Candy Review: Tin Coffin Sour Citrus Candy Bones & Skulls

While at my yearly Halloween Target run (which I'll go into more detail about in a future post), I treated myself to a mystery item.

I say "mystery item" because I had no idea what was in this little tin.
Ok, that's a lie.
The label said "Tin Coffin Sour Citrus Candy Bones & Skulls" so I had SOME idea.
I was hoping, HOPING that I would get something like Mr. Bones.
(Don't know what Mr. Bones is?  Go HERE and read up.  Back?  Ok.)
At a $1.99 it certainly wasn't a huge risk.  So I spun the roulette wheel.  

Buuuuut it wasn't quite Mr. Bones.  Though I did get a candy skeleton, the pieces didn't connect into any discernible thing except... a pile of bones.
And instead of chalky SweeTart flavor it was more what I'll call "Knockoff-Spree."
Let's take a closer look.

There were three types of candy in the tiny container (see quarter for size reference) and the candy was contained in a small clear cellophane bag within the tin.
When you open the clear bag, you get three types of bones:  Yellow femurs, Black skulls and Orange skulls. (Apparently candy hands and feet are a hot item on the candy-corpse black market.)

Flavor:
Yellow:  The first taste is an overwhelming artificial lemon flavor.  Put simply:  it tastes like what you think lemon Pledge furniture polish would taste like... if it weren't poisonous.  Once you bite it though it has the consistency and flavor of a yellow Spree candy.  2nd place favorite.

Black:  No initial flavor until you bite it.  Then it's a grape Spree all the way. 1st place favorite.

Orange:  No strong flavor on the candy shell.  When crunched:  orange SweeTart (yes, it's supposed to have one "T") all the way.

Overall the candies are delicious but the color scheme and candy shell make them feel a little cheap.  Like mass produced vending machine candy.  Which is probably exactly what they are.

My theory is that it's the ratio:  when you eat a Spree, you've got much more candy coated with a candy shell.  I think by having the candies so small, the ratio is off so the shell taste (which is a cheaper taste) overpowers the candy.  

Bottom line:  I like skeleton candy in coffins. 
It certainly wasn't a bad purchase.  I like the little coffin tin.  The candy was fun.  If I knew I was only having a handful of trick or treaters I might buy a bunch of these to drop in bags.

Don't tell Mr. Bones I cheated on him.