Candy that makes you go "Meh"

Not candy you hate, or actively avoid. I’m talkin’ stuff that you couldn’t care less if you ever eat it again. Stuff you’ll shrug and eat if it’s the only thing available in the bowl, but would never spend money on. For me, it’s:

  • Necco wafers - What’s the point of this candy, anyway?
  • Licorice - I can take it or leave it
  • Caramels - I had to avoid this when I had braces as a kid, and it wasn’t a big sacrifice at all, you know?
  • Bit O’ Honey - Meh
  • Gummi Bears - Double meh

And you?

Candy.

I can’t imagine facing the long march towards my own mortality without ever having licorice again, but other than that, I agree with you here.

Sugar Daddies, Sugar Babies. Lollipops. Nerds. Marshmallows. Tootsie Rolls. Why on earth would anyone ever eat a Tootsie Roll? Juju Bees. Hard candy.

In fact, almost any candy that does not contain chocolate. Cashew Brittle from Murdick’s Fudge, on the other hand, is something I would stab a nun to get my hands on.

They’re OK roasted over a campfire but even then not that big of a thrill for me. Even more meh are those pink, strawberry-ish marshmallow candies, IDK what you call 'em, but they don’t do anything for me.

Smarties. Three Musketeers. Altoids. Sugar Daddy. Abba Zabba.

These are the only “really, honestly don’t care” ones. There’s a whole 'nother “kind of care and would be a little sad without” tier, but that one includes about 50-70% of popular candy, so I’ll not list it.

No idea what you’re talking about, but I can almost guarantee that I’d loathe them.

But while I’m meh about hard candy, I love those strawberry hard candies with the chewy centers that are wrapped in wrappers that look like strawberries.

The candy bar that’s missing the rest of the candy bar. :smiley:

I could care less if I ever even see another licorice snap, those dots on the paper, a Chunky bar, Peeps, really sweet gum like Hubba Bubba, for that matter Bazooka gum too, or Raisinettes.

Anything sour (sour skittles, zours, etc), licorice, anything powdery-sugary (smarties, pixie-sticks) and whatever the hell those peanut butter candies are that come in unmarked orange or black wrappers.

Twizzlers and any hard candy.

Everyone slags on the peanut butter mary janes, but I love them.

Funny you should ask. I don’t care for peppermints much, but there’s a bowl of them in our office that everyone’s been raving about. “Oh these are so different! They’re soft!” So I finally popped one in my mouth to discover that it is actually a butter mint in disguise. I hate butter mints! I am filled with Grrrr.

Also, my ex-husband sends our son home every week from his visit absolutely loaded down with candy like Nerds or jellybeans or candy corn. Can he not send chocolate?

This.

Well put! It’s basically chocolate-flavored air.

I cannot be meh about Peeps. There is no way I cannot form an opinion on them. I feel as strongly about them as I do about politics and religion.

Peeps are the reactionary right wing fundamentalist bigoted hate-mongering gay-bashing Fred Phelpses of Candy World.

Any candy that does not contain chocolate, with the single exception of peanut brittle, which I love.

Hard candy, especially Life Savers, smarties, etc.

Any candy with coconut in it.

Pixie sticks.

And… that’s bad, right? :wink:

You’re not alone. It was a bonding moment for me and my soon-to-be mother-in-law when we found out that we both love them. I think I like them more for the molasses taffy than the peanut butter, but it’s all good.

Meh candies for me are:

-Lifesavers - used to love them, but I haven’t had one in perhaps a decade and I wouldn’t miss them, but I don’t actually dislike them either.
-Snickers- they’re OK, I’ll eat a fun-size one if I’m hungry and there’s nothing else, but I don’t get excited. Somehow this is never an issue, though- enough people love them that they are never the dregs anyhow.
-Twizzlers and licorice- I’ll have a bite or two when I’m with my mom- she’s nuts about good’n’plentys especially- but I won’t seek it out and I wouldn’t miss it.
-Necco Wafers I don’t care about as far as taste, but I like the shape and the way they are packaged. They seem “old-timey” in a very subtle way. I’d miss them.

So you’re saying that if you put Phred in the microwave he’ll grow to 50X his original size? Awesome.

Oh and about the Necco wafers- I buy lots of them but I don’t eat them. Glued to a shirt cardboard they make nice targets for shooting with .22s.

Yeah, I’m kinda off candy in general right now but I’d totally agree about the Twizzlers. Not much flavor, weird rubbery texture, I never got why people liked them.

Thanks in advance for the insomnia and night sweats. I owe you one.