It HAS to be those miniature wax bottles with the multi-colored warm sugar water. Yuck. Who buys that?
The only other thing that came that close to being that repulsive was some Cherry Clan knockoff by a generic candy company. Worst chemical aftertaste ever.
When I was 5 or so I got this candy called a “Sugar Daddy”. It pulled about 3 of my teeth out and I haven’t had one since.
This isn’t so much a disgusting candy, but a disgustingly named one. When I was a kid there was a candy that was sort of chocolatey, but kind of odd tasteing. They were black and hard on the outside, and white and gooey on the inside.
I don’t know what the official name was - but the common name was “negro toes” (often with negro not quite pronounced that way).
I think its a “regional” candy. It was cheap and mainly found in old fashioned grocery stores in plain bags. I swear it existed. Those and candy cigarettes are probably now out of the picture.
My vote would go to the chalk-like tiny candy dots that came on a sheet of 3"x12" paper. There was no way in Hell to peel one of the dots off without the bottom of it being coated with paper fiber. YECCHHH!
ALso any kind of “jewelry” candy (bracelets; necklaces; etc) especially in the summer.
-Can you say bee magnet?-
OK, how about Good ‘n’ Plenty, anything black licorice flavored, or . . . a blast from the past . . .
“C. Howard’s” gum (in the shiny purple pack that looked like it hadn’t changed since the 1800s). Everyone called it “Choward’s”, of course. Nasty. Tasted like perfume.
I know how hard it was for you to say that, and I admire you for it. However, dill dip with extra garlic might have helped.
saudade and monkeypants, y’all best NOT be dissing Sugar Daddies and Good and Plenty. Second through fourth grades were spent destroying my molars with Fireballs and Sugar Daddies and I still love Good and Plenty.
I nominate Hollywood for making the very worst candybars: Milk Shake, Zero, and Zagnut. Gaaaaaaaak!
Anything watermelon just makes me want to spew. Of course that all stems from when I won the watermelon eating contest over 10 years ago.
Anything coconut too. It’s like eating hair, bleeech.
Whatchamacallit. Used to be sooo damn good but then they added caramel and it just ruined the taste.
Crunchy m&ms, although those are British, right?
Lik-M-Aid. I loved it but oh god you’re just sick by the end. For those who don’t know there were a few sugar sticks which you would lick and then stick in several pouches, each of which had a different color and flavor of sugar. Pixie sticks times 1000. Gives me a headache just thinking about em.
Oh yeah, Happy Halloween. Was candy corn originally an Iowa thing? Was it a subversive plot by parents to get kids to eat their veggies? Like they wouldn’t know the difference…
Ooh, here in Hawaii we have this, umm …, treat that is called li hing mui. It’s basically dried prunes with LOADS of spices (or something like that, exactly what it is escapes me). Needless to say it’s an acquired taste. I had been talking about it and descided to get my cousin and his GF from Georgia to give it a try. I gave them each a medium to small size piece they put it in their mouth and OH MY GOD their expressions went straight to absolute horror. They ran all the way across the store out the door and were on the verge of throwing up as I was laughing my ass off. And the aftertaste just wouldn’t go away. I can’t recall exactly how they described it but I know the word foaming was in there. Not American American but HEY we are American you know!
Whenever I have tasted black licorice, I have had to quickly spit it out and race to find anything to remove the offensive residue of the taste from my mouth.
I don’t particularly like red licorice either–not that the flavor of Twizzlers or other red licorice is bad, but it’s not really good either. It’s kind of like eating soft plastic. Might as well get some pleasure when you consume empty calories. Ergo, no need to waste time with Twizzlers.
Jelly bean type products can be either really good or really awful, depending on the manufacturer and freshness.
I never particularly liked Necco wafers. (I’m not a Neccophiliac.) Are those made in America?
Cinnamon Altoids. I am addicted to them (to the extent where I have to get my fix from Cybercandy, being a UK-dweller) but they don’t go down too well with anyone else. Not that it distresses me unduly, you understand.
I’ll have to second both Good N Plenty as well as candy corn.
I think my unfortunate experience with Good N Plenty as a child contributed to my intense dislike of that candy, however. While in 1st or 2nd grade, the kid next to me threw up on his desk after having eaten Good N Plenty. I can still remember the smell of that…
I’ll add to the list:
Some candy I don’t remember the name of, but it was like mushy jelly beans coated in sugar. They were rectangular shaped and came in packs of like 5 or 6. I think it was the consistency that made them seem so gross to me.
And, yeah Sugar Daddys would break your teeth off if you weren’t careful. Another one in that category are Mary Janes.