Wrigley’s Strawberry-Watermelon Hubba Bubba Max

Well, it seems we have Hubba Bubba Max here in the UK as well. Not that that’s a good thing, because one of them is Watermelon flavour! Ugh, I don’t know any kids that like watermelon, or get exicted about it, so why is this a bubble gum flavour?

Oh well, let’s get this out of the way. The pack is green and red to signify the fruits, and we’re back to the big slabs of gum that I’ve been happy to avoid over the past few days. And it stinks of watermelon as well, it’s a dark green colour on the outside, with red on the inside, it’s got a disgusting looking shine on it as well, ugh…

And the watermelon, oh it’s not good. Where’s the strawberry? Is that it…? No, more watermelon…oh, a bit of strawberry! No wait, more watermelon again. Good job Wrigley’s, the fact that there’s a tiny bit of strawberry covered gum covered by all that watermelon flavour means the strawberry can’t get through at all, and because watermelon is such a strong flavour, then that doesn’t help.

So basically, watermelon sucks, just like this gum.

Wrigley’s Atomic Apple Hubba Bubba

Ah, now this takes me back. I’m sure this is the flavour I used to buy as a kid, I’m sure they did a cherry flavour as well that I bought, but I could very well be wrong.

Now I’m probably biased with my opinion here, but I do think that this is the best of a bad bunch. It’s still so artificial, but it’s a more pleasant artificial taste here than with the strawberries.

It’s probably just nostalgia clouding my judgement, but I kinda like this flavour and I liked blowing big green bubbles with it. Most people won’t though…

Wrigley’s Seriously Strawberry Hubba Bubba

I’m starting to get sick of Hubba Bubba, reeeeal sick of it. It’s all so artificial and I miss my minty fresh breath. Girls are ignoring me because I have a big chunk of brown gum in my mouth, stinking of artificial cola, chewing away at it like a slack jawed yokal.

I prefer the UK versions simply because they’re smaller, but the taste is still bad, and ‘Seriously Strawberry’ isn’t any better.

This tastes like no strawberry I’ve ever had, I seriously cannot taste the strawberry in this at all, the sugar I can, and some sort of artificial fruit, but no strawberry. No sirree, boy am I glad I’ve only got 3 more flavours left.

Wrigley’s Cool Cola Hubba Bubba

It’s just my luck that the day after reviewing awful cola flavoured gum from one country, I get to review cola flavoured gum made by the same company only in another country. There’s no vanilla this time, and our packs are only half the depth of Australia’s and America’s, but that doesn’t make me any more enthusiastic about these.

My suspicions were confirmed when I opened one of the individual packs to see a piece of gum, with once again the crumbly texture on two sides. Why have Wrigley done this? It just doesn’t look good at all.

The gum is hard at the start, but because there’s less of it it gets soft quicker and is easier to chew. The taste isn’t much better than Australia’s, but it is better. Still very artificial, and it’s cola, not coke, and if you’ve experienced both you’ll know there’s a huge difference. Cola just doesn’t taste nice.

Wrigley’s Vanilla Cola Hubba Bubba

I almost cried when I saw this flavour, it reminded me of the Vanilla flavoured Coca Cola of ye old times. Actually I’m lying, I didn’t cry because I never liked that stuff, I just pretend to like it because everyone else says that they liked it, maybe they’re all lying too, maybe that’s why it was discontinued. Did you ever think about that?

Now if I thought the Grape-Berry blocks looked disgusting, then these are…well, super disgusting I guess. It’s hard to describe just how awful these blocks look. The block is rock hard, and two of the sides have an almost crumbly texture to them that just doesn’t look good, as if it’s supposed to be fizzy or something, instead it just makes it look old and dirty.

That’s how it tastes too, much less soft than the Grape-Berry flavour yesterday, it took some real mouth action to chew through this, and it wasn’t worth the effort at all. Far too much artificial cola, not enough artificial vanilla. Not a good flavour at all.

P.S. I know that Vanilla Coke has recently been reintroduced in USA again, so I don’t need smartass comments on that. 😀

Wrigley’s Grape-Berry Hubba Bubba Max

I don’t really like bubble gum that much. I guess it’s just one of those things you grow out of once you reach your teens, but buying bubble gum at my age just doesn’t seem like the right thing to do, instead I must buy my adult chewing gum, professional and minty fresh. But for today I’m a kid, and kids eat grapes and berries, don’t they?

That’s what Wrigley’s have gone for here, and it sounds decent enough. Each piece of gum is huge though, it’s probably because I haven’t had bubble gum in 5 or 6 years, and I’m more used to chewing gum pellets, but these are big ol’ blocks of gum, and I don’t really want to eat them, especially when I unwrap the pack and see the square of gum there.

It doesn’t look good, it says on the front of the pack that they are artificially flavoured, and that’s how it smells, as well as being disgustingly factory pressed. The block is purple on the outside and red on the inside, no doubt berries inside grape, which is something I haven’t tried before with real fruit.

Surprisingly enough though, these taste pretty good. Artificially flavoured indeed, but they’re nice. The berries and grapes have been mixed well, the only problem is that the gum is too big. I have a manly, adult-sized mouth and I have problems trying to chew this, so I can’t imagine the problems a younger child would have with this. Still, not nearly as bad as I expected it to be.

Ferrero IceGloo Cool Acerola (Cherry) Tic Tacs

From Germany hails this igloo shaped container of Acerola Cherry flavoured Tic Tacs. These contain no sugar, and are enriched with Vitamin C and Xylitol.

