.FOOrD BLOrG. Skwinkles?

You might be wondering 'What is a skwinkle?' I am about to shed light on said wonderment with the help of my snack associates Sarah, Rosa, and Dave. The Lucas company makes several hispanic candy snackies. Most of them involve mango and chile. If you recall my post on 'Salsaghetti' you know my stance on this candy concoction. Not too positive or positively against it is more accurate. Yet here we are so why prolong it any further. A skwinkle is apparently a worm shaped gummy that you dip in a mysterious sauce. Oh that is what you thought it was? Me too.
1. No scent at all. Eerily no scent. I imagine ghosts to have more smell than a skwinkle.

2. (first we tried just the worm)

Dirk- No flavor and what I do taste is reminiscent of regret.

Sarah- Well, the yellow isn't very good. The orange is slightly better than the yellow.

Rosa- Tastes like an unsour gummy worm like dried fruit without taste.

Dave- Really crappy gummy worms. That were prelicked and then salted.

Have we sold you on skwinkles yet???? Well Sarah is about to with a description worthy of being place on their packaging.

3. (worm and sauce)

Sarah- I think it is blood placenta. (There you go Lucas company : SWINKLE 'I think it is blood placenta!) Damn near sells itself. Oddly enough I stopped recording our data at this point. The only other comment I wrote down was from Rosa and it reads 'No no no'. Also scribbled on the back of the data sheet is 'nobody needs skwinkles' and it is scribbled in the dramatic fashion you see in movies next to corpses where they wrote their last message in blood with their finger. In closing, if I ever see that sunglasses wearing duck from the packaging I am going to kick him squarely in his skwinkle.

.FOOrD BLOrG. Shmorgus-blog

I have seen these chips as well as the BEER flavored chips around for awhile. I actually had the BEER flavored chips a few years ago and well, they tasted like a kettle chip. Eh. But the previous times that I had seen these 'Bloody Mary' chips I had no interest in getting them since I don't really like Bloody Marys. Only now that I have started this scientific mouth exploration of snack promises have I the courage to indulge in said snack. My gastronomical co-pilots on this expose were Sarah, Dave, and Rosa. As usual I will shorten their names to one letter. I will not be shortening Bloody Mary to BM. For obvious reasons....

1. Smells faintly of a dusty french fry with dry ketchup on it. No real pepper notes which I would expect. Of my friends that enjoy Bloody Mary's most like them spicy so I was expecting something with a kick.

2. It tastes how it smells like a ketchup flavored kettle chip. No heat or even pepper flavor.

S- Tastes like ketchup powder

D- Tastes like ketchup, good I think, dry ketchup chip.

R- Dave is right but there is too much ketchup flavor.

3. It is too sweet. At this point I decided not to eat a third chip..

D- I don't like it. I don't want to eat anymore of these.

R- Me either. They are pretty gross.

There really is no aftermath as we all just wanted the flavor out of our mouths. Not exactly the most awesome experience. Did it deliver on its promise? Sadly, no. It pretty much delivered a ketchup chip to a Bloody Mary party and that shizzle don't fly. If you ordered a Bloody Mary at a bar and it tasted like ketchup you most likely would send it back or at least not drink it. Which is why at the end of the evening there was still a bowl of this snack sitting on the counter. If you know Dave, that snack must be pretty rank to survive a hangout that long. No offense Dave, man likes himself some snackies is all I am saying. Now if you will excuse me I am feeling a little thirsty.