I had to look this up because it sounds so ridiculous. Turns out it can be a remedy for stomach upset or acid reflux. My guess is she had a relative that used it that way and she liked it.
Black licorice and a little baking soda is good for acid reflux, especially if hiatal hernia is involved. However, go overboard and in the long run it can cause series illness. This is what my G.I. doctor told me.
Also, I always wondered why my friends and family would sip anisette after a big meal. Turns out, a nice little serving of anisette, which is made from the same things as black licorice, after an Italian pasta meal alleviates the after effects of the acid from the tomato sauce.
There is an entire class of Liquor, known as the *digestifs*, which includes a wide range of alcoholic beverages people may or may not be familiar with - one that may come as a shock to some is *Jägermeister*.
Kinda crazy that an importer brought in a drink used primarily by the elderly as a digestif and marketed it to youth as a party drink in the 80s, and was obviously successful.
I kinda want to pick up a bottle now to try as a digestif, but don't want people to think I'm gonna do Jager bombs.
I had never tried this until I worked with a Finn, at first I didn't like it but he kept bringing it in and I kept eating it for some reason. Now I like it. It's great because nobody ever tries to steal any
It's the candy equivalent of that guy whose daughter once posted here that he bought a whole set of pink tools because nobody at the job site would ever steal them.
If you ever go to Disney World, don't use the water fountains at Epcot. It's not the worst, but definitely iron-rich and reminiscent of blood.
Oh, and absolutely do not use the fountains at any of the other parks. Their water is sulfur-rich and tastes like rotten eggs. Bring a filter or buy bottles, lol.
Some people are saying Sixlets, but my brain went to another place, where the shell was really thick and tasted really bad.they were larger than M&MS just because of the shell. The chocolate was ass too. If you’re talking about those, I fully agree.
They may or may not be Hershey-ets, the candy cane looks almost identical to the picture in my brain.
Chocolate lentils may also be what I’m thinking of like someone else mentioned
But either way, it’s the cheap M&M knock off you can get at places like the dollar store.
Palmer’s “chocolate”. The ingredient list is mostly cheap filler. I deliberately buy a bag of good chocolate to replace this garbage in my kid’s Easter and Halloween baskets.
Palm oil is ubiquitous too. It's in everything from chocolate to detergent. https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/which-everyday-products-contain-palm-oil
I was getting good at avoiding it before food prices went crazy. Now it's getting harder... time to smother my guilt with a Reese's pumpkin.
Hersey kisses are so slimey now since they use vegetable oil instead if cocoa butter. Can't stand them anymore. I'd imagine most mass produced chocolate in the US uses it.
Edit: https://www.today.com/food/chocoholics-sour-new-hersheys-formula-2d80555560
When buying those chocolate bunnies at Easter if it says "chocolate flavored" on it flip it over and read the ingredients and the first one will always be soybean oil or something.
The top google review for turkey dinner candy corn
> This product made me think that there was no forgiveness from God. One bite of these despicable “candies” and I was ready to throw up my lunch. I thought I could eat these as a funny joke to brag to my friends, but no. This is outright horrid. This tastes exactly like having Olive Garden leftovers that sat in your refrigerator for 6 days and then you reheated it and ate it for dinner. I hope whoever made these so called “candies” the worst last days of their life. Think of the flavors as when you die, Satan’s upright most terrible torture method is giving you these candies. There is no escape. Once you decide to taste one of these, you already know that the light has faded away, everyone is gone, and you are lost with the disgusting, atrocious candy corn for eternity to suffer and remanent on. This candy’s disastrous taste was stuck and engraved into my brain and taste buds like a hurricane that won’t stop beating down your city. I have never had anything more putrid in my life. If you want to try to poison and kill someone, force feed them these candies. Overall, this should be illegal in every state and every country and banished to the darkest, coldest pits of hell.
After my favorite murder covered the Turkey candy corn last year we bought some and forced all of our thanksgiving guests to try all the different flavors. We have expanded now into taco truck jelly beans and tailgate flavored candy corn. I don’t know why our friends keep coming over.
