoot out the packet at me and bounce ominously around the room. Per 100g there were 382 calories, with 74.5g of sugar and 6.8g of fat. The ingredients included; sugar, glucose syrup, vegetable oil, humectants, sorbitol, citric acid, pork gelatin, dextrose and soya lecithin, with no hydrogenated fat or artificial colours, but no orange juice either, which I thought a shame. There was a mild and slightly tart orange flavour, but nothing like the super sour twisty faced flavour such as the packet had lead me to believe. Sucking really hard formulated some sort of orange flavour, but nothing compared with the illustrated dynamite plunger’s suggestion of an explosion of orange taste. Sadly, I just didn’t feel Tango’d by these Orange Chewy Bonbons at all.

Apple Flavour
The message on the front of this 150g packet stated; “Shoots straight to the core” with an illustration of an arrow shooting through an apple. Per 100g there were 382 calories, with 74.5g of sugar and 6.8g of fat. There was the same sort of ingredients listed, but like the Orange flavour, no apple juice. Considering Britvic have shelves and shelves of juice to their name, I was extremely surprised that they hadn’t used any juice in these Chewy Bonbons. From the list of ingredients and my state of warranted disappointment from the Orange flavour, I opened the packet with a different sort of apprehension. These Chewy spherical Bonbons were apple green in colour and had a strong zingy sugar sweet apple flavour to them. I just had to chew and suck these bonbons savouring their juiciness. My disappointment with the Orange flavour was instantly drowned by the flood of juicy sweet appley goodness. Finally I felt properly Tango’d. Shame it wasn’t real apple juice and about the Orange flavour, but never mind, I polished off the Apple Bonbons in record time.

By Spectre

Tango Chocolate [Demolition Bars] [By @Cinabar]

Well I never, Tango in a chocolate bar. Orange and chocolate works really well together, I just never associated the brand to develop its products in this way. To be honest I can’t claim to have found this bar myself that honour goes to the lovely DavidH who was kind enough to send me one to try too. I believe it was discovered in a pound shop, and it isn’t one I’ve seen on the high street.
The chocolate bar has a layer of milk chocolate bubbles which form the base, and on top of that is a tangy orange layer, complete with a hint of popping candy to really put the fizz in. Impressively you can smell the orange through the wrapper, but you’d expect no less from a company such as Tango. It’s not known for its subtle products!
The bar is surprisingly soft, and very fruity. The softness is partially put down to the bubbles, but also the milk chocolate seems heavy on the cream flavour and is rather milky too. The orange taste varies impressively with each bite, ranging from a fragrant warm orange to a super zingy hit. I like that, and felt it made the bar more interesting. The popping candy was quite mild, and added a pleasing gently tingle, rather than head explosive popping!
In short, it’s a fab bar. I love the way they have teamed chocolate and the popular drink together, incorporating both bubbles and fizz, it’s such a neat idea. The packaging and branding matches the designs on the drinks bottle, which is bright and stands out nicely. After their Tango Turbo nitro foam, and now this chocolate bar I think the company is really branching out. Tango is such a crazy brand, so it is certainly a company to keep an eye on. If you are lucky enough to see these bars for sale they are well worth picking up. I do hope they start getting sold in a few more mainstream shops too. They are so yummy it seems a shame that you have to hunt for them.

By Cinabar

Turbo Tango (Local Newsagent) [@Turbo_Tango] [By @Cinabar]

A friend of mine said that he had tried a foaming version of Tango. I thought for a minute that perhaps he had shaken a can a little too much… that was until I spotted this drink in my local newsagent. The bottle is covered in numerous warning signs and doesn’t half look dangerous. It is claims to be Nitro fuelled (and nitrogen does indeed appear in the ingredient list) and it is designed to deliver a high speed dose of your favourite Tango. I placed the nozzle in my mouth and pushed hard on the cap and my mouth filled with an amazing amount of Tango, it was delivered at such speed I almost coughed and nearly snorted it out of my nose (not very classy). Once I got used to the drink and how to adjust the speed, I started to really enjoy it as it was really kind of fun and different. Spectre had a play too, and also smiled when then fast Tango was delivered. The taste was the usually sweet orange hit, but it was the texture of it that was so amazing. It felt like you were squirting a tub of orange flavoured spray cream into your mouth, but seconds later it dispersed into a normal liquid. It’s silly and its fun, but I actually really liked it.
The only odd part was when I was trying to capture a photograph of the drink coming out of the bottle. That is a task that is far more complex than you might think. First I had to ignore the stringent warnings on the bottle about only spraying it into your mouth, and instead I risked a cup. The problem is that you need to have the bottle upright for it to work properly, so my attempts at capturing the image were a bit of a fail. It’s much foamier than you think! Instead I ended up with a tilted cup and a disappointing looking bit of froth in the bottom. When I came to drink that bit of froth, and put the camera away it had turned into a clear liquid and despite it being only a few minutes later it was flat. The liquid in the bottom of that cup tasted really odd too, and not at all full flavoured and sweet like it did when it was in my mouth. This was a bit strange, but I guess it emphasises the point, you really should follow the instructions on the bottle!
On a final note, spare a thought for an anonymous friend who took this into the cinema on Valentines night having never tried it before. Once the silent movie The Artist started, he supped his drink and tried it for the very first time with his date next to him, and managed to soak both of them in orange fizz! You know when you’ve been Tango’d!

By Cinabar

Tango (Home Bargains)

No folks, my photograph is not upside down. This is Tango’s new packaging! They were dared to print upside down cans by the nice people from Bragster and they agreed to the challenge.
This is not a review as such, just a mention that if you think the cans have been stacked wrongly in the supermarket, you may want to take a second look.