Okay so during halloween, there are these weird eyeball gummies that are not only unsettling to look at, but they also taste like sugary plastic. It’s by far the worst tasting candy I’ve ever experienced, including low quality black licorice and some weird wood bark candy.
NECO wafers. Like cardboard they taste
Can’t stand corn fructose and palm sugar based snacks. Terrible everything - engironmental impact, texture, health impact, flavor. It’s just the cheapest possible option that ruins everything it touches.
Peeps. I’ve never like marshmallow anything, really, and definitely not those abominations. Most cinnamon-flavored things. Edit: forgot one: chocolate-covered cherries. I don’t know why. I have a cherry tree and will eat the cherries off it and don’t even mind most artificially-cheery-flavored things. I also eat other fruits covered in chocolate (even durian).
The churro peeps were tasty!
(I actually like peeps, marshmallows, and cinnamon though lol)
Swede here.
Some American candy, mostly bad chocolate
I tried American chocolate once. It tasted like vomit aftertaste.
Never again.
american chocolate is just milk sugar mostly, i would like at the total cacao concentration, anything less than 70% is nasty asf, most american ones are under 40%. i heard the hersey ones they use some kind of chemical in it to make it taste the way it is. White chocolate american is the most chemically tasting and smelling of them all.
The cheap no name “chocolates” that taste like eating oil solids disguised as chocolate
Hands down absolutely nothing worse than peeps. They somehow manage to make twizzlers taste like ultra gourmet candy.
I’m curious, do you like marshmallows?
I like peeps, but also love marshmallows
Plain marshmallows on their own are fine.
I tried Hershey’s (American chocolate) before and it tasted absolutely disgusting. it will never ever come remotely close to Dairy Milk or Galaxy
There is this brittle thing of foam everyone likes to make into weird shapes like little birds… I don’t know what it is called and I don’t want too
peeps marshmellows?
Twizzlers.
I tried them in the US and it just felt like I was chewing on a piece of plastic.
On the other hand, unlike most of the people in the comments, I love licorice.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of those. I’m fine with licorice.
Twizzlers feel like some shitty capitalist found a way to turn some industrial waste byproduct edible enough to feed to kids
Yeah, what’s up with twizzlers? They look okay, I’ve read that they should taste really nice and… well, it’s chewable plastic with zero taste
Delicious, delicious carnauba wax…
The Harry Potter bean things which has awful flavors mixed in, like puke etc.
Salted liquorice.
I had a Norwegian friend who waxed lyrical about this stuff. So when I saw it for the first time in a shop, I grabbed a packet to nibble on while waiting for my train.
Plain black liquorice is delicious and salt makes everything taste better, and the Norwegian seemed like a nice, relatively normal person who enjoyed other things I liked. This was a low risk choice of mid morning snack, I thought to myself.
I was wrong. So very wrong.
This stuff tastes like it was peeled off the bottom of a shoe after walking through the city all day. It’s not salt either, it’s freaking ammonium chloride.
To paraphrase the Wikipedia:
The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensation of coal-derived gases. It is also found around some types of volcanic vents. It is a product of the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
And Scandi’s put this on liquorice and like it. Even the kids. Madness. It took my all not to heave into a bin after trying it and like six cups of black tea to get the taste out of my mouth.
I gave the Norwegian the rest of the packet and he laughed at me while I watched him eat it because I looked so horrified.
Reminds me of a story from my wife. As a kid, she was on holiday in Sweden. The ice van came, and she selected a ball of what she thought was chocolate ice. Well, it wasn’t…
ammonia
I like black licorice overall, but your description reminded me of my own worst candy experience. I brought these black licorice cat coins at World Market. The cat shapes were appropriate in the worst way. They tasted the way cat pee smells. It was completely unexpected and overpowering. I looked at the ingredients, and there was fucking ammonia in them. Horrifying. I will never understand how anyone could enjoy a candy that tastes like snacking out of the cat box.
Sounds like something that would pair well with Almond Roca for a litter box themed party.
Droppies! They’re an acquired taste. I worked with a lot of Dutch people at one point and they were always bringing them in. There was one kind I swear that had a powdered coating it was dipped in which only could have been weed killer.
As a Scandinavian I am ok with this being a general opinion outside of Scandinavia (minus a couple of countries), because that just means there’s more for us.
This stuff is like cocaine to me. Liquorice with salmiak is my favorite candy. It’s so interesting seeing people who didn’t grow up with it dispise it so much. Nowadays I don’t but it anymore because I can’t stop myself from speed running all the candy once it’s in the house.
Swede here, that Norwegian shit is weak. This is what we like.
Bought a bunch of those when I had a short visit to Karlstad recently. I’m a Norwegian, and I’ll be the first to admit that the Norwegian kind is way too weak.
It hurts, but it’s delicious. Svenskjävlar! is the world’s saltiest licorice.
Lmao, you all are built different or something. How many can you eat before it starts melting your tongue?
I mean, yeah, I’ve been salty liquorice all my life. But this is not something you binge on, it will eat up the roof of your mouth after just a few.
My go to is a combination of a sweet liquorice and a salmiak and chocolate covered almond. Pop one of each and munch away. Usually drink milk to save my stomach lining…
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I haven’t actually tried this but my friend did.
Hersheys “chocolate”. I spit it out, and a bit embarrassed, asked “could it gone bad during the flight?”
Well, obviously this stuff does taste like vomit, and Americans seem to be OK with that. Explains a lot about American behavior. If chocolate here would taste like that, we probably would have more mass shootings, too.
Hersheys used to be our only choice. However now that we have better choices, many of us are waking up to chocolate as a good thing (other than the sugar rush). It can be hard to get over the price and quantity difference though.
the good ones are pretty expensive, and most people dont buy them, they have imported bougies ones sold by WF.
Luckily, we are spoiled for choice here. German, Swiss, Belgian, English chocolate all around. And no Hersheys anywhere.
I’m allergic the something they put in mass produced milk chocolate over here I think. Idk what it is, I’ve no allergies I know of. But if I have a Hershey Kiss, my throat burns a little after, feels painful.
This doesnt happen when I have good dark chocolate, it’s only the garbage mass produced chocolate. US chocolate wasn’t always this shitty, but it sure as fuck is now. I doubt there is much actual cocoa in it these days
Probably these little lychee candy things I had years ago. No fruit flavor at all. Tasted as though someone mixed powdered blackboard chalk and sugar.
