Taste test 2k26: TAYTO CANDY FLOSS FLAVOURED CRISPS-WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE?

 This week I was doing my Grocery Run whilst Drafting the Madame Web Review, when I found something that practically fell on my lap to be reviewed.

Remember when I reviewed the Cola Bottle Flavoured Taytos back In 2022? And at the time I derided Tayto that no way would they ever create something so stupid ever again?

THAT WASN'T A CHALLENGE, TAYTO!

No really this exists, they thought that this was a good idea, I know Tayto has to have a Limited Edition Every Summer since they started doing them but instead of going on about, whether they could, they needed think about if they should!

So here's the Breakdown of the Vital Statistics. 

TAYTO CANDY FLOSS FLAVOURED POTATO CRISPS!

Packaging: Sky Blue and Pastel Pink gradients in and out of each other. Mr Tayto holds a Stick of candyfloss behind the logo. Underneath the Logo, the Words Candy Floss in blue and pink letters. Underneath that are Photos of the Crisps and I Cannot tell if it's because of lighting, or the metallic Foil they use, but does the Crisps have Granules of Sugar on them?

Calorie Count: 184 calories in a 35g bag (Probably less after you Vomit most of this crap up!)

Flavour: The Staple of Funfairs and Coastal Towns the World over, Candy floss is heated sugar spun in a Centrifuge until it becomes fibrous on a paper stick and "Flavoured" with Blue or pink syrup. It's sweet, but that's about it. It's not really filling. To me Candy Floss doesn't taste like Anything. 

Taste: opening the pack there is a Smell, that shouldn't come from a packet of crisps, a heady waft of Sweet smells Invades my nostrils. There is something off putting about having crisps smell as sickly sweet as a bottle of Children's Cough Medicine. Taking a crisp out for inspection, there is no sugar on it's surface. It looks like a regular crisp-And that frightens me! No time like the present!

......

Remember I said Candy Floss tastes like nothing to me? That's how it feels; like Sugar and Fried potatoes. Despite my Hyperbole earlier that this shouldn't be fit even for animal consumption, it could be worse; they could have tasted like Strawberries, not just smells like them! Otherwise, it would go from uninteresting to Disgusting very quickly. This is quite possibly the most Forgettable Flavour OF ANYTHING! I've taste tested in years!

TASTE TEST 2K26: PRINGLES MYSTERY FLAVOUR-FALLOUT 76

 ...And like I said yesterday,  we are not done with taste tests. This Shouldn't take too long as we only have one thing to Discuss.

Following last year's Collaboration with Super Mario Brothers, Pringles has now Joined Forces with The Fallout Franchise.

Now I'm out of my depth here, I'm Afraid.

I never enjoyed Shooter video games.  I preferred Fighting games and RPGs. And as I got older, While I haven't abandoned Games completely, I prefer these days to watch let's plays.

I also know Fallout 76 was adapted into a Show on Amazon Prime. I only pay for Netflix so my Knowledge on Fallout apart from Wikipedia is slim.

With that said I Doubt a game based on An Alternative post Nuclear war Nevada is hardly the place to find ingredients for this flavour. But first, the Rundown:

PRINGLES MYSTERY FLAVOUR-FALLOUT 76

Packaging: Silver,  which guess they are using exclusively for Mystery Flavours with an open vault hatch door with a question mark on it. The game's logo is underneath.

Calories count: 157 calories in a 30g serving. Item Contains 5 and a half servings. Item weighs 165g

Flavour: It makes no Sense! When I think of Franchises based on Survival and post Nuclear war, you think of Food you COULD Eat In a Situation like that. Beef Jerky, Tins of Stew, Corned Beef, Government Cheese, Rations of some sort. Not CHEESY GARLIC BREAD! 

Did Pringles even understand the assignment? I had to Google search Fallout Garlic bread to see if it circles back to Fallout in some way. I checked and there isn't any in game item that directly links Garlic bread to Fallout! You can cultivate Mutated Wheat, but not directly Garlic Bread. 

