Have you ever wondered what sugar-glazed strips of paper liberally peppered with crystalized citric acid buckshot tastes like? Wonder no more! Hermetically preserved from a bygone age that existed before replacing 'Ex' with 'X' was a symptom of an acute case of 'The Old', Xtreme Airheads asks the tough questions - like, 'would fly-paper make a tasty treat?', and 'should candy have the consistency of moist cardboard?'.

This candy actually isn't too bad. It comes in two 8-layered strips which you peel off to consume one by one (or two by two if you're daring, like me). Sure, eating it makes you feel like a mongrel dog in the backyard chewing on a bit of leather, but at least the leather is tasty. It isn't the grossest thing I've ever eaten and it doesn't taste like cardboard, so cheers for that.

The standard price-tag of a dollar is a bit hard to justify, though; they try to fool you by cutting it into 16 strips, but keep in mind that they're sliced incredibly thin. Anyway, they're fine when they're cheap, but I wouldn't make them a staple of your candy snackfood regiment.

THE BREAKDOWN
Name: Airhead Xtremes
Flavor: Fruity, with a hint of sour
Arbitrary Value System: I give them four out of six-point-seven FLAVOR-MOOKS!
If I Had To Describe This Candy With As Few Words As Possible: Rainbow Roadkill