I think we can universally agree that pink flavored Starbursts and red flavored Skittles are the best of those candies, while yellow Starbursts and yellow/green Skittles are the worst. And yet, the worst flavors always tend to be over-represented in the bags! I mean, come on! It’s like they are just asking us to throw away a quarter of the candy.
So two pronged question here:
Does anyone like yellow/green flavored Starburst/Skittles?
And why do they continue to put so many of those flavors into the mix when they aren’t, I imagine, well-liked?
Sorry, but you’ve got it near backwards. Zero excuse for pink Starburst existing. Always a toss-up between eating and tossing then. Yellow is only slightly below the unquestionably superior red and orange.
Re: Skittles, they are meant to be eaten by the handful, so no individual assessment is possible.
Now if you want to talk about the best tasting M&M…
In the old original Skittles mix, I did feel that they were over-represented mostly because they had three citrus flavors (orange, yellow and green.) in the new original Skittles mix, the green are now apple-flavored and I dislike them so much that I have literally stopped buying Skittles. (Yes, I could pick them out, but there are other candies that I don’t have to do that with.)
I second the motion to pair up your Skittles, and yellow paired with green is the only way to stomach the new original green ones.
As for Starburst: Snarky Kong has it right. Pink, yellow, orange, red.
Yellow Starbursts are fine, they’re not my favorite (pink with orange just a hair behind), but I still like yellow. They used to be my least favorite, but that was when I was a kid and yellow was my least favorite color and I think that tainted anything yellow.
If you want to hate on yellow candy, hate on some of those nasty banana ones, like the bananas in runts or yellow Now and Laters. Both of those are borderline better off just being thrown out. And I like bananas just fine too, those things just DO NOT taste like banana. Even if you hate yellow Star burst, at least they taste similar to lemon, and I like lemons (I’ll eat them straight up), but I can understand why people who don’t like lemons might not like them.
As for Skittles, the sweetness overwhelms the flavor to a certain extent, and unlike Starbursts, which I typically eat one at a time, I usually have multiple Skittles at a times, so the flavors get mixed anyway. Admittedly, I have certain combinations I like, but the lemon works well in all of them. No complaints from me.
Wow, surprised by the opinions here. I agree with the OP on Starbursts, in my opinion the yellow are inedible and go straight to the trash.
We are planning for our daughter’s 1st b-day party and one of the things my wife is doing is the candy bar for the kids. Since it is a duck theme, all the candy is yellow. Including a container of yellow Starbursts. I was incredulous that she thought this was a good idea as my opinion was that EVERYONE hates yellow Starbursts as much as I do.
I now must go apologize to Mrs. MeanJoe. Thanks a lot you yellow Starburst lovin’ jagoffs!
blatantly stolen: “Waste the Rainbow…!”
"Thor- “My rainbow bridge! Shattered! All so you can have sour-lemon flavor? I had a girl friend down there… and EZ Pass!”
“For the bridge or for the girl?” ~Smite!~
I generally like lemon flavored candy. IIRC one of the Starburst flavors does tend to have a slightly different, less-chewy consistency than the others, and I think it’s the yellow ones, so I can see how that might put some people off.
I’m another who likes the yellow/lemon starburst the best! Probably the pink are my next favorite, and then orange and darker red are pretty close–and still good.
