What is the worst candy you've ever tasted?
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Cella's milk chocolate covered cherries. My grams was addicted to them, so I'd bring a box when I visited. I couldn't even stand the way they smelled though lol
That reminds me of brandy beans. So gross
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Chocolate brandy beans.
They always seem to be made with cheapest shittiest chocolate as well but that brandy liqueurs inside is revolting enough on its own thread the chocolate is usually completely forgettable
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Probably these little lychee candy things I had years ago. No fruit flavor at all. Tasted as though someone mixed powdered blackboard chalk and sugar.
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Avoid pretty much anything that has rose water as an ingredient then. That's what gives Turkish delight the floral flavour and you will recognize it instantly.
That being said the Big Turk chocolate bar is such a bad shitty Turkish Delight it's almost edible
Rose water is meh, but the worst part of turkish delights is the gelatin style chew. I also have a mild walnut allergy which makes them taste "scratchy" to me, so i doubt that helped when I tried it.
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The red gum that's just pure cinnamon or something. Plus it's spicy. Ew. Just ew
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Twizzlers.
I tried them in the US and it just felt like I was chewing on a piece of plastic.
On the other hand, unlike most of the people in the comments, I love licorice.
Yeah, what's up with twizzlers? They look okay, I've read that they should taste really nice and.. well, it's chewable plastic with zero taste
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Was it like eating cold hot dog meat? These sound like fish/beef balls used in soup like pho though they're a Vietnamese thing.
The mention of "cold" makes me think you're thinking they were prepared food of some sort or at least "wet". These were shelf-stable, individually-wrapped "candies" (I think the note on the gift box even referred to them as "candies") that came in a larger, plastic bag with art and text printed on it. Like you might think of bags of, say, these. Except they were a dried meat product, not losenges or caramels or whatever. And they weren't "sweet" the way you think of candy. They tasted like you might imagine something dipped in perfume (and then dried) might taste. One more detail: I remember them being drier than any jerkey I'd ever eaten. They simply didn't have enough moisture in them to have any heat conductivity to speak of. (Asking if they were cold is like asking if room-temperature Rice Crispies dry and straight from the box are "cold".)
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The cheap no name "chocolates" that taste like eating oil solids disguised as chocolate
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Twizzlers.
I tried them in the US and it just felt like I was chewing on a piece of plastic.
On the other hand, unlike most of the people in the comments, I love licorice.
Twizzlers feel like some shitty capitalist found a way to turn some industrial waste byproduct edible enough to feed to kids
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Hands down absolutely nothing worse than peeps. They somehow manage to make twizzlers taste like ultra gourmet candy.
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The mention of "cold" makes me think you're thinking they were prepared food of some sort or at least "wet". These were shelf-stable, individually-wrapped "candies" (I think the note on the gift box even referred to them as "candies") that came in a larger, plastic bag with art and text printed on it. Like you might think of bags of, say, these. Except they were a dried meat product, not losenges or caramels or whatever. And they weren't "sweet" the way you think of candy. They tasted like you might imagine something dipped in perfume (and then dried) might taste. One more detail: I remember them being drier than any jerkey I'd ever eaten. They simply didn't have enough moisture in them to have any heat conductivity to speak of. (Asking if they were cold is like asking if room-temperature Rice Crispies dry and straight from the box are "cold".)
I guess I meant "cold" in the sense of "uncooked" hot dogs that have a very distinct texture, but it doesn't sound like these are the same as what I'm thinking of either way.
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Swede here.
Some American candy, mostly bad chocolate
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Rose water is meh, but the worst part of turkish delights is the gelatin style chew. I also have a mild walnut allergy which makes them taste "scratchy" to me, so i doubt that helped when I tried it.
It's like it was designed to piss you off specifically
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Swede here, that Norwegian shit is weak. This is what we like.
Bought a bunch of those when I had a short visit to Karlstad recently. I'm a Norwegian, and I'll be the first to admit that the Norwegian kind is way too weak.
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Swede here.
Some American candy, mostly bad chocolate
I tried American chocolate once. It tasted like vomit aftertaste.
Never again.
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Take a bag of those pebers and dump them in a bottle of vodka. Let them dissolve overnight. Bring to a party and you will be instant friend of any scandinavian.
I did this with my friends when we went to Thailand. We were enjoying the delicious taste on a beach, two Australian guys were wanted to try it. They both spat it out instantly and the other one got so mad we thought he's actually going to attack us.
After he calmed down a bit he demanded to see us drink it to be sure we hadn't tricked him to drink poison. So we downed the entire 1 litre bottle to appease him. It was the start of a great day that lasted for few days.
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There is this brittle thing of foam everyone likes to make into weird shapes like little birds... I don't know what it is called and I don't want too
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Related anecdote: When I worked an offshore rotation with people from all over the world, I made an effort to bring candy that I'd never seen outside of Scandinavia. It was always amusing to see people sampling candy I liked when they weren't used to the ammonium chloride branch of flavors.
And once I brought this:
Everybody who weren't Norwegian, Swedish, or Finnish (sadly we had no Danes on board) absolutely hated it. Especially the Americans and Brits.
Everyone except Mario, that is; a Croatian geophysicist. He loved them. His voice still lives rent free in my head over ten years later, saying "Sweet candy is for kids"
A few trips later I brought one of my favorites for basically the same result, but this time with Jim (from Illinois, iirc) complaining that it made his mouth physically hurt:
Mario loved that one even More.
The only thing everyone on board liked was the obscene amount of chocolate my navigator brought every trip.But to answer the question: Twizzlers. I bought some when visiting the US a couple of years ago. It tasted like oily sweetener (as in, clearly not actual sugar). That's when I learned that American and European wine gum are flavored very differently.
Footnote: Durian and durian chocolate is quite alright once you get used to the slight farty smell from each packet you open.
i cant stand the smell of durian candy, its way to pungent.
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Yeah, American candy has about the lowest standards. Canada isn't much better, but there's a noticeable difference in the quality of chocolate in common chocolate bars. We once did a side-by-side comparison of KitKats (we live right on the border) and the difference was stunning.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]milk chocolate by any of the big chains, are just trash. at WF, they sell gourmet chocolate imported from outside the US, or they make the ones that are bougie and expensive. dark chocolate, not so sweet is the best. white chocolate seems to have a chemical smell and aftertaste to it, super synthetic, that has no chocolate i never liked the taste.
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Reese's tasted a whole lot better 20+ years ago. Now it's just gritty sugar with peanut butter flavored 'essence' added. Same goes for Cadbury eggs which are completely inedible now.
alot of cookies and cakes are like that, you can feel the granular sugar, because they put so much.