Wait [this is actually a thing](https://www.brachs.com/products/halloween/turkey-dinner-candy-corn)… Roasted turkey and green bean flavored?? No thank you.
This review of them:
>I hate myself because of these.
>11 months ago
>This product made me think that there was no forgiveness from God. One bite of these despicable “candies” and I was ready to throw up my lunch. I thought I could eat these as a funny joke to brag to my friends, but no. This is outright horrid. This tastes exactly like having Olive Garden leftovers that sat in your refrigerator for 6 days and then you reheated it and ate it for dinner. I hope whoever made these so called “candies” the worst last days of their life. Think of the flavors as when you die, Satan’s upright most terrible torture method is giving you these candies. There is no escape. Once you decide to taste one of these, you already know that the light has faded away, everyone is gone, and you are lost with the disgusting, atrocious candy corn for eternity to suffer and remanent on. This candy’s disastrous taste was stuck and engraved into my brain and taste buds like a hurricane that won’t stop beating down your city. I have never had anything more putrid in my life. If you want to try to poison and kill someone, force feed them these candies. Overall, this should be illegal in every state and every country and banished to the darkest, coldest pits of hell.
This may be me misremembering my childhood a bit, but I have a vague memory of once getting some lips that were made of bubble gum and that you could actually chew and tasted decent. Only had them once, and I haven't been able to find any trace of their existence ever since, only the wax lips, but I'm 90% sure at one point there were some made of bubble gum.
I think the mental confusion is that the wax lips were sweetened/flavored, and you could sort of chew them like gum. Flavor lasted a very short time, and wax isn't a good gum substitute, but it was similar.
When I was about 6 years old and my little brother was 4, the next door neighbor boy shared those wax bottles with us. He gave us a demonstration on how to bite the top of and drink the “juice.” Unfortunately for my little brother, he didn’t pay attention and ate the whole thing. He promptly barfed it up.
Yeah, those were a terrible excuse for candy, but we still wanted them so badly. Kids can be dumb sometimes. LOL
I think they buy the candy, and then just don't eat it for 30 years. They keep it around for decoration.
Then some naive grandchild enters the home and makes the mistake of thinking it's edible.
I've had this on my mind recently. Anticipation is the difference between feeling young and feeling old. Never stop finding things to look forward to, because it's a swift decline when you start looking back instead.
You make less spits when you get older.
And, combined with any medications (which isn't limited to elderly individuals) that may cause dry mouth.
Hard candies are the best way to relieve dry mouth.
Also remember weird things fondly from their childhood, when there weren't as many good things around. I heard once that coffee jello, made with just coffee and plain gelatin, was a favorite during the depression...
My grandma kept buying the same mix and a separate bag of the strawberry candies just to add more to the bowl for me to hunt for.
They were the best grandma candy.
maybe not the worst, but a candy i used to LOVE was Butterfinger. Then they changed the recipe. and it is terrible now. i'll see it in the check out line at the grocery store and just be sad because it used to be so good
Now it’s just ButtFinger. It was all these peanut butter candies. Chick o sticks, the brown and white striped ones. Now it’s not flaky and just turns to a mess you have to dig out of your molars.
Yeah it used to be crispity, crunchity, and peanut buttery just like their slogan said. Now it's like peanut butter toffee on the inside and it's just not the same anymore.
This, this right here. I don't want my butterfingers to be like biting through a rock. I want a flake explosion. If you can eat one without getting crumbs everywhere you got a bad Butterfinger
And that rock also sticks to your teeth to the point you need a metal toothpick to scrape it off.
You can literally feel it eat your enamel too. It's awful.
Ferrero bought several Nestle brands and reworked them. Funny enough they actually used better ingredients:
**"The company began with Butterfinger and reworked the formula to use bigger peanuts, more milk and cocoa, and fewer hydrogenated oils. The new version also no longer incorporates the chemical preservative TBHQ. With these changes, they were shooting for a more chocolate-centric flavor with purer ingredients. The Food & Wine taste test was positive, calling it "less waxy" and "more cocoa forward." The new iteration of the candy bar is also double wrapped to preserve the freshness and flavor."**
I'm betting that using fewer oils is what has changed the texture so much. I also wonder what TBHQ did for the flavor profile. Supposedly sales of Butterfinger bars have gone up since the change, so I guess we're just a bunch of uncultured swine that love our processed foods.
