Everyone has different opinions regarding how the chamoy pickles taste. Some like it so much they eat it everyday, others can’t really taste everything, but I stand by that it’s arguably the worst thing I’ve ever eaten in my life. I was first introduced to Chamoy Pickles on Tik Tok where it has now gone viral. People from all over are making this concoction, eating it, and posting them for everyone to watch. Not only does amazon sell the kits to make these snacks, but Tik Tok shop also makes them and sells them for cheaper; it’s also where we (I, Isla Archibald, and Grae Benfield) got our pickles and toppings from. 

So what even is chamoy? According to “The Spruce Eats”, Chamoy is a saucy condiment made of dried chilies, lime juice, and fruit—usually mango, apricot, or plum. It can come in powdered and paste form, and sometimes it’s made into sweet, salty, spicy, and tart candy.

 When we first proposed the idea of doing this taste test, I was a little skeptical about buying stuff off of Tik Tok shop, let alone food, because I know people who have been scammed and it’s also literally from tik tok which the government is currently trying to ban. Nevertheless, it still came. The kit came with the chamoy pickle, a fruit roll up, takis, gushers, skwinkles, lemon powder, chamoy sauce, and chamoy powder. It took probably around 5 minutes to assemble, those 5 minutes were leading up to one of the most disgusting experiences ever.

For starters, the smell was terrible. The smell of chamoy is so overwhelming and just utterly gross. Anything that you picked up and smelled made you want to puke and gag; the only reasonable smell was the gushers and takis. It was like sour, sweet, and spicy all mixed together: gross. 

Furthermore, the appearance was horrible. When someone says pickle, you imagine a green one that’s a couple inches at most, right? No. This pickle was not only huge, it was literally red. So you’re already set off by the way the main ingredient looks, but don’t worry it gets worse. Half of the stuff you’re shoving in this thing you don’t even know what it is because you’ve never seen it before. The whole snack is just upright gross, I had no desire to put it in my mouth.

And to top it all off, the texture and feeling of the pickle was so weird and nasty. It came in a small bag that was full of red fluid, so when you picked it up and were draining it, it was just very uncomfortable to touch.

With the smell, appearance, and the texture, there’s no way I was going to eat that; but I did so I could write this review and save you from making the same mistake. My only advice is to not eat this horrendous “food”, the chamoy pickle, to save yourself from suffering like I did.