What is the worst tasting candy?

[Pryderi]

Circus Peanuts? Candy Corn?

[LiberalEsto]

1. Mary Janes

vile peanut butter taste

[Captain Stern]

85. Absolutely

I always hated seeing those show up in my trick-or-treat bag. When I was a kid, we'd dump all our bags out on the floor when we got home, and start trading candy. Couldn't give the damn Mary Janes away.....they were loathed by all.

[Quantess]

88. Yuck.

[HappyMe]

90. Nastiest. Candy. Ever.

Those nasty peanut butter rocks wrapped in orange or black wax paper suck too. Black licorice, chocolate covered cherries are on the list. Candy corn makes the list as just plain sad.

[IrishEyes]

99. I love Mary Janes. I guess I'm in the minority.

[Jenoch]

112. I too like Mare Janes

and the peanut butter candy available at Halloween in the orange and black wrappers. I also like Bit-O-Honey.

[Quantess]

116. I like Bit-o-honey, but Mary Janes is like eating tile caulk.

I remembered tasting a Mary Jane candy for the first time and feeling sorry for people who grew up eating that. "Wow, those poor kids had to get used to liking this crap and thinking it was treat?"

[Pryderi]

123. manufactured by dentists looking to replace fillings.

[trof]

2. Licorice. I hate it.

[mucifer]

57. I agree. It makes me want to puke.

[trof]

98. Oddly enough, I kinda like Sambucca.

Especially when accompanied by a plate of roasted coffee beans to munch on.
Used to do that in Italy.

[Agschmid]

60. Yes!

[Arugula Latte]

67. Yep. Black licorice. Disgusting.

[nolabear]

70. + a brazillion.

I hate anything that even hints of it.

[tabbycat31]

72. +1

[TeamPooka]

76. ditto nt

[alphafemale]

91. Eating jellybeans and not paying attention and getting a black one by accident.

blech!!!! patoooie!

[lastlib]

126. Yes! I didn't like jellybeans as a kid, and REALLY hated 'em in the Reagan years!

Of course, I hated everything associated with that putrid pile of necroplasm.

[Recursion]

111. I love it. I take all my friends' black jelly beans

Different strokes...

[BlueJazz]

124. Amen...anybody that eats that crap is simply uncivilized. It tastes like windshield wipers.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. I actually like all mentioned up 'til nor but black licorice. YUCKO!!!!!

[MicaelS]

30. Black licorice. Yucko x 2!!!

[Demo_Chris]

36. Agreed.

[woodsprite]

56. Licorice gets my vote too, with a close second being held by Wintergreen candies

My mom was the oldest of 3, and the only girl in her family. She said that when she was young, she'd make her brothers play house and she would serve them "coffee" from her tea set and make them drink it. She made the "coffee" by dissolving licorice jelly beans in warm water. Needless to say, I'm not the only one in my family who can't stand licorice

She also pretended they were "babies" and spoonfed them "pablum" (which was ground up krullers or doughnuts soaked with milk.) That didn't sound so bad.

[JesterCS]

101. i agree, gross =( n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Noo!!!!!!!!

I love Candy corns, and pumpkins.. and there are several flavors of candy corns including caramel. Worst candy?
I dun know ..I like anything sweet.. more or less. Maybe I would have to list

Chocolate covered Cherries, only because I get addicted to them and end up eating so many, they make me sick to my stomach.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Same with me and chocolate-covered cherries -- ate 'em 'til I got sick. HATED 'em.

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Tried 'em again after about 20 years and they were AWESOME!!!
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[DebJ]

53. Which kind? Liquid centers or the white creamy stuff?

I much prefer the liquid center ones.

[MiddleFingerMom]

54. LOVE the liquid center -- haven't had the creamy kind in decades (so I don't know).

[DebJ]

55. I can only find the liquid centers in stores around the holidays

in these parts for some reason. Got some really yummy ones a few weeks ago
in Ocean City, Maryland ..... 50 cents apiece for very tiny ones though!

