As gummies go, this isn’t the strangest theme I’ve ever seen, it is however a little odd. I’ve always had a hard time with certain animals being depicted in candy, in particular farm animals and more so if only one farm animal is depicted at a time. In other words I’d feel better about these gummies if Percy had a cow, chicken and goat friend included in this bag. While this seems like a very specific problem, what goes through my mind when I’m eating a candy like this is, why doesn’t it taste like bacon. For some reason when I see a candy that features only one animals that I might consume, my first instinct is to assume that it should taste like that animal.

Creatively I’m not opposed to my gummies having a meat flavour, but objectively I don’t think I would enjoy eating it. So I understand that the folks at Marks and Spencer have decided to give these gummy pigs a fruit juice flavour instead. The package is vague about exactly which fruits are supposed to be involved, and the ingredients list several. One might call it a fruit punch, but I would call it more of a fruit blend. Fruit punch has a very particular flavour, where this just tastes fruity but you’d have a hard time defining which fruit.

The flavour is nice, but a little generic, the texture on the other hand is surprising. In general I’m not a big fan of whipped gummies. These are the gummy candies that kind of feel like rubbery marshmallows. At first glance one would assume that the light pink (opaque) portion of this gummy is just such a treat. While it is softer than most gummies, it seems to be a little more dense than most of the other whipped gummies I’ve had in the past. The soft texture is fairly satisfying and goes well with the rest of the regular soft and chewy gummies in this treat.

While I don’t think this gummy pig is going to change the way I feel about gummy candies, it’s pretty good. It’s one of the most popular gummies in England, and maybe even the world, but it is fairly generic. I don’t really understand why it has to be a pig, but I can’t fault it either.