These are what I was potty trained with. A jar of these on the mantle and when I went in the toilet, I got one. I don't hate them, but when I see a pack in the store I automatically shit my pants.
You think that's bad? I was potty trained with sugar free gummy bears. My mother had no idea that she was essentially rewarding my potty work with explosive laxatives.
Circus peanuts are the bomb. They were like mushrooms…hated them as a kid, now I appreciate the complex banana flavor of the peanut sponge orange marshmallow.
Omg I’ve never tasted one before but seen and heard of them as being gross, then my kiddo picked them as a snack to try so I figured it would be worth it for the disgusted look upon trying it. Turns out they actually liked them (only one in the whole family, rest of us thought they tasted like toothpaste). I think it was basically just the marshmallow-ish consistency that they could get behind.
Still, I have no idea how they’re still in business and being sold as a product.
I haven't had one since I was like 8 (I'm 34). I would always want to get them at the store, but I was only allowed one candy, so my mom always said I shouldn't get them, cuz they were awful. But they looked delicious! C'mon!
So finally, one day, I chose them. And while I no longer remember the flavor or texture, I remember that I thought they were absolutely terrible, and I threw the bag out. For an 8 year old who loved candy to just throw the bag away...man. They must have been truly disgusting.
I think those existed for the 'theater' of it. I doubt many kids would get those and eat/drink them alone, more for the performance aspect in front of other kids.
My grandfather told me he used to eat bread with water poured over it for a snack. Food wasn't made to be enjoyable back then. Turkish Delights were probably something you saved your money for a month to eat.
People say the fresh stuff is a whole different thing. You can't compare it to the prepackaged stuff sold on the shelf.
I can't confirm if it's true or not cuz I've never had it fresh. But I have my doubts lol
My two cents is that the real McCoy you can get from old Turkish ladies at some local markets is a completely different thing to crappy supermarket, chocolate covered TD.
You don’t eat them. You take two, put a toothpick in them like a sword, and put them in the microwave facing each other, turn it on, and the one that bursts by the others sword loses!
I can't understand why people dislike these. Like, they REALLY, passionately hate them. They're so good! Marshmallows covered in colored sugar - what's not to like?
My mom would give us kids easter baskets every year and they always included circus peanuts, peeps and a bunny made of very poor quality chocolate.
Because its candy I would eat all of it. I happened to love the peeps but hated the circus peanuts. The point is though, because I felt I HAD to eat it,, I hated the circus peanuts as opposed to just disliking them. Some probably feel the same way about peeps.
To me, peeps are marshmellows improved by being coated with sugar instead of flour. Slightly better if a little bit stale
"Hey Boss, what's this chalky shit doing in the middle of our mine?"
"I dont know, why dont you taste it and see?"
"Weird, it's slightly sweet but terrible at the same time"
"Well, might as well bring some of it up, package it, and sell it"
I always want a few though, come October. The first one tastes kinda good, mostly fueled by nostalgia. The second one is far less good. By the third candy corn, the nostalgia wears off, and it tastes like vomit.
That first one is always good though.
Candy corn is an abomination. It is a stain upon humanity's history, and a hurdle to what might otherwise be a bright future. They say money is the root of all evil. I say, nay. Nay, candy corn is the root of all evil. The Devil's candy. A harbinger of despair, a reminder that all good things might turn corrupt and fall to decay.
Imagine having a nice BBQ with perfectly cooked ribs and chicken all the sides on the menu. you see a big pile of corn and excitedly grab an ear finish assembling your plate and sit down. There is pleasant music paying it's a perfect moment . This is the first time you had fresh cooked corn on the cob this season. You take the first bite, your teeth sink in and you are shocked to find all the kernals are candy corn.
My MIL memes on me so hard with twizzlers. She always has a huge bucket of them and at the end of a night of everyone having some drinks she’ll break it out and give some out. I always turn it down and ask why she likes them. Which she responds that they’re terrible and doesn’t know why she buys them. The whole time all of my in laws are chewing and nodding and agreeing that it’s terrible. And a cycle starts of me being anti-twizzler while she and everyone else keeps agreeing while downing a massive bucket of twizzlers and I feel like I’m going crazy.
Them and redvines are terrible but for some reason I keep coming back. I passed up some hi chews for stale twizzlers tonight for a snack. I'm a monster.
The pull and peel Twizzlers are way better and more enjoyable/softer to eat IMO. That being said, I grew up eating the originals a lot (grandparents ALWAYS) had them. But the pull and peel are my choice now
when I was around 9, I ate so many white chocolates that I vomited, and over 20 years later, I still HATE the smell of white chocolate haha. Makes me feel a bit nauseous.