[hedgehog]

59. I used to love candy corn, but I think the recipe around here has been changed -

too much corn syrup and wax, not enough honey!

[PoliticAverse]

5. People need to eat Circus Peanuts periodically...

to be reminded how terrible they are.

[frogmarch]

6. This makes me laugh out loud!

Circus Peanuts and Candy Corn are mr. froggy's favorites.

He is sulking now.

[MineralMan]

7. Horehound drops.

No question. Followed by Sen-Sen.

[1awake]

8. I have to buy that disgusting stuff for my wife! ughhh. n/t

[MineralMan]

10. It is vile.

But, they stopped making Sen Sen, so there is hope.

[sharp_stick]

28. There is NO hope

http://www.amazon.com/Sen-Sen-Sen-Sen-pack-of-48/dp/B0012837U4

I can't stand the stuff.

[jmowreader]

34. You're not supposed to eat Sen-Sen because you LIKE it...

...you're supposed to eat it so your mom doesn't know you've been smoking.

[OriginalGeek]

42. LMFAO

from the amazon page:

Is the original breath freshener
Contains nutrition and ingredients
America's oldest and favorite breath freshener

Nutrition AND ingredients!

[MineralMan]

50. Tastes like soap.

Yuck!

[woodsprite]

77. Vermont Country Store sells it also.

Actually, they sell lots of old brands of candy, etc. That is, if you're willing to pay for it.

[lastlib]

33. YES! GAWD, that stuff's nasty!!

[eppur_se_muova]

78. Yet strangely addicting ...

needs to be washed down with Malto Goya.

[1awake]

9. Chocolate covered cherries... to many textures for me. n/t

[BainsBane]

38. Oh no

I love chocolate covered cherries.

[1awake]

48. lol.. I have texture issues, example would be

I love jello and I love fruit... put them together and I could vomit from the texture variations. I have no idea why.

[Dash87]

66. Heretic!

[fizzgig]

11. another vote for black licorice

[NightWatcher]

12. Necco Wafers

Bleh

[RiffRandell]

39. Yep, they taste like Pepto. nt

[olddots]

41. yuuuuuuuuch Necco Wafers

somebody must have liked them but no one would admit it .

[Blue_Tires]

71. GET OUT AND NEVER COME BACK

[RebelOne]

13. Anything that is not chocolate. n/t

[distantearlywarning]

14. That salt licorice they sell in Sweden

Went to a Halloween party a few years ago, and the hosts had a big bowl of it out on the table. I took a piece not knowing what it was.

Wow, was it ever vile. I can't believe anyone eats that stuff of their own free volition.

[warrior1]

15. Necco Wafers any flavor

They are sad candy when you're eating them it doesn't even feel like they are real candy

Oh and Candy corn

[MiddleFingerMom]

21. They WERE almost always the very last thing in my Halloween stash bags.

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But I do kinda like candy corn -- but in limited amounts.
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[First Speaker]

17. The new, crappy Three Musketeers

...they tampered with perfection...and of course, screwed it all up totally...

[Goalie49009]

18. Circus Peanuts are ok

after the first 2 that's it for me too I don't know...to sugary I think

[Raffi Ella]

19. Circus Peanuts are pretty bad, but I like candy corn.

I hate anything with coconut, like almond joy. I also can't stand jelly or any nougat like candy.

[MerryBlooms]

20. Pink and white jelly beans

I don't know what flavors they're supposed to be, but they're poison. blegh.

[PassingFair]

22. PEZ

No one actually eats it.

[Bertha Venation]

25. candy from Mexico

Blech.

[rurallib]

26. anything with coconut

pukerooni

[surrealAmerican]

27. I'd have to go with ...

... "Mike and Ike". They taste like some sort of cleaning product.


... but, what do I know, I actually like NECCO wafers.

[a la izquierda]

29. Rootbeer anything.

Rootbeer is a tool of the devil, I say.

[NRaleighLiberal]

31. and another vote for Necco Wafers. Gack!

[peacefreak]

79. But, but, but

How will good little Catholic kids play Holy Communion without NECCO wafers!

