Fizzies Candy Drink Tablets ASSORTED Six Pack

I was THRILLED when I saw this product on Amazon. It was so funny, because I had been thinking about Fizzies for a couple of days. Then there they were - wow. Okay, so there is some blurring of the facts when remembering those good old days from my youth, but I decided to give this product five stars anyway. Seeing, ordering, and then tasting this product invoked a mysterious, exciting, half dream / half fact state of mind. Pure nostalgia. Not so much yummy. Definitely not like a soda pop. But it never was that tasty now was it? It never was that fizzy or carbonated like a Coca-Cola or Dr Pepper was it? Come to think of it, I didn't like the taste so much back then either! I was more interested in watching the little tablets turn all fizzy and bubbly. I had to use two tablets back then also. One tablet was too weak back then just as it is now. Adding ice after the fizz stops makes it so much better. But I don't care. As a child my palate was not so sophisticated. Today it's much more discerning, but memories are important too. So if you have memories from your childhood that make you giggle and laugh when you think of fizzy's, go ahead and try these. Even if you just buy one box one time, your memories will thank you. Just remember, don't get your hopes up LOL!

My home is a place of fun for a number of children in the neighborhood. They come to just visit the aging me, (WOW!), play my instruments from around the world, swing in my yard and hammock swings and more. Of course their probably favorite thing year round is to get treats from me, when staying or on their way to elsewhere. I thought this great fat variety box would be just the ticket for hot summer days or any days, using up a bunch of bottled water I had that was almost out of date. Of course I had quite some nostalgia for the Fizzies of my childhood, having been a child in the 50`s when they were created. Used the way I described was more than dreamt: an incredible source of fun, giggles and cool refreshment for all of us ;(even with a sort of high salt content, they stiil gave needed liquid SUGAR FREE to kids who might neglect that themselves). We would sit outside visiting while choosing and mixing our drinks, finding pleasure in seeing the water fizz and change, even mixing flavors for changing colors and tastes. (My favorite is rootbeer/cherry!.) What a great thing to be recreated, and, again on the sugar free, I`m a diabetic, so had no worries about sipping away!!! One other note about mixing them in clear water bottles: they can be recapped and stored in the fridge until wanted again, names can be written on them for identification, etc. I WILL BE BUYING THESE AGAIN.

Since I hadn't had them for 46 years, I had to taste test this product. The actual rite of passage into manhood back then was to hold a root beer Fizzy on your tongue until it was fully dissolved. You had to keep your mouth open so everyone could see you weren't cheating. So the first thing I did was the full tilt taste test. Initially, there was a hint of petrochemicals that was missing from the original product. I initially chalked that up to the missing cyclamates being replaced with this generations next marketable carcinogen, but then I realized the hint was more of a toxic dump. The formula was severely altered and it was too late. It was on my tongue and I was stuck with it. 46 years after you take the test of manhood, you can't just wuzz out. I was in for the duration. Fortunately, I survived. The next test was the dissolution factor. The tablets were thicker and smaller around but about the same mass as the originals. Not easily snapped in half like the old ones. I put a single tab in an 8 oz. glass of water and waited. Yep, just about the same amount of time to dissolve, with the finale being the last bit floating on the top while it dissolved completely. Just like back in the day. All in all the color and taste are pretty darned close to the originals, and the fun of watching it dissolve was there, too. The final test will be getting my neighbor’s kid, who is 8, to put one on his tongue. The torch must be passed, you know.

The product does not taste like I remember. One tablet in 8 ounces of water is way too weak. For a 16 ounce water bottle I have to add four tablets. The orange was the best tasting I thought. I used to like the root beer but it has a funny taste Too expensive for me

I found these in a candy store while on vacation and my daughters love them. I just put one in with their bottle of water and they chug it like its koolaid. Its alot better for them then koolaid or pop so I'm all for it. They are pricey but well worth it to get my kids to drink more water. I tried them, not so great to me. I think they taste like flavored water minus the sugar. But the kids like them so whatever works.

I was suddenly possessed by an attack of nostalgia and looked on amazon to see if fizzies even still existed. They do! So I ordered a mixed flavor package, and a rootbeer package. They really hit my nostalgia-bone perfectly! Well they taste a little bit like Cool Aid which isn't the best drink in the world, but for something quick and fun, and best of all for a diabetic who needs such treats to be sugarless, I've enjoyed the fizzies beyond the mere nostalgia for childhood. I will probably get them again, because I find them additionally good as ice tea sweeteners. I also appreciate that they contain no aspertame, the cheap artificial sweetener that gave me severe joint and muscle pains throughout my body until the cause was at long last discovered. I gave up Coca Cola Zero and sugarless gum and within a week the long anguished months of nonstop pain ended! Fizzies uses sorbitol and sucralose for sweeteners. Even if I might have preferred stevia for being completely natural, it's fizzies for crine out loud, so be grateful.

Ok so here is the kicker... they work so far as dissolving in water completely, flavoring the water, and adding a fractional amount of fizz. For whatever the reason, your average Alka-Seltzer generic knock-off will carbonate a cup of water much better than these will. If they could get that part of it hopped up a bit, these would be 'the bomb'. Not just for kids either. Now for the flavors: Root Beer - Good Grape - Good Lemon(ade) - Good Cherry - Okayish. Kind of chalky or something. Cherry Cola - Not so good. Not sure what to compare it to, but it's not cherry cola. Orange - Tastes exactly like Tang. Not bad. In the end, we used our Soda Stream to make carbonated water, then used these to flavor it... I'm telling you that is a winning combination. super fizzy and tasty. Something to consider. A big reason for this? Suprisingly, these have no after taste. Even though they use sugar-free sweeteners. Definitely a new one for me. I will be buying again even though I have to take a few steps to use them. I hope they make them 'fizzier' at some point. Would be perfect :)

Yum! Talk about taking me back to my childhood! Before the old version of these were banned, Fizzies were all that were available to us kids growing up in Alaska. I was only allowed one per day, but I would sneak more when Mom was busy cooking. We used to put the whole tablet on our tongues and let it fizz. What bliss!