The 5 Worst Candies of All Time
Handsome Donkey gives us the 5 Worst Candies of all time in this handy video that illustrates typical human reactions to eating such candies:
Who are the sugary perpetrators? Paper Dots , Wax Bottles, Chewing Tobacco (certainly a bad candy since it's not even candy), Circus Peanuts and Necco wafers (tie), and the number one criminal to all candy kind, Giant Jawbreakers.
While I don't necessarily agree that these are the worst candies of all time, I do think that they all suck. Out of everything on the list I've only had the displeasure of eating wax bottles and jawbreakers, probably because they came with goody bags from childhood parties and kids will eat anything artificially colored and borderline toxic as long as it's sweet (me being one of these kids). I distinctly remember chewing on a wax bottle, feeling perplexed because it was missing a property of food that I tend to hold in high regard—that is, digestibility—and then spitting it out, thinking that it would only be worth biting through the inconvenient wax receptacle if the liquid inside were some kind of serum that gave you superpowers or increased brain functionality, which it did not. If anything, it may have lowered my brain activity.
There's a lot of questionable candy out there. Bad Candy knows the horrors of these confections all too well.
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9 Comments:
circus peanuts are one of my guilty pleasures!
j at 1:32PM on 06/14/07
I love Necco wafers!
Fiksu at 1:38PM on 06/14/07
I've always wondered what circus peanuts and Necco wafers tasted like. Seems like some people like em...or hate them with a burning passion. :P Should I buy them to find out for myself?
roboppy at 2:06PM on 06/14/07
I also love necco wafers...how sad they are considered one of the worst candies. I love the licorice flavored one.
malenky at 4:39PM on 06/14/07
Malenky, I think you would hate me...as I hate licorice flavor. :[ Or highly dislike it. Once a friend made me try a piece of salted licorice gum and my response after a bit of chewing was something like, "NOOOOOOOOOOO OOO OOOO OOOOOO."
roboppy at 6:04PM on 06/14/07
I love circus peanuts!
iheartveggies at 10:13PM on 06/14/07
Paper dots? How can you hate a paper dot? They just there all pastel and cute...
What have paper dots ever done to you?
Deb07 at 9:21AM on 06/15/07
I definitely experienced all of those when I was younger. The only thing I liked were paper dots.
And also, I think that might be Big League Chew, not chewing tobacco? You know, that shredded gum little leaguers would chew that lost it's taste in 2.3 seconds?
Charise at 3:27PM on 06/15/07
I definitely experienced all of those when I was younger. The only thing I liked were paper dots.
And also, I think that might be Big League Chew, not chewing tobacco? You know, that shredded gum little leaguers would chew that lost its taste in 2.3 seconds?
Charise at 3:28PM on 06/15/07