cm0002What is the worst candy you've ever tasted?
What is the worst candy you've ever tasted? - Lemmy.World
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owenfromcanadaI got a monthly food box for my wife a number of years ago. Each month they sent snacks from a different country.
I can’t remember which country it was from, but one month we got some round, hard candies. It was one of the most unfortunate things I have ever intentionally put into my mouth.
I don’t even remember the flavor (licorice, maybe?), because my brain attempted to bleach it out.
Everything else was usually tasty, though.
DeestanThat may have been one of the Scandinavian countries. Sorry.
If you have any leftover, plz send.
My wife looked it up. It’s a hard licorice candy with a salty filling from the Netherlands called Napolean Zwart-Wit (which loosely translates to “tarred scrotum”).
Related anecdote: When I worked an offshore rotation with people from all over the world, I made an effort to bring candy that I’d never seen outside of Scandinavia.
And once I brought this:
Everybody who weren’t Norwegian, Swedish, or Finnish hated it. Especially the Americans and Brits.
Everyone except Mario, a Croatia geophysicist. He loved them. His voice still looks like ves rent free in my head over ten years later, saying “Sweet candy is for kids”
Take a bag of those pebers and dump them in a bottle of vodka. You will be instant friend of any scandinavian.
Substitute vodka for some quality moonshine for extra bonus points from us northernn scandinavians.
Stop this. This is how poison like Malort is made. We dont need to create its successor.
I did this with my friends when we went to Thailand. We were enjoying the delicious taste on a beach, two Australian guys were wanted to try it. They both spat it out instantly and the other one got so mad we thought he’s actually going to attack us.
After he calmed down a bit he demanded to see us drink it to be sure we hadn’t tricked him to drink poison. So we downed the entire 1 litre bottle to appease him. It was the start of a great day that lasted for few days.
Same in Canada. Everything is fake. You’ll see transmission fluid before you’ll see any real sugar in the ingredients.
Yeah, American candy has about the lowest standards. Canada isn’t much better, but there’s a noticeable difference in the quality of chocolate in common chocolate bars. We once did a side-by-side comparison of KitKats (we live right on the border) and the difference was stunning.
If you like KitKat, try and see if you can find this one:
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It’s similar, but better.
One American candy I actually like is Reese peanut butter cups.
My first thought was that this is terrible ai lol.
Well, it could be (I just grabbed it off of an image search), but the product is real and found all over Norway.
Ah so ai isn’t bad at words, its just writing Norwegian!
grasshopper_mouseI try to be as anti-Nestle as possible, which meant giving up KitKat, my favorite candy. I found these a few years ago on norwegianfoodstore.com and they’re soooo much better.
Damn, I wish that site existed when I lived abroad.
I love this site! I only order from them once a year because it’s expensive (I usually ask for a gift card for Christmas), but they have so much awesome stuff. The paprika Pringles are to die for.
Reese’s is one of my favorites too, but objectively it’s horrible, down there with hersheys chocolate. Try something like a Trader Joe’s peanut butter cup and it’s a world of difference.
It won’t keep me from my Reese’s but at least I’m aware of it
Will do once I’m in the US, although I need to figure out an explanation for the vast collection of JD Vance memes on my phone first.
Reese’s tasted a whole lot better 20+ years ago. Now it’s just gritty sugar with peanut butter flavored ‘essence’ added. Same goes for Cadbury eggs which are completely inedible now.
I always wondered about that but I don’t eat frequently enough to notice when it changed
Eating them infrequently is exactly how I noticed the change especially with the Cadbury eggs. It used to have a creamy center that has been replaced with what tastes like a spoonful of gritty Betty Crocker sugar frosting. Reese’s are less obvious but also just taste like sugar (or HFCS) to me now and they were my absolute favorite as a kid as someone who’s not really into candy.
alot of cookies and cakes are like that, you can feel the granular sugar, because they put so much.
We once did a side-by-side comparison of KitKats (we live right on the border) and the difference was stunning.
Bad comparison on that one. KitKat brand in the USA is an entirely different company that the rest of the world. So they aren’t even the pretending to be the same recipe.
At least the US KitKats aren’t Nestle.
I won’t say I’m boycotting Nestle per se, but I try to avoid their stuff. There’s a bag of strawberry cheesecake KitKats from Japan on my desk, lol. They’re pretty good.
milk chocolate by any of the big chains, are just trash. at WF, they sell gourmet chocolate imported from outside the US, or they make the ones that are bougie and expensive. dark chocolate, not so sweet is the best.
Vanthsweet candy is for kids
I vibe w Mario. I haven’t had either you mentioned, but they seem my speed. I go for the saltiest licorice you crazy Scandinavians can come up with.
- am an American who warns people off my candy stash, but they still try it and think I’m pranking them
Sometimes it’s a hit. I was going somewhere with an Uber in Houston once, and the driver needed to stop for gas. I took the opportunity to head inside the gas station for some supplies, and while I was queueing and minding my own business while the guy in front of me had his stuff scanned by the cashier, and he suddenly said “Oh, and his stuff too”, offering out of the blue to pay for my stuff. (Seriously, does that happen sometimes? I’ve never heard of it before nor after. He must’ve been in a good mood). I wasn’t holding much stuff, so sure why not, once my initial WTF-factor had worn off.
