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[jakey]

I also nominate Peeps. Hated them as a kid (and I loved all candy then). Tried it again this Easter, nope it still is horrid.

[Shelby]

Chalky, dry, and oddly flavored conversation hearts for Valentines.

That yucky "hard candy" that comes in a tin and is usually around at christmas. Generally at some point all the candies stick together in one big mass.

OH totally. I can't believe I didn't list those, also.

My brain must have blocked all memory of that.

Edited by Shelby, 28 June 2011 - 07:12 PM.

[chileheadmike]

I have an anti sweet tooth and only eat sweets twice a year. Birthday cake for my kids. I remember as a kid I begged my Dad to buy me a Cherry Mash.

Maybe that's why I don't eat sweets any more.

[threestars]

I hate durian candy... I don't like the taste. I like the fruit itself a little.

[Lindacakes]

Cheap fruit slices, like the kind you can get from the Vermont Country Store catalogue.

Especially in mint.

I hate mint anything.

There is a place in my heart for circus peanuts, peeps, and candy corn. The only edible candy corn comes from Jelly Belly, after they bought Goelitz. The white peeps (ghosts, easter eggs) are better tasting than the yellow ones, but the yellow ones are the ones I coveted as a child. My mother thought they were too low class. As for circus peanuts, a dear friend of an advanced age loves them and I love them because of that.

[annabelle]

Don't knock the fruit slices, though I agree about the mint.

My cousins used to eat this pink popcorn that was molded into bricks. I mean, it was pepto bismol pink. I was always afraid to try it but it looked scary and smelled bad.

[EatNopales]

My nominations:

Peeps (really could there ever be a more blah & uninspiring waste of resources?)

Cadbury Filled Eggs (because I always fantasize what they should be like and never are)

Candy Corn (reminds me of the abomination that is sweet corn and then worse.. it is just striped wax with a hint of sugar)

Swedish Fish (maybe they aren't even that bad.. maybe their texture is so bad because the average turns on package of Swedish Fish are once every twelve years)

Twizzlers (a candy so bad it must have some kind of nefarious cult association... i.e., instead of secret handshakes the modern day Cabal splinter group of the Masons that controls the world identifies each other by their consumption of Twizzlers.. a practice that cannot be explained in gastronomic terms.. but in light of hypnosis)

Whoppers (the candy that proudly chooses to evoke the aroma of baby milk vomit)

Boston Baked Beans (mostly because they remind me that some people have the vile tradition of glopping molasses and/or sugar on to the noble Phaseolus)

Edited by EatNopales, 07 October 2011 - 03:36 PM.

[Viktoria]

I'm not a huge fan of marshmallows, which seems to be blasphemy in some circles.
Peeps in general are pretty nasty, but they transform when you brûlée them

My husband can't stand anything flavored with artificial banana.

I think milk chocolate flavored "chocolate" you can find around Easter particularly awful.

[pennbrew]

Wow there are so many:

Salt water taffy
Ribbon candy--eating actual ribbon might be more satisfying
Salt water taffy
those safety lollipops with the looped string handle--completely flavorless
that powdered stuff that comes in a straw
Salt water taffy
Wax bottles and wax lips made me vomit when I was a child
Candy cigarettes
Salt water taffy

and worst of all:

Salt water taffy. Pure evil.

Edited by pennbrew, 07 October 2011 - 08:37 PM.

[karlos]

The things that would make me cringe when I found them in my Halloween bag: Bit-O-Honey, Mary Janes and Zagnut. Awful stuff. Necco wafers. I never understood the wax lip things. I once worked in a hospital and a patient shared his "diabetic" candy with me and I thought it was just okay. A few hours later I learned one of the unfortunate side effects of sorbitol

[angevin]

Buttered Popcorn flavored jelly beans. Taste like a combination of dirty feet and ass.

[SylviaLovegren]

Y'all are weird. All that stuff is good, even when bad, except for really cheap chocolates that taste like stale floor sweepings.

The really bad candy is Dutch salted licorice. I shudder just thinking about it.