These little things come in an igloo shaped container, and have a picture of an igloo on the front as well, this is because these are meant to leave a cool taste in your mouth as well as giving fresh breath. They do look nice from the outside, the box is red coloured making the tic tacs look red, though in actuality they’re white.

They’re a little bigger than ordinary tic tacs as well, though they’re flatter, and you get around 30 in the container. The problem lies with the cherry taste.

Now granted I’m not too knowledgeable with different types of cherries, but as far as I’m concerned these are peach flavoured. I’ve eaten cherries and peaches in my time, and cherry and peach flavoured sweets, and this is definitely peach. It’s not a problem per se, because it’s a nice flavour, but I’m not sure how they came up with cherry for this.

Still, it’s not bad. Tic Tacs are fairly unremarkable anyway, but these freshened my breath and I smelled like delicious peaches, so that was good. The box is nice as well, so overall I’m fairly pleased with these.

Mars Bar

Before today I hadn’t had a Mars bar in say…at least one or two years. Like the Dairy Milk, they just seem so unremarkable, despite being one of the best sellers not only in the UK, but also in America under the title of ‘3 Musketeers’ ‘Milky Way’.

Why they’re called that in America, I don’t know, but no doubt they’d say the same about why we call it a Mars bar, so I won’t get into that debate. But basically, a Mars bar is mostly made up of fluffy nougat, with a layer of caramel above it, and coated in chocolate. It sounds good, and it is good, but that’s all there is to it really, and I usually look for more when it comes to chocolate.

It’s a nice bar, but there are better chocolates out there. I love Kinder Buenos, and the Peanut Butter Kit Kats and so forth, and whilst I like this, I never see it on the shelves and think about how much I want one, so this is a strange one. Still, I can’t fault it too much, because it does what it sets out to do, the nougat is fluffy, and the main three components are mixed well, not one is too overpowering.

I guess if these are on offer, which from what I can tell they usually are, then I’d suggest picking one up, but other than that I can’t understand why you’d want this over everything else a typical shop would offer. But if you do crave one, then rest assured it’s a decent enough bar and you shouldn’t be disappointed.

Firefox Green Tea, Lemon-Lime Warp Mints

This review should be shorter than yesterday’s because I don’t have to spend time describing the tin today, basically we are taking all the basics from the Cinnamon mints, and then just changing the flavour.

Today’s mints are Lemon-Lime flavoured, with Green Tea extract. Green tea is one of the latest health foods (well, drinks) hitting the market, claiming to cure everything from a poor sex life, to cancer, and everything inbetween. Whether it does or doesn’t is debatable, but I won’t get into that, what I will get into are the contents of this tin though.

The tin is of course green, I was hoping for some yellow effects as well but with the big ‘Green’ word on the front, I guess that wasn’t to be expected. The mints are of course green as well, and are the same size and there’s the same amount as there were of the cinnamon flavour. The taste is what’s different though.

It’s basically…lemon and lime flavoured. It’s a shame I can’t say anything different, but that’s it really. You pop one in, and the lemon and lime mix is done perfectly, you can easily taste the sourness of the lemon and the slightly more overpowering flavour of the lime. I don’t detect any green tea at all, but I’m sure it’s there somewhere.

These also have the ginseng and guarana, and once again they’re down at the bottom of the ingredients, and the green tea is only a few places above them, also above such wonderful sounding ingredients as Malic Acid, and Calcium Stearate.

I’m not sure what more I can say really, so I think I’ll just end it now and say that these are in my opinion a little better than the cinnamon flavoured mints, but just go with what you like. I unfortunately didn’t get the Peppermint ones at the time of ordering so they’ll have to be reviewed in the future at some point.

Firebox Cinnamon Warp Mints

The tin these small mints come in is pretty awesome. Looking like a tin of shoe polish, with a metal thing on it that you use to push open the top of the tin. This cinnamon edition is coloured red, obviously to represent the fiery cinnamon. These contain ginseng and guarana, common ingredients in energy foods and drinks.

These are actually made by Big Sky Brands in Canada, and the tin is made in Guatemala. Sugar is the first ingredient in these, the Guarana, Siberian Ginseng and Panax Ginseng are actually the last ingredients on the list in front of the red colouring, so don’t expect to be buzzing off the walls after eating 1 or 2 of these. Each serving size is 4 mints, and there’s 14 servings per tin, so they should last you a while, they’ve certainly done so with me in the past because I never ate 4 at a time.

My main problem with these is the way the tin opens, it has a little metal…thing, for lack of a better term, that you push down on one side, and the other side is pushed up to pry the tin open. The metal knob is so small that you have to use your thumb to do it, and it takes a fair bit of pressure as well, and the tin usually pops right open when you least expect it, and the amount of times I’ve dropped mints all over the floor trying to open the tin is uncountable.

Still, these smell delicious. Like with most cinnamon flavoured foods, you can smell the cinnamon before you’ve even opened the tin, and once you do open it, you can see the small tin filled to the brim with little red mints, each with a little ‘W’ on. These aren’t spicy at all, which I quite like, and as far as I’m concerned these are not much more than glorified breath mints. The taste is really good, a nice strong cinnamon with the burning that usually accompanies it.

I do recommend these if you want to try something different. They last a long time, as you really only need one mint at a time, not 4, and 52 of these should really last around a week. The tin design is awesome and could probably be reused for something once the mints are gone, if you feel the need to of course. Try all three flavours from Firebox, you shouldn’t be disappointed, as long as you don’t expect to be up all night after eating 3 of these.