![]() ![]() The interesting news though is that while I was shopping at Walgreen’s a few weeks ago, I also found this little bag of Giant Chewy Nerds. (See the levels of testing at Candy Blog Labs that I go through?) The tartness gave me a tummy ache after about a quarter of the bag. Still, I found that I couldn’t eat as many of them as I can eat jelly beans. I enjoyed all the flavors (though picked around the green ones after I finished my review). I think they’re a great change-up from the milder jelly beans out there and will definitely appeal to kids, but are still palatable for adults. The centers are clear and have only a light flavor and a vague tartness to them. You can just pop them in your mouth and chew them up, or let them dissolve or nibble away at the crunchy coating. These are fun to eat because there are so many options. Let’s face it, there hasn’t been much innovation in the jelly bean world since Jelly Belly started adding more flavor by using both a flavored center and a flavored shell. Grape: fantastically artificial, like having a Grape Shasta (complete with a slight fizz mimicked by the crunchy shell). They are sour and do taste just like artificial green apple. Green Apple: my mix seemed to have an inordinate amount of these, which is too bad, because they were my least favorite. A nice sort of cotton candy delicate floral strawberry with a dose of sour power. Strawberry: I was afraid this was going to be cherry, it’s not quite the vivid red I photographed, just slightly on the pinker side of red. Lemon: the tartest of the bunch, it does kind of lose its zazz when I got to the end of chewing it up when it was just a big wad of sweet. Orange: a nice mellow orange flavor, with a rather tart flavor layer under the shell. The biggest contribution these beans have to the jelly bean pantheon is crunch. But they’re also vividly colored, so there’s no confusing any muted colors (is this pink or magenta?). They’re hard and have uneven textured shells. Yes, they look like freakish confectionery mistakes or maybe wads of leftover acrylic paint. ![]() Where regular jelly beans lack a flavorful punch, each Nerd has a tasty tart layer just below the candy shell. Where regular jelly beans lack texture, each Nerds Bumpy Jelly Bean has oodles of nooks & lumps on a crunchy candy shell. Another time the bottle fell over when I pulled the trigger string (though this may be because I had to replace the pin, which I lost, with a nail which worked great except when it didn't).Nerds just don’t appeal to me much, part of it might be that they’re kind of hard to eat (maybe they should be sold in straws like Pixy Stix?), but I love the idea of them. Of course, there were drawbacks as well-once I forgot to screw the top on tightly, and the exploding soda pushed the tube right off of the bottle. (Steve Spangler is the person who popularized the Mentos/Diet Coke experiment in this video.) The tube works quite well, sending a fountain much higher than if you drop the Mentos in from a cardboard tube, and you're also far away from the mess so you're not nearly as likely to get Coke all over your clothes. This time.īy the way, when I used this experiment today I tried out the Steve Spangler Mentos Geyser Tube. I had such high hopes, but the Mentos still won. So how do the bumpy Nerds compare to Mentos, geyser-wise? I tested Mentos, using the same amount of weight as I had with bumpy Nerds (10 g). That gives the soda bubbles even more space on which to form, and so the bubbles can form quickly. Why do the bumpy Nerds create such a good geyser? My guess is that it's because they have a lot of extra surface area, because all those bumps stick out so much. Here's are two nice Coke Zero geysers done with bumpy Nerd jelly beans. Regular jelly beans were a failure-I think they're too smooth for the soda bubbles to form quickly on their surface. I had OK luck with Sweethearts, and Sweet Tarts, which seem to have the right kind of surface (slightly pitted) but aren't heavy enough to drop immediately to the bottom of the bottle like Mentos do. I spent a whole afternoon trying different kinds of candy in Diet Coke geysers to see if anything could approach Mentos.
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