Hell,  I know nothing about Fallout and just named 5 things that A) could be a flavour Crisp and B) make Thematic Sense. And they blew it!

TASTE TEST 2K25: TAYTO THAI RINGS FLAVOUR POTATO CRISPS

 Hello Everyone!

Brand new Taste Test while you wait for Blood and Thunder in 2 weeks. Tayto is back with the third year of Tayto's Corn Snacks transformed into A potato crisp. Following the Road set by Meanies two years ago and mighty munch last year, now in 2025. Thai Rings gets it's Turn.

TAYTO THAI RINGS POTATO CRISPS 

Package Colour: Pitch black with Mr Tayto standing behind logo with an Oriental Dragon beside him. The bottom of the packaging is blue to harken back to The original Cheese and Onion.

Flavour: As Vague as it Comes,  "Oriental Spices" Flavoured Potato Crisps. Flavoured after the Ring Shaped Corn Snacks originally made by Perry.

Taste: Opening the Bag, the Spices waft towards my nose and it's a pleasant warm smell. Taking a bite,  I notice the crisps are not uniform. Those with Specks of spice are lightly flavoured, while those completely tanned with Spice rub have an overwhelming amount of Heat! This inconsistency inadvertently solves the problem Mighty Munch had just 12 months ago: the further I went down the bag of those last year, the spicier and unbearable the crisps got. Not this time. Maybe by luck, perhaps by Transit and Settling, but definitely not by design, But this year's flavour is delicious, even if it's still vague on what exactly makes this "Thai"!

Thank you for Reading! I'll be In two weeks to Cover MLW Blood and Thunder as Normal Services resume. Over at boggerboxoffice.blogspot.com my film review site my latest review is Kinda Pregnant with Leave the World behind being up on August 1st. Don't miss that!

TASTE TEST 2K25: PRINGLES X SUPER MARIO FLAVOUR

Two Moustachioed Icons Collide,  as Super Mario warps from a Green Pipe to A Tube of Mystery Pringles in a supermarket you!

PRINGLES X SUPER MARIO MYSTERY FLAVOUR 

Tube Appearance: Metallic Silver, almost as a reference to the Nintendo S.N.E.S. Where usually a cartoon of the ingredients would be, A Mario Coin Block with a Question mark floats in the void, on the back is the official Nintendo product Stamp of Authenticity. 

Calorie Count: 158 in a 30g serving, the Item contains 5 servings. 

Taste: The Mystery flavour had to be themed to Mario to work, So going in blind, I expected this item to be either A) some kind of Italian Dish or B) a Mushroom dish, but given that mushrooms don't exactly translate into crisp flavours, its going to be linked to Mario via his nationality as an Italian or Italian-American.

Before I tasted these, I read through Ingredients to somehow guess what this was. So apart from the things you'd expect,  what  caught my eye was meat extract, tomato extract, Garlic, chilli and Jalapeño powders.

An Italian dish with Meat, Garlic and Tomatoes 

But it was the spices that sealed it for me and  despite the omission of Actual cheese in the ingredients,  I am convinced the flavour is...

PEPPERONI DEEP DISH PIZZA!

While I can't taste cheese, the snack is vegetarian, not Vegan, and given a real Deep Dish pizza  is Passata covering the cheese, not the other way around, the overpowering Spices and tomato is understandable if it's there. I was convinced for a while, the flavour  could be Spaghetti and meatballs, but the meat  flavouring they used is unmistakably Pork and Pepperoni spices, but Spaghetti and meatballs was a possibility. 

And that's it for now. I'll be back next month over at Bogger Box office to review Kneecap. And here to review Intimidation Games a fortnight later.

TASTE TEST 2k24: TAYTO MIGHTY MUNCH CRISPS LIMITED EDITION

 I know I said I was going to be on Hiatus for July -AND I STILL AM!-But 5 small paragraphs is not Gonna Hurt! (Though I may catch Hell from my dentist!)

