Limited Edition Skittles Unlimited
Skittles has issued another limited edition, this one in a black package and with the ambitious name Skittles Unlimited. According to obsessive candy wrapper collector Brad Kent, this is the Canadian version of the Skittles Carnival Edition that has been out in the United States for several months now.
Jummy at Life Tips Daily found one of the black packages and reports that she liked them quite a bit. The five flavors in Skittles Unlimited are green slushy, candy apple, cotton candy, bubble gum, and red licorice. This flavor combination is the exact same as the brightly packaged United States version, but while the Australian version looks the same as the Skittles released in the States the name and several of the flavors are different. In Australia this edition is called Showtime Skittles and featured the flavors bubble gum, pop corn, fairy floss, toffee apple and jam donut (fairy floss is the Aussie term for cotton candy).
Skittles is known for making very successful varieties of the basic five flavored candies that made the brand famous. Previous variations and limited editions of Skittles versions have included Sour Skittles, Smoothie Mix Skittles (featuring flavors such as peach pear, mixed berry, orange mango, lemon berry and of course strawberry banana), Ice Cream Skittles (featuring chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, caramel ripple, and orange vanilla Skittles), and two mint versions of Skittles (the first version featured spearmint and wintergreen flavors, followed later by a mixture that included “cool mint,” peppermint, spearmint, and “sweetmint”).
Skittles has also been known to take successful limited edition varieties and turn them into products that are regular features of the Skittles line. The Skittles website now shows Carnival Skittles Gum as a non-limited product. The five flavors in Carnival Skittles gum will be Candy Apple, Cotton Candy, Berry-Go-Round, Pink Lemonade, and Gum Ball. No word yet on if Skittles Unlimited or Skittles Showtime will be made into gum as well.
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October 3rd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
This reminds me I have not yet tried my bag of the Carnival flavors I bought.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I’m not a huge skittles fan at all. I like the old standby flavors when I do get them. I don’t like licorice at all, black or red, so if I picked up one of them and expected something sweet or fruity and got licorice, I’d be a little miffed.