Unusual/bizarre/intriguing candy corn flavors

[Alex]

From a Washington Post article one year ago today: 

 

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As might be expected, we found the vanilla and fruit-punch varieties to be inoffensive. The popcorn — buttery, with a slight note of smoke to suggest a bag of kernels burned in a microwave — was slightly worse. The meaty ones, though, were another story — in a word, vile. The hot-dog-flavored variety proved the milder of the two, which was merciful. “Sour and rotten,” pronounced one taster. “I don’t know what’s happening, but I hate it,” said another, between chews. But the bolder hamburger version induced the most gags. Sample reactions: “Puke in your mouth”; “cough medicine meat”; and “blerggh,” the sound of disgust one colleague made while spitting the offending thing into a napkin.

 

[heidih]

Do you even enjoy origonal ones? The listed nnew types sound  horrid. I don't like them at all. Ex loved em but he liked circus peanuts too... I did sometimes put the originals in a bowl at Halloween parties cuz they scream that season, and some enjoy them.. Sorta like Peeps chicks at Easter.

[Alex]

2 hours ago, heidih said:

Do you even enjoy origonal ones?

 

"Exterminate!" is my candy corn default setting.

[blue_dolphin]

The idea of candy corn that tastes like something is sort of curious.  

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I thought it all tasted the same.

 

[Katie Meadow]

Nothing could be more horrible than circus peanuts. Although Peeps give them a run for their money. The saving grace of "original" candy corn is that it has pretty much no flavor. Never mess with a "good" thing. Junk food companies must have the weirdest brainstorming meetings. Do the creative teams sit around saying, "How can we make this worse?"

[lindag]

Candy corn tastes like wax.

[lemniscate]

I always thought the Brach's MellowCreme pumpkin shaped versions tasted better, more buttery.   That was the only "candy corn" I would look forward to at Halloween.   Though, now I wouldn't eat one on a bet.   

Edited October 25, 2023 by lemniscate (log)

[JAZ]

I just saw this on Twitter. I thought it was a joke, but apparently it's real.

 

There's a hilarious review of it there -- my favorite comment is about the green bean flavor: ". . .it is unforgivable. If you left a cup of green tea on the porch in bad weather for a week, during which time it attained sentience and promptly began plotting your demise, and you hate green tea, that’s what this tastes like. . . . Raw, unholy green in flavor as well as color, with a single, 1-note foghorn taste, like mowing the lawn with your mouth open."