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The BEST Cream Soda in Las Vegas (According to Kevin)

Ask Kevin (the former owner of Rocket Fizz Vegas) what his favorite cream soda is, and without any hesitation, he will point you to Virgil’s Cream Soda. Virgil’s cream soda uses some of the same high quality ingredients that many of the soda at Rocket Fizz Vegas share. Cane sugar for a sweetener, real vanilla, [...]

SeriousEats.com helps you find the best Root Beer

The folks over at Serious Eats had a taste test to find the best root beer. This write up could be helpful for those befuddled by our enormous number of root beers available. Read the article here on SeriousEats.com here >>

A Review of Beetlejuice’s favorite Candy – The Zagnut Bar

If you’ve never seen Beetlejuice, stop whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW, and go watch it. Now, for everyone else, remember that scene where Beetlejuice uses a candy bar to lure a fly to it’s death? I assumed that the Zagnut bar was some sort of Hollywood created candy bar name, until I saw real [...]

Give a Grown Up Halloween Gift

As a grown up, Halloween can be pretty lame.  If you are a man, you are ridiculed for trick or treating.  If you are a woman, you will have to look hard and long for a costume that isn’t an inappropriately ”sexy” variation of a normal costume.  If you have kids, you probably take a “candy tax”, [...]

Idaho Spud – Definitely One of a Kind

At Rocket Fizz Las Vegas, we have some fantastic regional candies.  Today’s candy review comes to us from our neighbors to the north.  No, not those crazy Canadians, we are talking about Idahoites (Idahoans, Idahoes? We don’t know). I hear that our potato loving friends north of us love their potatoes so much that they [...]

UNLV’s “Rebel Yell” can’t say enough nice things about us

Check out the Rebel Yell’s shout out to our candy goodness.  Our favorite part of the article?  They gave us an “incredible edible A”.

Pearson’s Caramel Bun – It’s not made of bread, it’s candy!

Today we are going to review another classic candy that was invented way back in the 1920s.  The Pearson Bun was invented around the same time that rockets, penicillin, and traffic lights were created.  Pearson’s Caramel Buns are a regional favorite in the mid-west. This venerable candy has persisted throughout the ages, and can be [...]

Does the Fizz have a taste? How carbonation levels affect flavor.

As we have been indulging in our product, we have noticed that every soda has a different level of fizziness.  Some sodas are made with bubbles that bite your tongue the second you take a swig, and other sodas are made to be guzzled, with little bubbles that barely tickle your throat. While reviewing a [...]

Top 5 Reasons to have Rocket Fizz cater your next office party, birthday, or wedding

We’ve had the chance to cater some great events at Rocket Fizz. The fine folks at Zappos invited us over to share some happiness in a wrapper through a candy buffet. We also helped a bride and groom pick out a couple hundred bottles of fizzy goodness to share with their loved ones on their [...]

Violet Crumble is Violently AWESOME

If you are from Australia, you already know that Violet Crumble is amazing.  But for all of us slack jawed Americans, let me introduce an AMAZING piece of candy, known as the Violet Crumble. Upon looking at the package, what would you think this chocolate coated bar tastes like?  Outter space?  No.  Violets?  No.  Australians?  [...]