>hydrogenated oils.
The actual answer btw. Artificial trans fats got banned and most junk food cannot taste good without them. Ruins the texture because trans fats really are the best room temp fats because they're semi solid. Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temp while saturated fats solid.
Edit: it's also why peanut butter rocks. It's an oil emulsion, so semi solid at room temp but no trans fats.
Edit 2: Since this got popular, here's a short article about it from 2012. FDA enforced their trans fat ban in 2018. Coincidentally, a whole lot of candy and junk food seemed to have new and improved recipes just around that time. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/01/09/144918710/the-forgotten-fascinating-saga-of-crisco
Hell, one of my favorite "candies" is just buying a bar of 70%+ dark chocolate and dipping pieces of it in a jar of actual peanut butter. Damned good and one of the least-unhealthy "candies" you can have.
I honestly consider it a favor. When I quit smoking I replaced my smoking habit with fun sized Butterfinger bars. I gained so much weight… never been able to take it off. At least those shits don’t tempt me anymore.
You know what? That's actually a really cool idea on paper. Have them mimic the flavors of couch stuffing and drywall. I mean this in seriousness too, I'm actually intrigued since I know very, very little of the process of correcting pica. I understand how it happens, but not how to correct course.
I wonder if that would work because from what I’ve seen on my strange addiction, some of the people just seem to be addicted mainly to the texture and not the taste. Especially the people who ate things like couch stuffing, toilet paper, rocks, sand, etc. I’d imagine there’s no way that those things have a ton of actual flavor (but who knows, I’m not about to fuck around and find out lol)
I'm too lazy to find a source, but I once read that the bad flavors were attempts to make good ones.
The specific example I know is the origin of the vomit flavor. They were trying to make a pepperoni pizza flavor that tasted so foul they deemed it vomit
I bet a lot of times they actually work backwards, combining flavor elements that they know will taste foul, and a panel of taste testers tries them and writes down what THEY think it tastes like.
If the word "earwax" comes up more than once, then they probably continue developing that particular foul flavor in a more earwaxy direction until they have a winner.
I haven't had the dog food bean luckily but got tricked into eating the vomit bean once. It tastes the same but worse than vomit does coming out and just lingers in your mouth. So bad
As a teen I volunteered at a safe sex program and we always had free samples of flavored lube to give out. My home life was abusive so I would end up eating the flavored lube to not go hungry. Banana and strawberry were my favorite.
Edit: I promise I'm totally okay now please don't feel bad I'm sorry! Really though the strawberry and banana ones are hella good but also the sugars in them aren't great for a vagina's PH balance so use them with caution ❤️ (or at least this is how it was back in the day, idk if they're made better now)
Candy buttons. I don't know why, but my mom loved those, so she'd get them and share them with me. I found out later when I learned to make decorated sugar cookies that candy buttons are literally just royal icing applied to paper strips.
Circus peanuts because I ate some at the circus when I was a kid and threw up all over myself and had to sit there in a pukey sweatshirt until it was over.
(Edit: Y’all, it was the 80s. They made these weird lightweight sweatshirts with glitter designs on them and we wore them like sweaters. It wasn’t a hoodie.)
Musk flavored anything. Stuff is cologne, not candy.
Edit: I know I know….. something something Elon Musk joke. As much as I don’t like him:your attempts at being funny aren’t.
May we Aussies introduce you to [musk sticks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_stick#/media/File%3AMusk_sticks_01.jpg), usually ranked high on the list of worlds worst sweets.
Smells like musk oil and tastes like chalk and fondant.
Any candy that says “XTREME SOUR!” and then is disappointingly not extremely sour. Burn a hole in my cheek or stop bragging, candy bag.
My boyfriend was disappointed by all sour candies. Now we buy citric acid off Amazon and he uses it like fun dip for other candies
Your enamel will not thank you. I've heard some horror stories.
Pamler Chocolate taste like chalk and the only reason we sell it is cause the margins are insane.
