Not bad. The typical white chocolate with Pop Rocks embedded. Suffers from the same issue of similar candies, where the Pop Rocks will pop when they are in your throat, and is very unsettling.
A documentation and review of limited time, special edition, or otherwise hard-to-find noms.
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Herr’s Kettle Cooked Steakhouse Fries Onion with Dipping Sauce
Not great. Onion flavor, with a bunch of other savory flavors. Horseradish, to simulate the dipping sauce.
Doritos Hot Mustard
This is a Presumptive Ephemeral Nom, as it’s not clear if it’s a limited time product.
Product circa: Summer 2023
On the first bite, you’ll taste a sweetness that reminds of honey mustard. It disappointed me at first, but not for long. The flavor quickly turns into a pungent deli mustard, with the vinegary dijon-like “burn” that will really go to your head, if you’re not careful. These are tasty, but the flavor is so bold that a few chips go a long way... such that I wish I could eat more at a time. I’m inclined to rate these as “good”, but the fidelity to the mustard is so impressive, that it’s great.
Doritos Hot Mustard: NOM NOM NOM - Great
Original Doritos Nacho Cheese(for comparison): NOM NOM - Good
Lay’s Wavy Cuban Sandwich
Product Circa: 2023
It’s nice to see more sandwiches being represented as snack flavors. But honestly, at this point, if any modern snacks are flavored like a food containing meat, it’s safe to assume that they will taste like the food, minus its actual meat products. What a shame.
Using this formula, these taste exactly as expected - like cheese, mustard, and dill pickle. Lay’s thinks that they can add savory ingredients like onion and garlic to mimic that savoriness of meat, but it’s just lame, in the end. And these… they aren’t even that tasty!
Lay’s Wavy Cuban Sandwich: NOM - Passable
Original Lay’s Potato Chips(for comparison): NOM NOM NOM - Great
Coca-Cola California Raspberry & Georgia Peach
Products circa: 2018 (yes, I’m drinking years-old bottles here)
I don’t seem to sound like a Pepsi simp, but Pepsi could do way better with these flavors than Coke.
The raspberry one is tasty, but way too faint. I wouldn’t have recognized it as raspberry if I hadn’t known. It’s a shame, because my favorite option in a Coke Freestyle machine is Coke with a raspberry add-in.
The peach one is much more strongly flavored, with the classic peach candy taste that any processing peach product would have. It doesn’t go perfectly with the flavor of Coke, however.
Both of these have a slight medicinal flavor, which is something I’ve noticed with many “natural” or premium cola products that try to highlight the flavor of the kola nut. However, it’s not clear if Coke means to have the “cola” portion of these drinks taste different than the original.
Coca-Cola California Raspberry: NOM NOM - Good
Coca-Cola Georgia Peach: NOM NOM - Good
Original Coca-Cola(for comparison): NOM NOM NOM - Great
Mountain Dew Purple Thunder
Product circa: 2022+ (contemporary as of this posting)
An exclusive of Circle K stores, this product can be found there in bottles, and even occasionally on the fountain.
A sweet, slightly sour blackberry or grape, with a character just like Pitch Black - or at least, with a tartness somewhere between the original Pitch Black (2004) and its sweeter re-releases. Thinking hard, I can maybe find other fruits in the flavors that I’m tasting. This stuff is supposedly flavored as “blackberry plum”, but the similarity to Pitch Black is undeniable. It’s a bit more deep and bitter, and judging by the ingredient list, it might even have more caffeine.
This stuff is delicious, and it’s a privilege that it’s available on a semi-permanent basis in certain regions.
Mountain Dew Purple Thunder: NOM NOM NOM NOM - Outstanding
Original Mountain Dew (for comparison): NOM NOM NOM - Great
Pop-Tarts Eggo
Product circa: 2023
This is a Presumptive Ephemeral Nom, because we do not know if it’s only for a limited time.
What a fitting cross-branding! But sadly, these don’t stack up.
You might get the slightest of maple syrup flavoring, but I’ve had Pop-Tarts with more maple flavoring than this. Aside from that, it’s almost like an unflavored sugar filling. It’s probably the blandest Pop-Tarts variety I’ve ever tasted.
