Skittles "Crazy Cores"

Mars

I have to be honest about these and tell you that I worry a little. I worry because some combinations of flavours don't always work. I worry because sometimes in treats like this one flavour is stronger than the other and one drowns the other out. Most of all I worry because it's very rare that watermelon or even regular melon flavours often don't work well in my pallet.

Because of the extreme way these flavours are mixed I've decided to review each individually.

Starting with the Mango Peach. It's pretty tasty actually. I get a hint of each of these fruits but honestly mango and peach are very similar. Mango has a bit of tartness that I'm not getting out of this, and peach is often sweet. I guess if I had to say it tastes more peach than mango, but either way it's pretty good.

Next Melon Berry. Now in the real fruit world the idea of melon and berries is ok in my book, however in candy form it just doesn't work. The "melon" flavour is that fake melon flavour that I generally dislike, and it's super overpowering. I get a little bit of a sweet kick as I chew, but it just doesn't cut it. Yuck!

Just to stay in a theme here's Strawberry Watermelon. I'm thankful that in this case the dominant flavour seems to be strawberry. In fact since I'm not a big fan of most fake watermelon flavours I can safely say I didn't taste any at all. So basically it tastes fine, but only because it only tastes like strawberry.

Blue Raspberry Lemon. In this case the lemon really over powers, however it is really that sour and maybe that's the blueberry flavour. After chewing for a bit I can maybe taste a little blue berry but it's not super strong at all.

Finally Cherry Lemonade. This one is not only my favourite, by a long shot, but it's also the best mix I've tasted too. It has a bit of a lemonade flavour at first with just a hint of cherry but by the end you only really have cherry as an aftertaste. A bag of just these would be super yummy.

All scores will be an average

All scores out of 5 (May 19 2009)