Favorite weird candy!

Another fan of dubbel zout here.

I haven’t been able to get anyone else to like it, though. My wife says they taste like old, salty rubber tires.

Not quite a candy, but I’m very partial to clove-flavored gum. It’s only available occasionally around here, and I’ve never found a reliable source on line. I think it may only be produced intermittently, so I stock up whenever I see it.

I like those watermelon and mango flavored suckers from Mexico that are covered with chili powder. Also the tamarind paste that comes in an odd container that kinda looks like a syringe.

**YES! Banana Laffy Taffy!!! **My all time favorite after Delfa Rolls which is another form of Danish red licorish. The Delfa Rolls have gone out of production and the only way I’ve found to get banana Laffy Taffy is to buy the bag of 4 flavor Willie Wonka Laffy Taffy that’s only 1/4 banana. :frowning:

Pop Rocks
Whistle Pops

Musk sticks and musk lifesavers=) and I am american…

<and jonesing for timtams, but that is a different story=)>

As the son of a former vending route guy, I cantell you that the reason that you find Zero bars there (specially in the summer) is that they hold up well in the heat. No one likes to get a chocolate bar from a vending machine that “folds over” in the their hand.

See? Ignorance fought! Whoo hoo!!!

Still widely available in the South and now made by Hershey’s Chocolate.

http://www.hersheys.com/products/details/zero.asp

I love horehound but most of the people I know don’t like it much. One woman I used to work with said it tastes like dirt.

It doesn’t really.

It tastes like horehound. :slight_smile:

I love chocolate covered gummi bears, which used to be very hard to find - now some of the theaters around here have started carrying them again.

And I see that they aren’t vegetarian. Curses! Does anyone know if they make vegan/vegetarian gummi bears?

Habanero chocolate bars. They are the best things ever.

Swedish fish, but they must be fresh.

Elite Flake bars- an Israeli candy that I used to get at summer camp and now only get and my “Jewish Supply Store” (as my non-Jewish husband calls a Judaica shop).

They just dissolve in your mouth…

My favorite as a kid was rice candy, mainly because the ‘wrapper’ was edible, and that was just cool.

On vacation in Hawaii about 8 years ago, I fell in love with this bizarre sour/sweet/salty snack that I can’t remember the name of, but must have been Li Hing Mui. I just remember going through packages of it and immediately wanting more. After my return to the lower 48 I pined over that stuff for months, even though most sane people would probably find it disgusting.

Apparently now I can order it over the Internets. Who knew? :wink:

I love red vines, swedish fish, jujyfruits, and good and plenty. Mike and Ikes not so much. Pretty pedestrian old fashioned licorice guy…

Are Mary Janes considered weird candy? 'Cause peanut butter and molasses are, like, the best tooth-rotting combination ever. Plus the wrapper is so cute and nostalgic.

I can find zero bars in most stores around here, and I think they taste very good. I’m not a big chocolate fan, so the white chocolate coating suits me better.

Balance:

My former mother-in-law used to buy that for me - along with Black Jack gum, which is licorice-flavored. I’m not sure where she got it, but I seem to remember it was a Christmas thing - hard to find year-round.

VCNJ~

I like circus peanuts, but I can’t eat them more often than every few months. So about three times a year I’ll go buy a bag of circus peanuts, open them and leve them open for a day so they get that stiff, crusty outside. That’s a big part of the circus peanut experience for me, the hard outside.
After eating half a bag I feel sick to my stomache but not quite nauseous and I won’t want anything to do with them. Then a few months later I’ll be in the hardware store that sells locally-produced candy, and the craving kicks in.
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I think it’s analogous to the whole addiction process for me: the craving, the preperation, the over-indulgence, the disgust.

Does Pocky count as candy or is it a cookie? For those unfamiliar with this product, Pocky is a type of cookie in stick form, dipped in chocolate or some other flavoring like strawberry or green tea. I used to be able to find it only in Little Tokyo, but it has become more widely available. The other day I went to my local Suncoast Video with my niece, and we found several flavors of Pocky in the anime section, appropriately enough. I bought almond-dipped Pocky for myself and strawberry Pocky for the little girls, who loved it. I really need to go back to Little Tokyo and see if they still have Men’s Pocky, which is dark chocolate; I think they call it Men’s Pocky under the assumption that men don’t like sweets.