[Mjx]

Y'all are weird. All that stuff is good, even when bad, except for really cheap chocolates that taste like stale floor sweepings.

The really bad candy is Dutch salted licorice. I shudder just thinking about it.

Guess it take all kinds... I can eat any licorice (meaning the real stuff, not the red things... licorice is a flavour, not a texture!) by the sackful, salted or otherwise (I was delighted to discover that there's a semi-continent-ful of salted licorice to explore, since it's big throughout northern Europe).

Now, milk chocolate with licorice embedded in it in a variety of ways is a new low I recently encountered: I keep giving it a go, but I just don't take to it. The aftertaste is just indescribable. It could only be worse if peanut butter were involved, too (so I'm guessing I'll be seeing that soon).

[tikidoc]

Seems to be a theme of sickly sweet stuff with no redeeming qualities. I agree. Peeps, necco wafers, candy corn, Cadbury eggs, licorice of any kind, etc., etc. All variations on the same, sickly sweet theme. Yuck. But then I'm with whoever else said chocolate must be dark and a minimum of 60%. I also agree with that person that orange and dark chocolate is a wonderful combination when done well.

Someone else, Pierogi, I think, mentioned the Trader Joe's chocolate covered sunflower seeds. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? Chocolate and nuts/seeds can't be bad, right? I love Trader Joe's. And Trader Joe's chocolates are usually pretty decent for mass produced chocolate. I love their bars and dark chocolate covered pomegranate seeds. But the sunflower seeds are just rank. Tried them once, thought the first one might have been rancid, tried a couple more,hoping they would be better and would get that disgusting taste out of my mouth, threw them in the trash. The worst chocolate candy I have ever had. Ever.

[SylviaLovegren]

Necco Wafers, candy corn and licorice (except salted) are some of the best candies, ever. The yummiest Neccos are the black ones.

These are not "serious" candies, of course. That designation belongs to high end chocolates. There are times when you want a truly delicious high quality candy. But there are plenty of times when you want to chomp on some orange slices or candy corn. :)

[pastrygirl]

The aftertaste is just indescribable. It could only be worse if peanut butter were involved, too (so I'm guessing I'll be seeing that soon).

[Kerry Beal]

Y'all are weird. All that stuff is good, even when bad, except for really cheap chocolates that taste like stale floor sweepings.

The really bad candy is Dutch salted licorice. I shudder just thinking about it.

Guess it take all kinds... I can eat any licorice (meaning the real stuff, not the red things... licorice is a flavour, not a texture!) by the sackful, salted or otherwise (I was delighted to discover that there's a semi-continent-ful of salted licorice to explore, since it's big throughout northern Europe).

Now, milk chocolate with licorice embedded in it in a variety of ways is a new low I recently encountered: I keep giving it a go, but I just don't take to it. The aftertaste is just indescribable. It could only be worse if peanut butter were involved, too (so I'm guessing I'll be seeing that soon).

I love the black aussie licorice enrobed in milk chocolate - someone asked me the other day if I could dip some of those licorice pipes in chocolate for them. Not sure where to find those pipes anymore though - no penny candy stores around these days.

Not a big fan of the dutch salted stuff though. Wonder if it would taste better dipped in chocolate?

[annabelle]

Someone gave me a box of Whitman's chocolates (I know). I remember thinking they were so awesome when I was a little kid because there was a legend inside the lid that told you what was in each little cubby so you didn't have to make dents in the bottoms to see what they were filled with. My mom really didn't like us to do that. Well, the legend is still there but someone has decided to substitute wax imitations of filled chocolates. Talk about a gag gift.

I still love those super cheap filled cherry cordials, though. My grandmother and I would eat them and watch the soap operas together.

[BarbaraY]

PEEPS! Nastiest things ever created. Yuck!

I really don't care for anything with marshmallows Nothing but sweet sponges. Even when camping I eat only one slowly toasted over the campfire. If it gets burnt I pass it on.

Anything with fake banana flavor isn't even allowed in the house. I can't even stand the smell.

That said I love the Cadbury eggs. Got my first four at the grocery recently. Last year I waited too long and the were all gone.