# Most disgusting American candy ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729 "2001-10-06T02:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/61 "2001-10-07T19:35:42Z")
I only saw one mention of **Sen-sens** in this entire thread. Don’t know if that means that most folks have never run accross these vile creations, or were pre-warned by those more experienced. Strongly reminiscent of black licorise and Zest soap. ::gagging:: ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/62 "2001-10-07T20:18:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ogre \* > …he said **boldly**. > > And my real name’s Tom, too. Who’d have guessed? **Ogre** …just didn’t want you to think your Tom Swift joke went unnoticed. Nice. 🙂 And here’s another vote for Peeps. Bleargh. ---
**Author:** ![truthbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@truthbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthbot)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/63 "2001-10-07T23:48:59Z")
My vote goes for ‘Ribbon Candy’. Those nasty curls of hard candy, _flavored with wintergreen_, that stuck together in a sucrose still-life in Grandmother’s candy dish. They were abundant back in the fifties and sixties. A toddler’s version of fly-paper, the child is attracted to the ‘treat’ by it’s shiny appearance and the ‘pretty’ red and green stripes. After one innocent lick; your hair stuck to it, your fingers stuck together, and you remained held fast to the first unmovable object you encountered. I thought the dusty wax fruit arrangement on Grandmother’s coffee table tasted better.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tapioca\_tundra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@tapioca\_tundra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapioca_tundra)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/64 "2001-10-07T23:52:39Z")
back in the 80’s Hubba Bubba came out with a FUDGE flavor bubble gum. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/65 "2001-10-08T00:10:35Z")
You people have no taste! I love black licorice, mmmmmm Good n Plenty mmmmmm Peeps, wonderful marshmellowness (better when stale) Bit-o-Honey yum, beside juju beads and raisinettes the ultimate movie theater candy. Just so you know Sen-Sen is more of a breath mint than a candy, it more for mature tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sota_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/66 "2001-10-08T03:53:21Z")
Just for the record… candy cigarettes still exist. But now they call them candy stix and they don’t have the pink on one end that was supposed to be the “cherry”. ---
**Author:** ![Holly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/48db29/32.png) [@Holly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Holly)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/67 "2001-10-08T04:21:51Z")
truthbot: > [@](#): > > My vote goes for ‘Ribbon Candy’. Those nasty curls of hard candy, flavored with wintergreen, that stuck together in a sucrose still-life in Grandmother’s candy dish. They were abundant back in the fifties and sixties. Good heavens; I thought I’d successfully repressed that memory! Those were just horrid! They were so unpopular that my grandma’s bowl of them remained untouched year after year, knick-knack-like. Except for occasional dusting, everyone sort of forgot they were there until I came along and tasted them during the mid-seventies. I agree that the plastic fruit was much more palatable. (Your grandma’s name wasn’t Jenette, was it?) Another awful treat was the candy my piano teacher and his wife were always forcing on me. I guess they bought a case of this stuff because it was cheap, then realized they couldn’t even _give_ it away. It was called “Now N Later”: about 5 flat squares that resembled the yet-to-be-invented Starburst. Now N Later was the sort of thing you were supposed to chew, yet this was impossible: the best you could do was to dent it a little with your teeth. After a minute or two of that, the jaw and tooth pain was debilitating. They were much harder to chew than even Bit O’ Honey. The texture was like ancient, dried-out Silly Putty, yet it didn’t taste anywhere near that good. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/68 "2001-10-08T04:48:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmeelMeel \* > \*\*Just for the record… candy cigarettes still exist. But now they call them candy stix and they don’t have the pink on one end that was supposed to be the “cherry”. \*\* I’m not so sure about that. I bought some candy cigarettes at the “Candy Man” store in Wisconsin for my nephew about 5 months ago. I can’t honestly say if the word “cigarette” was on the package because i don’t remember, but the package did look exactly like a real cigarette, and the candy did have the pink on the tip. I remember the pink tip because i recall my nephew saying how that was supposed to be the “fire”, as he put it. Candy cigarettes can also be bought here: [http://www.groovycandies.com/NewCandyView.asp?NewCandyViewDB\_Action=Filter("(CandyName+LIKE+'%cigar%')+OR+(SearchKeyWords+LIKE+'%cigar%')")&NewCandyViewDB\_Position=PAR:](http://www.groovycandies.com/NewCandyView.asp?NewCandyViewDB_Action=Filter%28%22%28CandyName+LIKE+%27%25cigar%25%27%29+OR+%28SearchKeyWords+LIKE+%27%25cigar%25%27%29%22%29&NewCandyViewDB_Position=PAR:) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/69 "2001-10-08T04:50:20Z")
