Edit: never mind, milk duds are chewy as hell, but also good. I ruled them out because I figured most people would like them (assuming their teeth don't get pulled out).

Side note: if you didnt chew now&laters and instead sucked on them. You have infinitely more self control than I do.

bizarroland@fedia.io · 40 pts · 1y (9 replies)

How about circus peanuts?

The first bite of circus peanuts tastes to me like an alien artificial intelligence had to create a sugary treat and only had petroleum by-products to make it with.

The second bite tastes like accepting your fate.

kautau@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

🤡🥜🧑‍🚀🔫👽

Classy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Maybe once every two or three years I get in the mood for circus peanuts. I eat maybe five of them, horribly regret every decision in my life that has led to me purchasing this bag, then vowing to never touch them again.

bizarroland@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Same. The instant it touches my tongue I'm transported back to being a kid and my grandmother thinking these were amazing treats and giving them out to us and then getting really upset if we didn't finish them.

And then I remember I have to actually eat the rest of it. So I finish off the first one and then I see the tiny little 59 cent bag that's only got four more of them in it and I feel like it would be a waste of my money and my effort in acquiring the circus peanuts and so I force myself to eat the rest of the bag and then vow to never eat them again.

Until I forget and get another bag.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Cut them up and melt them into something edible. Things don't have to be uses in the form they come in.

bizarroland@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y

I'm not 100% certain they would melt. And I'm not going to spend my own time and money to try to fix everything that's wrong with them.

If you have an idea on a way to make them better, how about you implement them and then make millions of dollars selling them to ignorant rubes like myself?

Zementid@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Wait... Is it always the same circus or a brand named circus? What are circus peanuts?

Edit: Nope found it. WTF? Do they taste like peanuts?

Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Do they taste like peanuts?

No. They taste like chewy sugar rubber goo. Idk how to properly describe it, but I haven't eaten them since childhood.

bizarroland@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They taste like candied styrofoam to me

Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

Candied Styrofoam is a good description.

POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com · 30 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Bouillon Cubes

dizzy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

Me knew it was a bouillon spoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbnQZrK8xA

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Stock cubes

caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Joke's on you, I loved munching on those as a kid, they're basically savory candy!

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

Well to be fair i did tried once but noped out.

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

My aunt used to get the jello concentrate cubes. They were like intense jelly candy.

(For anyone who has not heard of them: they were in a box, like segmented chocolate bar. But super concentrated jello base. You would tear off 2-3 cubes and add hot water, then let it set. Or as a kid tear off a cube and munch on it.)

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I leik whoppers

DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y

I leik em too.

kogasa@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Whoppers are good but the risk of getting a bad one is not worth it. Ech

LowtierComputer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A bad one?

kogasa@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y

Yeah. Normal whoppers are crunchy. 1 in 4 whoppers is soggy and chewy and hard to eat

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 18 pts · 1y

WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS SLANDER

folekaule@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Salty licorice

_stranger_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If you're reading this and have never tried this, get some, it's a religious experience. You might find god. God might be a very sick cat.

folekaule@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Yep, I'm a big fan. It's definitely an acquired taste, though.

Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Some of that is amazing.

If you ever see a Pantteri Mix bag, pick one up.

Some or most salty licorice is pretty shit tho imo

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It is definetly an acquired taste

Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Sure, yeah.

Some are more..."beginner friendly", as it were. But if you get some proper salty licorice from the pharmacy (and our pharmacies aren't like US pharmacies where they sell everything like a grocery store), that's definitely an acquired sensation.

I say sensation, because it's honestly more about sensation than taste. Kinda like chili in food. (Although ofc chilis have taste as well. Habaneros are very different from Scotch Bonnets etc.)

Sensation, because it's ammonium chloride that's in there.

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

I got introduced to the DZ ones by a dutch friend. At first it was wow OK, not what I expected from liquorice, but the grow on you.

Hikermick@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I was going to say black licorice

Ookami38@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Can I get some? Please?

MelonYellow@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y (3 replies)

This is so wrong! Love sucking on them Whoppers

Cort@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Did you mean to imply fellatio?

MelonYellow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Frick no!

But for real though, I suck on the whoppers and let the malt center dissolve. Only downside is sometimes it makes the roof of your mouth raw😂

sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

You know what's up

numlok@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

Airheads.

They taste like I imagine flavored window caulking would.

frozenspinach@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Whoppers are great! I don't understand the hate.

Securus777@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Crunchy, so I liked them since I'm a texture eater. But I get why people don't like them. It's almost chalky at times on the inside.

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Lol, you're something else, candy corn?? That stuff is vile.

The worst I can say about dots is they're just sugar, albeit glued to paper.

Will you come organize my candy bowl this year? 😆

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (5 replies)

In the US, dots are hard gumdrops.

Also, if your candy corn sucks, it's because it's not Brach's.

Cort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

In the US dots can also refer to candy buttons as well as the gross gumdrops

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I like the gross gumdrops, but I don't care for the acid blotters.

Cort@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Lol, not a fan of either but at least you get some fiber when the paper sticks to the candies

Rolando@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I was going to agree, but I haven't had Brach's candy corn in a while, every so often those large companies change the formula to make things cheaper* so it's hard to be sure.

*latest fad

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I had it the other week. Still great.

encrust9870@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You really need to try mixing the candy corn with salted peanuts. 👁️👄👁️👌

NormalPerson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I was gonna say the same. Always hated candy corn till someone had me try this.

chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Whoppers never make it to the bowl on my house. They're too good.

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

White chocolate Reese's peanut butter cups.

davel@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y

SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Just Almond Joys and Mounds.

Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Necco wafers.

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

Yum

accarezzu@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y

Toxic Waste

nebula42@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y

What you do is you let them dissolve in your mouth, do that and they turn into at least an A tier candy trust

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y

Jell-O cubes. Unpackaged.

HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Peets marshmallows from easter

KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Black licorice

EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How about those stale tar-like hard candies.

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Molasses candy

CptCarp@startrek.website · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What are whoppers?

PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y

Thin chocolate coating on the outside, crunchy malted milk on the inside that will sort of melt in your mouth if you can resist chewing it. They are delicious and used to always come in a paper carton.

scutiger@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

They're like Maltesers

Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

Liquorice

TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

This is correct

johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Mounds/Almond Joy. Yuck. Always threw those out as a kid (well OK probably gave them to my mother).

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Dude why are you throwing away my favorite chocolate bar?

son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Chunky bars. Kids like raisins in their chocolate, right?

Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Good & Plenty and Mike and Ikes.

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y

Gotta go with the good ol' "Spike & Ike's" where you mix in some Extra Hot Tamales.

BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I’m with you on Mike and ikes but I love good and plenty

taiyang@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Professionally wrapped chocolate covered brussel sprouts.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Cherry Lips

wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

Necco

phx@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

M&M's, Reese's, skittles

All in the same bowl

Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

With or without the brown ones?

Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net · 2 pts · 1y

Rock candy.

Zementid@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Butterfingers

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Alas, we will no longer know the joy of the original formuloni

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Lavender candy

Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Those licorice flavored taffy candies that are in a black and orange wrapper.

They are fucking gross as is most anise flavored things but their stickiness makes them worse than other things.

projectsquared@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Bit O’ Honey

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Skittles, except it's 100% green apple skittles and no other flavors.

I love how they reverted green back to lime in the regular bag. They knew they blew it. You gotta know some higher up loved green apple and wanted it in every skittles bag. Fuck that person. You have terrible taste.

I'm glad to be able to purchase skittles again after a decade+ boycott