You beat me to it. Pre-spoiled marshmallows. Godawful stuff more suitable for use as tile grout.
I agree with Mann Slaughter on the paper dot “candy”. I mean, even if the paper didn’t stick when you ate them, they were bad.
Monkeypants, C.Howards gum, (I called it Chowards, too) is violet flavored, and I like it, but can’t find it around here. But I can get violet pastilles. I also love black licorice and anise flavored stuff. Anyone else like Sen-Sen?
greenlady, your mushy jelly beans sound like Chuckles, which I didn’t hate, but were way too sugary for me.
Thanks for the link, that_darn_cat. I’d forgotton the name, if not the experience. They may not be made here, but they are available in the US, and I actually tried Happy Plums once.
Bleaargh…!
Those sound like Chuckles! I love 'em.
If you get bored on a road trip, try this: get a cup of hot black coffee and a sugar daddy. Stir the coffee with the sugar daddy until all that caramel goodness is dissolved. Enjoy in perfect bliss.
THe worst American candy has got to be those cheap, nasty knockoffs of gummi bears. You know, you buy a bag, expecting to get those wonderfully chewy, flavorful bears, and you end up with a mouthful of toxic nastiness that dissolves at the first touch of saliva and gets all caught in the crevices of your molars.
The disappointment factor is almost as bad as the fact that they taste like crap.
EWWWW!
HEY DROPZONE!! ahem, zagnut is made by clark and is the finest candy bar known to man. so there.
You take that back! I love Reses’ stuff, as well as PB M+M’s. Also, I eat PB straight from the jar.
Keeping in topic, the worst American candy is Crunchy M+M’s. While normal M+M’s are bad enough, the junk inside the crunchy variety sinks to a new low. As mnetioned earlier, only PB M+M’s are OK, because they are devoid of chalky M+M chocolate.
Bit-o-honey.
Millions every Halloween and none of them were ever even slightly close to edible.
nasty stuff
Gotta add a third vote for Peeps to push them into the lead as Most Disgusting American Candy Ever (the prestigious MDACE award). I’ll take a circus peanut for the team any day over being forced to eat one of these marshmallow chunks of hell.
THANK YOU. I HATE Candy Corn. It’s so goddamn SWEET!!!
Icky!!!
Hey I like those. They are basically the inside part of a butterfinger if you must know.
Preach it!
Black licorice is the most vile, disgusting flavour on earth. It’s worse than brussel sprouts, it’s worse than malted milk balls, it’s even worse than beets.
How people can market this stuff as a “treat” is beyond me.
:: shudders just thinking of that flavour in her mouth ::
Blech.
Nope. Can’t stand it.
Of course I love Zero bars and I’m nuts on PEEPS, especially the stale ones. To each their own.
Another vote against Peeps. I can’t stand marshmellows. Never could, even when I was a kid.
The candy I really think is gross are those “saucer” things. They feel and taste like styrofoam, and had cunchy little beeds inside of them. Blech!
The worst part is you can TASTE the food coloring in them-it’s all bitter, like you would think a match head would taste.
Sugar Babies are good. Sugar Daddies are best broken in tiny pieces and sucking on.
Pixie Stix. Basically sugar in a straw. Not a very satisfying confectionary experience.
Peeps are awful. Peanut butter anything is sick. Malted milk balls are better used as marbles. Anything Peppermint is gross. Candycorn tastes like wax.
However, the worst American candy has to be original flavored Starburst and Skittles.
By the way, Black licorice is the best.
Necco wafers. <shudder>
Ooooooooh! Necco wafers. I actually like them weird things. They have a new “tart” version out that is actually really good, not bland like the original ones. Plus, I only live 10 minutes away via freeway from the Necco Candy Factory where they’re made. 