I have no idea what that mess was about! :rolleyes: Try this instead. Search for candy cigarettes: > **[Groovy Candies Candy Store for Halloween candy ,wholesale candy](https://www.groovycandies.com/)** > > Visit Groovy Candies for a great selection of Halloween candy and retro candy. Shop for event candy and fun candy gifts like retro candy collections. We have bulk candy, theater candy and parade candy. Sign up for a wholesale account and buy... ---
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/70 "2001-10-08T21:30:47Z")
At least in America, we have a choice. Since the Taliban took over in Afghanistan, the Kandahar Candy Shop has only been allowed to sell black licorice and carob-covered yak innards (sinews, intestines, organs), because pleasure is deemed an evil abomination. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/71 "2001-10-08T22:05:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by even sven \* > \*\*My great grandma used to buy a certain candy mix that was mostly carmels and that sort of thing. There was one type, however, that was disgusting beyond beleif. It had a chewy-white body flecked with little brightly colored gummy bits…sort of like the the candy version of fruit cake. Yech! \*\* EEewwwww…I remember that one. Bleagh! Pfooo! It claimed to be nougat, but it was all crusty and gross on the outside. Eeeewwww… Fenris, grossed out by a memory. ---
**Author:** ![Tiggamoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tiggamoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggamoo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/72 "2001-10-08T22:23:19Z")
Twizzlers are so gross. They taste like plastic. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/73 "2001-10-08T22:56:46Z")
Fun Dip Take a three section puch, one with a candy stick, and two other puches with flavored kool-aid mix or jell-o powder, you decide. You lick the stick and dip into the powder, then lick it off the stick. Eventually the stick is consumed as well.I _ate_ this stuff in my youth. I don’t know if they still make it, but I swear I see it out of the corner of my eye like some remembered childhood horror. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/74 "2001-10-08T22:59:09Z")
How about Clove gum? Clove-flavored. Yes, Cloves. Those things you stick in ham. You don’t think that would make a good gum flavor? I heartily agree. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/75 "2001-10-08T23:19:50Z")
First, another vote for Peeps. I’m not that crazy about real marshmallows, anyway, but those things are revolting. And licorice certainly invites passionate feelings–no one is neutral about licorice. I’m firmly in favor. Glad to see someone else had a grandmother’s candy dish that consisted of a single solid ball of stuck-together ribbon candy. But here’s a new one… cherry cordials. Those chocolate-covered cherry things that come in boxes of assorted chocolates. Picking one of those (instead of a yummy caramel) was like losing the lottery…only worse. Like a lottery where if you lose, they beat you up. ---
**Author:** ![zigaretten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/91b2a8/32.png) [@zigaretten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zigaretten)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/76 "2001-10-08T23:34:41Z")
Horehounds !! They sound disgusting, they look disgusting; and they taste worse than the two together. [http://www.chocolatevault.com/\_sweetsuitepages/horehound.htm](http://www.chocolatevault.com/_sweetsuitepages/horehound.htm) ---
**Author:** ![sloanaheadayou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sloanaheadayou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sloanaheadayou)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/77 "2001-10-09T00:02:57Z")
The most disgusting American candy is actually from Germany - It’s tobacco flavored hard candy. Like sucking a chaw of tobacco. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/78 "2001-10-09T00:42:34Z")
C. Howard’s violet mints are still being manufactured. love 'em. Here in Massachusetts you can still buy them at Newbury Comics and (God knows why) Plymouth Plantation. C.Howard’s also makes violet-flavored gum, and has apparently recently branched out into other flavors. We have a roll (actually, they’re square with rounded corners) of lemon candy from them. My vote for worst candy: Necco wafers. I hate them. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/79 "2001-10-09T01:30:36Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by zigaretten_ > Horehounds !! > > They sound disgusting, they look disgusting; and they taste worse than the two together. Horehounds are awesome!!! I love those candies. > [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by truthbot_ > My vote goes for ‘Ribbon Candy’. Those nasty curls of hard candy, flavored with wintergreen, that stuck together in a sucrose still-life in Grandmother’s candy dish. They were abundant back in the fifties and sixties. I love ribbon candy. I stockpile the stuff after Christmas candy goes on sale. My family says I have a messed up taste in candy 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729/80 "2001-10-09T04:34:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Mofo Rising \* > > \*\* > > I’ve also never been able to purchase a **Chik-O-Stik** but Lord it doesn’t look good. > > > > \*\* > > Hey I like those. They are basically the inside part of a butterfinger if you must know. \*\* Chik-o-Sticks _are_ great, but has anyone ever seen one that wasn’t broken? For disgusting candy, how about NutRageous bars? They taste ok, but a chocolate-coated Payday looks a little too …_graphic_ for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disgusting-american-candy-ever/85729.md?page=5)