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On the tail of Halloween...

I am not a fan of sugar. Just never have been. I like gooey chocolate cookies, but one bite is all I need. After that I'm done with the whole sweetness thing.

But there are some terrible foods out there that masquerade as candy. My personal worst candy? Circus peanuts. That's right, those peanut shaped logs of marshmallowy crap. They're awful. I've tried to imagine enjoying eating them, but I can't.

Second up on that list, candy corn, which is always disappointing. Third up on that list? Buttered Popcorn flavored Jelly Bellies.

Those are my worst candies, and for all of them I can name at least one person who absolutely loves them. Candy is very subjective.

So what's your worst candy?

I've actually got a great story about the worst candy I've ever eaten, which is tied with one of the worst things I've ever eaten (and I have eaten some truly objectionable foods). It's so bad I can't even imagine that it is something anybody anywhere would ever eat for pleasure. But people do, and I'm going to hold off on that story until I've heard a few of your responses.

The Kinder Surprise which looks like two halves of one rotten half boiled egg.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

Oddly I seem to keep on the mainstream.  I don't like most candy bars like Snickers.  I'll hate on virtually anything with caramel and nouget. 

Although I'm a jelly bean junkie I detest jelly bellies.  Texture and taste both kind of stink.

And yes Mofo, circus peanuts are a curse of the candy gods.

Any gummy candy definitely makes my list. Along with any kind of gum. Apparently me and chewy sweets are not a match made in heaven.  But I think the absolute worst candy I ever tried may well have been Necco Wafers: stale-tasting, hard and halfway chewy bits of nastiness. I will agree with the remarks made about candy corn. I have never been able to force myself to eat circus peanuts.

I am not much of a sweets eater. I eat about 4-5 candy bars a year, a few more cookies than that if they are available, and I enjoy ice cream every couple of months. I love my Dr Pepper, but that's about it for sweets. About once a year I buy some Robin's Eggs malt balls and maybe a roll of Spree candies.

Zagnut, Mounds or Almond Joy.  I don't like coconut in ANYTHING . . . but oddy enough, I do enjoy eating coconuts!

Turkish Delight. Tried one once, and it was just too sweet for me (note that I have a sweet tooth).

black licorice

Peppermint Patties.  I hate the very strong peppermint.  For that matter, I hate peppermint Three Musketeers. 

I like black licorice . . . which probably explains why I also like Sambuca!

I'm not a fan of candy corn.

I also have a strong hatred for those SweetTarts that masquerade as Smarties. I love Smarties. The miniature SweetTarts that come wrapped the same way and look the same as Smarties p**s me off.

count me in

Candy Corn is always bad.  Tastes more like wax than anything.

And then there's these things, marshmallow peeps:

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Just some sort of sugary factory excretion as far as I can tell.

Black licorice is terrible too.

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I agree on anything with coconut.  Blech!  Coconut smells wonderful but tastes awful.
Marshmallow peeps look delicious but taste terrible.
I've had those Necco wafers...Nasty!  Can't stand black licorice or even red licorice.
I wouldn't feed circus peanuts to my worst enemy.

Never buy that generic chocolate from the dollar store.  Dollar Tree sells some truly dreadful chocolate bars.  And anything with raisins such as Raisinettes...Yuck!

I actually do like candy corn.   :thumbup:
Those popcorn Jelly Belly's are my favorite!  Can't stand the generic jelly beans.

Dunno, I simply love Peeps of any sort and candy corn. I also like Necco Waffers Oh well, more for me.  :bouncegiggle:

I'm actually in to what I hear a lot of people call "ghetto candy" where I live.  That would be the stuff you'd expect to find in dollar stores and outside the supermakets in those vending things for a quarter.  Mike N Ike, Runts, etc


Yep, simply because they are enough to uproot your teeth. 

Sidenote, I had some REALLY AWFUL generic Swedish Fish a few months back.  They tasted about as bad as coughdrops. 

Dots, Peeps, black licorice.

I would have to say that I can eat a peep, or a dot.  But I start to gag at the flavor of black licorice.