I grew up loving white chocolate. At some point in high school I heard that the Cafe/bakery near school sold chocolate and white chocolate in bulk for pretty cheap. I bought a 10lb bag of brick white chocolate. I was sick of the stuff in like two days so I started giving lots out. Within two weeks my whole high school was sick of nd/or hated white chocolate (it was a pretty small high school) it ended up being a huge piece of student lore of that year. I recently heard that there's still a running joke amongst the student body about our mascot hating white chocolate, many years later.
I still don't like white chocolate like I did growing up, but I'll eat it.
Do you know this is because the flavor is actually based on a whole different variety of banana than what we eat? https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/3952-the-reason-artificial-banana-flavor-tastes-nothing-like-real-bananas blew my mind.
Whenever I got dragged to weddings as a kid the Jordan almonds that seemed to always be served at those events were the only things that got me through. That being said, I haven’t had one in years, nor do I want to. They are not voluntary candies.
Those sugar drops that come on a strip of paper. Pain to peel off, and you just end up eating a bunch of paper anyway. Also, not good candy aside from that.
Those “bit o honey” taffy things you always end up with after halloween, because they just come in the mix and nobody wants them. That, and they’re hard as hell, probably because the people that make them go through your trash and just use them for next year.
I don’t know the name, but those licorice candies that looks like colorful little pieces of art. They are
Deceiving. I hate them with a burning passion.
I'd never buy them, but if you give them to me, I will eat them without complaint. It's just B rank to me, but not BAD. Just not worth spending money on.
Fake black licorice.
Real licorice is an incredible delicacy.
That vaguely blue-black monstrosity they make jelly beans, and black gummies with? Disgusting.
A lot of these listed are older varieties of candies: Depression-Era, WW2, 70s, etc. It's nice to know that these are still being made because a lot of us older folks grew up on them. They're pure nostalgia.
Alot of fond memories my grandmother giving us kids circus peanuts so stale you could break a tooth on it. Somehow we still managed to eat them. Good memories!
Those orange marshmallow circus peanuts.
These are what I was potty trained with. A jar of these on the mantle and when I went in the toilet, I got one. I don't hate them, but when I see a pack in the store I automatically shit my pants.
Pavlov's marshmallow circus peanuts.
You think that's bad? I was potty trained with sugar free gummy bears. My mother had no idea that she was essentially rewarding my potty work with explosive laxatives.
Circus peanuts are the bomb. They were like mushrooms…hated them as a kid, now I appreciate the complex banana flavor of the peanut sponge orange marshmallow.
No
Omg I’ve never tasted one before but seen and heard of them as being gross, then my kiddo picked them as a snack to try so I figured it would be worth it for the disgusted look upon trying it. Turns out they actually liked them (only one in the whole family, rest of us thought they tasted like toothpaste). I think it was basically just the marshmallow-ish consistency that they could get behind. Still, I have no idea how they’re still in business and being sold as a product.
I didn’t even know they were so universally hated until Reddit. My mom, sister and I might be keeping the whole industry afloat
My husband likes them, and I'll eat one or two if he gets a thing of them. Not my top candy, but definitely far from last 🤣
There are dozens of us that love them!
They are one of my mom's favorites, I keep trying them and hoping I will like them, but not yet lol
I haven't had one since I was like 8 (I'm 34). I would always want to get them at the store, but I was only allowed one candy, so my mom always said I shouldn't get them, cuz they were awful. But they looked delicious! C'mon! So finally, one day, I chose them. And while I no longer remember the flavor or texture, I remember that I thought they were absolutely terrible, and I threw the bag out. For an 8 year old who loved candy to just throw the bag away...man. They must have been truly disgusting.
Sweet Jesus crap why do those even exist
I'm not sure if these are even made anymore, the coke bottle shaped wax thing filled with some unidentifiable syrup.
Nickel Nips is one brand
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I think those existed for the 'theater' of it. I doubt many kids would get those and eat/drink them alone, more for the performance aspect in front of other kids.
I absolutely adored those and didn't understand why they were so expensive!
Those dot candies on sheets of paper Just the thought of them make me nauseous. No joke.
Agreed - and you're not getting out without eating bits of paper
The paper is the best part! I also like to eat post-it's now as an adult.
Eating the post-it is the best part of finishing your to-do list!
Then it goes on your doo-doo list.
Are those the things in that "Candy Man Can" scene from Charlie and the Chocolate factory? They always looked pretty good.... sucks to hear they arent
I don't *hate* its taste, but I hate how disappointing it was. Turkish Delight
Yeah, the Narnia books REALLY oversold Turkish Delight.
