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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

New product Wednesday, in Dallas stores: Raspberry 3 Musketeers

By Teresa Gubbins

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Penny appears in photo to provide reference point as to the size of the raspberry 3M mini which, as can be seen in photo, is small.

Penny appears in photo to provide reference point as to the size of the raspberry 3M mini which, as can be seen in photo, is small.

Please forgive candy as a new product two weeks in a row but there's a certain urgency re: 3 Musketeers Raspberry minis with dark chocolate, being as they are 1. seasonal and 2. limited edition. Time sensitive!

Unlike Kit Kats or Hershey's kisses which have endured endless spinoffs, 3 Musketeers have just begun to be exploited, starting last year with mint 3 Musketeers, which have become a permanent flavor, followed by Limited Edition Cherry 3 Musketeers, sold during Valentine's. The flavoring shows up in the filling, and you can rest assured that said flavoring is not what one would call "natural".

Here for Easter (or, alternately, "spring" -- the bag says "Bring the spring feeling home" -- for heathens who don't observe Easter?) comes raspberry with dark-chocolate coating and a pale purply-pink interior. They're OK-not-bad, assuming you can hack 3 Musketeers' standard marshmallowy nougat filling and its fakey Sweet-Tart-type "fruit" flavor.

Spring, tulips, Easter, bunnies -- which, by the way, Mars tests its products on. Yum.

Spring, tulips, Easter, bunnies -- which, by the way, Mars tests its products on. Yum.

Mars, who makes 3 Musketeers -- as well as M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Dove, Starburst, and Skittles -- turned up in the news in December 2007, when it came out that they do cruel animal testing in their research of flavonoids for their drecky CocoaVia product line. (CocoaVia is a potential huge money-maker because its claims of being "healthy" give free rein to chocoholics to pig out.) Animal-rights supporter Pam Anderson wrote Mars a letter asking them to follow Hershey's example and end the testing, and PETA is also on the case, urging a boycott; though there are probably more people who avoid Mars only because their candy doesn't taste that good.

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kirk

kirk Anonymous

Wow. A fake-fruit-flavored, poorly labeled, tiny food product from a company that tortures animals. What's on tap next week? The plague?

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Donna Chen

Donna Chen Verified

that purple-pink color looks more like bubblegum flavor (yuck, whoever invented this flavor??) than raspberry. Pass.

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John McClelland

John McClelland Verified

Donna, it is probably for the same people who think Big Red soda is tasty.

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Scott Doyle

Scott Doyle Verified

Cherry 3 Musketeers sounds interesting. Damn them for only offering it during Valentine's.

And John, that just ain't right.

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ggperalta Anonymous

To be fair, this is more of a throw back. After all, they were originally called 3 Musketeers because the package had vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry flavors. They eventually phased out the other flavors and simplified.

Of course, the reason they did it was because the other 2 weren't as good...

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Billusa99

Billusa99 Anonymous

Nice effect, the way you have Abe's head tilted.

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Scott

Scott Anonymous

I bet they'd make a great tempura, perhaps with a dipping sauce of heavy corn syrup and FD&C Red #40.

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Erin Rice

Erin Rice Verified

I must thank our resident foodie at this moment in time for bringing in a bag of these Raspberry 3 Musketeers. I always wondered what dark chocolate covered cough syrup would taste like and now I know. I am confident in reporting that it is possibly the worst candy/chocolate "treat" I have ever forced myself to eat in its entirety.

The date March 12, 2008 at 3:01 p.m. will forever live in infamy despite my best efforts at blocking it from my memory. Thank you, Teresa Gubbins.

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kirk

kirk Anonymous

Erin: May I suggest that you sear the memory more deeply, by pairing your R3M with a Hansen's Diet Black Cherry soda? I've never tried the former, but the latter could easily be the Official Soft Drink of Houston's "Lean Scene."

Scott: I think you've got a winner for the Texas State Fair, especially if you slather some guacamole on there somehow.

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Teresa Gubbins

Teresa Gubbins Staff

the ingredient list includes not just Red #40 Lake but also Blue#2 Lake, which i think adds that lavender/floral note one craves in a fruit-ish confectionery

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Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson Verified

Has anyone seen any of those Dark Chocolate Snickers for sale anywhere in the area? Are they still selling those or was that a limited time only thing too?

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Teresa Gubbins

Teresa Gubbins Staff

michael i just saw one last week. i think it was at a kroger. (which lately i am noticing has evvvvverything.) the dark snickers was originally introduced as a limited-edition item about a year ago, but it would appear that it has been added permanently

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Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson Verified

Exxxxxxxcellent, thanks TG!

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amy robinson Verified

Okay, so I thought it sounded horrible.. raspberry and dark chocolate. However, when the "candy fairy" left one on my desk, I did try it. And I was surprised. Much better than expected.

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Chad Jones

Chad Jones Verified

The first taste of this R3M yesterday was pretty good, and then, after Erin so vocally gagged about the taste being like cough syrup, it is now ruined for me.

On a related topic, this other new choco-fruit product is awful, just awful:

It's like drinking an accident.

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