No, these aren’t confections that are able to employ rhetoric and actually disagree with you; these are offensive little comestibles innocuously wrapped up all spiffy-looking but containing vomit fodder.
Turkish Delight - All that red crap I couldn’t get my head around. (also Big Turk)
Cherry Blossom - sickly-sweet cherry syrup - I’ll pass.
Butterfinger - a poor man’s Crispy Crunch
Red Twizzlers - ok slightly going from the bar thing, but still (usually) in the same grocery rack.
I’ll admit Cherry Blossom is kinda stretching it, too, but in google images there’s a Turkish Delight ‘mini-bar’ in a purplish-pink wrapping, and the aforementioned Big Turk, which is definitely in bar format.
Do Girl Scout cookies count? A few years ago, when I was living in my old town, the GS council test-marketed a sugar-free brownie. I never tasted it, but I was told by multiple people that they never thought a brownie could be disgusting, but this was, and that’s why it didn’t go into wide circulation in following years.
If you’re talking about just “chocolate” candy bars, Baby Ruth and Butterfinger are at the bottom of my list. If you expand it to anything that calls itself candy, there’s nothing worse than Laffy Taffy, which is not only disgusting, but also sticks to your mouth so you can never completely get it out of your mouth, which means you can’t wash or gargle out the taste.
Please let me add my nomination: Charleston Chews.
Some alien artificially flavored “nougat” that tastes vaguely of cherry or chocolate with a weird, greasy, overly sweet chewy texture, covered in “chocolate” that is applied with the same technology used to electroplate silver. There’s no other explanation for how they get that layer so thin.
Hershey chocolate (their bar of straight chocolate) tastes terrible. Some Americans like it, but only because Hershey’s market dominance there means they don’t often get to taste the better stuff.
Even worse (in my opinion) is the Canadian “Eat-More” candy bar, which may or may not contain cherries because the factory sometimes throws deformed Cherry Blossoms into the ingredient vat. (It’s true!)
Bah. I’ve eaten great chocolate; I worked for awhile with a pastry chef who ordered magnificent 10 lb bars of Scharffen Berger that I got to nibble on while chiseling off chunks for ganache. And while Hersheys is of course not in that league, it’s perfectly delicious for what it is. The soured milk tang to it ain’t to everyone’s taste, but I like it.
Guess I’ll give Butterfinger longevity points, but CC came along and made it more ingestible.
Someone gave the thumbs down to Eat-More bars; I’ve heard them dissed elsewhere, too, but I can stomach them, despite it being maybe 30 years since I last had one.
Another Canadian voting for Eat-Mores.
I don’t know if they still make them, but Pep Chews were truly bad too.
In other candy gone bad, may I offer nasty little purple chewy pellets called Thrills. They look like candy covered rat poop. The awesome thing though is that the makers are totally aware of how bad they are because printed on the package is - “Thrills. They still taste like soap!”
Ah, nostalgia!