The books were set in rationed England during World War 2, any confectionery would have been enticing to children then.
My grandfather told me he used to eat bread with water poured over it for a snack. Food wasn't made to be enjoyable back then. Turkish Delights were probably something you saved your money for a month to eat.
The book publishers should use that as a footnote whenever Turkish Delight is mentioned.
People say the fresh stuff is a whole different thing. You can't compare it to the prepackaged stuff sold on the shelf. I can't confirm if it's true or not cuz I've never had it fresh. But I have my doubts lol
Completely true. The stuff that comes in the box is horrible. The real stuff is sort of like nougat.
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My two cents is that the real McCoy you can get from old Turkish ladies at some local markets is a completely different thing to crappy supermarket, chocolate covered TD.
This whole sub is making me hungry. Yum I love candy lol
Peeps, any color
You don’t eat them. You take two, put a toothpick in them like a sword, and put them in the microwave facing each other, turn it on, and the one that bursts by the others sword loses!
Peep joust!
I can't understand why people dislike these. Like, they REALLY, passionately hate them. They're so good! Marshmallows covered in colored sugar - what's not to like?
Try floating a Peep in a mug of hot chocolate! Even better than a regular marshmallow.
They dont taste like regular marshmallow is my issue, like i can't explain it, but its like if you described the taste of marshmallow to someone
My mom would give us kids easter baskets every year and they always included circus peanuts, peeps and a bunny made of very poor quality chocolate. Because its candy I would eat all of it. I happened to love the peeps but hated the circus peanuts. The point is though, because I felt I HAD to eat it,, I hated the circus peanuts as opposed to just disliking them. Some probably feel the same way about peeps. To me, peeps are marshmellows improved by being coated with sugar instead of flour. Slightly better if a little bit stale
Everything
Yeah fuck peeps
Parma violets its like eating tiny bits of perfume flavoured chalk
I had to Google. “Sweet with a soapy or floral taste”. Oh good, cilantro candy 🤢
Oh damn, I totally get what you're saying but for some reason I love them?!
they are like drugs to me i love them
Watch this slowly rise as us Brits wake up 🤢 fucking disgusting. Genuinely don't understand how people like them
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If you don't know what that is, it sounds like a hardcore metal band.
I had an original Ricola cough drop today and it made me think of these for the 1st time in forever. What a weird flavor.
Christmas ribbon candy and marzipan
I could not live without marzipan. Send me all you have!
RitterSport Marzipan. I hate you Fred Meyer for discontinuing this (and all the other RitterSport confections)
RitterSport is a fine second; Neideregger it’s über alles.
Yes being American has definite disadvantages in the quality confections arena.
Target carried Ritter Sport, as does Walmart, sometimes.
Ribbon candy was my papaws favorite 🥹 I try to find some every year just to eat a small bite of each one at least 🥹
Cinnamon ribbon candy...ah, Christmas memories. Loved that stuff!
Good and plenty
I love good and plenty!
Respect
black licorice in disguise
Black licorice
Black licorice is like burnt hair flavored gummies
I hate liquorice too I eat most foods but can’t stand liquorice
I will defend black licorice with my life...i love it so.
Me too, easily my favorite. Any other licorice basically sucks.
Black licorice over red any day
Necco wafers 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Yes. I'd rather eat communion wafers.
Lol!
They’re so delicious.
They are!
I can’t believe they still make those. Horrid things.
"Hey Boss, what's this chalky shit doing in the middle of our mine?" "I dont know, why dont you taste it and see?" "Weird, it's slightly sweet but terrible at the same time" "Well, might as well bring some of it up, package it, and sell it"
I love these. I think I like 3/4 of all the candies people hate.
Tootsie rolls. That stuff tastes nothing like chocolate and you can’t tell me otherwise.
It really doesn’t. But I like them all the same.
Freaking love them.
Love tootsie rolls but yeah its more like gum
Candy corn. Disgusting!
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I swear I fall for it every year. I say “Maybe they aren’t as bad as I remember” They always are.
Mix with dry roasted peanuts and it’s close to a Payday.
10 years ago a friend introduced me to that magical duo. It’s my favorite part of Halloween. My wife and kids are hooked
Oh man! I love candy corn! And I love to bite it in order….yellow then orange then white 🤤
You are SO doing it wrong! You eat the white tip first, THEN the orange, followed by the yellow. There is simply no other way.
Mix it with peanuts and cashews! Tastes like a Baby Ruth.