[NRaleighLiberal]

80. ah...that explains it! I was probably the only protestant in a town of catholics - missed that part

[valerief]

32. sourballs

[noamnety]

35. Don't be hating on candy corn.

God gave us candy corn so we could melt it with peanut butter to make our own butterfingers.

[BainsBane]

37. I hate candy corn

So I'll go with that.

[murielm99]

40. I think they are Jolly Ranchers,

which is a stupid name for candy, and they are allegedly watermelon flavored.

Yuck!!!!

[GoCubsGo]

82. I second that.

I also hate the green apple-flavored kind. I hate anything that's fake apple or watermelon-flavored. Icky, icky, icky!!!!!

[bluesbassman]

43. Mentos. They're doubly bad because of the lame commercials that try to make them hip.

At least no one is trying to sell you candy corn or circus peanuts by making it seem like you'll be extra cool if you eat them.

[Archae]

44. Anise squares.

My Gramma always had them, what the hell were they?

Red hard candy cubes.

And bubble gum candy cigs.
The bubble gum was even worse than Bazooka Joe.

[Jamaal510]

45. Payday. eom

[azurnoir]

46. peeps but they're fun to micrwave

and oh ya those circus peanuts, snaps, and good and plenty

[KamaAina]

73. Yup. Definitely Peeps.

But you know what else is fun? Biting their tiny little heads off.

[azurnoir]

95. That's what I thought gingerbread men were for

[KamaAina]

96. Technically not candy

but you are always free to start a cookie thread.

[azurnoir]

97. lol no it was just sort of there that and

I just realized you're a guy

[B Calm]

47. Candy corn and candy cigarettes!

[theHandpuppet]

49. Good n' Plenty and Jelly Nougats

Good & Plenty -- They have to make them look pretty on the outside because they're so nasty inside.
Jelly Nougats -- They're just something creepy about them.

[Aerows]

106. Eww

Good & Plenty

Worst candy and idea for candy ever.

Eww. Let me get an additional "Eww" in there. Eww.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

51. Tie between black licorice or anything peppermint

[DebJ]

52. Watermelon flavored anything except real watermelon

[mucifer]

58. I'm the same way with cherry flavor. Yuck unless it's a real cherry.

I make the exception for niquil when I really need to sleep or I have a bad cold.

[cliffordu]

61. Well.....Pynchon sez....

Mrs. Quoad is meantime busy savoring, bite by dainty bite, a cherry-quinine petit four. She beams at the young people across the candy bowl. Slothrop, forgetting, reaches again for his tea. There is no graceful way out of this now. Darlene has brought a couple-three more candy jars down off of the shelf, and now he goes plunging, like a journey to the center of some small, hostile planet, into an enormous bonbon chomp through the mantle of chocolate to a strongly eucalyptus-flavored fondant, finally into a core of some very tough grape gum arabic. He fingernails a piece of this out from between his teeth and stares at it for a while. It is purple in color.

"Now you're getting the idea!" Mrs. Quoad waving at him a marbled conglomerate of ginger root, butterscotch, and aniseed, "you see, you also have to enjoy the way it looks. Why are Americans so impulsive?"

"Well," mumbling, "usually we don't get any more complicated than Hershey bars, see...."

"Oh, try this," hollers Darlene, clutching her throat and swaying against him.

"Gosh, it must really be something," doubtfully taking this nastylooking brownish novelty, an exact quarter-scale replica of a Mills-type hand grenade, lever, pin and everything, one of a series of patriotic candies put out before sugar was quite so scarce, also including, he notices, peering into the jar, a .455 Webley cartridge of green and pink striped taffy, a six-ton earthquake bomb of some silver-flecked blue gelatin, and a licorice bazooka.

"Go on then," Darlene actually taking his hand with the candy in it and trying to shove it into his mouth.

"Was just, you know, looking at it, the way Mrs. Quoad suggested."

"And no fair squeezing it, Tyrone."

