If you’re familiar with the iconic snack brand Twisties, which made its fame from creating delicious cheese-flavoured chips, and you were around during the 2000s, you most likely saw the original blue Twistie. The OG blue Twistie was exactly as it sounds. Imagine a Twistie but blue; it carried the same cheesy flavour. However, the gimmick was that it dyed your tongue blue. Fast forward 20 years, and the blue twisties are back, however, with a sour, horrible blueberry twist. 

Before you even open the back, you can just feel something strange about them. Granted, they do look like they’re plucked from the early 2000s, but at what cost? I mean, the name of it doesn’t really inspire hunger, does it? “Sour Blueberry”, I’ll let you sit with that name for a bit.

But trust me, the packaging is probably the best part. 

Open the bag, and you’re hit with a familiar yet deeply wrong smell. A hint of blueberry, yes, but it’s the kind of blueberry that reminds you of a cheap cafe muffin after you’ve brushed your teeth. There’s something so dissonant about it; it’s hard to describe, like it shouldn’t exist. The first thing you notice is the vivid kind of greenish blue like powder that covers the Twisties themselves. 

And the taste? A surreal mash-up of sour erasers, melted rubber tires, synthetic fruit pastel, and 2005-era lip balm levels of artificial. There’s a weird tang that hovers somewhere between off urine and industrial cleaning fluid. Combine that with the texture of a Twistie and you’ve got something that truly challenges the idea of what food should be. Edible. 

Within seconds of eating it, your tongue is stained like you’ve been sucking on a whiteboard marker. It clings to your fingers, lips, and the aftertaste is still in my mouth.

To give it credit, the best-before date was only three days away. Maybe that’s part of the problem, or maybe it was never meant to be good in the first place.

For those who remember Twisties’ brief early-2000s experiment with blue Twisties, this might be a nostalgic nod. Back then, they were still cheesy, just blue. Gimmicky? Absolutely. But it worked, sort of. What Sour Blueberry Twistties are doing, however, is taking that same nostalgia, putting it through a blender with battery acid and bubblegum-scented bathroom spray, and hoping for the best.

And OK, I know what you’re thinking: What the **** is that?

Exactly.

Some things are better left in the past, like this idea. Sour Blueberry Twisties feel like a relic from an era when marketers would flavour anything if it meant standing out on a shelf. It’s bold, it’s blue, and it’s just… wrong.

Rating: 1/5 For the sheer audacity. But I do not recommend.