TAYTO MIGHTY MUNCH FLAVOURED POTATO CRISPS

Calories: 194 calories per 37g pack 

Package: A Combination of both Tayto and Mighty Munch. Red Gradients into Orange, into Yellow that's halted by a Silver Slash that ends in the Familiar and Iconic blue field of the Bottom of a packet of Tayto. The Logos and mascots are reduced to fit rather than make a new package art.

Flavour: The Punchy Spice mix of Monst-MIGHTY! Munch Corn snacks onto the legendary potato Crisp!

Taste: Opening the Bag, and the smell of spices hits you, and if you only ate this and Err.... Similar products! As a child, this taste would bring you back to those memories! 

Putting this Spice mix onto a two dimensional Crisp and not a 3 dimensional corn snack, has a pro and Con. PRO: The flavoursome Spice mix  doesn't stain your hands being on a solid crisp, rather than an easily crushed Corn based treat, that sticks to your palms and fingers with both the spice and crumbs as you would eat the original Mighty Munch. But this is tied to it's flaw: The Further down the pack you get, the more Concentrated the Flavour becomes, to the point that a drink is needed to wash the burn away. Still Better than the Spore of Madness that was the Cola flavoured Tayto from 2 years ago!

My Monthly Hiatus resumes Now! Due to it, there will be no review of Friday's Blood and Thunder Event by MLW, though please support them yourselves! You can find me on X Formerly Twitter, @RealEnli 

TASTE TEST 2K22-TAYTO FIZZY COLA BOTTLE FLAVOUR CRISPS: WHAT NEW SPORE OF MADNESS IS THIS?

 I INTERRUPT MY SCHEDULED REVIEWING AND DRAFTING OF UNCHARTED...To bring you a Taste Test in a limited edition flavour...one that has being doing the rounds up and down our green little Island of Ireland and It's Something that is making People think Mr Tayto should be given  A White Coat with long Sleeves and Instead of a Trip to Taytoland, should instead be given a permanent holiday in a Rubber Room!

Fizzy cola Bottle Crisps!

But lets not act like this is a once off!

Combining Salty ingredients with Confectionery is not a new concept! I LOVE! Pretzels but covered in Chocolate? EVEN BETTER! Those of you who are 90'S Kids would remember Monster Munch Releasing a Vanilla Icecream Cone, Which Combined with the Spicy Monster Munch, tasted More akin to a Chai tea. It can work!

The Only Problem is, Combining Salt and Chocolate and Combining Vanilla, Ginger and Cinnamon are Culinary Axioms, with Centuries of Practice to be proven right. As far as we know, this is the first time Potato and Gelatin are Combined like this have we being missing a trick or are People right to be repulsed by this?

TAYTO FIZZY COLA BOTTLE CRISPS

Calorie Count: 525 per 42g Bag

Packaging: Metallic Pink with Red Outlines of cola bottles and bubbles. There are photos of a few crisps and cola bottles.

Opening the bag it smells like Cola, like someone poured a bottle into it as a mean spirited Joke.

Speaking of jokes, The crisps are Dotted with black Dots, no doubt the colour flavouring. I'll not saying you should, but if you put these in a bowl with some Crack Pepper Crisps, noone would tell the difference until they would taste them. And I'm sure your new best friends will know who are as they pound your face into Hamburger meat while you scream, "It's Just a Prank, Bro!"

Anyway enough Stalling! 

let's eat!

.......

UGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY DO I DO THE THINGS I DO?

I ate one crisp and really didn't get anything, It's when you eat more than One is when the flavour hits you like a truck!

The Cola has a Vinegar taste Under it that is very Unpleasant and It's Hard to explain, But Despite having no liquid ingredients at all, the texture of the crisps feel "Soggy" for some reason!

It there is only one Pro to this Disaster it would be this....

AT LEAST THEY DIDN'T COMBINE COKE WITH CHEESE AND ONION!

Well, that it!

