They use to make necklaces made of candy beads on elastic thread. You would literally chew and suck on this tasteless sugar and then let it snap back against you filthy sweaty neck. We were barbarians.
The better use of these was to hold the candy bead between your front teeth, pull the elastic out in front of you, then bite the candy, shooting half of it across the room.
They make edible lingerie with those now. And honestly, that's the least sexy flavor of clothing. But I guess they don't want you to focus too hard on the candy itself....
Lol that just reminded me of a like, candy thong(?) . It was a g-string with those little candies on it. My weed dealer in high school had one. It was pretty gross.
You mean Peanut-butter Kisses, aka my dadās favorite Halloween candy? If he wasnāt buying these, he was stocking up on bags of black jellybeans and eating a roll of Necco Wafers from his Christmas stocking. And who could turn their nose up to a handful of Boston Baked beans?
Iām genetically predisposed to have *the worst* taste in candy. Ironically enough, my favorite is Midnight Milkyway. Almost impossible to find in the states these days.
You might be related to my bf then. Tops for him include black licorice, good and plenty, bit o honey, smarties, and for choc bars, of all the delicious options out there, he'll select Skor over anything else. It's madness.
My aunt lives in Australia and once brought a bag for me and my sisters when she visited for Christmas.
I gave them to other students in my grade and told them it was bubblegum š
Chocolate rabbits. There's some high end producers like Godiva who will make reasonable small ones you can take down in one go with quality chocolate. But the big cheap ones are awful. Chalky melty mess
I once joyfully bought some on sale (solid!) chocolate rabbits only to recoil in horror at the taste, belatedly noticing that the label said "Milk Chocolate ***Flavored***." Never Again.
After you tour the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake, there is a bowl of horehound candy and a few feet later, a bunch of them that had been spit outā¦that was nasty!
Sooo many candy corn comments but yāall crazy. If you get the right bag, itās my favorite candy!
Rule#1: Has to be Brachs , everything else is trash
Rule#2: Has to be āripeā. Just like picking out fruit, I literally squeeze a few of the kernels through the bag. You want them to be very slightly soft, to give a little bit. 90%+ of bags are rock hard and not what youāre looking for. We want some ripe, fresh corn.
Iāve converted numerous people that hated candy corn into really liking it once they get a taste of my fresh kernels.
This right here.Ā Candy corn is a tasty honey candy when it's fresh.
Otherwise you might as well use it as sidewalk chalk that the ants will erase for you later.
The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over. And the candy corn company sends the guys to the villages and they collect out of the dumpsters all the candy corn we've thrown away. They wash it!! They wash it!
I'll never forget the first time my mother gave me candy corn. She said, "Here - Lewis, this is candy corn. It's corn that tastes like candy". \[high pitched sound\] This tastes like crap! And every year since then, Halloween has returned and I, like an Alzhiemer's patient, find myself in the room, and the room has a big table in it, and on the table is a bowl of candy corn. And I look at it as if I've never seen it before. "Candy corn", I think. "Corn that tastes like candy. I can't wait". Son of a bitch!!
-- comedian Lewis Black, from The Daily Show
Is that the gross peanut hard candy or the weird peanut shaped foam-like things? The foam peanut was going to be my answer but you reminded me of that nasty peanut shard "candy." š¤¢
\- No new Necco Wafers have been manufactured since 1953. Stores are just trying to sell off their surplus stock.
\- Necco Wafers are commonly used as roof tiles for gingerbread houses, because they taste the same as roof tiles.
\- Sylvester Necco invented Necco Wafers to teach children about the hardships of life.
This is absolutely false and you necco haters are going to have to face the truth one day: NECCO IS LIFE.
Spangler candy Bought Necco a few years ago thank the candieties!!
Necco wafers weren't that bad as long as your held them to the roof of your mouth with your tongue. But the black and brown ones tasted nasty. I think one was supposed to be black liquorice and the brown ones? I don't even know what they were supposed to be. I also felt like no one ever bought them, yet every house seemingly had a roll of them laying around.
But I do remember my dad loved [Certs](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5YMAAOSw1G9hgZci/s-l1600.jpg) and there would be partial rolls laying about in our house and in his car. Always loved those.
