Pokemon Puzzle Gum

Pokemon Puzzle Gum

(Japan Crate: August 2015)

[Japan crate description: Enjoy some gum while you piece together your Pokemon sticker puzzle.]

Kimberly Says:

This was...underwhelming. Big giant package for two sheets of stickers - one a large single one, the other one the 'puzzle', and a square piece of gum maybe an inch by inch in size.

The stickers are unique, I don't know what I'll do with them. I'll hold onto them, I suppose. (These ones had Yvetal and Xerneas on them)

The gum was...soooooo sweet. It was like I had dumped a spoonful of sugar into my mouth and started chewing. After the sourness of the cotton candy we'd just had, it was almost painfully sweet. There was no other real flavor, though. Just bland and sugar.

Melissa Says:

It's mainly just sugar-flavored gum, with a Pokemon card puzzle with it. The gum was pretty bland, almost as if you ate straight sugar out of the package. The card has Yveltal and Xerneas on it. 

Probably would not choose to eat again.

Mario Kart Gum

Mario Kart Gum

(Japan Crate: August 2015)

[Japan crate description: Put on your driving gloves and grab a few of these. 10 individual gums with a different character & kart on each one!]

Kimberly Says:

So I kind of ripped my gum into tiny chunks when I opened the package. Oops. xD

The texture is kind of weird at first. It's very stiff, almost crunchy, and at first it seemed to break into shards, but as it softened it became...perfectly average gum. It's fine. It has a mild flavor that lasts longer than most of the gums we've had from these boxes, but it's still just gum.

Melissa Says:

The packaging is exciting, portraying various members of the Mario Kart gang. When you open the package, you get this little white square of gum, which happened to break for both of us. 

Then, as you chew, it's pretty unremarkable, slightly sweet, slightly sour gum. It wasn't bad; it wasn't necessarily great; it was mainly…gum. But hey, pretty packaging! 

It was fun to eat, even if I forgot Yoshi's name…anyways, I'll probably snag another piece or two of the gum. It's pretty good, so far as gum goes.

Kirby Blend-Blend Mix Gum

Kirby Blend-Blend Mix Gum

(Japan Crate: June 2015)

[Japan crate description: Create your own gum flavors using the five included base flavors. Watch out for grey! It's a prank color that blocks sweet flavors from your tongue.]

Melissa Says:

You can be creative with this gum! Apple, orange, ramune, and yogurt are your choices, and you can mix and match to your heart's content. I went for orange ramune (basically orange soda), and it was really tasty. Very flavorful, and very fun. It had a definite orange taste, but I'm not sure what the ramune tasted like. 

But all-in-all, very good. Definitely would eat more. 

The best part is the last kind, though - gray gum that blocks your sweet receptors. When eaten with the other gums, you could get a taste of the apple, or orange, or whatever, without tasting any of the sweet. An odd effect. 

Previously, though, I had a chocolate cookie after chewing the gum, and I could not taste the chocolate at all. It's pretty fun to play with.

Kimberly Says:

This is another one from the original box that we had tasted before, so tonight it was no surprise.

The fun thing with these small gumballs is mixing the flavors to create a custom flavor: Want to try orange flavored soda? Have a blue one and an orange one. Apple flavored yogurt? Pink and yellow is the way to go.

Want to not be able to taste anything sweet, so it leaves the flavors of the others feeling strange? Eat a purple one.

Cute, taste, and the flavor lasts a...decent amount of time, considering the small size of the gumball.

These are gonna replace the ramune gum I currently keep in my purse when I run out of those. :)

Sour Lemon Gum

Sour Lemon Gum

(Japan Crate: July 2015)

[Japan crate description: 10 pieces of super sour lemon gum that will leave you feeling like the lemon on the package.]

Kimberly Says:

You know how they say 'Don't judge a book by its cover'?

JUDGE THIS BOOK BY ITS COVER.

It's called 'Sour Lemon Gum', the package shows a lemon with sour faces, everything about it warns you of sourness...AND WITH REASON.

I mean, I like sour stuff. I eat it a lot. And my eyes were watering from the intensity of this sourness.

It was delicious, but I won't be eating any more, because it's just TOO intense.

Hey, unlike most of the gum so far, though, the flavor lasts quite a long time...or maybe it just FELT long. xD

Melissa Says:

You open the package, and bam. There it is: lemon. After you take the foil off the gum, it gets worse. Sniff the gum itself? Lemon, overpoweringly lemon. After you put it in your mouth, you get to die from sour lemon flavor. And not only is it lemon flavored, not only is it sour, it's the longest lasting gum we've had yet. It was a good 2-3 minutes of pure agony, trying to keep from choking and dying on laughter, spit, or tears. It was so overpoweringly lemon, I'm pretty sure some of my taste buds died while I was chewing. 

