Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Soft Candy
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When new products are involved I usually let my curiosity get the best of me. This is exactly what happened when I saw Baskin Robbins new Mint Chocolate Chip Soft Candy. Soft candy that tastes like ice cream? It didn’t seem like a good idea for a candy, but I had to know for sure.
Upon breaking the inner seal I was greeted – no, that’s the wrong word – I was assaulted with a mélange of chemical smells designed to approximate mint and chocolate. (and possibly ice cream.) At this point I had to check the label again to make sure that this wasn’t some sort of toxic waste disguised as a candy. The ingredients listed were: Sugar, Corn Syrup, Coconut Oil, Corn Syrup Solids, Nonfat Dry Milk, Glycerine, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Gum Arabic, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Blue #1 & Yellow #5. I hadn’t noticed any difficult-to-pronounce additives when I checked the label in the store, but I had also missed the fact that two of the necessary components involved with chocolate and mint were missing from this list: cocoa and mint.
The candies have the consistency of a soft caramel, but their greasy sheen is missing from the visual depiction on the box. The taste is a lot like the smell and the only part of it that was even remotely like eating mint chocolate chip ice cream was the aftertaste in your mouth when you exhale the fumes. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse I noticed the unwelcome texture of the bits that are supposed to represent chocolate.
I should have known that this particular candy trial would end badly, but I have fond childhood memories of Baskin Robbins and the mint chocolate chip ice cream that I would eat when I visited. Today one of those childhood memories was lured into a car – by a stranger with candy – and was then taken to a lab where experiments were performed on it.