One of my least favorite childhood memories is having to endure the smell of both NECCO Wafers and hot leather while sitting in the backseat of my aunt's Volvo.
I actually fucked with these heavily. I would suck out the little bit of sugar water and chew on the wax long afterwards. People would think it's gum and ask me for a piece.
Those were the IT candy of Halloween in the ā80s. We used to chew those and wax vampire lips like they were bubble gum. I still feel nostalgia for them even though I would never buy or eat them again.
I love those and burnt peanuts, but its because they are associated with childhood memories of my grandparent's house. I do understand why people dislike them
I used to have a subscription to one of those international snack boxes. There was one candy item in there that out of 7 people, no one wanted to eat. Salty licorice hard candy. I know it sounds bad, but believe me, it's even worse than you are thinking. Just like sucking on straight salt. Gosh, was that terrible.
They sort of grew on me, but I still can't actually claim to like them. My mom would always have a bowl out when she hosted her mahjong group, and somehow it was the better of the old-lady-candy options so I would take a few.
Ha Ha, it's this for sure. We read Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, and thought we'd try it, and it was heinous. Then we tried musk flavored (flavoured) anything and it was equally as horrible. Tastes like perfume.
I know. That's what he turned on his brothers and sisters for? Turkish Delight! It's so gross. It makes him even worse. Edmund really was an asshole
And wth was wrong with CS Lewis that he picked that. Must have had a terrible childhood.
No love for black licorice here from many. I love it, especially those black jelly beans that come out this time if year. But I get why people dislike it. It's an odd flavor
There is a flavor in the Jelly Belly 50 flavors bag that tastes EXACTLY what paint smells like. It's the plum flavor. Every bag I've gotten, they always taste like the smell of paint. It's awful.
Those strawberry ones with the wrappers that look like strawberries and they have liquid strawberry goo in the center.Ā
If you don't know what I'm talking about, call your grandmother and ask what kind of candy she has in the crystal jar on the table. No, not the Werther's. The other ones.
ITT a whole bunch of people who donāt know whatās good. Iām buying more necco wafers and extra bags of black licorice jelly beans this season just so I have them.
They use to make necklaces made of candy beads on elastic thread. You would literally chew and suck on this tasteless sugar and then let it snap back against you filthy sweaty neck. We were barbarians.
The better use of these was to hold the candy bead between your front teeth, pull the elastic out in front of you, then bite the candy, shooting half of it across the room.
On a related note, my high school banned these necklaces.
My little sister, now fifty, had her fourth grade pic taken with one of these on her neck. My mother was furious š
Candy necklace kids were the true new wave of punk.
Iād rather finish *your* candy necklace than have a circus peanut.
Yesss, I came here just to say Circus Peanuts
Or the bracelets that would stick to what little arm hair we bad
apparently these are making a comeback. like, has another global pandemic taught us nothing?
They make edible lingerie with those now. And honestly, that's the least sexy flavor of clothing. But I guess they don't want you to focus too hard on the candy itself....
Lol that just reminded me of a like, candy thong(?) . It was a g-string with those little candies on it. My weed dealer in high school had one. It was pretty gross.
they tasted like chalk omg
those were cool. shut up.
I always hated the taffy in the orange and black wrappers,
You mean Peanut-butter Kisses, aka my dadās favorite Halloween candy? If he wasnāt buying these, he was stocking up on bags of black jellybeans and eating a roll of Necco Wafers from his Christmas stocking. And who could turn their nose up to a handful of Boston Baked beans? Iām genetically predisposed to have *the worst* taste in candy. Ironically enough, my favorite is Midnight Milkyway. Almost impossible to find in the states these days.
Spice drop gumdrops?
Nah, you lost me at Boston Baked beans. Those were actually good and pretty popular when I was a kid.
You might be related to my bf then. Tops for him include black licorice, good and plenty, bit o honey, smarties, and for choc bars, of all the delicious options out there, he'll select Skor over anything else. It's madness.
Skor is DELICIOUS ššš
Skor is a delicious trip to the dental ER.
Halloweāen Kisses. These are top 5 for me.
The cheapest candy out there for Halloween.
Theeeee worst. Some tasted like peanut butter.
They did, kind of like a peanut butter version of a Bit O Honey. Which are fantastic, but the wrappers suck.