All in all, I'd likely not have more later. Not that it wasn't humorous, but that I rather like my taste buds intact! 

(It's great for a one-time experience, though. Only if you aren't totally against overpoweringly sour stuff, though.)

Little Gang Grape

Little Gang Grape

(Japan Crate: June 2015)

[Japan crate description: This pouch is packed with grape fun. Gum that starts off with a Pop Rocks-like crackle and ends as tangy grape gum.]

Melissa Says:

You smell the package, there's so much gum in it smells like grape medicine. It was a kick in the face with grapes.

After that eye-watering smell, we took small handfuls of the gum/pop rock, and tossed them in our mouths. And waited. An incredibly long time. I kept waiting and was rewarded with the popping of the "pop rocks", which was extremely odd considering the gum didn't melt away and tasted incredibly grape-y. Then, when I grew tired of waiting, I started chewing.

It's the hardest gum to chew, and it just feels kind of weird. You'd need the whole bag to get a respectable amount of gum, but that little bit was enough to leave my mouth tasting of grape (at least, until the Tom Yum).

Not a bad snack, but personally wouldn't choose it again. Not particularly fond of grape.

Kimberly Says:

The pop rocks part only sometimes works, and not for very long at all. If you're willing to sit with it on your tongue for forever it might work. Maybe.

The flavor is really intense, for a short while. Very intensely, tangily grape.

Unfortunately the gum itself is very tough and becomes hard to chew in a very short time, and the flavor starts fading very quickly.

The flavor is good, as long as it lasts, but the gum is so tough after a short while that my jaws started to hurt.

Ramune Marble Gum

Ramune Marble Gum

(Japan Crate: June 2015)

[Japan Crate description: Citrus-y and delicious ramune flavored gumballs. These pack a small hint of fizziness just like a real Japanese ramune soda]

Kimberly Says:

So I have to admit that when we picked this one to taste tonight, I already knew I liked it - this is from the original Japan crate, most of which we've already eaten. :)

In fact, I had to pull the bag out of my purse where I've been keeping it, and we're lucky there was any left to taste for the review!

I love the taste of these gumballs, but I wish they were larger, and that the flavor lasted longer.

They're so small that you have to eat a couple to get a decent size, and even then the flavor only last for a few minutes.

However, it's delicious enough that that's only a minor complaint. The flavor is fun, with the sensation of fizziness without actually HAVING fizziness.

Not only would I choose to eat this again, but I will actually be disappointed when I run out of it. :)

Melissa Says:

Ramune gum doesn’t have a whole lot of taste, but it’s got quite the texture. For at least 2-3 minutes, you’re chewing and it feels like bubbles! Somehow it pulls off the feeling of carbonation without carbonation. 

Beyond that, though, it lacks any kind of real flavor (definitely after a few minutes). I’d probably pick other kinds of gum over it…or maybe I’ll put it with another kind of gum? 

Either way, it’s not something I’d choose specifically to chew on.

Red Potion / Black Potion Gum

Red Potion / Black Potion Gum

(Japan Crate: June 2015)

Melissa Says: 

When you start chewing, it's a pretty good shock of sour. But then it mellows out pretty quick. Not a bad taste after it loses some of the sour.

The color change was not as evident as it could have been, and it lost taste really fast.

The aftertaste is killer, too - not the best of tastes to stay in your mouth.

Definitely wouldn't go out of my way to get more.

Kimberly Says:

The first few bites are really dusty tasting. Only after chewing for a moment do you get hit with the flavor, which is mostly sour. I can't tell if it's supposed to be a specific flavor, I just taste...sour.

Not for long, though. After a relatively short time the sour shifts to some sort of fruitish flavor before fading away completely.
[Addendum: The flavor goes away, but MAN the aftertaste will stick with you for a long time. Almost half an hour since I got rid of the gum, and I can still 'taste' it on the back of my tongue.]

I do like the texture, though, once you're past the first 'dryness' of it. Soft and pliant. After you chew it for a while it turns sort of rubbery, but still in a soft way. I felt like my teeth bounced off of it.

And then, suddenly, after only a few minutes of chewing, I couldn't wait to get it out of my mouth - the flavor changed or the texture or something.

The first time I tried this, my tongue was faintly darker, but not black. And the second time, with a larger chunk of gum, I noticed no change at all. (My sister's tongue turned a darker red, so maybe the red worked better than the black?)

Don't want more, probably won't finish what we've got.

Maybe I can find someone else to try it and see if their tongue gets colored. *grins*