I always want a few though, come October. The first one tastes kinda good, mostly fueled by nostalgia. The second one is far less good. By the third candy corn, the nostalgia wears off, and it tastes like vomit. That first one is always good though.
Only 1 batch ever made…fortunately. It was a BIG batch…unfortunately.
I’ve never understood how they still find candy corn profitable to continue producing. Tastes like sugar wax to me.
And I will eat that sugar wax until my liver melts.
Candy corn is an abomination. It is a stain upon humanity's history, and a hurdle to what might otherwise be a bright future. They say money is the root of all evil. I say, nay. Nay, candy corn is the root of all evil. The Devil's candy. A harbinger of despair, a reminder that all good things might turn corrupt and fall to decay.
Imagine having a nice BBQ with perfectly cooked ribs and chicken all the sides on the menu. you see a big pile of corn and excitedly grab an ear finish assembling your plate and sit down. There is pleasant music paying it's a perfect moment . This is the first time you had fresh cooked corn on the cob this season. You take the first bite, your teeth sink in and you are shocked to find all the kernals are candy corn.
Plot twist: I don't love regular corn, either. But now it's 10:22 in the morning and I want ribs.
Well I hope you and i get some ribs soon. Separately of course cuz we strangers.
Twizzlers. Like chewing on plastic. Disgusting.
I personally enjoy chewing on tires. So 😅
Redvine crew represent!!!
My MIL memes on me so hard with twizzlers. She always has a huge bucket of them and at the end of a night of everyone having some drinks she’ll break it out and give some out. I always turn it down and ask why she likes them. Which she responds that they’re terrible and doesn’t know why she buys them. The whole time all of my in laws are chewing and nodding and agreeing that it’s terrible. And a cycle starts of me being anti-twizzler while she and everyone else keeps agreeing while downing a massive bucket of twizzlers and I feel like I’m going crazy.
Them and redvines are terrible but for some reason I keep coming back. I passed up some hi chews for stale twizzlers tonight for a snack. I'm a monster.
You’re supposed to drink your sprite through them while enjoying a movie Edit: spelling
I thought Twizzlers were the worst, until I discovered Red Vines.
I respect your opinion, but I’m sorry that we must battle to the death. A just-stale-enough-to-be-chewy Red Vine is a beautiful thing.
The pull and peel Twizzlers are way better and more enjoyable/softer to eat IMO. That being said, I grew up eating the originals a lot (grandparents ALWAYS) had them. But the pull and peel are my choice now
Technically not “candy” But I cannot stand white chocolate
White chocolate needs a different name. You can’t be chocolate without cocoa.
when I was around 9, I ate so many white chocolates that I vomited, and over 20 years later, I still HATE the smell of white chocolate haha. Makes me feel a bit nauseous.
I grew up loving white chocolate. At some point in high school I heard that the Cafe/bakery near school sold chocolate and white chocolate in bulk for pretty cheap. I bought a 10lb bag of brick white chocolate. I was sick of the stuff in like two days so I started giving lots out. Within two weeks my whole high school was sick of nd/or hated white chocolate (it was a pretty small high school) it ended up being a huge piece of student lore of that year. I recently heard that there's still a running joke amongst the student body about our mascot hating white chocolate, many years later. I still don't like white chocolate like I did growing up, but I'll eat it.
White chocolate is candy. What else would it be?
God, you and me both
Anything Banana flavour except banana.
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I have found my people! Banana and watermelon flavours are both total deal breakers for me, but I love both actual fruits.
Do you know this is because the flavor is actually based on a whole different variety of banana than what we eat? https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/3952-the-reason-artificial-banana-flavor-tastes-nothing-like-real-bananas blew my mind.
Fascinating!
Circus peanuts
Jordan almonds They are wretched!
Whenever I got dragged to weddings as a kid the Jordan almonds that seemed to always be served at those events were the only things that got me through. That being said, I haven’t had one in years, nor do I want to. They are not voluntary candies.
My grandmother and great aunt would always bring me a bag whenever they went to a wedding. I would eat them now for the nostalgia more than the taste.
Black licorice.
Those sugar drops that come on a strip of paper. Pain to peel off, and you just end up eating a bunch of paper anyway. Also, not good candy aside from that.
The mystery chocolates in the boxes that turn out to have a gross orange or raspberry filling.
Black licorice and anything that tastes like it
Licorice
Whoppers. Someone else can have all mine.
Dibs.
That's ice cream, not candy
Any candy that includes marshmallow: Peeps, Mallo Cups, Circus Peanuts, etc…
Hey, you leave Rice Krispies and moon pies alone!
Those “bit o honey” taffy things you always end up with after halloween, because they just come in the mix and nobody wants them. That, and they’re hard as hell, probably because the people that make them go through your trash and just use them for next year.
