What is the worst candy you've ever tasted?
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I went to America once and tried an American coke. It left this weird film in my mouth. I don't understand how they drink it.
Put cheap "rum" in it.
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Both trash.
I'm upvoting you not because I agree (I don't, I love black licorice), but because you touch on a good point that if someone doesn't like black licorice, they're probably not going to like any black licorice regardless of quality. Maybe there's some exceptions out there that like bougie black licorice and not the basic twizzlers stuff, but anecdotally I've tried introducing the fancier brands to a few friends who don't like black licorice, and not one has given a single fuck.
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At my place of work, one project we worked on involved a lot of contractors from a place based in China. (The project was an absolute cluster-fuck all the way from soup to nuts, but that's a story for another day.) When the project concluded, they sent our office a thank-you gift box of various Chinese snacks.
One of the snacks was a... dried... meat... "candy"... I guess? The taste wasn't "sweet" so much. It tasted like it had been dipped in perfume. And the texture of the meat was hard to describe. Not chewy like jerky, and it didn't have that highly-processed Slim Jim sort of texture to it. Maybe it was sortof freeze-dried or something? I also couldn't identify what animal the meat might have come from. (And I couldn't read the text on the packaging.)
I'm not sure whether it was just an acquired taste or rather a practical joke by the folks at the Chinese company. Lol.
Was it a little cube? A Taiwanese exchange student once gave me a few "fish-tidbits". Holy shit those things were the fishiest things I've ever tasted. Just concentrated chum bucket, instant bad breath. I'm sure that cats would love them, but I'm still not convinced that she wasn't pulling my leg giving me a cat treat or what was essentially a bouillon cube and calling it "candy".
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American candy. Not American brand candy which different outside the US, but actuall American candy. It's all so bad quality and vile that it would never sell outside the US and not even be legal to do so in many places.
In my schoolboy days American teachers would bring candy from USA and the kids would absolutely devour it. Things like fruit gushers and sour warheads were absolute crack to primary school kids compared to the domestically available choices.
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Licorice. Anise flavored candy. It's disgusting.
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Was it a little cube? A Taiwanese exchange student once gave me a few "fish-tidbits". Holy shit those things were the fishiest things I've ever tasted. Just concentrated chum bucket, instant bad breath. I'm sure that cats would love them, but I'm still not convinced that she wasn't pulling my leg giving me a cat treat or what was essentially a bouillon cube and calling it "candy".
I don't remember it being fishy or cube-shaped. If I had to guess the meat, I'd guess beef or pork. And the shape was roughly spherical, but kindof... lumpy? It looked like it had been maybe torn off of a larger chunk of meat and then formed a bit.
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The disgusting Harry Potter every flavour beans. They had jelly belly jelly beans that tasted like dirt, grass, booger, vomit, ear wax, and others I can't remember.
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Reese’s is one of my favorites too, but objectively it’s horrible, down there with hersheys chocolate. They successfully made it addictive, rather than taste like peanut butter or chocolate. Try something like a Trader Joe’s peanut butter cup and it’s a world of difference.
It won’t keep me from my Reese’s but at least I’m aware of it
Will do once I'm in the US, although I need to figure out an explanation for the vast collection of JD Vance memes on my phone first.
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Original question by @[email protected]
Maryjanes? (Very old yucky candy, not cannabis related)
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Original question by @[email protected]
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.
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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.
Delicious, delicious carnauba wax...
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Original question by @[email protected]
I haven't actually tried this but my friend did.
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The disgusting Harry Potter every flavour beans. They had jelly belly jelly beans that tasted like dirt, grass, booger, vomit, ear wax, and others I can't remember.
I've only tried one, blind, it was worms. Never again. That was over twenty years ago and I still gag just thinking about it.
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Salted liquorice.
I had a Norwegian friend who waxed lyrical about this stuff. So when I saw it for the first time in a shop, I grabbed a packet to nibble on while waiting for my train.
Plain black liquorice is delicious and salt makes everything taste better, and the Norwegian seemed like a nice, relatively normal person who enjoyed other things I liked. This was a low risk choice of mid morning snack, I thought to myself.
I was wrong. So very wrong.
This stuff tastes like it was peeled off the bottom of a shoe after walking through the city all day. It's not salt either, it's freaking ammonium chloride.
To paraphrase the Wikipedia:
The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensation of coal-derived gases. It is also found around some types of volcanic vents. It is a product of the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
And Scandi's put this on liquorice and like it. Even the kids. Madness. It took my all not to heave into a bin after trying it and like six cups of black tea to get the taste out of my mouth.
I gave the Norwegian the rest of the packet and he laughed at me while I watched him eat it because I looked so horrified.
Droppies! They're an acquired taste. I worked with a lot of Dutch people at one point and they were always bringing them in. There was one kind I swear that had a powdered coating it was dipped in which only could have been weed killer.
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Original question by @[email protected]
I tried Hershey's (American chocolate) before and it tasted absolutely disgusting. it will never ever come remotely close to Dairy Milk or Galaxy
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Salted liquorice.
I had a Norwegian friend who waxed lyrical about this stuff. So when I saw it for the first time in a shop, I grabbed a packet to nibble on while waiting for my train.
Plain black liquorice is delicious and salt makes everything taste better, and the Norwegian seemed like a nice, relatively normal person who enjoyed other things I liked. This was a low risk choice of mid morning snack, I thought to myself.
I was wrong. So very wrong.
This stuff tastes like it was peeled off the bottom of a shoe after walking through the city all day. It's not salt either, it's freaking ammonium chloride.
To paraphrase the Wikipedia:
The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensation of coal-derived gases. It is also found around some types of volcanic vents. It is a product of the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
And Scandi's put this on liquorice and like it. Even the kids. Madness. It took my all not to heave into a bin after trying it and like six cups of black tea to get the taste out of my mouth.
I gave the Norwegian the rest of the packet and he laughed at me while I watched him eat it because I looked so horrified.
ammonia
I like black licorice overall, but your description reminded me of my own worst candy experience. I brought these black licorice cat coins at World Market. The cat shapes were appropriate in the worst way. They tasted the way cat pee smells. It was completely unexpected and overpowering. I looked at the ingredients, and there was fucking ammonia in them. Horrifying. I will never understand how anyone could enjoy a candy that tastes like snacking out of the cat box.
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ammonia
I like black licorice overall, but your description reminded me of my own worst candy experience. I brought these black licorice cat coins at World Market. The cat shapes were appropriate in the worst way. They tasted the way cat pee smells. It was completely unexpected and overpowering. I looked at the ingredients, and there was fucking ammonia in them. Horrifying. I will never understand how anyone could enjoy a candy that tastes like snacking out of the cat box.
Sounds like something that would pair well with Almond Roca for a litter box themed party.
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Reese’s is one of my favorites too, but objectively it’s horrible, down there with hersheys chocolate. They successfully made it addictive, rather than taste like peanut butter or chocolate. Try something like a Trader Joe’s peanut butter cup and it’s a world of difference.
It won’t keep me from my Reese’s but at least I’m aware of it
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.
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Original question by @[email protected]
The Harry Potter bean things which has awful flavors mixed in, like puke etc.
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I don't remember it being fishy or cube-shaped. If I had to guess the meat, I'd guess beef or pork. And the shape was roughly spherical, but kindof... lumpy? It looked like it had been maybe torn off of a larger chunk of meat and then formed a bit.
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.