My 482th post is in books as my quest for 500 Posts Continues, I have to get back to drafting Uncharted for Boggerboxoffice.blogspot.com, but you can find me on Twitter on the Account, @RealEnli, though most of the time i'm posting about wrestling, playing hashtag games or texting my displeasure on Gameshows! But if That stirs your Porridge, swing on by! Occasionally i will tweet links to any review i have made, so year drop me a line and i will see you on the first Monday of September for  Clash at the Castle results!

 

A Tentative Summer Schedule for 2021

 Greetings from Ireland. Eamonn Here with a heads up of the Reviews I will be doing over the summer. But let's not Kid ourselves! In the return to Normalcy, reviews will be cancelled Since i was called by  Social Services to arrange my Covid Jab...Which is up in the air, but it means I will have to drop everything if my appointment has a date!

be that as it may....I Can Announce what will be Reviewed No Matter What!

ENLIGHTENEDTOWERS SUMMER SCHEDULE 2021

• NEXT WEEK! Taste Test 2k21: Tayto Sandwich Flavours 
• THIS SUMMER: THE WWE DRAFT!
• June: Money In the Bank
• August: Summerslam

(SUBJECT TO CHANGE!)

BOGGERBOXOFFICE SCHEDULE

2 TICKETS TO HELL-MACHINATIONS OF THE MARA

Ticket To Hell, My Double Feature Event Returns...But this won't be the Triumphant Return Everyone wanted, No This will Leave People Reeling, On the Review Side of the Event I Review the Modern Rom-Com Double Pack. And the Films Within

• April to May 2 TICKETS TO HELL
• Joe-Jack and Satanic Ostrich Reviews I Love you, Man!
• Eamonn reviews Dinner For schmucks!
• JUNE: MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL
• AUGUST: DORA THE EXPLORER, THE MOVIE! (YES REALLY!)

IT'S JULY ! YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!

In what could be the Last time I do this for Bastille Day, July will Continue With New Episodes of Code Lyoko Return to the Past Now!

And that is the Schedule as it Stands, Please Refer to my Twitter account (@RealEnli) if any changes are made!

Thank you for all your Support!

PEACE!

X-

EAMONN AKA ENLI

TASTE TEST 2K19: RICE FUSION PRINGLES

I planned to review the new Heartbeat International Icecream but my Ambition...no scratch that..My Expectation of any Shop having all the new products in my hometown so until this is resolved, a Different Review Entirely.

Pringles have always being the company that turned the simple spud into snack sensation, But how would they fare with Weaving Reformed Rice into their Snacks?

Going From Left to Right Closet to Ireland

INDIAN TANDOORI CHICKEN
Colour: Clay
Nutritional Info: 610 calories in 30g Serving, Suitable for Vegetarians!
Not a Good Start, Dry curry Powder, No taste of chicken Underneath the Crisp of reformed Rice. you could get a Budget microwave curry for the price of this, and it would have real chicken in it!

PEKING DUCK WITH HOISIN SAUCE
Colour: Grass Green
Nutritional Info: 609 calories in 30g Serving
Suitable for Vegetarians
Peppered with Star Anise and lathered in Hoisin sauce, this at least has the taste of duck under these usually overpowering spices and sauces! Cast your Mind back to the very first review on this blog, and you'll remember i criticized Walker's Duck and "POISON" Sauce 10 years ago! But Pringles succeeded where Walkers has Failed!

MALAYSIAN RED CURRY
Colour: Terracotta
Nutritional Info: 609 Calories in 30g Serving
Suitable for Vegetarians
The Spiciest Of the 3, Curry Power and Beef flavouring makes this the best of the bunch!

Well that's it! I'll be back on Wednesday to reveal the roster after both nights of the wwe draft.
see you then!

Doritos Collisions Review

So Despite being World cup and Commonwealth Games year, Cadbury's hasn't come out with any new flavours. We still, however have a last taste test for 2018,

Last time we had Crisps with 2 flavours, now it's 2 flavoured crisps in one bag, with it's collisions line. We try each flavour separately and as is the whole idea....