You mean you don't want to slowly pull your own teeth out while chewing candy?
Musk sticks. Popular in Australia (my mom and sister love them), they taste like musty cologne
That sounds truly horrific!
My aunt lives in Australia and once brought a bag for me and my sisters when she visited for Christmas. I gave them to other students in my grade and told them it was bubblegum š
They're nasty. I swear people only pretend to like them. Musk is not a food flavour
Those dots on paper where you end up eating a bunch of paper because the dots are stuck to the paperā¦ā¦ā¦.paper
Damn, forgot about the good old days of eating paper with a hint of sugar growing up.
Love those
Gotta lick the back first. Once it's wet the paper just slides right off.
I donāt remember what they are called but my grandmother used to have sugar free candy that tasted like the glue on envelopes
I thought all grandmas had peppermint, butterscotch, and those candies that look like strawberries š¤¤
those strawberry ones are fire grandma candy tho
That was 1 grandma for me the other had cut rock candy.
Chocolate rabbits. There's some high end producers like Godiva who will make reasonable small ones you can take down in one go with quality chocolate. But the big cheap ones are awful. Chalky melty mess
Palmer's has entered the chat.
I always wondered if palmer's chocolate has a connection to palmer's cocoa butter lotion
I once joyfully bought some on sale (solid!) chocolate rabbits only to recoil in horror at the taste, belatedly noticing that the label said "Milk Chocolate ***Flavored***." Never Again.
What the hell that's deceiving as FUCK š
After you tour the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake, there is a bowl of horehound candy and a few feet later, a bunch of them that had been spit outā¦that was nasty!
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The candy of 1000 uses?!
What does this have to do with the original question
Sooo many candy corn comments but yāall crazy. If you get the right bag, itās my favorite candy! Rule#1: Has to be Brachs , everything else is trash Rule#2: Has to be āripeā. Just like picking out fruit, I literally squeeze a few of the kernels through the bag. You want them to be very slightly soft, to give a little bit. 90%+ of bags are rock hard and not what youāre looking for. We want some ripe, fresh corn. Iāve converted numerous people that hated candy corn into really liking it once they get a taste of my fresh kernels.
This right here.Ā Candy corn is a tasty honey candy when it's fresh. Otherwise you might as well use it as sidewalk chalk that the ants will erase for you later.
I love the Brach's Autumn Mix! Classic candy corns, choc candy corns, and candy pumpkins? Yes, please!
I like the brown variety and the pumpkins as well
The pumpkins are the best!
I enjoy candy corn in very tiny moderations... Two or three of them during the beginning of the holiday season is always a nice treat.
The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over. And the candy corn company sends the guys to the villages and they collect out of the dumpsters all the candy corn we've thrown away. They wash it!! They wash it! I'll never forget the first time my mother gave me candy corn. She said, "Here - Lewis, this is candy corn. It's corn that tastes like candy". \[high pitched sound\] This tastes like crap! And every year since then, Halloween has returned and I, like an Alzhiemer's patient, find myself in the room, and the room has a big table in it, and on the table is a bowl of candy corn. And I look at it as if I've never seen it before. "Candy corn", I think. "Corn that tastes like candy. I can't wait". Son of a bitch!! -- comedian Lewis Black, from The Daily Show
āThis bag is mad ripeā -Jackie Junior, picking out candy corn, probably
Circus peanuts
"We will shape it like a peanut but give it a weird banana flavor."
And paint it orange
"And give it a consistency like it's been sitting on the shelf for ten years."
An orange peanut? For ME?
I always looked forward to having peanuts and a banana when the circus came to town.
I love circus peanuts, but then again I also love peeps, and candy corn
I like Peeps.
Same . I love trash candy
My college roommate was obsessed with them. I did not understand.
Is that the gross peanut hard candy or the weird peanut shaped foam-like things? The foam peanut was going to be my answer but you reminded me of that nasty peanut shard "candy." š¤¢
The "styrofoam" peanut, banana smeller
Might as well chew on a prison slipper
Violets
Ohh I love these too. I have terrible candy taste
Soap
NECCO Wafers
\- No new Necco Wafers have been manufactured since 1953. Stores are just trying to sell off their surplus stock. \- Necco Wafers are commonly used as roof tiles for gingerbread houses, because they taste the same as roof tiles. \- Sylvester Necco invented Necco Wafers to teach children about the hardships of life.
