Nata de coco Grape Gummy

Nata de coco Grape Gummy

(Japan Crate: September 2015)

[Japan crate description: Nata de coco is a sweet jelly made from coconut water. Combine the chewy sweetness of nata de coco with grape gummies, and you have an experience that's sure to surprise and delight!]

Melissa Says:

While we were prepping some other things, I was messing around with the package. It’s…really squishy. I was just kind of confused. Then, when we opened it up and pulled out some pieces, the candy smelled like really nasty medicine. It was also really oddly squishy, beyond normal gummy-ness. It also had this sugar stuff coating it. 

Eating it was really odd too – it wasn’t quite firm enough to chew, so it just disintegrated into your mouth. And the grape flavoring was awful, exactly the flavoring medicine companies use on their medicine. 

Definitely not going for this one again. It was…odd.

Kimberly Says:

...what even is this I have put into my mouth? That was my first thought.

Smells like medicine, tastes like not much at all, with a cold, unpleasant gelatinous texture. 

Very strange, did not care for it, would not eat again.

Lifeguard Paste

Lifeguard Paste

(Japan Crate: July 2015)

[Japan crate description: Lifeguard started off as a soda and now comes in many candy forms, like this paste!]

Kimberly Says:

Hee hee.

I took this to a sort of 'pot luck' at work. This and spoons, so people could squeeze some out without germ contamination.

It was entertaining watching people try to figure it out. It and the grape...stuff (which we haven't reviewed yet)

This is a SUPER sticky, bright green, sour flavored...stuff. Thing. Something or other. Three packs of it come in each package.

It's quite tasty, but it's almost more fun to play with than eat. It has the consistency of half melted gummy worms and, well...why don't you just watch?

(Apologies for blurriness - I could not seem to get it to totally focus.)
[Edit: I am working on fixing the video]

Final thoughts? Just sour enough to be delicious, and oh so much fun to play with.

Melissa Says:

This is extremely sticky, extremely odd-looking paste. If you stick it to your fingers, it will stretch out between them. 

It reminds me oddly of melted gummy snacks, and tastes a little like lemon. Together, it tastes really good (but extremely sticky!) 

It’s amusing to play with and fun to eat. I’d definitely eat more of it!

Maken Gummy

Maken Gummy

(Japan Crate: July 2015)

[Japan crate description: Hand gummies shaped after rock, paper, scissors. You'll try a cola or grape hand in 1 of 3 poses.]

Melissa Says:

Rock, paper, scissors…and really weird. 

It feels cold to the touch, it smells like VapoRub, and it tastes like really firm gummy bears. 

It actually tastes pretty good. I dislike gummies, but that was pretty yummy. After you get past the smell and the cold. 

Definitely not a bad thing. Would eat again.

Kimberly Says:

Okay, so, I'm not actually a big fan of gummies. Fruit snacks, gummy worms, gummy bears, I don't...really like them much, which is funny since in almost EVERYTHING else I like a chewy texture.

We ended up with the cola flavor, in the 'scissors' hand shape. (There was also a small star shaped gummy that got eaten before I got the picture taken. xD )

First impression, opening the package, is that it smelled very strongly. It smells like a mixture of soda (almost more root beer than cola, though) and Vick's Vaporub, which did not lessen our trepidation.

Of course, any time you get a long stretchy thing, what do you have to do first?

Play with it. A lot.

It was fun. xD

Eventually we got around to the eating, and it was strangely cold. My room is in the basement, it's fairly cool all the time, but not enough to warrant how oddly chilly the gummy was.

It's also a softer gummy, and sort of a strange texture. I keep feeling like it was fizzing on my tongue somehow.

It tastes really good, actually. Better than I was expecting. (I would not have enjoyed the grape near as much, I think.)

I would definitely eat this again, if we ever found it. (And play with it, too!)

[Update: 

So we always share everything with the rest of the family, if they want to try, and took everything we tasted tonight up to share with our brother. There was the hand of the gummy and part of the 'string' left and he ended up popping the whole thing into his mouth.

It's a good thing he ended up liking it, I guess! xD ]