Dunkaroos ARE BACK!
A thing of beauty.
On December 31, 2019, with minutes to go until a new decade was upon us, I turned to my sister and told her that the 20s were going to be a full on 90s renaissance. A mere 24 days later, and who else but 1990-something heavy hitter Dunkaroos pops up on Instagram and declares that the Summer of 2020 would mark the return of an old lunchbox staple. I'd hate to say that I can predict the future, but my batting average speaks for itself…
Either way, it's been a long five-ish months, but DemBoys FINALLY has a pack of the revived Dunkaroos in hand. I would like to mention that this pack was sent to us by the good folks over at Betty Crocker, free of charge. We were lucky enough to have won one of the first 5,000 packs, and DUMB enough to sit on this review for over a month...classic DemBoys move! Whatever, in the grand scheme of things it’s not like people 5 years from now are going to care when they’re reading this review on their $19.95 SpaceX trip to Mars.
God. We really do ramble around here.
So how did the revived snackfood hold up after disappearing since the tail end of our childhood? Well, they tasted exactly how we remembered them tasting. You’d think that’d be a good thing, right? Well, it is and it isn’t. Dunkaroos certainly are tasty for the first two or three dunks, but after that it morphs into an incredibly sugary amalgam of cookie, frosting and imitation vanilla extract. I know that these are not supposed to be some high concept dessert full of complex flavors, they were made for KIDS. I still genuinely think that even in 2020, kids are going to love these just as much as we did 20 years ago. Unfortunately, as 26 and 30 year old men, we will not be buying out our local 7-11 as we’ve been seeing other retro-influencers doing (really guys?).
One interesting thing to note here is that the cookie portion of the Dunkaroos, admittedly my least favorite part of the snack as a child, was probably the highlight for me throughout this tasting. They were incredibly buttery with a subtle sweetness, reminiscent of something like a Lorna Doone biscuit but like...not trash? Oh how our palette’s have matured.
On a final note here, I think it’s important to mention that at the time of this writing the only available flavor is the vanilla frosting with rainbow sprinkles. Should the good folks over at Betty Crocker choose to bring back the chocolate frosting, we’d absolutely love to give those a try and see if they fare any better. Overall, we’re glad that Dunkaroos have made their return after a much-too-long hiatus. They were certainly a heavy hitter in the snack world and I see no reason why they won’t continue to reign supreme on the playground. Now if the creators would just wake up and turn their attentions to making a breakfast cer-
Ah...good. Nevermind.
