Hershey's White Creme Sprinkles & Popping Candy

 

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.

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