Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Skittles Gone Bad

I opened up a bag of Skittles today, and my world was crushed when I tasted the flavor of...apple?

Granted, it's probably been a couple years since I ate a Skittle, but they used to be one of my favorite candies, and I distinctly remember the green flavor being lime. But I checked the bag, and it said "green apple," just like that's what it had always been. Could I have been mistaken all those years of my youth, just imagining that green Skittles tasted good because I liked the rest of them?

At this point, I should probably mention, if you haven't figured it out already, that I do not enjoy green-apple-flavored candy.

Well, as I discovered on Candy Blog (which is an excellent idea that I wish I'd had myself!) that they did change the flavor from lime to apple earlier this year. I guess I can't fault them for wanting a little less citrus in the mix (after all, lime is only a few notes away from lemon and orange), but I can gripe enthusiastically about them replacing my favorite fruit flavor with one of my least favorite.

If I had to rank fruit flavors (of the sort that are used in candy, not actual fruits, which sometimes taste quite different), here's how they would go:
  1. Lime
  2. Orange
  3. Lemon
  4. Raspberry
  5. Cherry
  6. Strawberry
           Good
    --------------------
            Bad
  7. Green Apple
  8. Grape
  9. Banana
Just thought I'd share, in case you ever need to know this helpful trivia when I'm famous!

1 comments:

Geoffrey S. Eighinger said...

I, for one, HATE lime. This brightens my day.