... My latest trip heralded a veritable bargain in sweet form when I noticed - sitting on the shelves - the offer of any two bags of Haribo sweets for 98p! Losing all of my legendary composure I elbowed kids picking penny treats out of the way and old folk picking up their Wurthers Originals and ... Read review
Advantages: Sweet, chewy, tasty sweets Disadvantages: Not sure why they are called Starmix!
...of any two bags of Haribo sweets for 98p! Losing all of my legendary composure I elbowed kids picking penny treats out of the way and old folk picking up their Wurthers Originals and grabbed greedy handfuls of every different sort of Haribo pack available before racing to the checkout to make them mine. Once home I set about the different packs and found that the one that really stood out was the interestingly titled "Starmix", you don't ... ...blue with the large headed Haribo boy looking out of a space rocket!
The rear of the packet is given over to nutritional, ingredient and consumer information as is common with food products, but for some reason Haribo seem to think I'd like to know said information in half a dozen different languages! As far as Ingredients go there are no great surprises with glucose syrup and sugar the predominate constituents with a smattering of ... more
Whenever I go shopping I find myself instinctively loitering in the sweetie aisle, I just sort of wander there in a semi conscious trance, seeking comfort in the multitude of sweet and colourful treats. My latest trip heralded a veritable bargain in sweet form when I noticed - sitting on the shelves - the offer of any two bags of Haribo sweets for 98p! Losing all of my legendary composure I elbowed kids picking penny treats out of the way and old folk picking up their Wurthers Originals and grabbed greedy handfuls of every different sort of Haribo pack available before racing to the checkout to make them mine. Once home I set about the different packs and found that the one that really stood out was the interestingly titled "Starmix", you don't really need to know the measurements of the pack or what kink of plastic is used but I will mention in passing that the pack is predominantly blue with the large headed Haribo boy looking out of a space rocket!
The rear of the packet is given over to nutritional, ingredient and consumer information as is common with food products, but for some reason Haribo seem to think I'd like to know said information in half a dozen different languages! As far as Ingredients go there are no great surprises with glucose syrup and sugar the predominate constituents with a smattering of artificial flavourings and colours added to ensure kiddies will be hyper for a good half hour after eating them! Calorie values are also on the high side with the 175g packet I have notching up just over six hundred of the blighters - on the plus side there is only a trace of fat and the sweets are suitable for those with gluten or dairy intolerances.
OK, enough of this shilly-shallying, lets rip the packet open and gorge on the contents. I dip my hand into the soft collection of sweets looking forward to retrieving a space themed morsel and come out with…… what appears to be a fried egg! I see! Maybe tomorrows world was wrong when they heralded the foil vacuum packed meals that would be eaten in space; maybe astronauts like nothing better than a sunny side up egg for breakfast. Not wishing to be put off by the distinct lack of space-ness in this sweet I pop the little blighter into my mouth, the yellow of the yolk seems to be made up of a gelatinous fruity substance which sits nicely on a foam type base about the size of a ten pence piece. The contrast is nice and I soon polish off the half dozen or so fried eggs I can find in the packet.
Next, in my quest for something more fitting of the Starmix name and space theme I pick out…… a cola bottle chew! Well, since most space expeditions at the moment are American based and Cola is their national drink I guess this is not so unbelievable - I just somehow didn't envisage Neil Armstrong glugging from a bottle of "the real thing" before taking one giant step for mankind! No matter, I pop a cola bottle in my mouth and chew it to release a faint sweet taste of something vaguely resembling cola - a nice enough experience in itself.
Third time lucky perhaps in my quest to find an intergalactic resemblance in this pack of sweets, I come away from the pack with what appears to be……. A teddy bear! Right, well I know there have been many animals shot into space for experimental purposes but I'd never heard that Gentle Ben was amongst them! I'm beginning to wonder if someone at the Haribo factory has put the wrong sweets in the wrong packet! Nevertheless these chewy little bears in for colours are rather tasty and again release the vaguest of fruity tastes in the mouth when bitten.
I'm beginning to lose all hope of finding anything remotely to do with stars or space now as the pack starts to get empty, and I retrieve what looks like…… a heart! I almost want to go back to discovering eggs or cola bottles now, especially if we are moving onto bodily organs! The hearts are red and gelatinous with a thin foam backing, the sensation as the two mix when chewed is nice and I almost forget I'm munching on a sweet recreation of a blood pump!
We are down to the last few sweeties now and they are all the same shape, I almost dread to think what I may be unearthing next but the last variety in the pack appears to be nothing more startling than….. a ring. It's still not remotely space related but I'm so relieved that I'm not faced with more innards or animals I gratefully throw a handful into my mouth. Again they are fruity and chewy and not overly sweet tasting which is nice, in fact I think these are my favourite of the five different sorts.
I'm fairly sure the marketing men at Haribo were faced with a hotchpotch of sweets and didn't have a clue what to do with them - thus they called them Starmix in the hope that us consumers thought the fried eggs were odd looking squashed planets or the cola bottles were actually a soft drink sponsored space rocket! No matter, these are still a tasty and fun selection of sweets - just don't expect to find a gelatinous scale model of sputnik or Apollo 13 hiding in the pack! And since Starmix are Haribos` best selling packet I guess most people spend less time analysing them and more time scoffing them! Four stars out of five from me.
