I imagine there’s some kind of interesting marketing/story about why these are called “Sour Misfits”. I assume it has something to do with there being a problem at a factory somewhere and several of the flavours bonded together creating “misfit” flavours of Jolly Rancher gummies. Pretty much what you get is just that, although it’s not as chaotic as you might think. Each of the flavours are connected with the same flavour each time. So it’s more like a weird bonding of flavours than a chaotic mix of flavours.

The flavour combinations are interesting to me. There are two that really feel like mixed flavours, and one that seems to bond into a unified flavour. The two flavours that feel really mixed, ironically feature two of my least favourite flavours, apple and watermelon. The optimist in me says that what they’ve done is fix these two flavours by adding a flavour I like to mellow them out. While I still tasted the apple and watermelon, the addition of cherry and blueberry helped a lot. The pessimist in me wants to say that this ruined two perfectly good flavours, but frankly I feel like it improved the flavours I didn’t like more than it ruined the ones I did.

The third flavour combination was much harder to figure out. I think it was some kind of berry flavour, maybe strawberry, but the lemon flavour totally dominated this gummy. It could be said that it was some kind of lemonade with a hint of berry if you wanted to be kind. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy this lemon gummy, it was just not as mixed in as the other two flavours.

It’s been a while since I last had a Jolly Rancher candy that wasn’t their classic hard candies. The problem I have is that the flavour of these didn’t really match the intensity and even the flavour of the original candy. I’m not sure if a gummy could match the intense flavour of the hard candy. These were okay as gummies go, I also liked that two of them at least really felt like you were eating two distinct flavours in one candy.