PERCY PIG ICE-CREAMS

In line with their summer roll-out of frozen variants based on their popular sweet ranges, Marks and Spencer have turned their most famous confectionary into an ice-cream.

It's a curious beast - attempting very hard to replicate the flavour of the Percy Pig gum, but not quite managing it. There's a slight medicinal after-taste here, leaving you feeling a little bit like you've just come back from the dentist.

He's clearly meant to look like Percy too isn't he? But while the Percy sweet has a look of eternal optimism with his cheeky side-ways grin, the ice-cream looks angry. (Especially when he's a bit melty. Above he looks a bit like a horrible decaying zombie pig crying 'Please help me I'm melting!' as he stumbles blindly towards you.)

ANYWAY in case you are unaware of the Percy Pig phenomenon, here's the low-down. There is:

PERCY PIG - the original grape and raspberry flavoured gum launched in 1995.
LEMON SHEEP - Lemon and Strawberry flavoured pal of Percy (more on him below)
COLA COW - Cola flavoured pal of Percy (curiously whereas Percy and Lemon Sheep's ears are different flavours to their faces, Cola Cow is all one flavour)
PENNY PIG - Life partner of Percy, lemon flavoured gum
PERCY PIGLETS - Presumably the offspring of Penny and Percy, these are smaller versions of Percy, either entirely jelly gum or foam gums.

Why Lemon Sheep and Cola Cow are not allowed to have Christian names like Percy and Penny has NEVER been fully explained by Marks and Spencer.

Of course, M+S have since released many variants, from fizzy pig tails to the mighty Reversy Percy - where the jelly based ear gum is swapped with the foamy gum that usually makes up Percy's face. These had the unprecedented good fortune to be even more delicious than the standard Percy!

In other Percy news, there's a new Percy product - Rosy Noses - marshmallows with jelly topping. Which means you can now enjoy eating Percy's nose, face and tail at your leisure! I look forward to the next body part of a pig that M+S decide to jellify.

More importantly, I've just learned that M+S have FINALLY come to their senses and changed Lemon Sheep. He is now ORANGE flavoured - not much better, but a slight improvement on his bitter predecessor. However, this does mean you can no longer make the Coke and Lemon sandwich. Here's the Coke and Orange sandwich (quite nice).

By the way - NEVER try this:

You have been warned.
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Percy Pig Ice-Creams, Marks and Spencer, £1.29
Gobble Monkey says: 3 out of 7

To see the EVIL Percy imitators, click here AND here