# Bon Bons - Chocolates or Hard Candies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357 "2020-06-10T12:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357/41 "2020-06-13T23:07:50Z")
I have a candy cookbook that was published in 1953. They differentiate between bob bons and chocolates, and what they call bon bons are what I think of them being. The filling in a bon bon is creamy, and is flavored with vanilla or some fruit flavor. Rather than being dipped in chocolate, they are dipped in fondant which has been colored a pastel shade and indicates the flavor – so a pale yellow bon bon has an lemon-flavored filling. The book makes a point of saying that some bon bons in the box of candy you’re giving to someone adds a lot of visual interest to the assortment ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357/42 "2020-06-13T23:16:13Z")
Bons bons are chocolate and chewy. They are not hard candy. Bon bons are something you can eat a whole box of, one after another. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357/43 "2020-06-14T00:22:51Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > It’s true. My wife’s favorite metaphor for Sloth. “What do you think I’ve been DOING all day? EATING BON BONS?” > > My wife really needs to up her metaphor game. What I think is if she agreed to marry you she needs to up her game, period. [please be assured this is delivered with a twinkle in my eye-I was never able to resist a straight line] ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357/44 "2020-06-14T06:13:27Z")
They are chocolaty and chewy. Particularly eaten by 1950’s housewives in the afternoon on the living room couch while watching afternoon soaps. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357/45 "2020-06-14T11:35:11Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I think of those bite sized, chocolate covered balls of ice cream you used to be able to get at the movies. I don’t know if they are the same thing (I never saw them at the movies), but I have a box of [Trader Joe’s Chocolate Bon Bons](https://everythingjoes.com/index.php/2019/08/09/trader-joes-chocolate-bon-bons-review/) in the freezer. They sound like what you are describing and are delicious. And, yes, Peggy Bundy does come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357/46 "2020-06-14T13:16:18Z")
As a generic term, _bon bon_, for me, doesn’t refer to anything specific at all. It’s like “sweets.” Yeah, I’m aware of trademark uses of the term, but they vary so much, it’s clear that the term itself isn’t fixed. In English, its generic use is pretty much old-fashioned. I hear it more currently in its Spanish figurative equivalent, _bombón_, (_Esa pelada es un bombón_, etc.) Then there’s **bon bon bum** , [now available on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Colombina-Bubble-Pops-Passion-Fruit/dp/B0097XD60C). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357/47 "2020-06-14T21:08:49Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Then there’s **bon bon bum** , [now available on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Colombina-Bubble-Pops-Passion-Fruit/dp/B0097XD60C). Sounds candy-ass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bon-bons-chocolates-or-hard-candies/855357.md?page=2)