Oh, anther good one is those sesame seed candies. Basically just a brick of sesame seeds held together by some slightly sweet binder that’s almost hard as glass. Gotta love those.
I forgot one - Haribo Vampires. They’re really yummy but most people in this country hate them. It’s like gummy bears where half of it is black licorice.
Sounds awful. Perfect for this thread.
I love them… I used to order them from Germany but now Amazon has them (though sometimes they’re still shipped from Germany).
Right now, since it’s almost Easter (close enough to stock seasonal candy), I’m eating Cadbury mini eggs with the crunchy shells - Royal Dark. They’re kinda not-pretty eggs, dusty colors like they’ve been rolling around in some powdered thing that addicts you. Insidious candy.
ps. Meli, 90% dark is like trying to eat the unsweetened baking chocolate. Blarf.
I love that company’s gummy Raspberries.
Hey, you said talk about worst candy, not the good stuffs, Peppermint Patty!
New England Candy Co. The chocos are the best. You could get a roll of just chocolate. mmmmm.
Spice drops. Particularly clove and cinnamon.
I like those lik-a-sticks aka fun dip. Straight up sugar lol
Smarties! I ate almost a bag once and was deathly sick, but I still love them
Too bad about them going out of business. I always wanted a roll of just the wintergreen ones.
OMG… How could I forget. Look! bars.
There’s a website where you can order just about every kind of retro candy you could think of.
I just have this image in my big cow head of the cookie gnome on the corner “smoking” his candy cigs like he is the tough neighborhood guy that owns the place.
/moo
My older brother was going through a “I want to try the spiciest things ever created” phase a few years back.
He ordered some of those Ghostpepper suckers that have the little scorpion on the inside. Let me tell you how gutwrenchingly terrible this abomination of considered “candy” is.
Imagine if your tongue was going on vacation, and that vacation turned out to be the 3rd level of hell and it was stuck there for fourty-five minutes.
And the absolute mega worst part of this is, whatever guy came up with this idea for candy, he had to bring it up with someone else for feedback, right? THEY DIDN’T STOP HIM.
“so yeah i wanna throw a dead scorpion in a sucker and for the hell of it lets make it boiling lava spicy”
“yeah sure man go ahead”
god has abandoned us.
Edit: I didnt’ like it, but my brother sure loved it.
I really enjoy Junior mints which always seems to get me some raised eyebrows. I don’t know why, they are delicious.
Junior mints are great! I also like After eights and Andes mints, but of course these don’t actually count as bad candy. I think the ghost pepper/scorpion carapace sucker probably wins for sheer worst qualities in a candy.
Squirrel Zippers and Mary Janes.
I think you can still get them, and the Necco Wafers, at The Vermont Country Store.
Did you have the candy cigarettes that came in their own little plastic case? Or were those the chocolate cigarettes?