They're a new range of flavoured peanuts from Walkers with a stripy-patterned crunchy coating, which looks similar to the stripy crust you usually see on Tiger Bread. Turns out that packaging was very misleading because nothing could prepare me for the horror that was lurking inside. Hello, I'm Matthew, a candy expert and enthusiast with over a decade of experience in the candy industry. These are apparently popular in other parts of the word so maybe not as weird as they may seem to us Brits.

Here are the competitors: Sainsbury's White Chocolate Bunny: The Sainsburys bunny clearly didnt feel the need to hide his body, although kept his complexion clear with a protective, air-tight box.

when I opened the tin it was like opening something from a horror film, discovering the mouldy body of an ancient alien creature or other such evil.

Production was suspended during World War 2 due to wartime shortages, and they were re-launched as "Jelly Babies" in 1953. Unlike jelly babies, Jellyatrics are based on old-aged pensioners, and have their own names: Bill Bird ("Binoculars at the ready"), Mister Miser ("Penny pinching pensioner"), Pearl Stitch ("Speed knitting champion"), Frau Zimmer ("Legs like jelly") and Benny Dorm ("Karaoke king of the Costas"). This is used during the manufacturing process and enables the sweets to be released from the mold without breaking. A popular school chemistry experiment, is to put them in a strong oxidising agent, and see the resulting spectacular reaction.Strawberry Millions – These little beauties are positively bursting with juicy strawberry fruitiness. Blackberries and Raspberries – Delicious boiled fruit sweets that taste and smell of an English Autumn… all year round. I have to commend Thorntons for that, because coconut oil is far healthier than the vegetable fat companies usually use in products like this, so I felt a bit more comfortable eating it. The most noted modern manufacturer of Jelly Babies, Bassett's, now allocate individual name, shape, colour and flavour to different babies: Brilliant (red; strawberry), Bubbles (yellow; lemon), Baby Bonny (pink; raspberry), Boofuls (green; lime), Bigheart (purple; blackcurrant), and Bumper (orange).