Milano - Pumpkin Spice

Love to eat several near-identical tasting foods in quick succession... reminds me of wine. I expected these to be quite similar to the chai latte milano, since those tasted like pumpkin spice, but these are actually closer to the pumpkin pie pop tarts, even though they don't contain any pumpkin. I think that's because the milk choco here (instead of white choco) makes them less sweet and more complex, which is good, except the spice level (such as it is -- very subtle nutmeg/cinnamon notes) is way dialed down, making them not very different from the regular old milano. That said, a regular old milano is pretty great, so I'd happily eat these anytime. They are better than chai milano and pumpkin pop tart (obviously), but less autumnal. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10 

Tootsie Roll Harvest Chews

Tootsie sure produces a lot of mid products. But I still love them. Hope for us all! 

Green Apple - It tastes very bad. Like overripe fruit, wax paper, and something uniquely sour. 3/10

Pumpkin Spice - This also tastes like bad artificial wax, or Jones soda. It's better than apple, but not good, either. 4/10

Candy Corn - This tastes like the vanilla (blue) OG tootsie flavor roll, which I like. Maybe a slight candy corn vibe. Pleasant. 6/10 

Cinnamon - This was like a pleasant dessert. Tastes like dulce de leche cookies. 7/10

The ratio was horrible: I got 2 cinnamons, 4 candy corns, and like 5000 green apples and pumpkin spices. It's like they know what the bad ones are (like Starburst and their "mostly yellow" sticks). Interestingly the only flavor that's "natural" is green apple, the rest are artificial, and I never would have guessed that in a million years. Guess my supertaster gene is melting.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 5/10

Dunkin Pumpkin Spice K-Cups

I like that they change the box art every year (it seems) so that I know I got fresh ones! That pie picture looks tasty. I am hungry. Anyway, these are fine. It's weird to have a pumpkin spice coffee with no milk or sugar, because all the pumpkin spice coffee at Dunkin/Starbucks is a syrup with milk and sugar in it. Obviously this doesn't taste as good. But, it's still fun to have these for the ~fall season~, and I do reach for them over the regular coffee flavor, at least for now. And you can always add your own milk if you have milk!

 

Overall
Cost: 5/10 (16$ for a 22 pack)
Taste: 6/10