Maybe it’s an age thing, but this thread is reading to me like a list of my favorite non-chocolate candy. Except Circus Peanuts, although they were my older brother’s favorite.
What I hate is bad chocolate, which anymore is nearly every candy bar in your average vending machine. Tastes like it looks - crap.
Mmmm, black licorice. Now I’m craving it…
Ribbon candy?
I hate Peeps. I don’t know anybody who likes them. They always seem to get left in the Easter basket. Can’t imagine how they remain on the market.
I mentioned this in the other thread but on reflection it really belongs here:
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Reese’s Pieces, any peanut-butter-based candy, if you can even call the filling “peanut butter.” Who ever had the idea that those two tastes would taste great together?!
I don’t eat peanut butter sandwiches, either, let alone PB&J. Peanut butter belongs on crackers. Then I can’t get enough. Gimme a jar of Smucker’s Natural Chunky (it’s spoil you for that Jif or Skippy crap), a box of Triscuits and a butterknife, I’m good to go! Heck, never mind the crackers, I could eat half the jar off the knife!
Horehound candy.
Pear Jelly Bellys
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Yeah, that’s close enough to what I had in mind.
That reminds me – Jelly Belly sells (or used to, when the first Harry Potter movie came out) a line of “Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans.” Flavors available include dirt, vomit, grass . . . and yes, they really do taste like those things smell.
BTW, here’s a website that sells “Candy You Ate as a Kid.” Many candies named in this thread are on the menu.
Absolutely!
Cherry ripes
I came in here for this. You beat me to it. Salt?! That stuff is vile.
I’ll second Peeps, Necco wafers, and all thing anise.
I have not tried the new mint Three Musketeers, but something about it just seems wrong.
My mother once called me a Philistine because I have an intense dislike of dark, semi-sweet chocolate.
I’ll third Peeps. I’ve never heard of Necco Wafers, but they look awful enough that I’ll third them too.
I’ll add smarties and those valentine bits with “I wuv U” on them. Yuck! Besides, this concept of wuv infuriates me.
Ditto on salted black licorice. I’m mostly meh about the non-salted stuff, but only threat of death would be enough for me to put a piece of that gag-worthy salty grossness anywhere near my tastebuds.
Most marshmallow based candies make me want to heave. Particularly the ones shaped like strawberries or bananas, or the ones covered in “chocolatey” waxy coating. Peeps aren’t available here, but I’m pretty sure I’d despise those too.
Cherry ripes
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My gosh, I loooooooove Cherry Ripes!!! I had them back in '92 when I was in Australia and I’ve been craving them since!
Now, Gummi Bears…Blechhh 
Butterscotch, and anything along those lines, like butterrum, etc.
The smell makes me gag. I’ve never put one in my mouth.
I remembered another!
Gum drops. Anything overly gummy like that, they taste like the stereotypical manufactured flavors, have a sticky, false taste and they get stuck to your teeth so you have to use your finger or tongue to try to pry the junk off. I especially hate the black licorice flavored ones, like the ones called Dots or Crows or Good and Pleanty, blegh!
Peeps are meh. I think they’re cute (I have a Peep pillow) to the point where I almost feel bad for eating them. It’s pure sugar, and I do feel bad after eating them each time due to the sick sweetness.
Oh, any any coffee flavored candy. Barf.
If you want pure sugar, try cotton candy. Or, better still, don’t. Blech. Rock candy ain’t much better.
Those “I wuv U” candies are made by Necco. Same chalk flavored crap. So yes, you would hate Necco Wafers too.
Urgk! Peeps! The only thing Peeps are good for is growing them in the microwave. They are definitely not food.
Oh man I LOVE black licorice. Especially black jelly beans. They’re my favorite, actually. I also love coconut and chocolate. You guys can just PM me for my address to send all of your black licorice/black jelly beans/coconut&chocolate candy to. I’ll also take your Necco Wafers, except for the excremental brown “chocolate” ones.
My blech list:
Bit-o-honey–cheap people used to give these out at Halloween. They’re like carpet fuzz and birdseed stuck together with glue.
Peeps. Gross. Also those “pinwheels” cookies that are like a graham cracker with marshmallow stuff and dipped in chocolate. Those things are disgusting.
Twizzlers. The smell alone makes me gag.
Gummi anything. Revolting.
Artificial cherry flavored anything. Artificial grape flavored anything.
Waxy chocolate such as in cheap hollow Easter bunnies.
Add me to the list of licorice haters. OMG, they salt licorice now? :eek: Euuurgh!! (insert puking smiley)
I don’t like Chic-o-Stix, Pixy Stix, and other gritty, powder-style candy that you can suffocate with if you’re not careful eating it. Another candy I never could stand is those wax bottles with the gooey stuff inside. Chewing through wax just to get at the candy inside is not worth it, to me.
Then there are Circus Peanuts. I was never a big fan of those. My ex, of course, loves them. Yet another reason not to buy them.
Eurg—do wax lips count as candy? Do they even still make those gross things!?