I’ll stick to SweeTarts until these come down to normal pricing. and the price (I admit that it’s probably not the normal price) is ridiculous. However, the packaging is lacking the original flair with its recyclable dispenser box.
The upshot of all of this is that, yes, they are very much like the original candy. However, I liked all of the flavors and didn’t have to pick any of them out, the fact that there’s orange, lime and raspberry in there makes this a unique mix among the sour dextrose candies. This makes it easy to eat them together as a mix, but harder to chose over SweeTarts for flavor alone. However, the flavor is not as intense, so there’s plenty of tart but less actual defining flavor between them. The texture is generally smoother than SweeTarts, which tend to be a little crumbly and lumpy.
The black cherry flavors were well rounded, good deep notes and a puckery finish.Īs a candy sold as tart, they’re not as sour as some of the modern Warheads or Toxic Waste type products. It’s a good lime, not too artificial and not too much like a floor cleaner.Ĭherry is pretty bold, sometimes it seemed like it was the most intense of the flavors in the mix. Lime is surprising, I was certain it was going to be green apple, so that was nice. Orange is probably the best, a good mix of the juice flavor and tartness. Lemon is mild, a little tangy but not too much lemon in there either. Grape is smooth and acidic but without much grape punch to it, though it’s hard to rival the SweeTarts grape. There’s no listing of the flavors on the package.īlue Raspberry is sweet and tart with a pretty good floral berry flavor to it. There are six colors and flavors: blue raspberry, grape, orange, lime, lemon and cherry. The candies were only slightly powdery within the package, which you can kind of see in the picture of the wrapper up there. They’re about 3/16 of an inch in diameter. The wee little cylinders are 1/4 of an inch high. Though they don’t have the candy coating of the version that was discontinued, there are blue candies in there. They were expensive when I picked them up, at Dylan’s Candy Bar, for $3.49 for a 1.5 ounce package. The new Tart n Tinys are similar to the original packaging for the candy a simple cellophane bag. (Leaf brought back Astro Pops in 2012 and is also promising a return of Wacky Wafers this year.) Then Leaf Brands started to buy up the old trademarks and research the recipes in order to revive the candies. There was a chewy version, which again, might have been confusing for the existing Wonka brand which also included SweeTarts, Spree and Mini Chewy SweeTarts at that time.ĭevoted fans bought up the last few cases of Tart n Tinys, I even held onto a few boxes (I have two or three, still). They sported candy shells, like mini Spree candies, though they came in a larger box now and with the addition of a blue raspberry flavor. Tart n Tinys were then discontinued around 2007, and even then, they were different from the original candy. But still, they were never headliner candies, they were never the centerpiece of the Wonka brand, and rarely included in other formats for the candies sold for Trick or Treat or in large lay-down bags.
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Later they were added into the Wonka brand in the 1980s, which Breaker licensed around the time of the movie premiere. The innovation for the candy came around 1977 when they added a re-closable top that acted as a dispenser for the maddeningly small pieces. They were one of the early confections introduced by Breaker Confections, which also made other compressed dextrose candies like Wacky Wafers (more history on Collecting Candy). Tart n Tinys was a fringe candy to begin with back in the early 1970s. It’s rare that I get to chronicle the demise of a candy on this blog, it’s even rarer to then be able to report of its return.
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