Bad Candy: The 2013 Remix

[King Kamala]

So my boss gave me candy at work today because I don't know, it's the New Year or something. And it was a candy I hadn't seen before or hadn't seen in years and years called Sixlets.

It immediately brought to mind one of my favorite Czech threads at the old board.

Somehow, this candy had managed to combine the worst aspects of Reese's Pieces and Skittles and top it off, I had a weird film around my mouth for a solid fifteen minutes. Yuck!

 

[tekcop]

What are those ellipses trying to warn us about?

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Candy coated... um, "chocolate" flavoured candy.

 

[King Kamala]

Bonus anecodte: During my lunchbreak, I stopped in at the Rite Aid next to the call center for an iced tea and next to the counter, they had bags of Sixlets on sale for 80% off. Hrmph.

 

[Red Baron]

Going back to that old thread, I still think Snickers are awful.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

You're a goddamn idiot.

 

[King Kamala]

Yeah, Red Baron's virulent hatred of Snickers stands out as one of his weirder character traits. Like Czech said in the original, it's the definition of a middle of the road candy.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Of all the things I miss about the wild Burmese, access to bizarre and questionable foodstuffs ranks near the top. Their energy drink...i'm still not quite right from, and these weirdass guava candies definitely had a narcotic edge to them as well. San Yu gave me a whole goddamn bag of em because I was the only white person crazy enough to eat their whackass confections, like the "cough drops" that looked and felt like dime-sized pieces of particle board, but tasted like garlic, chewing tobacco, spearmint, and peppercorns.

So anyway, I was eating these guava deals. They're a little bigger than a Lemonhead (another bad candy), sickly sweet with that certain asian weirdness that's impossible to pinpoint, and, whether it was psychosomatic or not, proved compulsive in their consumability.

I went through the whole bag- think something the size of a halloween candy bag of tootsie rolls- in a ten hour shift. Totally felt sick, and it's not like they were even that good. It was just something I kept eating without really questioning why.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Going back to that old thread, I still think Snickers are awful.

Treble - I like them both, but sometimes Red Burrin's elitism over food items is a bit grating.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Those nougat things wrapped in orange or black wax paper that are thrown out at every parade in recorded history can fuck right off.

 

[Mattdotcom]

nah dawg (I thought they were peanut butter candies)

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

It's supposed to be peanut butter? Damn.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Maybe it's a regional thing. They're probably candied gravy in Canada.

 

[Mik]

I haven't had Sixlets since I was a child but I remember liking them.

The only candy I ever really loved was Malteasers. I ate them every other day probably when I lived in Australia but I only eat them about once a year now.

 

[Red Baron]

Big Turk is also awful.

 

[CanadianGuitarist]

Big Turk is also awful.

You're a goddamn idiot.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1309459297877872646

Not only is black licorice a BAD CANDY but now there is evidence that it can kill you!

 

[Brocklock]

One good thing about 2020 is that Black Licorice is being exposed for the trash it's always been.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

I’ve never met anyone irl that likes black licorice.

 

[909]

 

[King Kamala]

I’ve never met anyone irl that likes black licorice.

I have never met anyone under the age of 60 who likes it and now the oldsters are probably not going to eat it after this news.

 

[Smues]

Well look at all you healthy eating skinny bitches in here. Fat kids know if you want free candy you learn to like black licorice and black jelly beans. And to a lesser extent banana Runts, but there are a lot more people who like those than black licorice and jelly beans.

 

[tekcop]

I love artificial banana flavor. I don't know what you're on about.

 

[claydude14]

I throw Banana Laffy Taffys in the trash if I get a mixed bag, fuck Bananas and Banana flavored candies.