Advantages: Good, varied selection. Eye-catching packaging. Disadvantages: Let down by the inferior cola bottles!
...munching on a pack of Haribo Starmix, looking for inspiration on what to write about. Here it was staring me in the face all along ~ why don't I write about what I'm currently stuffing my face with? Ok then...here goes! I am a big fan of jelly sweets; in fact I often buy them in preference to chocolate. I like midget gems and wine gums best (except yellow ones!), but I can be tempted by other sweets if I see them on the shelves. This is how I came ... ...not as impressed with the Haribo version, in this mix, than I have been when I've eaten bags exclusively containing fried eggs. They were smaller and the texture wasn't as soft; that said, I still like them and the taste was nice. JELLY BEARS~~~ These are always a good choice and they come in a variety of flavours (they are all different colours and often you can't identify what flavour they represent). My favourites are the red and black ones, then ...
tange 23.02.2003
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Advantages: Tasty, great snacks, suprise of what you will get Disadvantages: Only a few in each packet, can seem expensive in comparison to other kinds
...bag of individual bags of Haribo Starmix. I 'tidied' them in somewhere in my bedroom, and didn't find them again until just this week! This review is of a 480g bag of small individual packs of Haribo Starmix. I think I have eaten around six packs, and there are 24 left in the bag now, so I'd estimate about 30 mini packets in each larger bag, weighing approximately 16g each. The bag currently cost £2.49 (Sainsbury's price), so that works out at around ... ...hasn't had cola bottles!? The Haribo ones are cola flavored gummy, brown at one end and clear at the other, and molded into the shape of a coke bottle. These are about 2cm long.
~~Rings: The final kind are gummy rings, in a variety of colors and often with a two-tone effect. While these aren't big enough to go around your finger, you can have fun trying to poke the end of your tongue through! These are also about 2cm in diameter.
I'm not entirely ...
liz1102 07.11.2006 (08.11.2006)
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Advantages: Taste great, good source of energy Disadvantages: None
Upon seeing Haribo sweets, many adults may just think that they are "fun" sweets that only children under the age of ten would appreciate, however both with their slogan and their adverts, the German company Haribo are trying to convince adults to eat them.
They have a good argument, too, as my brother was recently at a meeting about healthy foods to eat for sport, being serious about both athletics and rugby, and he was advised to eat some jelly-like ... ...out on their match-winning bonus, Haribo sweets. Whilst this may not have been taken seriously by many people, it as well as the slogan "Kids and Grown-ups love it so" does show that Haribo sweets are good for sportsmen to eat and they indeed should be and are liked by many adults.
I've just been given a bag of Haribo Starmix, so whilst eating them I decided to write an opinion about the sweets. However, by the time I connected to the internet, ...
danwilkie 26.11.2001
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...It's true, I love Haribo as do most other people I know! What is it about those little gummy sweets that get kids and adult alike so excited?
Haribo is the biggest manufacturer of jelly and gummy sweets in the world! They were founded in 1920 in Germany by a gentleman called Hans Riegel. The name Haribo was devised by using the initials of his name with the initial of Bonn, the location in Germany where they are headquartered, HRB - Haribo!! Haribo ... ...reason why people really like Haribo is that there are so many different sweets in each packet. For example, in the Starmix there are mini gummy bears, cola bottles, red hearts with the foamy sweet portion on the bottom, rings and fried eggs. The fried eggs are probably my favourite sweets of all the Haribo range. The white part of the egg is the foamy type sweet and then the yolk is the yellow jelly type sweets. All the sweets, especially the foamy ...
Spottydog11 19.09.2008
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Advantages: Addictive, Cheap, 1p a read! Disadvantages: Not good for you
...kid, you never heard of Haribo at all - they're a recent phenonemon it would seem or at least they are in this country but they are now the market leader in children's confectionary believe it or not. Being a self-confessed fan of the 'Starmix' I thought I'd tell you a little more about them for my latest op (1p a read in the process !!) - heres the results ;
The man who founded the company Haribo was German and his name was Hans Riegel - this all ... ...started to change though once Haribo decided to make it's first jelly sweet, the Goldbear which is still made today. The jelly sweet was a huge success and transformed Haribo's fortunes in a short amount of time. Over the decades Haribo has spread production across Europe and first made an appearance in the U.K in 1972 when it bought a controlling stake in Dunhill's of Pontefract who made the 'Pontefract Cake'. From having 30 lines in 1973 of which ...
WormThatTurned 28.01.2003
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Advantages: nice texture, good value for money Disadvantages: bitty, lack of variety
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Advantages: Yummy Disadvantages: Calories and Sugar
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History of Haribo
It all starts when a man called Hans Riegel start up a company called Haribo in 1920 2 years later, he invents "Dancing Bear", which later will be known as the HARIBO Goldbear. Soon enough all of Germany were supplied with Haribo sweets and the slogan translated "HARIBO makes children happy" was advertised on the packets. Hans Riegel sadly died but his son Hans Jr took over the company. In 1982, Haribo goes international and sets up a headquarters in USA. Then the ball started to roll and a couple years later, Haribo was worldwide spread.
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