yesterday on my way back into work from lunch, i stopped CVS to pick up some candy and a drink. i opted for a delicious propel berry beverage and some starburts. well, regarding my refreshing drink, i was not disappointed. i also punished the first pack of starbursts no problem. the thing is the s-bursts were on sale like 2 for $0.99 or something like that so i bought two. but it was a trick. apparently in the yellow box of fruit chews they snuck in some imposter normal style starbursts. everyone knows starbursts are in a yellow wrapper. if you want california flavors or tropical or berry or whatever, you get the starbursts with the other color wrapper. i saw this alternative choice, and while i considered it momentarily, i decided that i would most enjoy chewing on the standard flavors so i grabbed two yellow packs. as i have already noted, i dominated the first pack right when i got back to work. the second package i waited until this morning at work to open. well to my surprise the second pack is this icy bursts variety. far from your standard cotton panty, that is something i dont even know about. icy burst? what does that even mean? so i try it out, being that it is too late to return it and i have very few other options. it starts off well, as my first flavor is strawberry. ok, this isnt much different. as a matter of fact pink is one of my favorite normal style startburst flavors. then i get to the second piece, and it takes horrible. its like they took something good and added something that was totally unnecessary and made it way worse. dont you hate when they try and save the world by doing this. i do.
bitter, i scanned the packaging. i am mad they would make a product so different than original that looks so similiar. then i notice somethign else. i am not the most healthy eater, but i am always curious about the nutritional information on things that i eat. then i see these icy bursts and i notice that they somethign like 4.5 grams of saturated fat. this seems like tons for a pack of fruity candy. i eat enough nerds, spree, sweet tarts, etc. to know that they dont generally have saturated fat. but now i cant recall if normal starbursts have this much fat. turns out they dont, i was right. here is a comparison:
normal style
icy bursts
so thats just dandy starbursts... you took a great candy, added a bunch of saturated fat and were left with a product that tasted horrible. what a great idea!
so now you have been warned, not all starbursts in yellow wrappers are the same. and watch out, some tricky stores will mix in a few of the gross icy ones to try to get rid of them to unsuspecting starburst consumers like myself.
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at least it appears that they are only a limited edition. What makes them icy? Do they add mint flavor? Mint + Fruit = Far from good if you ask me.
that package looks pretty different to me, i dont think i wouldve fallen for that one
well that image is only one side, the other sides are still yellow. also if you put them in a box with 35 other packs of normal style starbursts its difficult to notice.
clearly i noticed today when i pulled them out of my desk and looked at them. but while in line at CVS (lookign to purchase only a Propel then calling an audible and reaching for the candy that was on sale) they looked the same.
plus i was going on the assumption that any other flavor would be in a different color wrapper. so i did see some blue but assumed it was some promotion.
This is hysterical because I experienced the same dissapointment when I experienced my last pack of my (previously) favorite candy. I do think though that regular starbursts do contain some sort of fat which I always found odd. Though the other candies you mentioned (also favorites of mine) are hard while these are chewy in nature so I assumed that was the reason for the difference in fat content.
I just ordered a big bag of starbursts and they had the pink icy starbursts in there mixed with the normal ones (red, yellow, and orange) . So wrong.
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