Under its tamarind glaze, the Mills bomb turns out to be luscious pepsin-flavored nougat, chock-full of tangy candied cubeb berries, and a chewy camphor-gum center. It is unspeakably awful. Slothrop's head begins to reel with camphor fumes, his eyes are running, his tongue's a hopeless holocaust. Cubeb? He used to smoke that stuff. "Poisoned..." he is able to croak.

"Show a little backbone," advises Mrs. Quoad.

"Yes," Darlene through tongue-softened sheets of caramel, "don't you know there's a war on? Here now love, open your mouth."

Through the tears he can't see it too well, but he can hear Mrs. Quoad across the table going "Yum, yum, yum," and Darlene giggling. It is enormous and soft, like a marshmallow, but somehow---unless something is now going seriously wrong with his brain---it tastes like: gin. "Wha's 'is," he inquires thickly.

"A gin marshmallow," sez Mrs. Quoad.

"Awww..."

"Oh that's nothing, have one of these---" his teeth, in some perverse reflex, crunching now through a hard sour gooseberry shell into a wet spurting unpleasantness of, he hopes it's tapioca, little glutinous chunks of something all saturated with powdered cloves.

"More tea?" Darlene suggests. Slothrop is coughing violently, having inhaled some of that clove filling.

"Nasty cough," Mrs. Quoad offering a tin of that least believable of English coughdrops, the Meggezone. "Darlene, the tea is lovely, I can feel my scurvy going away, really I can."

The Meggezone is like being belted in the head with a Swiss Alp. Menthol icicles immediately begin to grow from the roof of Slothrop's mouth. Polar bears seek toenail-holds up the freezing frosty-grape alveolar clusters in his lungs. It hurts his teeth too much to breathe, even through his nose, even, necktie loosened, with his nose down inside the neck of his olive-drab T-shirt. Benzoin vapors seep into his brain. His head floats in a halo of ice.

Even an hour later, the Meggezone still lingers, a mint ghost in the air.


Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's rainbow, PP 114-119

[pipi_k]

62. First...

I'll tell you what isn't the worst, IMO...

circus peanuts
licorice
peeps

and some of the others mentioned in this thread

the worst tasting...again, IMO...

definitely the Mary Janes. yech!


and nastiest of all...

Butterscotch.

Mr Pipi buys that stuff in bulk and crunches on it all day. Crunch crunch crunch, not to mention the sight of those things wrapped in their disgusting yellow cellophane.

And the smell!

butterscotch makes me puke.

[Boom Sound 416]

63. Pretzel m&m's

Just why?

[jmowreader]

64. While we're here, I must pass on this link...

http://www.bad-candy.com

[Dash87]

65. Circus peanuts and candy corn are disgusting to me.

On the other hand, I love chocolate and also fudge. Yum!

[Neoma]

102. I hate circus peanuts, but I like candy corn.

[krispos42]

129. This.

Candy corn isn't bad. I wouldn't pick it over, say, Milk Duds, but I won't fall to my knees in despair if I find a pack of them on the table or something.


Those peanut things... ugh. And hard candies. Those are the ones that always get thrown out when the "good" Halloween is eaten and there is zero interest in keeping the remnants around.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

68. Bit-O-Honey and Bonomo Turkish Taffy

[HappyMe]

93. I had forgotten those horrors.

Those are indeed on my Nastiest Candy Ever List.


WHY? WHY?
Why would you put a cute, friendly bee on a package, only to screw the person over in a big damn way. Bit-O-Concrete.

WHY?
Would you promise the sexy, exotic Turkey whatever, only to give a person a tasteless sheet of glass to eat?

[Quantess]

94. That Turkish taffy package...

Is it just me or does that b look phallic?

I have never seen that weird candy before.

[becca da bakkah]

69. Anyone Here Remember "Baffle Bar"?

From my childhood, back in the 50's and 60's. Worse vile-tasting candy EVER! It was like Alka-Seltzer covered in chocolate! Really nasty stuff!

[Xyzse]

74. LOL - This

http://www.bad-candy.com/candies/chamoy/
Ughh... It is terribad.

