{"id":696,"date":"2008-11-08T00:28:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T05:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=696"},"modified":"2008-11-11T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T22:41:59","slug":"crown-mychew-grape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Crown Mychew (grape)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nToday is Korean Taffy day at the JSFR, specifically Mychew (grape) taffy. I’ve done a compare and contrast between the Japanese based Morinaga Hi-Chew<\/a> and the Korean based Crown Mychew<\/a> before and the differences then are pretty much the differences now.<\/p>\n

Mychew isn’t as fancy pretty to look at as the white wrapped colored taffy middle blobbed Hi-Chew but it gets the job done. Mychew is also less bubble gum springy which might please an American palate more so than the odd bouncy chew of Hi-Chew. That’s not to say that Mychew is all Starburst and light because it does have a bit of an odd bounce to it, just not as much when compared to Hi-Chew.<\/p>\n

Mychew has a nice grape-y Kool-aid smell but it is not as powerfully grape as Kool-aid. The taste is sweet with a little tart but also GRAPE FLAVOR rather than fruit grape taste. I’d say that Mychew is more mainstream grape flavored than Hi-Chew, which is both good and bad. Mychew isn’t giving you anything you aren’t expecting in grape but unless it’s the fruit, grape rarely tastes like the real thing. Hi-Chew got fruit grape a little better but at the cost of a slight afterflavor. Mychew isn’t as cutting edge grape but it also doesn’t have any extra odd flavors.<\/p>\n

Overall, the Mychew is the slightly tastier candy with a less interesting look to it and a little shoddier packaging. The strawberry flavor was better but the grape holds it own pretty decently. Not quite a 3.5 pea decently but add just a little more fractional peas for Mychew than you may have for Hi-Chew when you read the<\/p>\n

Rating<\/a> of 3 wasabi peas<\/strong> out of a possible 5 wasabi peas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,32,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-peas","category-carameltaffy","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}