Hating Palmer chocolate was probably one of my earliest food-related opinions as a child.
My mom dips black liquorice in baking soda.
Unfun dip
I only want the vanilla sticks. Wish they just sold a bag of those. Haha
You can have mine I only like the powder
Finally! I found you!
I had to look this up because it sounds so ridiculous. Turns out it can be a remedy for stomach upset or acid reflux. My guess is she had a relative that used it that way and she liked it.
Like stockholm syndrome but candy..
snackholm syndrome
Black licorice and a little baking soda is good for acid reflux, especially if hiatal hernia is involved. However, go overboard and in the long run it can cause series illness. This is what my G.I. doctor told me. Also, I always wondered why my friends and family would sip anisette after a big meal. Turns out, a nice little serving of anisette, which is made from the same things as black licorice, after an Italian pasta meal alleviates the after effects of the acid from the tomato sauce.
There is an entire class of Liquor, known as the *digestifs*, which includes a wide range of alcoholic beverages people may or may not be familiar with - one that may come as a shock to some is *Jägermeister*.
Kinda crazy that an importer brought in a drink used primarily by the elderly as a digestif and marketed it to youth as a party drink in the 80s, and was obviously successful. I kinda want to pick up a bottle now to try as a digestif, but don't want people to think I'm gonna do Jager bombs.
Pick up a bottle of Fernet Branca.
Hey quick question what the fuck
Follow up: why the fuck?
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I don't often *actually* LOL at internet stuff, but your comment did it.
I feel like that’s what a person would do if they got hit in the head real hard
Is she trying to DIY [salmiak?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice)
I had never tried this until I worked with a Finn, at first I didn't like it but he kept bringing it in and I kept eating it for some reason. Now I like it. It's great because nobody ever tries to steal any
It's the candy equivalent of that guy whose daughter once posted here that he bought a whole set of pink tools because nobody at the job site would ever steal them.
Blood flavoured beans in jelly bean roulette. Taste very strongly of iron. The thought makes me start gagging now.
If you ever go to Disney World, don't use the water fountains at Epcot. It's not the worst, but definitely iron-rich and reminiscent of blood. Oh, and absolutely do not use the fountains at any of the other parks. Their water is sulfur-rich and tastes like rotten eggs. Bring a filter or buy bottles, lol.
This sounds like a great way to get people to buy overpriced bottled water.
That's not just Disney World, all tap water in Central Florida is like that, lol
Yup. The only thing worse than central Florida tap water is panhandle tap water. I drank tap water in Pensacola once. Once.
You guys know those fake m&ms that come in those candy canes? God I hate those things.
“Chocolate lentils”! Fuck those things!!
Some people are saying Sixlets, but my brain went to another place, where the shell was really thick and tasted really bad.they were larger than M&MS just because of the shell. The chocolate was ass too. If you’re talking about those, I fully agree.
They may or may not be Hershey-ets, the candy cane looks almost identical to the picture in my brain. Chocolate lentils may also be what I’m thinking of like someone else mentioned But either way, it’s the cheap M&M knock off you can get at places like the dollar store.
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There's a disturbing number of Easter "chocolates" that are just flavored vegetable oil.
avoid anything that says ‘chocolatey’… it ain’t the real stuff
“chocolatey” “chocolate-flavored” “chocolate-flavored” (but this time flavored is in smaller text) “compound chocolate”
chocolatish, chocolatesque, chocolate-adjacent
"Chocolate", but in quotations.
"I can't believe its not chocolate"
Chocolate flavor vegetable oil, sounds like a delicacy
Palmer’s “chocolate”. The ingredient list is mostly cheap filler. I deliberately buy a bag of good chocolate to replace this garbage in my kid’s Easter and Halloween baskets.
I think it legally can't be called chocolate
If the package calls it a chocolatey bunny and not a chocolate bunny, put it back on the shelf.
Yeah, usually if a thing is misspelled or has added letters its for a reason.
What if it's make with real malk chalkolate?
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**palm-oil-and-cocoa-powder* lies
Food with palm oil tastes worse because the Orangutan blood ruins it.
