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My Forking Thoughts on Thai Coconut, Mexican Jalapeño & English Toffee M&M’s

Three NEW Internationally natural and artificially flavored peanut M&M’s have just come out. Here are Thai Coconut, Mexican Jalapeño and English Toffee Peanut M&M’s. It reads on the bags that if you vote for your favorite that it is a possibility that you might win a trip around the world.

I opened them all up and tried them all. The one really weird thing about all of them is that after trying all the flavors I noticed all the peanuts break down the middle in your mouth….M&M’s are one of the few candies I’ve eaten all my life. It’s been decades since I was a child but I remember decades back the peanuts never separated…….This might sound gross but as a child when we had a dinner I didn’t like at home I’d eat M&M’s instead for dinner( as a child remember)……..I ate them very slowly and saved the peanuts for last sometimes…..so I do indeed REMEMBER!…………..it seems like they use peanuts that are more dry……..or maybe older these days?

I’ll start with my least favorite….It’s the most unattractive one the English Toffee in colors that I’ll be nice and not describe…..I open the bag and it sort of smells something like butterscotch. Then I go to taste one and I almost gaged. It taste like a spoonful of bitter instant coffee followed by other taste like maybe artificial butterscotch and maybe artificial caramel all there….This has the usual chocolate with a peanut center but this one leaves an unpleasant chemical aftertaste……..This one I don’t like at all

NOT WORTH A FORK!

For me it’s a bit of a toss up between the Thai Coconut Peanut and the Mexican Jalapeño. After my first taste of them I thought the Mexican Jalapeño had a slight edge because it tasted more like a Peanut M&M but with a burn…..When you open the bag it just smells like chocolatey M&M’s…….The Mexican Jalapeño M&M’s come in colors of yellow, red and green. They taste mostly like regular peanut M&M’s with a slight burn. Slightly disappointed because the burn doesn’t taste like jalapeño……….it just burns…….there is a very slight other flavor that might be something like cinnamon…..Not bad but not great.

1/2 a Fork…OK

The Thai Coconut package smells like coconut when you take a whiff. These Peanut M&M’s come in blue, lime green and yellow. The candy shells taste slightly different to me. Like the inside is coated with something that taste similar to saccharine mixed with coconut……but much more coconut to saccharine. It’s easy to taste the chocolate with this one. There is a slight other taste with the coconut but so slight and maybe too artificial for me to tell what it is suppose to be…….A few more Thai Coconut M&M’s later these M&M’s build up and remind me of coconut Easter Eggs. These Thai Coconut M&M’s are OK…not great..They differ from the Coconut M&M’s that were out years ago…..These are not as strong with coconut and also not as sweet. They don’t take me to anything Thai Food…….They are OK….like Easter eggs….kind of tasty……the peanut goes very well with these flavors…….not bad…not great.

1/2 a Fork…OK

Those were my thoughts on the International Flavor M&M’s of English Toffee, Mexican Jalapeño and Thai Coconut.

I do note your opinion and experience may indeed differ.

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My Forking Thoughts on White Chocolate Marshmallow M&M’s

When I came across this bag of White Chocolate Marshmallow M&M’s I thought this was a strange flavor. I also thought these M&M’s might be filled with marshmallow cream but they are not. These M&M’s are white chocolate that is marshmallow flavored.

I start by opening the bag and take a whiff……It smells like white chocolate mixed with a little yogurt……I’m thinking that these will suck…….

I spill some out.

The M&M’s are shiny and slightly larger than regular plain M&M’s. The candy shells are white, Robbin’s egg blue and like yellow ribbon color.

I taste one.

It’s very sweet……maybe too sweet for some people…but to me it’s as sweet as vanilla cake frosting….To me it’s just right for this flavor. It’s almost like you really are eating a marshmallow mixed with white chocolate. I think I really do feel and taste cornstarch in my mouth like from a real marshmallow. I eat a few more….when you eat more you get the sweet more……..These melt better in the mouth than most white chocolate M&M’s…they aren’t waxy at all. Instead of an aftertaste like I was expecting I got some cornstarch building up in my mouth…….It’s kind of weird.

I totally was expecting to hate these White Chocolate Marshmallow M&M’s but they are surprisingly realistic tasting and OK!

Adventurous Tasters might want to give the White Chocolate Marshmallow M&M’s a try!

Not my favorite flavor of M&M’s but worthy of a try

You experience may or may not differ.

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My Forking Thoughts on Happy Holidays Caramel M&M’s

I recently purchased a bag of the NEW Happy Holidays Caramel M&M’s. About a year and half ago M&M’s did offer a caramel flavor M&M’s. These Happy Holiday M&M’s do seem to differ.

Here’s the May 2017 Caramel M&M’s Large (for M&M’s) slightly irregular shapes in colors of yellow, orange, red, green, blue and brown. I remember these M&M’s were unusually chewy.

The Happy Holiday M&M’s smell different.

I open the bag and take a whiff…..They smell like chocolate mixed with sour cream….

I pour some out.

The finish is different. Not the smooth polished shell that M&M’s normally have. Instead the shell is rough. The colors are red and green but in a rough finish.

These Happy Holidays Caramel M&M’s have a rough shell that taste similar to most other M&M’s. The Chocolate is a same familiar M&M’s Chocolate that most of us enjoy……………..these  caramel centers aren’t as chewy as the caramel ones I tried in May 2017. The caramel is a softer caramel but it has a sour finish. After a few of them the sour taste builds and my throat hurts.

Maybe I got a defective bag?

I’m not eating the rest.

NOT WORTH A FORK!

Your experience and opinion may differ.

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My Forking Opinion on M&M’s Honey Nut and Chili Nut Candy

Chili Nut M&M's

Chili Nut M&M’s

Honey Nut M&M's

Honey Nut M&M’s

M&M’s Candy has an easy to enter contest on Facebook where you vote for the new flavor of peanut M&M’s. The new flavors up for consideration are Coffee Nut, Honey Nut and Chili Nut. You till 6-17-16 to vote on FaceBook and have a chance to WIN $100K.

M&M’s are the famous American candy that is chocolate that’s known for melting in the mouth and not the hand. The candy is chocolate that is covered in a hard sugar shell.

M&M’s were one of my favorite candies as a child and as an adult I have to try not all but most of the flavors they introduce.

If you read my blog you might remember I don’t drink coffee because it usually taste bitter to me and although I LOVE the aroma of coffee maybe my least favorite thing about coffee is the aftertaste that only comes with coffee. So to be honest as I am I can’t review the Coffee Nut Flavor.

I do have to say that these candies are next to impossible to find anywhere. I didn’t actually find them and my husband picked them up for me when he was out.

I start with the Honey Nut. I love honey and I like honey roasted peanuts so I thought these should be good. I taste it and it doesn’t forking taste like honey to me. It taste more like fake maple syrup. I don’t like them. I can’t eat them even though the actual peanuts in them seem less stale than from regular peanut M&M’s.

I try the Chili Nut. The bag gives off a deep chocolatey aroma. The chili nut has a little kick and leaves your mouth with a mild peppery finish. These are actually very good. Just like the coffee nut flavor the peanuts in the candy are a little bigger and seem less stale than in regular peanut M&M’s. I really like them. I was hoping for a little more heat but still these are good.

I voted for the Chili Nut!

That was my forking opinion on Chili Nut and Honey Nut Peanut M&M’s Candy.

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