What is the worst candy you've ever tasted?
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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.
Reminds me of a story from my wife. As a kid, she was on holiday in Sweden. The ice van came, and she selected a ball of what she thought was chocolate ice. Well, it wasn't...
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Well, it could be (I just grabbed it off of an image search), but the product is real and found all over Norway.
Ah so ai isn't bad at words, its just writing Norwegian!
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NECO wafers. Like cardboard they taste
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Okay so during halloween, there are these weird eyeball gummies that are not only unsettling to look at, but they also taste like sugary plastic. It's by far the worst tasting candy I've ever experienced, including low quality black licorice and some weird wood bark candy.
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Hands down absolutely nothing worse than peeps. They somehow manage to make twizzlers taste like ultra gourmet candy.
I'm curious, do you like marshmallows?
I like peeps, but also love marshmallows
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Peeps. I've never like marshmallow anything, really, and definitely not those abominations. Most cinnamon-flavored things. Edit: forgot one: chocolate-covered cherries. I don't know why. I have a cherry tree and will eat the cherries off it and don't even mind most artificially-cheery-flavored things. I also eat other fruits covered in chocolate (even durian).
The churro peeps were tasty!
(I actually like peeps, marshmallows, and cinnamon though lol)
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I'm curious, do you like marshmallows?
I like peeps, but also love marshmallows
Plain marshmallows on their own are fine.
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Durian candy and sour milk candy share the top spot.
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Lucas Limon - I never understood how kids could eat. Even before they found lead in it.
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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.
I love those but my partner feels the same way you do, with the added perk that they hate the way the candies smell when I’m having one lol
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Licorice, that funny retro looking shit with the black and bright colors. They are as revolting to me as sushi
There are variations of these and the ones with aniseed are the worst.