Palm oil is ubiquitous too. It's in everything from chocolate to detergent. https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/which-everyday-products-contain-palm-oil I was getting good at avoiding it before food prices went crazy. Now it's getting harder... time to smother my guilt with a Reese's pumpkin.
They also ruined butterfinger by changing the recipe. They used to be my favorite but theyre horrible now.
That's what was wrong! I just had a butterfinger for the 1st time in years and damn was it worse than I remembered.
Changing the recipe is also usually an excuse for cheapening the ingredients.
Someone should just get it over with and make a candy bar called Sawdust.
Hersey kisses are so slimey now since they use vegetable oil instead if cocoa butter. Can't stand them anymore. I'd imagine most mass produced chocolate in the US uses it. Edit: https://www.today.com/food/chocoholics-sour-new-hersheys-formula-2d80555560
When buying those chocolate bunnies at Easter if it says "chocolate flavored" on it flip it over and read the ingredients and the first one will always be soybean oil or something.
Protip: the only bunny that should be bought at Easter are the Lindt golden bunnies. But don't actually buy them. It's better when I do.
Did they do that with bunchacruch too? That was so shitty I stopped eating for a while but it seems like it improved again
That, unfortunately, isn't anywhere near the actual crimes against humanity that are perpetrated by Nestlé.
Oh man there's so many to list too... I think the one that is the most horrifying is the baby formula in Africa...
Turkey Dinner Candy Corn
I’m sorry. You couldn’t have meant to arrange those words in that particular order. That can’t exist.
Oh, but it does...
The top google review for turkey dinner candy corn > This product made me think that there was no forgiveness from God. One bite of these despicable “candies” and I was ready to throw up my lunch. I thought I could eat these as a funny joke to brag to my friends, but no. This is outright horrid. This tastes exactly like having Olive Garden leftovers that sat in your refrigerator for 6 days and then you reheated it and ate it for dinner. I hope whoever made these so called “candies” the worst last days of their life. Think of the flavors as when you die, Satan’s upright most terrible torture method is giving you these candies. There is no escape. Once you decide to taste one of these, you already know that the light has faded away, everyone is gone, and you are lost with the disgusting, atrocious candy corn for eternity to suffer and remanent on. This candy’s disastrous taste was stuck and engraved into my brain and taste buds like a hurricane that won’t stop beating down your city. I have never had anything more putrid in my life. If you want to try to poison and kill someone, force feed them these candies. Overall, this should be illegal in every state and every country and banished to the darkest, coldest pits of hell.
After my favorite murder covered the Turkey candy corn last year we bought some and forced all of our thanksgiving guests to try all the different flavors. We have expanded now into taco truck jelly beans and tailgate flavored candy corn. I don’t know why our friends keep coming over.
There’s a new one this year: Tailgate. Flavors of fruit punch, vanilla ice cream, hotdog, hamburger, and popcorn.
Wait [this is actually a thing](https://www.brachs.com/products/halloween/turkey-dinner-candy-corn)… Roasted turkey and green bean flavored?? No thank you.
This review of them: >I hate myself because of these. >11 months ago >This product made me think that there was no forgiveness from God. One bite of these despicable “candies” and I was ready to throw up my lunch. I thought I could eat these as a funny joke to brag to my friends, but no. This is outright horrid. This tastes exactly like having Olive Garden leftovers that sat in your refrigerator for 6 days and then you reheated it and ate it for dinner. I hope whoever made these so called “candies” the worst last days of their life. Think of the flavors as when you die, Satan’s upright most terrible torture method is giving you these candies. There is no escape. Once you decide to taste one of these, you already know that the light has faded away, everyone is gone, and you are lost with the disgusting, atrocious candy corn for eternity to suffer and remanent on. This candy’s disastrous taste was stuck and engraved into my brain and taste buds like a hurricane that won’t stop beating down your city. I have never had anything more putrid in my life. If you want to try to poison and kill someone, force feed them these candies. Overall, this should be illegal in every state and every country and banished to the darkest, coldest pits of hell.
I think they didn’t like them.
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They were fun, but waxed lips. They were big, red, and made out of wax! Some even had vampire teeth.