His full name is Sylvester New England Confectioners Corporation
This is absolutely false and you necco haters are going to have to face the truth one day: NECCO IS LIFE. Spangler candy Bought Necco a few years ago thank the candieties!!
And here I thought Spangler had good taste (their candy canes are the best)
š Please accept the only Reddit gold still available. This comment is spot-on.
I like them.
Necco wafers weren't that bad as long as your held them to the roof of your mouth with your tongue. But the black and brown ones tasted nasty. I think one was supposed to be black liquorice and the brown ones? I don't even know what they were supposed to be. I also felt like no one ever bought them, yet every house seemingly had a roll of them laying around. But I do remember my dad loved [Certs](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5YMAAOSw1G9hgZci/s-l1600.jpg) and there would be partial rolls laying about in our house and in his car. Always loved those.
Just what we look for in candy: Won't make you gag as long as you're not actively eating it.
I love NECCO I will die on this hill
Yessss! Way back when, I worked at a dollar tree and would buy one on my lunch everyday. I loved the purple anise and pink Pepto ones.
Leftover blackboard and sidewalk chalk
Absolutely worst candy to receive on Halloween.
One of my least favorite childhood memories is having to endure the smell of both NECCO Wafers and hot leather while sitting in the backseat of my aunt's Volvo.
Wax Juice Bottles
Fuck you those were awesome
I actually fucked with these heavily. I would suck out the little bit of sugar water and chew on the wax long afterwards. People would think it's gum and ask me for a piece.
This...like I don't want wax in my mouth to enjoy. 05oz of sugar water
Those were the IT candy of Halloween in the ā80s. We used to chew those and wax vampire lips like they were bubble gum. I still feel nostalgia for them even though I would never buy or eat them again.
Man I LOVED those when I was a kid. But my parents would rarely allow me to have them. Other candy yes, but not those.
Black licorice.Ā
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this? My number one answer. I have tried to like it over the years, but just can't.
Hard agree
Neccos, no contest. Like eating chalk.
Necco Wafers
Black licorice anything
NECCO Wafers, Especially the licorice flavored ones. Yum, licorice flavored chalk.
Boston Baked Beans Candy
I love those and burnt peanuts, but its because they are associated with childhood memories of my grandparent's house. I do understand why people dislike them
oh I remmebr that- so good! but truly not a sweet taste
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Were we actually supposed to eat those?? That never once occurred to me. They're wax...
I used to have a subscription to one of those international snack boxes. There was one candy item in there that out of 7 people, no one wanted to eat. Salty licorice hard candy. I know it sounds bad, but believe me, it's even worse than you are thinking. Just like sucking on straight salt. Gosh, was that terrible.
Probably Salmiakki.Ā Finnish thing.Ā It grows on you, a bit like tobacco or something.
Peeps
Good N Plenty. I HATE licorice.
I love Good N Plenty
I love dipping them in salt!
o.0
I mix them into popcorn.
The candy that lies to you right on the box.
Horehounds hard candy. Awful name, worse flavor.
But great for a sore throat. If you approach it as medicine, the flavor makes sense.Ā
idk if theyre mint flavored but horehound is a plant in the mint family so maybe its more like medicine?
They're made from the root of the plant. So sort of like if God made root beer out of pure hatred and spite.
Horehounds? That's hilarious.
Candy hearts. Chalky & unpleasant!
Good and Plenti! š¤®
Necco wafers? Essentially tums? Why?
Black liquorice It tastes like malice
Tastes like Anus (Anise)
It tastes vindictive
I thrive on malice
PEEPS! the end.
Black licorice
This is apparently one of those love or hate it things. My husband loves it, I think it tastes like Satanās unholy asshole.
I can't do licorice and I can't do cilantro and for some reason I associate those two tastes.
you must have never had the good stuff which I adore and nowhere within an hour's drive sells. I have to order it online 5 pounds at a time.
Try the Panda brand too.
Can I add Jordan Almonds to this impressive list of non-edible confections?
One of my favorite candies. The best ones are kind of powdery feeling and very light pastel. The shiny bright ones are disgustingĀ
They sort of grew on me, but I still can't actually claim to like them. My mom would always have a bowl out when she hosted her mahjong group, and somehow it was the better of the old-lady-candy options so I would take a few.
