Skittles has a new "flavor". It seems they couldn't be content with screwing up ice cream and chocolate (most artificially chocolate flavored things never turn out right, just like most chocolate scented things never turn out smelling like chocolate).

No, they went and made something called "Fizzl'd Fruits".
This could be construed many ways in this day and age.



My husband picked them up from a gas station, curious about what a Fizzl'd Fruit really was. But from the wrapper's description, I thought "Oh, cool, maybe it's like Skittles and Pop Rocks got mixed together." I couldn't wait to try them, with flavors listed on the back like Melon Berry, Berry Punch, Strawberry, Raspberry and Wild Cherry.

I opened the package and found some white sand-covered Skittles. I thought "Uh oh, sugary sour sand..." and feared they would be like Sour Patch kids. Not terrible, but not new or something I'd eat by any means. Unless I was really, really craving candy.



My husband and I both tried them. His reaction needed bleeping: "They tastes like s***!"

My first reaction was:



When I could talk again, I said, "Oh my god, it tastes like baking soda! What the hell?"

So then I flip the package over. AND IT IS BAKING SODA!!!!!



The Wrigley Jr. Company just coated Skittles with frakkin' baking soda and called it candy. That's cheating!

They do not fizz. They taste like nasty salted Skittles. Salty, sandy, brine-encrusted Skittles. If salty candy is your thing, go for it. They're just regular Skittles once you get past the baking soda coating. But unless you actually like letting a coating of crusty baking soda sand dissolve on your tongue just to get to some Skittles, I'd say just buy the red bagged Skittles.

Leave these to people with no taste buds.