Candy Review: Boston Baked Beans

Packaging -
This candy comes in a fashionable rectangular box that can easily fit inside a pocket where your cell phone is supposed to go. It has a red brick pattern, and boasts a picture of a pot of beans. The box gives you the vision of the working class man who at the end of the day only had a pot of beans to come home to.

Size -
Size varies with each individual baked bean, but on average there about the size of a jelly bean. There was this one in my box that was huge, but when showing it off to Amanda I dropped it on the floor. Now, I would have called the 3 or 5 second rule (depending on who you talk to), but it bounced into the bushes.

Color -
When you think of a bean, you might think of a drab brown. Unless your talking about a lima bean, then it's more of a lime color. Oh yeah, and black beans would be black. OK, whatever bean your thinking off, this bean is not that color. It's a reddish color, similar to a red hot (I have reservations against red hots) but darker.

Smell -
I don't know if a bean has a smell, but these beans sure don't. Maybe you can catch an air of peanut, but that is it.

Taste -
The moment you put a Boston Baked Bean into your gullet, you get that taste similar to an M&M, some kind of processed candy dust that comes with the shell. Then you bite, or suck on the candy shell. It is not chocolate for all those out there who think so. It's sugar with other ingredients coated over the peanut. It doesn't taste like pure sugar, it tates like a sugar substitute. The peanut tastes as what a peanut should taste like. If your allergic to peanuts, don't eat this. If Kyle's brother Dustin eats a peanut he would DIE! That's why they always say on almost EVERYTHING that it MAY have peanuts (like on the McFlurry sign) because you never no.

Consumption Tips -
You cannot eat a Boston Bake Bean by nibbling on one. The red coloring will come off on your finger when your saliva comes in contact with it. Like cotton candy, this one needs to be eating with precaution.

Fun Fact -
The Boston Baked Bean" is a generic name used throughout the candy industry for sugar coated peanuts.

Boston Baked Beans

Credit: MK

Copyright: MK