Now, TWIZZLERS, on the other hand...  :D

I don't like sweetarts, redhots,  or gummy anything.  I LOVE chocolate, but don't like dark chocolate.  I hate non parels ... those little chocolate wafer-like things with the little white sprinkle candy on top. I also don't like the fruit flavored gums ... strawberry cheezecake, pina colada  .... Blech!

I would say anything with peanut butter, but I fear that I would be killed for that  :tongueout: But I do hate Sweet tarts, Red Hots, and anything cinnamon flavored.

Those little PEZ dispensers are a collector's dream but the actual candy taste like sweetened soap.

Sugar Daddy seem like a good idea, but that rock hard caramel slab has no real flavor but overpowering 'sweet' plus it is guaranteed to remove any fillings or other dental work in your mouth. You will also be digging Sugar Daddy boogers out of your teeth for days.

I agree on those Necco Wafers. I remember in middle school when working in the consession stand at ball games we'd use packs of Necco Wafers to kill roaches.

Popeye cigarette sticks are pretty bad.

Wax lips are gross.
Never liked candy corn.
Sixlets taste weird to me.
Not too crazy about Necco Wafers either.

I LOVE circus peanuts.

Worst I would have to say is white chocolate. That crap is disgusting.

Why didn't we do this thread in the 'Top 100 list' format. I liked those threads. ..

black licorice and gummi bears.
They are both nasty in my opinion.

Licorice Snaps!  My mom could eat buckets of them, but even she admits the pink ones smell and taste like perfume.  My uncle wrote the company to complain that the pink ones taste awful and got a letter back saying they're trying to perfect the recipe for the pink ones because they found out they have to be made at a different temperature than the others.. or something like that.  They're all terrible.

Candy I truly cannot stand:

Bit-o-Honey
Chic-o-Stic
Black licorice

Okay. The worst "candy" I've ever eaten is something known as salmiakki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice). If you follow that link, you'll know more than me going in.

Anyway, here is the train of events.

I showed up to the break room of my place of employment to find a mysterious tin. It was a round paint tin covered in Cyrillic lettering (the Russian alphabet), and the only indication of what was in was a stylized picture of a man breathing fire. Being a far too curious sort, I pried open this tin (literally pried open the tin like a paint can) to see what was inside. What was inside was a pile of hard diamond shaped candies that smelled strongly of black licorice.

Now, a normal person would or should have stopped there. Me, I popped one of these things in my mouth.

A lot of people don't like black licorice, but I'm okay with it. These were the most overpoweringly black licorice things I've ever eaten. But that's not enough. The reason there was a picture of man eating fire on the tin was because the candies were loaded with citric acid. That's right, they weren't hot because they were loaded with capsaicin, they were hot because there was so much citric acid in them that they would literally demolish the mouth of anybody eating them.

So the already objectionable black licorice was made much worse by being loaded with acid. Yes, literal acid. But it gets worse.

Like any hard candy, there reaches a point when you're sick of it and you simply bite down and crack it open. I reached that point, and as soon as I did I reached the final kicker of the candy. The liquid core of the candy was concentrated ammonia. I don't know if you've ever found yourself in that situation, but surprising ammonia is never pleasant.

So, yes, black licorice, an overload of acid, and ammonia. That is the candy that is known as salmiakki.

The only reason I know so much about it is because I was literally worried that I had just poisoned myself.

I sent out a strongly worded email about "who the hell left the ammonia-based licorice fire candy in the break room?"

Turns out my boss had been visited by some librarians from some Scandinavian country, and they had brought her these candies. Naturally, she thought they were terrible, so she inflicted them upon us without telling anybody.

Apparently, salmiakki is a candy people enjoy there. Not me. It boggles my mind that anybody would find them enjoyable. But people do.

For me, it's not only one of the worst candies I've ever had, it's one of the worst things I've ever eaten.

Salmiakki is the worst candy. The worst.

Oh, I don't know: after a good feed of lutefisk it might come off quite well.   :tongueout:

When I was a kid, I used to buy these quite frequently.  I guess they were much more popular around 1969/70 than they are now.  It was great when you pulled them out of your mouth along with a 12-inch-long cable of saliva.