Worst Candy Flavors: Your Top Three

[Oliveloaf]

In no particular order:

Green Apple
Banana
Strawberry

This goes for a lot of things, like Splurpees, not just candy.

Fake apple is hideous.

[Queen Tonya]

Apple
Mint
Banana


I'm with you on the apple thing. I like apples, all types of them, but when I'm expecting a nice lime lifesaver and there's some fake appleness instead, that's unpleasant.

[Zuul]

Banana
Root Beer
Black Licorice

[Sarahfeena]

See now, I love green apple.

Black licorice is #1. It actually makes me feel a little nauseated.
Lemon...I like it in desserts, but not in candy for some reason.
Root Beer I don't like in general.

[OtakuLoki]

1. Licorice, and anise in general. It's a flavor that I find utterly incomprehensible that people like it.
2. Cherry. Bleh.
3. Root Beer flavor is not meant for candy.


I'll be glad to trade any of the above for your sour apple flavored candies, though.

[Taumpy]

Strawberry. I hate the flavor of fake strawberry.
Purple. Not grape, but like the flavor of "grape" soda. Can only be accurately described as purple.
Buttered Popcorn, of Jelly Belly fame.

Banana
Root Beer
Black Licorice

I like all of these. In fact, substitute Blue Raspberry for Licorice and you've got my favorite childhood popsicle pack. Oh man, how I loved those root beer popsicles.

[Orual]

1. Licorice/anise. Blech.
2. Sour apple. The very smell nauseates me.
3. Anything "bubble gum" flavored that isn't actually bubble gum.

Root beer flavoring is a close runner up -- it didn't come to mind simply because I haven't eaten it in so long.

[beebs]

Licorice
Pina Colada
Banana

[Hatshepsut]

Strawberry.
Banana.
Chocolate mint.

Mostly just strawberry though. Like Taumpy, I really, really loathe artificial strawberry flavor.

[Cluricaun]

You're all crazy, fake banana is the best. Like in Banana Quik. I could drink a gallon of that stuff.

I'd say.........

Lime
Mint Chocolate
Buttered Popcorn (don't smoke weed and eat Jelly Bellys kids.)

[jali]

Licorice
Root Beer
Cotton Candy

[Oliveloaf]

Licorice
Root Beer
Cotton Candy

These are all pretty bad fakes.

[terrifel]

1. horehound
2. horehound
3. horehound

Even liquorice's nastiness is not even in the same order of magnitude. Horehound does not even faintly resemble a candy. It looks like something that fell down behind the china cupboard and was there for years and years, and then somehow wound up in the candy dish. It tastes like an accident. It is dusty and turdlike. If by chance you put one in your mouth, you are immediately alarmed and think, "This was a terrible, terrible mistake." Horehound lingers shamefully in the mouth. It has been decades since I was last persuaded to ingest horehound; yet the memory of its hideous flavor is clear. If horehound were a new product, its makers would be sent to jail. There is no excuse for peddling a product named “horehound” to children under the pretense that is a kind of candy. What the fuck IS horehound anyway? NOBODY KNOWS. Rats will not eat horehound.

People still make horehound! WHY? Who the hell buys it? I will tell you: deranged elderly people, whose memories and taste buds have both ossified into uselessness. They dimly recall that horehound is a type of candy, and so they continue to purchase it for their unsuspecting grandchildren. They no longer remember that they hated horehound, and fought tooth and nail to avoid eating it; but were forced to do so because their parents were suckered into believing some obscure snake oil hokum about its supposed medicinal benefits. And so the curse is passed on even unto the last generation. Generally speaking I have extreme respect for our valued elderly; but the ones who buy horehound really need to hurry up and die off now.

[Oliveloaf]

I kinda like horehound...

I buy it at Crakerbarrel whenever I drive from Chicago to Detroit.

[terrifel]

I kinda like horehound...

I buy it at Crakerbarrel whenever I drive from Chicago to Detroit.

This seems frankly anomalous, insofar as horehound is endlessly horrible. Have you not noticed this?

It is not reasonable that you should like horehound. Horehound doesn't like you.

I suppose it is possible that the 'horehound' sold at the Cracker Barrel is some sort of mock horehound; an actually enjoyable candy, that is simply LABELED 'horehound.' It may have no more relation to actual horehound than those barrels have to genuine rustic coopers.

On the other hand, I guess it is not totally outside the realm of possibility that a human being might actually seek out the taste of horehound, due perhaps to some obscure dietary deficiency or childhood trauma. My brother had a habit of chewing styrofoam cups. Rural Appalachian communities reportedly had a practice of eating dirt. Why? Probably because they couldn’t get horehound.

The human animal is a multivarious, unpredictable organism. This is not to say that we should condone such deviant behavior, or consider it as anything other than grossly maladaptive pathology. Whatever the origin of your disorder, the fact remains that your freakish purchases are subsidizing the continued existence of the horehound industry, a situation that shames us all. For the sake of the children, I beg you to seek a more palatable snack substitute, such as vermiculite or spackling compound.

[Oliveloaf]

I suppose it is possible that the 'horehound' sold at the Cracker Barrel is some sort of mock horehound; an actually enjoyable candy, that is simply LABELED 'horehound.' It may have no more relation to actual horehound than those barrels have to genuine rustic coopers.

This is entirely possible, and something I had not considered.

The ONLY horehound candy I have ever tasted is the stuff from
Cracker Barrel.

To that same end, there aint much cola in cola.

[Oliveloaf]

On the other hand, I guess it is not totally outside the realm of possibility that a human being might actually seek out the taste of horehound, due perhaps to some obscure dietary deficiency or childhood trauma. My brother had a habit of chewing styrofoam cups. Rural Appalachian communities reportedly had a practice of eating dirt. Why? Probably because they couldn’t get horehound.

Well, at the age of four I was forgotten in a YMCA pool for several minutes. I recall floating helplessly, water wings blocking my view to the sides, 'till my dad realized I was adrift. I, I...what the...I really have a craving for horehound candy...and circus peanuts.

[Zuul]

You're all crazy, fake banana is the best. Like in Banana Quik. I could drink a gallon of that stuff.

Artificial banana is the taste of evil.

[Oliveloaf]

Artificial banana is the taste of evil.

Wrapped in sin.

[Oliveloaf]

Speaking of cola...

Bottle Caps candy comes in really foul cola and root beer flavors.

[Taumpy]

I must agree that Banana flavored Quik is pretty damn awesome. I haven't seen it around here in years.

[Orual]

Horehound kind of tastes like Ricola cough drops. Also, it was a favored candy of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Anyways, I'd rather have horehound than sour apple.

[Exy]

See now, I love green apple.

It's people like YOU who are ruining the world by causing them to change all the lime candy to green apple! :Shake:


PS Also, that lovely flavor in anise/licorice/fennel is awesome everywhere, in either sweet or savory foods. Mmm, Pfeffernüsse.

[Oliveloaf]

It's people like YOU who are ruining the world by causing them to change all the lime candy to green apple! :Shake:

Exactly.

God protect green Life Savers.