Snickers Fudge: I'm not overly taken with Snickers in the first place; their chocolate has an oddly sharp taste, almost acrid, at least to my palate. This might also be the contribution of the peanuts, and so switching to peanut butter nougat in the Fudge variety doesn't really help matters. This might be good for a lark if you like Snickers but wish they were more chocolatey, but you'll probably be disappointed - the fudge is present but at least partially masked by the inferior chocolate coating of the whole bar. On the other hand, if you like that chocolate coating in the first place you can probably make it work.
Bat Dots: Dots have kind of gotten the big head over the last few years. First they released Tropical Dots, which were not very good, and then Yogurt Dots, which were terrible. (Somehow both products remain on the market.) Now they just keep putting out strange seasonal varieties which all seem to have one thing in common: they don't contain a mix of flavors. Would you buy a bag of Skittles that was all reds? What makes Dots good in the first place is the variety; an entire box of black-colored but "blood orange"-flavored Dots is asking too much of the consumer, in my opinion. These taste all right but I just got sick of them after a while, which wouldn't have been as much of a problem with a mixture. How hard could that possibly be? Anyway, you won't likely have to worry about whether or not to pick these up now that Halloween is over, so whatever.
Tropical Chewy Lemonhead and Friends: Has tropical ever not been candy code for "awful"? The problem with these things goes to two sources: one, the flavor mix, and two, the complete lack of tartness. For a product that contains real lemon juice according to the ingredients, there is a stunning absence of even a hint of pucker in this candy, a problem that might be more forgivable if the flavors weren't so utterly mediocre. The lemon/pink lemonade is the most tolerable, and cherry/watermelon can pass, but kiwi/strawberry is forgettable, peach/mango somewhat dire, and I wouldn't touch berry/banana with a ten-foot clown pole. Isn't the whole gimmick of Lemonheads being tart? Aren't regular Chewy Lemonhead and Friends at least mildly tart? Did I just get a reject box? Regardless, I can't be unequivocal enough: do not ever buy these. The regular stuff is a million times better. (The Ferrara Pan website says of these, "You asked for it, you got it!" Ferrara Pan, what did we ever do to you?)