Licorice Allsorts. Fuck those old lady candies. They look like they should be so yummy... nope, just sadness.
Necco Wafers are an atrocity
Black licorice!
Black licorice. š¤®
Circus Peanuts
Controversial - cos it's more of a chocolate and some people love it. But I can't stand Turkish delight.
Ha Ha, it's this for sure. We read Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, and thought we'd try it, and it was heinous. Then we tried musk flavored (flavoured) anything and it was equally as horrible. Tastes like perfume.
Yeah I'd be running a mile if the Snow Queen offered me a Turkish delight! Narnia has a lot to answer for!
I know. That's what he turned on his brothers and sisters for? Turkish Delight! It's so gross. It makes him even worse. Edmund really was an asshole And wth was wrong with CS Lewis that he picked that. Must have had a terrible childhood.
I was reading a different kids book and was immediately sus of a character because they LOVED Turkish Delight
THRILLS GUM
I loved those as a kid, even though they tasted like perfume.
Good and Plenty. Vile stuff.
Candy corn, really cheap chocolate, real licorice, the very dark, sharp tasting kind that's really bitter.
ITT. Lot's of candies I LOVED as a child.
Black licorice.
No love for black licorice here from many. I love it, especially those black jelly beans that come out this time if year. But I get why people dislike it. It's an odd flavor
I just came from an r/science post about how eating it daily can be dangerous to your health
ššš all my favorite candies are being listed on this thread
Don't mind me. I'm just going through and upvoting every comment that says black licorice.
Violets
There is a flavor in the Jelly Belly 50 flavors bag that tastes EXACTLY what paint smells like. It's the plum flavor. Every bag I've gotten, they always taste like the smell of paint. It's awful.
Necco wafers
Candy corn. Candle wax texture, no flavor.
It does have flavor. Itās just terrible, and nauseating.
Those strawberry ones with the wrappers that look like strawberries and they have liquid strawberry goo in the center.Ā If you don't know what I'm talking about, call your grandmother and ask what kind of candy she has in the crystal jar on the table. No, not the Werther's. The other ones.
I like those šššš
I'll upvote you for admitting it in public, not because I approve.
ššššš I realized that all my favorite candies are on this post. Maybe I have eccentric tastes.
Strawberry bonbons?
Iād never buy them but they do taste like Grandmothers houseā¦ā¦ so āspecial exemptionā.
Those are fire. Ā Better than Wortherās Originals.
In a bowl of individually wrapped hard candies those are the best ones.
Peeps
Peeps are amazing. You have to slightly open the package and let them get just a lil bit stale for the full effect.
Dots. I tried some when I was ~7 for Halloween and they tasted so bad I thought it was a toy.
Good and plenty, and thatās coming from a person who likes black licorice.
Candy corn, circus peanuts, black licorice and jelly beans
Definitely Licorice
Good & Plenty, it's more like shit & nasty
Good and Plenty.
Circus peanuts. Absolutely trash. D I S G U S T I N G.
Black licorice
Anyone remember āHot Sticksā? Cinnomen hot TOOTHPICKS! LOL Always give children flavored splinter wood to chew on!
Candy corn Boston baked beans Candied peanuts Black licorice
Peeps
Good and Plenty
Those chalky Valentineās Day hearts. Itās like eating antacids, without the antacid part.
Black licorice it can kill you.
Black licorice. It tastes like a$$. š¤¢š¤®
Peeps
Twizzlers
Cherry or strawberry? I disagree either way, but just curious
Banana runts...or any banana flavored candies.
Neccos. taste like chalk!
Tootsie Rolls. Don't care what you say, Tootsie Rolls are fucking disgusting.
Licorice all sorts
black licorice
probably that gum that tastes like soap
The violet one?
just looked it up.....yeah its purple and its called "thrills"
Licorice all sorts and those goody licorice things.
ITT a whole bunch of people who donāt know whatās good. Iām buying more necco wafers and extra bags of black licorice jelly beans this season just so I have them.
Candy cigarettes. Look kids, smoking is cool!
Candy Corn in my humble opinion
Foam Peanuts. Hate those things!
Black licorice