In my defense, I only knuckled down and bought one of these.
April 30th, 2016
Over the course of my many travels to many stores featuring many different varieties of junk food, I often find weird examples of the stuff. Some things that the junk food companies try is right on the money, and often become staples of American snacking. Others... not so much. In what I assure you is not an exercise in dumping photos from my camera, I thought I would share a couple of these with you today.
The first one here is, as you can see, a yard of Twix. This bandwagoneering is an attempt to ride the coattails of other ginormous holiday candies, such as the one pound Reese's cups, or the five pound Hershey's bar. But instead of actually concocting some sort of mammoth Twix thing, probably because the bars are pretty fragile to begin with, they just stuffed a bunch of regular Twix into a loooong package.
The second weird candy on offer is Cookies and Creme Oreos. Basically, they took the cookies and cream filling that normally comprise an Oreo cookie, ground the stuff all up, and squirted it between two more Oreo cookie halves. It's sort of like a recursive snacking experience, where you're eating a cookie that's got a cookie inside. Next they'll grind up these to make Cookies and Creme and Cookies and Creme Oreo cookies.
Last on display for your displeasure today is something that... some marketing 'genius' thought sounded like a good idea. At the time, at least. Mmm, Wolverine-flavored snacks. Kids will love to get a bite of Wolverine-flavored anything. BRILLIANT! I can only imagine the dismay that kids would feel upon, having eaten a bag of these things, that they were only left with the aftertaste of white chocolate in their mouths.
Or maybe that was the whole idea? Bleah.