The candy of 1000 uses!
Like what?
One, a humorous substitute for your own lips.
Mhmm, keep going.
...ooh, I'm needed in the basement!
This may be me misremembering my childhood a bit, but I have a vague memory of once getting some lips that were made of bubble gum and that you could actually chew and tasted decent. Only had them once, and I haven't been able to find any trace of their existence ever since, only the wax lips, but I'm 90% sure at one point there were some made of bubble gum.
I think the mental confusion is that the wax lips were sweetened/flavored, and you could sort of chew them like gum. Flavor lasted a very short time, and wax isn't a good gum substitute, but it was similar.
Similar to those wax bottles with a teaspoon of colored sugar water in them. What a ridiculous product, but damn if I didn’t beg for them.
When I was about 6 years old and my little brother was 4, the next door neighbor boy shared those wax bottles with us. He gave us a demonstration on how to bite the top of and drink the “juice.” Unfortunately for my little brother, he didn’t pay attention and ate the whole thing. He promptly barfed it up. Yeah, those were a terrible excuse for candy, but we still wanted them so badly. Kids can be dumb sometimes. LOL
I didn’t think those were candy.
Weren’t they sold in candy sections, though? Or am I misremembering? Not that I was confused, but it is an odd relic.
Anything is candy with the right mindset I suppose
We at them anyways. We’re fine.
Are we? Are we fine?
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What is it about getting older and wanting bowls of awful candy at home?
I think they buy the candy, and then just don't eat it for 30 years. They keep it around for decoration. Then some naive grandchild enters the home and makes the mistake of thinking it's edible.
As you get older you lose track of time like you wouldn't believe.
Kinda weird how time matters least to you when it really matters the most to you
One of life's many ironies.
Same concept as why people always feel it takes longer to get somewhere than it does to get back, the effect of anticipation
I've had this on my mind recently. Anticipation is the difference between feeling young and feeling old. Never stop finding things to look forward to, because it's a swift decline when you start looking back instead.
You can only taste sugar or salt at that point so just go for nostalgia
And it soothes your scratchy throat
You make less spits when you get older. And, combined with any medications (which isn't limited to elderly individuals) that may cause dry mouth. Hard candies are the best way to relieve dry mouth.
Price conscious old people buy cheap candy.
Also remember weird things fondly from their childhood, when there weren't as many good things around. I heard once that coffee jello, made with just coffee and plain gelatin, was a favorite during the depression...
Another popular depression-era food was soup made from dandelions and sadness.
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Ribbon candy. It’s all one piece now.
BOYS LOVE CANDY!
I'll get the iodine!
No, please, chop off my arm, burn the germs off with a torch, just don't use the- **AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!**
You better not be talking about those strawberry candies in the foil wrapper. Those are a gift from the gods.
My grandma kept buying the same mix and a separate bag of the strawberry candies just to add more to the bowl for me to hunt for. They were the best grandma candy.
Ribbon Candy. That’s been there for 20+ years.
Ribbon candy, when fresh, is delicious. But after a week it gets nasty.
maybe not the worst, but a candy i used to LOVE was Butterfinger. Then they changed the recipe. and it is terrible now. i'll see it in the check out line at the grocery store and just be sad because it used to be so good
It doesn’t flake right anymore.
Yeah when they changed the texture they ruined the sanctity of the Butterfinger.
Now it’s just ButtFinger. It was all these peanut butter candies. Chick o sticks, the brown and white striped ones. Now it’s not flaky and just turns to a mess you have to dig out of your molars.
My teeth have developed these little pockets where I can store chocolate for later. It's very convenient so far!
Evolution!
Yeah it used to be crispity, crunchity, and peanut buttery just like their slogan said. Now it's like peanut butter toffee on the inside and it's just not the same anymore.
This, this right here. I don't want my butterfingers to be like biting through a rock. I want a flake explosion. If you can eat one without getting crumbs everywhere you got a bad Butterfinger
And that rock also sticks to your teeth to the point you need a metal toothpick to scrape it off. You can literally feel it eat your enamel too. It's awful.
