If these gummies really were pasta, I’d send them back to the kitchen. The texture necessitates a workout for your jaw rubbery and requiring some effort to chew. Van Leeuwen’s recent (and bizarre) Kraft Macaroni & Cheese ice cream has been widely described along the lines of “Huh, this really does somehow taste cheesy and creamy and salty… and honestly pretty good,” so why couldn’t these be like that too!? But, for better or worse, their flavor is fruity-tangerine-y, but in that nebulously synthetic way common to many gummies. If you’re a more reasonable person than I am, you might now be breathing a sigh of relief, but I found this disappointing. These do not, in fact, actually taste like macaroni and cheese. It’s not often that you genuinely have no idea what a snack food is going to taste like (or why it even exists in the first place), but this review gave me that dubious pleasure… and as it turns out, not many others.

But the siren song of curiosity compelled me to my local Five Below, just in case, and I’d never been so excited to be proven wrong. When a friend sent me a video of a Trendy TikTok Teenager™ happening upon these, I immediately assumed it was an elaborately Photoshopped April Fool’s joke. What are Frankford Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Gummies?

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