{"id":693,"date":"2008-11-07T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=693"},"modified":"2008-11-11T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T21:28:18","slug":"hi-chew-grape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Chew (grape)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nThe best thing about The Most Korean of Asian Grocery Stores is that they carry both Hi-Chew and<\/I> Mychew. Sadly, there isn’t as much of an overlap as I’d like but I did find a couple of matching flavors so I could get one of each and compare them. Or at least that’s my excuse this weekend. <\/p>\n

Hi-Chew (grape) certainly smells like grape but it’s the smell of Grape Kool-aid – or more probably, “grape concentrated juice and flavors” as listed in the ingredients. Is there something about the flavor of grapes that makes it hard to translate in food chemistry? I was just thinking on that and a lot of “grape” things don’t taste like fresh from the vine fruit yet a lot of people don’t really mind. *shrug*<\/p>\n

Morinaga does try though. There is a nice tartness to the grape flavor and I’d say that it is a more natural tasting grape than Kool-aid or Bubblicious but it’s still not quite that fresh grape grape. I also taste just a hint of FLAVORING, which mostly manifests in the sinuses and knocks around half heartedly. It’s mostly an afterthought annoyance flavor rather than a deal breaker but the Hi-Chew would certainly be tastier without it.<\/p>\n


\nFinally, I was able to snap a close up of the white wrapped colored taffy. Neat! Also, please excuse my fingers…apparently I need to moisturize more.<\/p>\n

Lastly, having both ‘Chews together I noticed that Morinaga does a better job with the finished product. True we’re only talking a sleeve of taffy bits but side by side the Hi-Chew is the more professional looking candy. It’s squared up better and glued together with more care. It’s also harder to get into surreptitiously so one can take a picture of the packaging and the inner goodies without having to buy two sleeves of ‘Chews. Just in case you wanted to know.<\/p>\n

Of the Hi-Chews reviewed so far, grape is better than the Green Apple<\/a> but not as good as the strawberry<\/a>. Fortunately for me, that put Hi-Chew (grape) smack dab at average, although you could add a couple more fractional pea points for a slightly more than <\/p>\n

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