Starburst Fruit by the Foot Mini Feet

This is an Easter candy, broadly construed. How silly. They really are mini. There are two flavors:

Strawberry: A weirdly light color, almost bubble-gum looking. Tastes like a strawberry candy flavor more than a strawberry gummy/fruit snack. Again, weirdly small. But tastes good. 7/10

Lemon: This is a little better than the strawberry; tastes like a lemon fruit snack (which to be honest I don't know if I've ever had? But if I did!) 7/10 

A serving is 2, which makes me think "just make one non-mini foot" but I guess I'm not the target audience of a small child on Easter morning. 

Overall
Cost: 6/10
Taste: 7/10 

Welch's Juicefuls Fusions

Who among us doesn't enjoy 2 in 1 juicy fun? I doubt anything lives up to the fruit 'n yogurt snacks, but by golly, these smelled so bad when I opened the pack. Like a rotting peach, maybe. Luckily they just tasted like generic fruit snack. They are shaped like circular citrus wedges and lumpy berries, which I like and think is cute.  

Peach Green Apple: mostly tastes like peach. Not at all ful of juice (no juice, even). 

Watermelon Lemon: Love this; it tastes like Amazing Fruit Gummy Bears (I'll never forget those). Did have a small bit of (lemon, fun) juice inside, although I'd hardly call it -ful. Nice flavors, both are present.  

Blueberry Raspberry: Blueberry+Raspberry = Blue raspberry. How 'bout that.  Not as fun of a shape, but it's OK and no worse than average. Very little juicefulness, but the color is stark so it feels like there is.

Although I said it in jest, these really did probide me with 2 in 1 (moderately) juicy fun. Something we all sorely need! Good job, Welch's. 

Overall
Cost: 6/10
Taste: 7/10 

Gushers Blueberry Grape / Sour Blue Raspberry

Never has a fruit snack made me feel so foolish, and I struggled through the fruit roll-ups pizza construction in the 90s. IDK if it's because I'm colorblind or what, but all the gushers in each package here are the same color blue. The box shows two distinct blue colors, but it does not translate to the real deal. So then what flavor(s) am I eating!? You'd think I could tell via "tasting", but I'm not sure. Some are definitely grape-y, and those I like less. Some are a sort of sour berry (blue raspberry, I suppose), and those are delicious. Is blueberry part of the grape ones and each of the two BlueberryGrape and SourRazz are in each package? Or are there Blueberry & Grape packs and Sour Razz packs?! Or is every gusher a mix of Blueberry, Grape, and Sour Razz? The more of them I eat, the less I know, because the non-sour ones don't all have the same "grape" note, so I don't think the BlueberryGrape flavor, if that is indeed a flavor, is stable. Even without the mystery, this is one of the best gushers I've had. Well, there aren't that many different ones, so it's probably the best. That's all due to the sour berry flavor, whereever it resides! Gush on! The only downside is that if I eat these at school, my mouth is blue.

Overall
Cost: 6/10
Taste: 7/10 

Fruit by the Foot - Splitz - Watermelon & Lemonade

I just bought a bunch of portable snacks because I'm about to spend the majority of my week kitchenless, away from comforts like Fridge and Microwave. Who could have forseen that I would eat a bunch of those snacks in my own Fully Kitchened home anyway due to weariness and/or curiosity?! (everyone). Anyway, this is too embarrassing to eat during meetings or even office hours, lol. But it's very good. The lemon(ade) flavor is sour, strong, and soapy-fresh (although it doesn't taste like soap; more like lemon soap always smelled kinda tasty to me). It smells kind of like fruit stripe gum, which is funny because it's fruit (by the foot) and has a big stripe on it. The texture is annoyingly thin compared to what I remember from my youth (cost cutting???) but the length seems about the same. Longer than a foot! Sweet, complex, a lil sour, very nice. Hopefully they don't catch me in a car accident unfurling my fruit snack scroll. 

Overall
Cost: 6/10 
Taste: 7/10 

Gushers Watermelon & Sour Apple

One of the best things about watching little kiddos is the snacks! But these snacks are a little bit gross. Whoopsie. The watermelon one tastes like watermelon, which is never my favorite flavor-of-thing, but is fine. The sour apple one is like, way too sour, especially for kiddos. It's got a bit of Plant-Potpourri vibe and also a bit of "scented plastic in some dirt" to go along with it. So, not great. The gusher form factor is still a win though. 

Gushers do remind me of one of my favorite stories, from Survivor player Cochran (first name "John") -- when he was calling in a food order one time they asked if they could get a name, and he said "uh, sure, John" and they thought he said "Usher John" aka the singer Usher and got very excited. This is a relatable tale that always makes me lol. 

Overall
Cost: 6/10
Taste: 5/10