# Candy that makes you go "Meh" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 25, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835 "2008-04-25T13:22:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/41 "2008-04-27T02:45:46Z")
Marizipan is potentially the **prettiest** candy in the world, I’ve seen it formed into many beautiful and colorful shapes, but why would anyone eat it? ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/42 "2008-04-27T02:47:21Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] … chocolate and pretzel do not go together. [/QUOTE] This is just wrong. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/43 "2008-04-27T03:42:45Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] 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! [/QUOTE] PB on crackers; great. PB on Triscuits? Ick! Triscuits have the wrong texture for PB. As for candy, I’m sort of with those who say any candy. In a way. I used to love candy. Large bags of Necco conversation hearts were consumed around Valentine’s Day. Yes, that is bags as in multiple, and they were the 12-16 ounce size. These days I get a box of my favorite chocolates at Christmas…and don’t open them until March. Susan ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/44 "2008-04-27T03:44:18Z")
[QUOTE=JimB.] First, you must be insane if you really believe what you wrote in the first paragraph . . . [/quote] Eating peanut butter and chocolate together is to the detriment of both flavors, IME. Besides, if you scooped the sugary “peanut butter” out of a Reese’s cup and spread it on bread, my Og, **then** you’d gag! [QUOTE=JimB.] . . . and second, peanut butter on crackers is quite possibly the most dry food combination on the planet. I feel like vomiting just thinking of the struggle to free the cracker from the roof of my mouth. [/QUOTE] So don’t eat it without a drink. **I’ve** never had any problem with the mouth-roof thing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/45 "2008-04-27T05:11:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sine Nomine] Milk chocolate. I love white chocolate and I hate dark chocolate, but milk chocolate is just okay. . [/QUOTE] White chocolate is _not._ It’s cocoa butter and sugar. No chocolate at all. > **[White chocolate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_chocolate)** > > White chocolate is chocolate made from cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids. It is ivory in color and lacks the dark appearance of most other types of chocolate because it does not contain the non-fat solid components of cocoa (cocoa powder). Due to this omission, as well as its sweetness and the occasional use of additives, some consumers do not consider white chocolate to be real chocolate. > Of the three traditional types of chocolate (the others being milk and dark), white chocolate is the... _White chocolate is made of cocoa butter, milk, and sugar. Regulations also govern what may be marketed as “white chocolate”: In the United States, since 2004, white chocolate must be at least 20% cocoa butter (by weight), at least 14% total milk solids, at least 3.5% milk fat, and less than 55% sugar or other sweeteners.[1] Before this date, U.S. firms required temporary marketing permits to sell white chocolate. The European Union has adopted the same standards, except that there is no limit on sugar or sweeteners_ ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/46 "2008-04-27T11:18:07Z")
Is this stuff still made? When I was a kid, everybody bought it at Christmas time. I always hated it-it was like having a mouthful of broken glass. It had no flavor-just sugar (although brightly colored). ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/47 "2008-04-27T11:29:12Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] - Necco wafers - What’s the point of this candy, anyway? [/QUOTE] Ah, you never went to Catholic school. The point of Necco wafers is that they are, if you will, the _canonical_ candy for playing Communion in the schoolyard 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/48 "2008-04-27T12:32:16Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Besides, if you scooped the sugary “peanut butter” out of a Reese’s cup and spread it on bread, my Og, **then** you’d gag [/QUOTE] I remember a few years ago Reese’s came out with their own brand of peanut butter available next to the Jiff and Skippy at the store and I was madly disappointed that it was just regular peanut butter and not the sugary crystalized madness that lives in the heart of the peanut butter cups. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/49 "2008-04-27T13:42:59Z")
I’m not even going to comment on the dark chocolate/pretzel thing, except to say…More for me, then! My list includes anything with coconut like an Almond Joy, and Dots and Jujy Fruits. ---
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/50 "2008-04-27T23:34:29Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] 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. [/QUOTE] Dude. On-point or not, you win post of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/51 "2008-04-30T04:21:11Z")
I half-expected more outraged defenders of Peeps (fresh or stale) to rise to the occasion. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/52 "2008-04-30T04:29:29Z")
As I reported elsewhere on the Board, the wife and I brought back some Easter candy for her family after a trip to the US at that time of year. No one would touch the peeps. Said they looked evil. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835/53 "2008-04-30T11:49:48Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] As I reported elsewhere on the Board, the wife and I brought back some Easter candy for her family after a trip to the US at that time of year. No one would touch the peeps. Said they looked evil. [/QUOTE] They are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-that-makes-you-go-meh/446835.md?page=2)