You know, the Valentine’s Day candies that say “U R A Q-T” or whatever. Mr. Rilch will not put one in his mouth. I used to hand them out to people on V-Day, but stopped when I realized most were taking them just to be polite. Still, even if you don’t want to eat them, they’re fun to use to make beat poetry (“DIG ME” “I’M SAD” “YOU DOLL”), or to use as projectiles.
But I’m hooked on them! The sugar ones, I mean, not the tart ones. I love the taste and the aftertaste (which Mr. Rilch says is the worst aspect). Does anyone besides me actually eat them, sweet or tart?
I think Futurama said it best:
Lurr: “Blech! These candies are chalky and unpleasant!”
Wife: “And what is this emotion you humans call ‘wuv’?”
Lurr: “Surely it says ‘love’.”
Wife: “No, ‘wuv’! With an Earth ‘w’. Behold!”
Lurr: “This concept of ‘wuv’ confuses and infuriates us!”
Yeah, and as I recall, Fry, the junk-food junkie, was scarfing them down as they were floating loose in the ship, and even he was saying “Bleh!” between each gulp.
But I don’t find them chalky. Mr. Rilch says they’re just pure sugar, and that is precisely what I like about them. Different colors have slightly different flavors; the pinks are my favorite. And hey, at least there’s one candy that I don’t have to fend him off from!
I love them. I love them so much that apparently I was the only person in the world to notice when they stopped making the softer chewier kind and now you can only get the harder kind. The “tart” ones do not count. I buy these for myself every year.
Hate them. Chalky and medicinal and overly sweet with no apparent relation to any flavor ever found in mom nature’s bountiful garden, ick. Dung Beetle’s got it exactly right, well if butter mints are what I think they are…those pillow-shaped powdery mints you always see at baby showers, right?
The only acceptable candy corn consumption is when it’s mixed with salted peanuts and chocolate candies to create a payday/baby ruth type trail mix. Mmm.
Love them. Tart or sweet, either is good. But then again, I don’t there’s any candy I won’t eat. (Yes, I eat candy corn, and those sugar pumpkins, and circus peanuts, etc. One of the things I love but many people freak out when I eat it is Turkish Delights (chocolate covered purple goo of some sort).
I had a friend who married a man from the Phillipines… she once tried to be romantic by scattering the little love hearts all over their bed. He picked one up and read it, and asked her “What are these?” She says “They’re candy, you eat them.” He takes a tentative bite with his front teeth… the heart won’t break under this little bit of pressure, and he takes it out and hands it back to her, saying, “These are not candy! You do not eat these! These are ceramic.”
She kept insisting they were edible, so eventually, he just gathered them all up and stored them in the refridgerator. :dubious:
Don’t really care for them, at least the classic ones. And this is from a person who likes Tums. There’s some new sort of Tums being advertised, that says something along the lines of “just as effective as old Tums, but without the chalky taste.” Man, the chalky taste is my favorite part!
But back to the conversation hearts (that’s what I’ve always called them), they’re not sweet enough to be to be good, and not chalky enough to be … well, chalky. So thumbs down.
The tart ones, the ones that I think are just SweetTarts in the shape of hearts, are good, but I don’t think of them as real conversation hearts. At a recent convention of another internet group I belong to, one of the favors was boxes of the (tart) hearts with inside jokes from our message board printed on them. (so think things like “Og Smash” or “Hi, Opal” in the case of the SDMB) Everyone thought these were extremely cute favors, I hadn’t realized you could special order the messages.
This is one of those candies that in my experience, most people don’t like them, but people who do like them like them A LOT. So go ahead and put them out, for people who like them, I’m sure it’s very exciting.
I’d love them except they’re too damn hard. They hurt my teeth. But I love their medicinal, odd flavor. Like Pepto-Bismol. Man, I love Pepto-Bismol. I love all them faintly herbal sorts of things - wintergreen, licorice, hell - it’s an emotional struggle to stop myself from seeing what Pine-Sol tastes like. Just this once. It just smells so good.
Delicious, anyhow. Same for Necco Wafers. But yeah, I can see that my tastes might not be exactly conventional.
It’s a love/hate thing… kind of like black jelly beans. I despise the bitter/salty licorice flavor, but like the other kind. Not all candy hearts are created equal, and some of them truely are gross, and some are quite tasty.