Pop-Tarts Eggo: NOM - Passable
Original Pop-Tarts Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon(for comparison): NOM NOM NOM - Great
Kit Kat Lemon Crisp
Product circa: post-2020 springtime seasons
Seemingly seasonal and only available in fun size. I always tend to welcome the white chocolate Kit Kats. This one here is white chocolate with a yellow-tinted and lemon-flavored coating, and that’s basically the only thing that is different. But damn, despite this variation being very simple, its flavor is incredible. The lemon uses the white chocolate as a perfect vehicle, and it ends up being the slightest bit tart and even refreshing. It all goes great with the wafers in a perfect balance.
Kit Kat Lemon Crisp: NOM NOM NOM NOM - Outstanding
Original Kit Kat(for comparison): NOM NOM - Good
Doritos Tangy Ketchup
Product circa: summer 2023 (contemporary as of this posting)
This product is a presumptive Ephemeral Nom, as it is not clearly a limited edition.
While I think that most ketchup-flavored chips are very tasty, in my opinion they usually end up tasting like tomato powder and spices.
Not these. The tomato flavoring on these evokes the sweet fruitiness that tomatoes can lend to a fresh ketchup. Enough vinegar powder is added to really give that ketchup taste. You have the savory flavors lightly backing everything up, like onion, garlic, and paprika. In the end, these are the most faithful ketchup-flavored snack I’ve ever tasted. I’d rate it higher if I were a ketchup freak… but I’m not.
Doritos Tangy Ketchup: NOM NOM NOM - Great
Original Doritos Nacho Cheese(for comparison): NOM NOM - Good
Lay’s BLT Sandwich
Product circa: Summer 2023
The bacon flavoring here somehow manages to be subtle but also the overwhelming component that you taste. After a few bites, you might notice a peculiar cheesiness underneath the bacon. Indeed, the ingredients list boasts cheese flavoring; the only reason I can think it’s there is to mimic a BLT’s mayo? Tomato powder is a listed ingredient too, but to my tongue, it’s undetectable. And no lettuce taste anywhere to be found.
It’s strange that these BLT chips taste more like a loaded baked potato.
Lay’s BLT Sandwich: 1 NOM - Passable
Original Lay’s (for comparison): 2 NOMS - Good
Dr. Pepper Dark Berry
Product circa: 2022
Promoting the release of the 2022 film Jurassic World Dominion, we have a generic-sounding variation of Dr. Pepper.
It’s only when I try very hard that I detect a notable fruit flavor when tasting this stuff. Less of a dark berry, and more dark fruits in general. And because a few of Dr. Pepper’s 23 flavorings are such fruits (blackberry, plum), I wonder if they just dialed down the spicy ingredients instead of adding more fruit?
Anyway, it’s almost impossible to discern that this is different from the original without having them side-by-side.
Dr. Pepper Dark Berry: NOM NOM NOM - Great
Original Dr. Pepper(for comparison): NOM NOM NOM - Great
Mountain Dew Typhoon
This stuff has been re-released quite a few times over the years via DEWmocracy and Dew Labs, but evidently it originally dates back to 2009.
Yet another tropical punch Dew, this purports to be flavored especially with strawberry and pineapple. I get the former, but not the latter. It’s vaguely fruity, and not very special. Honestly, while punch Dew may have been novel in 2009, in 2022+, it’s not. There’s a handful of punch Dews better than this one.
Mountain Dew Typhoon: NOM NOM - Good
Original Mountain Dew(for comparison): NOM NOM NOM - Great
Mountain Dew VooDew 2022
Product circa: Halloween 2022
Pepsico makes another Halloween release of VooDEW for this year 2022. It is a mystery flavor, as VooDEW usually is. The flavor of this stuff hasn't been released yet officially, and it is normally done on the day of Halloween. Evidently the first year of VooDEW (2019) contained a mix of Dew that was flavored like candy corn. I must have missed it that year, because DAMN I would have loved to try that.
Anyway, this stuff rocks. I'm fairly confident that this year's flavor is blue raspberry, a flavor I love. This is also more sour than your usual flavored Dew, which is welcome. Each year the VooDEW flavor seems to simulate Halloween candy, and so this one is fitting. I definitely remember eating sour blue raspberry candy as a kid, and the flavor of this soda really brings me back. Well done, Dew.
Mountain Dew VooDew 2022: NOM NOM NOM NOM - Outstanding
Original Mountain Dew(for comparison): NOM NOM NOM - Great
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