Sunday, February 20, 2011

Coconut lovers beware . . .

I spotted these at the checkout counter of my local grocery store.  I love, love, love coconut, so despite my son's warning that coconut M&Ms were just wrong, I bought them and eagerly opened up the bag on the way home.  I couldn't even wait to get home to try them . . .  And, well . . . they were not very good . . . I could hardly taste the coconut! 

I turned over the bag to read the ingredients and this is the list (capitalization theirs): 

MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, SKIM MILK, COCOA BUTTER, LACTOSE, MILKFAT, SOY LETHICIN, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS), SUGAR CORNSTARCH, LESS THAN 1% - CORN SYRUP, DEXTRIN, COLORING (INCLUDES YELLOW 5 LAKE, RED 40 LAKE, BLUE 2 LAKE, YELLOW 6 LAKE, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1, RED 40, YELLOW 6, BLUE 1 LAKE, BLUE 2), ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, GUM ACACIA.


No coconut?  How can you have Coconut M&Ms without coconut????  I turned over the bag again and looked at it a little closer . . .


Remember the old Wendy's Commercial "Where's the Beef?"  Well, where's the coconut?

5 comments:

Sara said...

That's so disappointing! If it's any consolation, the pics are yummy!

Reds said...

LOL - Where's the coconut!! How sad that they didn't even add a little in the candy!

Barb said...

How funny! NO coconut! My opinion anyway, is that is you take all those ingredients in your body that you'd better love it.

pat said...

I discovered these in October, and even though it is faux coconut, they are delicious! I put them in chocolate cookies and it was a rather Mounds-ish taste.

Nicki said...

where indeed! and I loved those old Wendy's commercials (reminded me of my grandmother - had to look twice to be sure it wasn't her). I LOVE M&M - but coconut, not so much - so I won't be tempted by this misguided effort.