# What candy shape do you want next? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006 "2008-03-19T23:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![micro-dust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@micro-dust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micro-dust)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/1 "2008-03-19T23:28:46Z")
Ever get bored with candy and snacks that haven’t changed shape in half a century? We’ve got gummi bears and worms and lizards. But why not the whole circus, like animal crackers? And I think lots of people would like candy in the shapes of household pets. Instead of sweet-tart candy hearts, there would be cats, dogs, bunnies, goldfish. You could probably get a dozen different dog and cat poses, long hair short hair and poodle. Little crackers shaped like sports equipment, various balls bats gloves helmets skateboards. Or perhaps take those chocolate-covered bridge biscuits that have quaint LuLu on them and instead have portraits of famous mobsters? Or … ---
**Author:** ![micro-dust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@micro-dust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micro-dust)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/2 "2008-03-19T23:36:52Z")
Sorry, the name is not Lu Lu but just Lu [http://grosphacochere.free.fr/bokepic/petitecolier2.jpg](http://grosphacochere.free.fr/bokepic/petitecolier2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/3 "2008-03-19T23:49:20Z")
[Gummi FUN](http://www.germandeli.com/hagegucaintu.html) I adore the arsh mit ohren, smurfs, and weisse mause =) and tend to keep them around. The smurfs and buttheads were a great hit at work on my desk=) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/4 "2008-03-19T23:57:25Z")
Mickey Mouse shape? Smarties shape? Amphibious landing craft shape? Poke in the eye shape? 😃 CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/5 "2008-03-20T00:21:27Z")
Fat Buddha Shiva Ganesha ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/6 "2008-03-20T04:14:29Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Fat Buddha Shiva Ganesha [/QUOTE] What would those be, Sri-Tarts? ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/7 "2008-03-20T11:52:40Z")
I want a life-size gummi hand with candy-cigarette-type chalky bones. Opaque flesh-colored outer gummi layer, red cherry gummi interior. ---
**Author:** ![Soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/8 "2008-03-20T12:47:43Z")
I love foods that look like foods other than that food which they themselves are. Gummi steaks, hamburgers shaped like hot dogs and served in a wiener bun, chocolate porkchops, they’re the light of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/9 "2008-03-20T13:15:55Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] What would those be, Sri-Tarts? [/QUOTE] Could be. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/10 "2008-03-20T16:59:55Z")
Mobius (Moebius?)-shaped candy. Could be taffy, licorice, gummi-candy… It’d be _really_ cool if they made it like a pull-n-peel thing where the end of the thin strand went around and around and around and eventually came right back to where it started 🆒 . ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/11 "2008-03-20T21:46:01Z")
More candy should be shaped like cars, airplanes, buildings, musical instruments, and weapons of mass destruction. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/12 "2008-03-20T22:56:14Z")
Mushrooms. Oh, and representations of things like viruses (like giantmicrobes) and mathematical concepts. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/13 "2008-03-21T03:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=Viridiana] … mathematical concepts. [/QUOTE] Π, mmmmmmmm, me like π. CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/14 "2008-03-21T09:36:39Z")
A friggin Gummi DeMilo already. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/15 "2008-03-21T16:32:42Z")
[QUOTE=Viridiana] Mushrooms. Oh, and representations of things like viruses (like giantmicrobes) and mathematical concepts. [/QUOTE] Pi? ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/16 "2008-03-21T17:05:19Z")
Sure…cherry, banana cream, chocolate mousse…all kinds of flavors of pi. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/17 "2008-03-21T17:28:07Z")
Gummi crucifix. Sacrelicious. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/18 "2008-03-21T17:31:43Z")
Non-Euclidean. Mmmmm…Gummi Cthulhu. R’lyeh good stuff! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/19 "2008-03-21T17:43:17Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > Gummi crucifix. Sacrelicious. “This is My body . . .” ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-candy-shape-do-you-want-next/442006/20 "2008-03-21T19:07:20Z")
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