Also, I have kind of liked mui or Chinese dried plums when I’ve tried them, but have learned by bitter experience that (like other forms of preserved plums) they can have a significant laxative effect. Constipation sufferers take note.
Hey, Mrs. J. likes circus peanuts, but her marshmallow candy fave these days is Peeps. She has offered me some, but I’ve never been tempted by marshmallow chicks and rabbits in odd colors.
Peeps did star in one of my favorite memes, about an unfair police lineup.
I’ve noted the hate for Turkish Delight on these boards before. Don’t get me wrong - I don’t like it. Indeed. I would actively avoid it, but I can’t summon up hatred for it.
I had to check if it still exists (it does) - there’s an extra horrible version called Fry’s Turkish Delight, which is coated in milk chocolate.
j
ETA: Returning to Liquorice Allsorts - the wife reminded me that some of those evil little things aren’t just sickeningly sweet and coated in liquorice, they’re also jam-packed with desiccated coconut. Beat that for horrid.
I think a lot of the animosity is the build-up in the Narnia series, where they were presented as basically the end-all be-all of treats, leading to an inevitable letdown and lingering disappointment.
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I like licorice allsorts. I don’t love them, because the non-licorice part is weirdly bland and squishy. But i enjoy them. Of course, i like licorice.
I like licorice allsorts…
I’ve even- rarely- voluntarily bought them as an adult.
Turkish delight, on the other hand, I wouldn’t sell my brother for even right after he broke my Christmas present when I was 7. Definitely not the Fry’s rose flavour anyway. You can’t even just suck the chocolate off without getting a mouthful of the revolting perfume taste.
Well yeah, the floral Turkish delight flavors are terrible. The fruit flavors are nice.
And besides that:
(ThelmaLou crawls out of the closet and stands proud.)
I like circus peanuts.
So sue me.
For reference:
I like circus peanuts too. I probably said so in other threads, too.
It takes all sorts…
(Hur. Hur Hur…)
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I would have written the same yesterday if I had not been so tired.
But I see by the description the must be awful.
It seems that in many a country someone decided to make a living by selling something repulsive and calling it a treat for children. It seems a successful strategy.
They’re called Geleebananen, and they’re indeed sold in every supermarket. Weird that both of you haven’t heard of them.
The jelly’s consistency is similar to this, except there’s no layer of biscuit to cancel out the nastiness:
From the same people I give you „refreshment sticks“ - little chocolate sticks filled with a very liquid lemony or orange substance.
Agreed. I like them also. They are weird and one of my closest friends shares the belief that they are best day-old stale… opened fresh and left on the dashboard your service truck for a day. Just a bit hard now and the melt in your mouth slowly.
I know and ate them, but I couldn’t tell from the description what was meant. And I have to admit that I kinda like jelly bananas, Jaffa Cakes (the name I’m most familiar with for the Soft Cakes) and refreshment sticks, I know much worse candies. The latter was a always a special treat in my childhood.
Your description somewhat reminds me of Joyva Joys, which is chocolate-coated raspberry-flavored vegetarian jelly made from agar-agar. It is… not bad. Even though I love raspberry chocolate, the raspberry flavoring in Joyva Joys is a little too aggressive for my taste.
Outside of grandmothers who put them in the dish in their front rooms/parlors, I can’t say I’ve ever seen them anywhere else. Ribbon candy falls in that same use-case as well. Never seen it outside of old ladies’ sitting rooms.
You might have got some old haw candy then; the ones I’ve had have been pretty tasty- kind of like a fruit-roll-up type texture, but from haw fruit.
I like licorice allsorts!
My mom and grandma, both from Great Britain, used to get them, I think on runs to Canada where they’d pick up allsorts and other Brit delicacies like certain British brands of marmalade and salmon paste. I’ve always liked licorice, and I got a taste for that odd combo of licorice and coconut.
I also much preferred Smarties over M&Ms (British Smarties were a candy-coated chocolate like M&Ms, not to be confused with American ‘Smarties’, those tiny sour candy disks in the cellophane wrapper).
Oh! 
Thanks for the information. :scratches head:
Another from the US of A is Cow Tales. I tried them once and they tasted like sweetened flour. And indeed flour is the main ingredient.
And of course everyone should read the candy section of Finian’s Rainbow for good reference. I couldn’t find a site to link to.