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00:00Hi, I'm Holly Alden, food and drink writer for National World.
00:03Today I'm going to be looking at and taste testing
00:06Swizzle's brand new Halloween sweets, Squeletons.
00:09Squeletons have been released by Swizzle as a way to celebrate the Halloween seasons
00:14as they're basically a skeleton-shaped version of their very popular sweet, Squashies.
00:19Let's take a look at the packaging first of all.
00:21So as you can see here, the packaging of the usual Squashies has been changed
00:26to reflect the Halloween season.
00:28Swizzle's have used black and white colours and a green font
00:32to kind of reflect, in my opinion, Beetlejuice.
00:35The new Beetlejuice film was released in the cinemas not too long ago
00:39so of course by using similar colours and branding
00:42makes this product very recognisable on the shelves.
00:45I don't know if this was intentional or not by Swizzle's,
00:48however by using Beetlejuice's recognisable colours and branding
00:53it does make the package stand out among the rest of the Halloween sweets on the shelves.
00:58It also has a few little cute cartoon images of skeletons on the packaging as well
01:04and also makes it clear that it is a limited edition.
01:08Let's go in and have a taste.
01:12So I've picked out one of the orange ones just by chance, it's not a particular favourite.
01:16I think I might try a few actually just to compare the flavours
01:19but you will see that they are little skeleton faces which is really cute.
01:29Very nice, exactly like the usual, Squashies taste really similar,
01:33have the same chewy texture that I love on a Squashie personally
01:37and yeah, the only difference really is that they're designed with the skeleton faces.
01:42But as I say, if you're a fan of Halloween
01:45or you want to stock up on some Halloween sweets for trick or treaters coming to your door
01:48then these are just a really fun version of the popular sweet.
01:53After going in actually to try another flavour
01:55I've realised that not all of the designs on the Squashies are the same
01:59so although they all have the skeleton heads,
02:02this one actually has headphones on which is cute
02:06and the green one has a little top hat.
02:08So these were kindly sent to me by Swizzles to review
02:11and I will say they're absolutely great.
02:13If you already like Squashies you're definitely going to love these
02:16but if you're someone that's wanting to put a bit of Halloween spirit in your sweets
02:20then yes, the packaging and the design I think is spot on and you just can't go wrong.