I gave the guy a tin of Tyrkisk Pepper as a token thank you (I happened to have some I bought at my home airport that I planned on leaving at the head office). When he asked what it was I just said “Scandinavian candy, be careful”. He actually liked them.
I gave the guy a tin of Tyrkisk Pepper as a token thank you (I happened to have some I bought at my home airport that I planned on leaving at the head office). When he asked what it was I just said “Scandinavian candy, be careful”. He actually liked them.
I’m a brit and have loved tyrkisk peber and other “salty” liquorice etc. sweets for a long time. I had a big bag of the hot and sour flavour and was rather sad when I ran out.
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I will defend my rubber flavoured twizzlers til the day I die. Do they taste like you shouldn’t be eating them? Absolutely. Will I still eat an entire bag of twizzlers at the movie theater every single time? You betcha.
i cant stand the smell of durian candy, its way to pungent.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Black licorice.
I firmly believe candy should be sweet; not bitter.
If we had pearls here in Scandinavia we’d all be clutching them right now.
Ricky RigatoniSurely you looted some pearls back in the 700’s from innocent townsfolk.
And even if it’s not sweet, it can at least be tangy, sour, or savory.
Black licorice just taste like fucking death
It is evidence of how bad life used to be. If that shit was the treat, what was normal food like?!
Ah, yes, the world before refined sugar, lol
mintiefreshCame here to say this and saw this comment.
This is the correct answer.
There’s fake black licorice, and there’s the real stuff. Two very different experiences!
Both trash.
I’m upvoting you not because I agree (I don’t, I love black licorice), but because you touch on a good point that if someone doesn’t like black licorice, they’re probably not going to like any black licorice regardless of quality. Maybe there’s some exceptions out there that like bougie black licorice and not the basic twizzlers stuff, but anecdotally I’ve tried introducing the fancier brands to a few friends who don’t like black licorice, and not one has given a single fuck.
M137Bitter? You must have had some weird fake crap. I’ve never had any liquorice that bitter, and I’m Swedish and love liquorice.
hoshikarakitaridiaWell, licorice is definitely up there.
There’s some pralines that with some alcohol based filling that’s also really gross.
But I still remember I was a kid and my parents bought these cheese crackers. They were awful, the it was a bit crumbly but they had this really bad taste of something I can only describe as for fungus & cream cheese. I literally had to take a break and concentrate on not barfing even though we just wanted to play tabletop games. I know it’s not sweet but that stuff lives rent-free in my head to this day.
BrewchinAmerican or South African chocolate products.
NOT an anti-American/-Saffer thing. They add butyric acid, which tastes like vomit to the rest of the world. (Accurate, as vomit contains it).
Presumably because the market there have been trained to expect that flavour for some reason. To the rest of us, a US or ZA origin is usually a sign to avoid.
A colleague came back from the US with a big back of mini Hershey’s flavours. Most were ok but I legitimately thought the standard plain flavour had spoilt.
It may have. Certainly one of the many problems with hersheys s how old it can be. It seems to be treated as something that can sit on the shelf forever
That reason is because Hersey chocolate was the first chocolate the common American could afford and the processing method that Hersey used to produce it would create butyric acid from the milk. Now they add it back in because customers complained when they refined the process.
That explains a lot, thanks.
Those Choceur bars are pretty good. My favorite treat are Droste pastilles but the aldi bars will do.
anon6789Aldi has such awesome chocolate! Thanks for pointing out the reason.
I tried to like the Aldi chocolate bars but they leave this strange fatty coating in my mouth after eating them. I don’t experience that with other brands.
We usually get things like the chocolate covered cashews or sea salt caramels. They occasionally have some peanut butter or maybe cashew butter cups and those I remember being really good.
CatoblepasGrowing up and living in the US and then accidentally learning to taste the butyric acid after tasting chocolate without it made me sad :(
JusticeForPorygonOh my God is that why I taste vomit if I eat a Hershey’s bar then drink a glass of water
Black licorice. Or anything containing black licorice. It’s just fucking disgusting.
Interstellar_1One Halloween as a kid we got gummy false teeth. It looked exactly like how you think it would look. I cant actually remember how it tasted, but it want good. Second was some sugar free sour patch kid clones, they mostly tasted like soap.
Black licorice is just horrific. I try it every once in a while as I age thinking “Old people like this, maybe I’m old enough to like it myself, now”, but now. It’s still an instant headache/nausea combo at one taste. Ugh.
Only if you feel like punishing yourself for your own science.
Twizzlers black licorice vs panda brand licorice is worth trying just to compare the world of differences that black licorice can have.
Then if you really really hate yourself you can find some other salt licorice. Crazy stuff that is as much more of an acquired taste than the worst cheap black licorice like Twizzlers
I’m seeing a lot of black licorice mentions, but there’s a special hell for Läkerol’s menthol black licorice.