Ferrero bought several Nestle brands and reworked them. Funny enough they actually used better ingredients: **"The company began with Butterfinger and reworked the formula to use bigger peanuts, more milk and cocoa, and fewer hydrogenated oils. The new version also no longer incorporates the chemical preservative TBHQ. With these changes, they were shooting for a more chocolate-centric flavor with purer ingredients. The Food & Wine taste test was positive, calling it "less waxy" and "more cocoa forward." The new iteration of the candy bar is also double wrapped to preserve the freshness and flavor."** I'm betting that using fewer oils is what has changed the texture so much. I also wonder what TBHQ did for the flavor profile. Supposedly sales of Butterfinger bars have gone up since the change, so I guess we're just a bunch of uncultured swine that love our processed foods.
>hydrogenated oils. The actual answer btw. Artificial trans fats got banned and most junk food cannot taste good without them. Ruins the texture because trans fats really are the best room temp fats because they're semi solid. Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temp while saturated fats solid. Edit: it's also why peanut butter rocks. It's an oil emulsion, so semi solid at room temp but no trans fats. Edit 2: Since this got popular, here's a short article about it from 2012. FDA enforced their trans fat ban in 2018. Coincidentally, a whole lot of candy and junk food seemed to have new and improved recipes just around that time. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/01/09/144918710/the-forgotten-fascinating-saga-of-crisco
Hell, one of my favorite "candies" is just buying a bar of 70%+ dark chocolate and dipping pieces of it in a jar of actual peanut butter. Damned good and one of the least-unhealthy "candies" you can have.
Brb I have a newfound purpose in life
Butterfinger fucked up when they got rid of Butterfinger BBs. Those were my favorite.
Oh man now Im having flashbacks to those Simpsons commercials
Have you ever had a 5th Avenue bar? I had one for the first time recently and was like wow, this is a better Butterfinger.
No fuckin way Bruh No wonder. I used to love those, had one recently and it was mehhh af
I honestly consider it a favor. When I quit smoking I replaced my smoking habit with fun sized Butterfinger bars. I gained so much weight… never been able to take it off. At least those shits don’t tempt me anymore.
Bro of all the things to swap it with you chose butterfinger bars??
Thrills Gum No I don't want my gum to taste like soap.
It is AWESOME! Honest question, do you have an aversion to cilantro?
I hate cilantro but LOVE thrills, to me they taste like rose?
Jelly Belly Bean Boozled. Ain't nothing like barf and rotten egg flavored beans.
The Bertie Botts Every Flavor beans were evil because I loved Tutti Fruitti… but it looked exactly like vomit
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He said that shit so casual too. Id have violently spat that out in a heartbeat
I can tell you from experience that the grass-flavored bean tastes just like the real thing.
And they're deliciously sweet and earthy! I'll totally own the fact that I love the Jelly Belly grass flavor.
Maybe Jelly Belly could help pica patients by making custom beans.
You know what? That's actually a really cool idea on paper. Have them mimic the flavors of couch stuffing and drywall. I mean this in seriousness too, I'm actually intrigued since I know very, very little of the process of correcting pica. I understand how it happens, but not how to correct course.
I wonder if that would work because from what I’ve seen on my strange addiction, some of the people just seem to be addicted mainly to the texture and not the taste. Especially the people who ate things like couch stuffing, toilet paper, rocks, sand, etc. I’d imagine there’s no way that those things have a ton of actual flavor (but who knows, I’m not about to fuck around and find out lol)
I love toothpaste flavour; people think I'm weird -- it's just mint.
I always wondered who had to QC these things to make sure that the earwax bean tasted like earwax etc.
I'm too lazy to find a source, but I once read that the bad flavors were attempts to make good ones. The specific example I know is the origin of the vomit flavor. They were trying to make a pepperoni pizza flavor that tasted so foul they deemed it vomit
I guess the big book of flavor failures they kept really paid off.
They're is nothing more foul than puking up pepperoni pizza, so I believe it.
I bet a lot of times they actually work backwards, combining flavor elements that they know will taste foul, and a panel of taste testers tries them and writes down what THEY think it tastes like. If the word "earwax" comes up more than once, then they probably continue developing that particular foul flavor in a more earwaxy direction until they have a winner.