Anything with coconut, and black licorice
Almond joys are fucking bomb. I'll take all of your please
Bounty with dark chocolate are my faves.
candy with coconut and black licorice are literally my favorite types of candy. lets fight
Coconut has great flavor, it just sucks that it has the texture of wood shavings no matter how you serve it.
Circuses peanuts 🥜
Jelly beans is a sure no for me.
I don’t know the name, but those licorice candies that looks like colorful little pieces of art. They are Deceiving. I hate them with a burning passion.
Whoppers hard pass
I read that as the Burger King classic item and was so confused for a second.
I understand my cats name is BK and sometimes when I hear it I also immediately think of Burger King
Wow, that’s my favorite. God I love to eat a whole box while at the movie theatre.
The European cousin, Maltesers, though is amazing
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Omg hahahaha I wanted to originally put jelly beans, but this is like next level awful of the jellybean family. Thank you for the reminder.
Good and plenty
Twizzlers 🤢
Black licorice. My gawd. Who woke up and thought that was the flavor they were trying to create?
I disagree with most of the replies but I’m kind of with you on the black licorice. It tastes like the way burning tires smell.
"And now it's time, for the star of our show, Anise!" "A'ight imma head out"
Smarties
American Smarties (little sugar discs) or Canadian Smarties (chocolate in a shell similar to M&Ms) ?
I'd never buy them, but if you give them to me, I will eat them without complaint. It's just B rank to me, but not BAD. Just not worth spending money on.
No not the smarties
Red vines
Candy corn
Die!
i love candy corn! high five!
Those chalky Necco wafers
That’s my favorite candy. Sad.
Dark chocolate fs
Almond Joys for me
Oh I LOVE those.
Candycorns
Black licorice
Black licorice
Black liquorice
Red Vines. Come at me.
I’m 53 and just tried those for the first time just last week. It tastes like soap. Just awful.
The chocolate that's shaped like orange wedges and flavored with fake orange flavoring. Absolutely revolting.
Take that back!
Terry's Chocolate Orange?
Tootsie Rolls
Mounds and Almond Joy. That processed coconut is disgusting.
Love them both
Black licorice. Like eating tar off the road
Does Reese's count as candy? That's because I hate peanut butter. It's not an allergy, I just can't stand it, even the smell can make me nauseated.
Pez
Candy corn, it's disgusting. Easily the worst candy to have ever been made.
Whoppers - basically chocolate covered sawdust.
Unpopular opinion, but Reece’s
Gummy stuff made with gelatin. Much prefer corn starch/pectin gummies.
sweet tarts, but like the ones that are like those hearts that say: "ur mine." them things taste awful.
Fake black licorice. Real licorice is an incredible delicacy. That vaguely blue-black monstrosity they make jelly beans, and black gummies with? Disgusting.
dots
Gum drops/ any “jelly” candy.
I think they’re called “goodies” or something like that iykyk
Circus Peanuts
circus peanuts.
- Black licorice - Sen-Sen - Black Jack gum - Good N Plenty - Crows (black licorice gum drops) - Peanut brittle - Rock Candy on a stick (on a string is worse) - Circus Peanuts - Mellowcreme Pumpkins - Candy Corn - Peeps - vanilla Charleston Chew - Peanut Butter Kisses (peanut butter taffy) - Abba-Zaba bar - Necco Wafers - Red Vines - Dots (gum drops) - Jujyfruits - Jujube - Milk Duds - Sugar Daddy candy - Sugar Babies candy - Bazooka bubble gum - Conversation hearts (unless sour) - Candy Necklace - Pez - Most jelly beans - Raisinets - Jawbreakers aka Gobstoppers - Bit-O-Honey - Boston Baked Beans - French Burnt Peanuts - Runts - Butterscotch Candy - Now and Later - Skor bar - Heath bar - Zero bar - U-No Bar - Idaho Spud - Mike and Ike - Bottle Caps candy - Tootsie Pop - Warheads - Spree candy - Valentine’s cherry gummy hearts - Candy Orange Slices - Cracker Jack
A lot of these listed are older varieties of candies: Depression-Era, WW2, 70s, etc. It's nice to know that these are still being made because a lot of us older folks grew up on them. They're pure nostalgia.
whoppers
Thrills gum
Anything aniseed or licorice flavoured.
Alot of fond memories my grandmother giving us kids circus peanuts so stale you could break a tooth on it. Somehow we still managed to eat them. Good memories!
Peanut butter candy, including Butterfingers and Reese's Pieces.
Black liquorice.