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I enjoy candy.
I’m not really a chocolate person. I more lean towards either your pure sugar candies (Pixie Sticks, Nerds, Sweet Tarts) or more your fruit-flavored candies (Spree, Fruit Mentos, Skittles). One of my go-to candies of the latter variety would be Mike and Ike, which are those wonderful little wax fruit-ish candies that always come in a movie-theater-style box. I tend to go with the standard flavors of course. It’s their standard mixture for a reason. It’s got good variety, and you can enjoy them mixed, or individually with little trouble.

There are variants of Mike and Ike. Obviously, the best is the excellently citrus and sour Lemonade Mix. But I only know of one place to buy that, and I’m rarely there. So I’ve been attempting to branch out and try the other, easily available mixes.

For example: Mike and Ike Berry Blast. I see this basically everywhere I see the standard Mike and Ike Mix. I’ve been picking it up instead recently to give it a go.

It leaves something to be desired.

I mean, I like berry stuff, certainly. Not as much as citrus, but berry? Good. And this mix has Blue Raspberry, and I have a huge fan of Raspberry. It seems like it would be pretty great.
However, I find that, individually, each flavor lacks punch. They’re all very dull, slight flavors on the tongue. None of them are disgusting or bad, mind you. We’re not having a Banana Runts situation here. But none of them make you want to pull another out of the box. They’re just weak.
Mixing them in twos or threes does help to alleviate this, but when mixed, they tend to form one combined flavor, instead of being a mix of tastes. This, again, doesn’t taste bad. But it doesn’t leave me wanting to buy another box of them or anything.

I’ll eat Berry Blast. It’s not bad. But I should really stop buying it, I think. I’ve given it a chance, but it just isn’t as awesome as the standard mix.

Also, side note: Look at the Mike and Ike website. Oh my goodness. And what is up with that music player? I have no idea. But I highly suggest you change the music to “Baller.”