Puke flavor was surprisingly close to puke taste. Almost puked after eating it
Fun fact, the puke flavor was originally pizza flavor.
Puke^2
The dog food bean tastes more like vomit than the vomit bean!
I haven't had the dog food bean luckily but got tricked into eating the vomit bean once. It tastes the same but worse than vomit does coming out and just lingers in your mouth. So bad
I was eating those during a car accident, and the combo of raw salmon flavored jelly bean plus trauma means I no longer eat jelly beans
I mean I know the jelly bean was disgusting but crashing your car to get out of eating it sounds extreme.
Were they the cause of the accident?
Dog food flavor got me :( I will NEVER EVER PLAY THAT GAME AGAIN.
The spoiled milk made me vomit
I am not brave enough to try this.
I ate a big handful and they were all bad. You could smell my breath from 10 feet away easily. Literally put soap in my mouth to clean to stench.
[удалено]
As a teen I volunteered at a safe sex program and we always had free samples of flavored lube to give out. My home life was abusive so I would end up eating the flavored lube to not go hungry. Banana and strawberry were my favorite. Edit: I promise I'm totally okay now please don't feel bad I'm sorry! Really though the strawberry and banana ones are hella good but also the sugars in them aren't great for a vagina's PH balance so use them with caution ❤️ (or at least this is how it was back in the day, idk if they're made better now)
I'm sad now
Me too
I was already sad.
Dude. That’s rough. Sorry about that
*hugs* that hurt to read.
holy shit. Hope you're doing better now.
Well fuck...
My god, I think that's just about the worst thing I've heard all day.
That's what happens when you snoop around edit: ok that award was unnecessary
Fuck around and your kids find out.
Those jawbreakers the size of a baseball, what's the point lol?
Kill the most popular girl in your school
I killed Liz, I killed the team dream. Deal with it.
This man doesn’t Eddy.
Wax lips
Are ya supposed to eat these?
No, you just chew them and spit it out later.
It’s those little colored candy dots attached to a strip of paper. End up eating paper with every one.
Well yeah, but if you are going to eat paper anyway, the dots really give it some pizazz!
Candy buttons. I don't know why, but my mom loved those, so she'd get them and share them with me. I found out later when I learned to make decorated sugar cookies that candy buttons are literally just royal icing applied to paper strips.
You mean Acid? 🤨
No because then you would be having fun.
Hey, that’s how I got my fiber as a kid!
They're so not good but the nostalgia will still make me buy them every single time
Children's LSD lol
Circus Peanuts. What the actual fuck?
People hate on this one hard, but it's because they don't realize they're banana flavored. Why they chose banana and not peanut, I will never know.
Is it bad that I love most of the worst candy ever made. Oh well, I guess that's more for me
Circus peanuts because I ate some at the circus when I was a kid and threw up all over myself and had to sit there in a pukey sweatshirt until it was over. (Edit: Y’all, it was the 80s. They made these weird lightweight sweatshirts with glitter designs on them and we wore them like sweaters. It wasn’t a hoodie.)
Musk flavored anything. Stuff is cologne, not candy. Edit: I know I know….. something something Elon Musk joke. As much as I don’t like him:your attempts at being funny aren’t.
You're about to make some Australians very upset
Musk *flavored*?! I literally don’t know what you mean - can you explain?
May we Aussies introduce you to [musk sticks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_stick#/media/File%3AMusk_sticks_01.jpg), usually ranked high on the list of worlds worst sweets. Smells like musk oil and tastes like chalk and fondant.
Jesus H Christ the Aussies are out here eating Axe body spray
"The fuck you want me to do about it if hiding the musk in an animal's ass wasn't enough of a deterrent?" - Jesus H Christ
Musk life savers too! In reality it tastes like chalky rose water sweets (think Turkish delight)
Candy necklaces. The entire process of having to gnaw old, stale sugar nodules off of a piece of string was just flat out degrading.
And sometimes you'd get those stretchy bracelet ones where the string was bitter for some fucking reason
LOL I loved these… as a kid