Take 2 crisps of 2 flavours, and eat'em in one go!

HABERNO CHILLI AND GUACAMOLE
Package: Red and Green
Calorie Count: 645 in a 30g Serving
Habernero;Dry slow burn that will leave you coughing
Guacamole: Fragrant Crisp with nice texture. Tastes like a homemade Guac. Luxurious, creamy with a hint of tomatoes
Together: The heat of Habernero Rises to the challenge of the Alkaline Guacamole. Since Doritos are not uniform in size, One Flavour surpasses the other. Only on the rare occasions you get two same sized chips, both flavours complement each other!

HONEY GLAZED RIBS AND LEMON BLAST 
Package: Black and Yellow
Calories Count: 643 in a 30g serving
Honey Glazed Ribs: Bold ribs with Sickly sweet Honey sauce with black pepper saving me from a cavity!
Lemon Blast: If Someone's idea was to take Plain crisps and Drown them in Lemon juice, I WOULD FIRE THAT PERSON'S ASS! HOWEVER!...
Together: As stupid as a lemon juice crisp tastes and sounds, A sweet and bitter combo works. I am on my second bag as I type this!

IT'S BEING SO LONG! WALKERS CRISPS REVIEW: MAX STRONG RANGE!

For Years, Ireland has being getting the Royal Shaft bu Walker's Crisps. You'd remember that every year I would review the new limited flavours every year?

Well it's being years since I reviewed the last batch Since Walkers HAVEN'T BOTHERED TO RELEASE THEM IN IRELAND!

No I tell a lie.
They do sell them in Ireland...
in #JUSTDUBLIN! AND #JUSTBELFAST!

and Sure, Enniscorthy is not that far from Dublin, But If you were me, would you really drop everything, change your plans and hop on a bus...just to buy a packet of crisps, THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SOLD NATIONWIDE?
WALKER'S....

Also lets talk about you using 60% of your potatoes are grown in Ireland...

YET YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO SLAP A UNION FLAG ON YOUR PACKETS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIdaTR1dI7M

so a compromise, I'm reviewing there Brand new Permanent Range over the Flavours of The Decade Limited Editions, Which I will probably never see. And even though these a new, once again, Paddy gets The DICK from England, Old Buoy! as they had it for 6 months!

So lets make do with what we got!

Walkers Max Strong Are intended to be Pub Crisps and the compliment to lager. They are Ridged crisps that are very spicy, and should not be sold to children!

To get a full scale of what i'm in for, that's exactly what i am doing, Power Scaling, that is. starting with the least spicy and working up

 CHILLI AND LIME
Package colour: Green Shield on Black
Calories: 226
Heat Rating: Medium
A Few Crisps in and i am already choking! Flavour 3 is going to be a bitch! However this flavour is enjoyable with a milky brew in tow, and it's not as Caustic as the other flavours

CHICKEN WINGS
Package colour: Burgundy Shield on black
Calories: 665
Heat Rating: Hot!
Bold, Robust bbq sauce with a slow burn is the name of the game! Hot, but enjoyable!

JALAPENO AND CHEESE
Package colour: Yellow Shield on Black
Calories: 226
Heat Rating: VERY HOT!
As hot and Caustic as it is, This flavour is played out! Translation: Every snack company and it's Mammie has a Jal/cheese combo! It's so saturated by other companies. it doesn't seem that hit anymore since we are used to it! You can also blame Walker's use of Local (BUT CLEARLY NOT THEIR POTATOES!...OK I'M CALM!) Ingredients, namely high milk content cheese like Cheddar and Double Gloucester fans the flame a lot in this flavour!

And that's it!
The road to 400 posts begins today with this, the 381st post! it means that the 10 episodes of world of sport, Mitb, Summerslam are going to push me to 400 either before 2018 ends or January of next year, and that's just the reviews that are locks!
SO until then, follow me on Twitter on @RealEnli

PEACE
EAMONN,
AKA
ENLI
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