[Kingofalldems]

75. Red licorice

[Arkansas Granny]

81. Anything that says "green apple" or "watermelon" on the label.

I wouldn't let my kids have any candy in those flavors because the smell alone made me fell sick to my stomach. Yuck!!!

[GoCubsGo]

83. Yep.

Just the thought of them makes me gag.

[Quantess]

120. Those are great!

Sour watermelon flavor and sour green apple. My face hurts thinking about it.

[magical thyme]

84. Necco's clove flavor

It's almost the same color as the chocolate wafer, so I've eaten it by accident more than one.

[MadrasT]

86. I'm gonna go with circus peanuts.

OMG those things are revolting.

[Quantess]

89. I second Circus Peanuts.

Those are gross! Does anyone actually like them?

[Tabasco_Dave]

87. zots

Tastes like sour candy Alka Seltzer.

[bobGandolf]

92. Black licorice

Nasty!

[Still Blue in PDX]

100. You may be surprised to learn that almost all the candies listed here sound really, really good.

But then again, maybe not. I'm on Day 3 of the world-famous cabbage soup diet. Yes, I know it is a fad and all that, but I want to lose the ten pounds I gained during my vacation.

The Good-n-Plenty and the horehounds I would pass on, but I could eat a whole bag of candy corn and/or circus peanuts right now.

[u4ic]

103. I think they are called Hallowe'en kisses

that horrible molasses candy only sold at Hallowe'en.

Ugh.

[Aerows]

105. The peanut butter taffy things?

I loved them, still do!

[u4ic]

114. No peanut butter in them

I'm in Canada, so maybe there are differences in the candy. Our Rockets are your Smarties. Our Smarties are chocolate (similar, but much tastier than M & M's)

[Aerows]

104. I'm not going to be popular here

but I'm not a big fan of chocolate. Or any sweets. I like those peanut butter taffy treats in the orange and black wax paper.

I know.

I traded kit kats for those.

[Duer 157099]

107. Everything above is on my OK list

I had to really think to come up with an entry, but I have one: Jelly Belly's buttered popcorn flavored jelly bean.

[grasswire]

131. oh, that's my favorite Jelly Belly!

Yum yum. That and pear.

[bluedigger]

108. Gummy anything.

[applegrove]

109. There used to be this purple chicklet type gum that tasted like soap. Can't recall

what the point of that was. We kids bought it as a novelty.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

110. Do they still sell Sen-Sen?

When I was a kid in the early 60s you'd find it in the candy section of every movie theater lobby. I tried it once and to me it tasted just like soap. I thought it might be tiny licorice pieces (I've always loved licorice) but it wasn't. I think Billy Joel sang about Sen-Sen in one of his songs.

[Rowdyboy]

113. I always despised corn nuts....nasty, styrofoam shit

[Quantess]

117. I love eating corn nuts.

But it creates really bad breath.

[KamaAina]

122. Bzzzzzt! Not candy.

Thanks for playing, though.

[Rowdyboy]

125. (Shakes head as his shoulders slump and he walks away slowly).....

And not even a parting gift.....

[wickerwoman]

115. Peppermint patties

Candy isn't for breath-freshening. It's meant to be a sugar delivery system and shouldn't taste like toothpaste.

If it wasn't for peppermint ice-cream and spearmint tea I would be off mints entirely.

Would also suggest a moritorium on black, lumpy shaped candies with the word "patty" in the name.

[B Calm]

118. MARS candy bar, good luck finding them!

[Quantess]

119. Aplets & Cotlets are close to the bottom of my list.

Nothing is worse than circus peanuts, though.

[Pryderi]

121. Mallow Cups

[Liberal Veteran]

127. Old fashioned Christmas Candy.

Like fruitcake, it is something to drag out during the holidays for decoration, but should NEVER be eaten.

[Taverner]

128. Black Licorice anything

[erinlough]

130. Horehound drops

My mom and dad used to order these. If you haven't seen them, there's a reason. They are terrible.

[Pryderi]

132. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! n/t

[Pryderi]

133. Necco wafers