This time of year, our intake of green and red foods increases dramatically. Candy makers understand this and continue to roll out new possibilities. Tootsie has created Christmas Dots -- cherry, lime and vanilla-flavored gumdrops. Mike and Ike -- made by Just Born -- has unveiled its new holiday medley -- chewy cherry, lime and holiday punch fruit candy.
These movie theater classics are attempting to think outside their boxes and in this battle of the dishes, we see if it works.
Christmas Dots
On appearance alone, these seem promising. They look like tiny hills or ornaments covered in a topping of snow, and a faint aroma of vanilla comes up from the bowl. Then you bite into them.
The cherry and lime flavors are exactly the same as regular dots, muted like in taffy or gum drops. This works better for the cherry than the lime. The problem begins when you get into the vanilla top portion, which takes a second or two because the candy requires some mouth power to break down.
The vanilla is disgusting. It dominates the weaker fruit like some sort of candy dictator. And the finish is what really bothers me -- the two halves somehow combine to give you the exact flavor of cheap-o yogurt-covered raisins, the kind that taint a trail mix even after you attempt to eat around them.
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