When the folks at GumballĂ‚Â asked me to review some free gumballs and a gumball machine, I thought, “Why not?”
I can’t remember the last time I actually had a gumball, but I do remember wishing my parents would buy me one when I was a kid. For the record, my tiger parents never did…
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Dubble Bubble Gumballs flavors:
My bag of Dubble Bubble gumballs had “10 Assorted Fruit Flavors”:
- Peach
- Orange
- Apple
- Cherry
- Grape
- Berry
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Strawberry
- Watermelon
- Banana
All of the gumballs were attractively colorful, shiny, and imprinted with the Dubble Bubble logo. They had a colored sugar shell and a white gum layer around a hollow center. All took on a firm, stiff chew within a dozen or so chomps.
Peach was orange with red splotches. It tasted like sugar.?Orange was just orange. There was maybe a whiff of orange citrus to the start? And then it just tasted like sugar.
Apple was a bright lime green, the color of a granny smith apple. It had the edge of a granny smith apple’s sourness for a fleeting second, then tasted like sugar.
Cherry was red on the package, but its shell was practically black in reality. A bit of dark red was visible when it was bitten into. It tasted a little like a cherry popsicle at the very beginning, and then tasted like sugar.
Are we starting to see a theme here? Grape was a blueish purple and started off tasting like a grape popsicle for a half second.
Berry (white with colored speckles), strawberry shortcake (light pink with dark pink speckles), and strawberry (neon pink) just tasted like sugar.
Watermelon was a darker grassy green and had the most actually distinguishable flavor. It tasted of floral candy watermelon Jolly Rancher for almost three seconds! And then it tasted like sugar.
And finally, banana, which was yellow, carried just a whiff of banana essence. And then tasted like sugar.
The conclusion?
Clearly, I am no longer the target audience for gumballs. They all pretty much just tasted – you guessed it – like sugar, which is mostly what they are.
They get a — from my now grown-up palate. They’re a harmless 25 cent treat for your kid, but if you’re old enough to read this, you’re probably too old to like these chewy sugar bombs.
As for the gumball machine, it’s kind of cool! I’m trying to think about how I can use it in a science experiment, as I’m currently studying self-control in kiddos.
Varsha