Eclipse Breeze: Exotic Mint

As we bring Gum Week to an end, we are going to give a final try to the Eclipse Breeze line. I was less than kind in the last Eclipse Breeze review. (Actually, I said I would rather taste stripper sweat.) But I am a trouper, so I am braving another flavor.



Exotic Mint, like its Exotic Berry sibling, contains cardamom. And again, cardamom is supposed to be really good at taking care of really bad breath.



I would like to implore the fine people at Eclipse to redesign the Exotic Berry to be more like Exotic Mint. In the Exotic Berry, the cardamom overpowered the berry to the point that everything and everyone in five miles of you knew you were chewing it. But in the Exotic Mint flavor, they have struck the perfect balance.

The Mint is brisk and cool. It tastes sweet but not candy-like, and never gets close to being toothpasty.

The Cardamom is warm and spicy. There is enough that balances the mint, without it being the slap in the face that was the Exotic Berry. With this flavor, I can almost taste some of the flavor I love from Persian and Indian food. And like those flavors that I love, this one is also a winner.

When you want something minty that's not your average bear, this is a great flavor to go to.

Eclipse Breeze: Exotic Berry Gum

So here we are on day three of our week's journey into the land of gum. We've had fruity, we've had minty. Now let's have something exotic...

What is it about the word "exotic?" It makes you think of far-away places filled with luscious fruits and palm trees, or luscious strippers with fruity names who dance beneath palm trees...

Eclipse Breeze Exotic Berry is exotic, not because it contains lady sweat from women named Cherry Candy or Lusty Melons, but because it contains cardamom. Cardamom, so says the package blurb, is a natural ingredient used to neutralize really strong odors like onions or garlic. And on a side note, it also makes Indian and Persian food pretty darn good.



I officially think it's a bad thing that this gum tastes neither like Indian or Persian food, nor even like lady sweat, because what it does taste like is far less appealing. You know that old fashioned ribbon-style Christmas candy that only ancient women seem to buy, but no one actually wants to eat because it tastes so nasty? Well, even that is still better. But it tastes a bit like the "spice" versions of ribbon candy.

The cardamom completely obliterates and overpowers the berry -- and everything else you plan on eating for the next hour. The berry component is very weak, and if I had to guess I think it's supposed to be raspberry. But it's not strong enough that you can be sure.



I can see how cardamom can be a good flavor for gum. But in this case it's just way too strong, and the berry combination is absolutely vile.



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