The disgusting Harry Potter every flavour beans. They had jelly belly jelly beans that tasted like dirt, grass, booger, vomit, ear wax, and others I can’t remember.
I tried Hershey’s (American chocolate) before and it tasted absolutely disgusting. it will never ever come remotely close to Dairy Milk or Galaxy
Black licorice.
I firmly believe candy should be sweet; not bitter.
Bitter? You must have had some weird fake crap. I’ve never had any liquorice that bitter, and I’m Swedish and love liquorice.
Came here to say this and saw this comment.
This is the correct answer.
There’s fake black licorice, and there’s the real stuff. Two very different experiences!
Both trash.
I’m upvoting you not because I agree (I don’t, I love black licorice), but because you touch on a good point that if someone doesn’t like black licorice, they’re probably not going to like any black licorice regardless of quality. Maybe there’s some exceptions out there that like bougie black licorice and not the basic twizzlers stuff, but anecdotally I’ve tried introducing the fancier brands to a few friends who don’t like black licorice, and not one has given a single fuck.
If we had pearls here in Scandinavia we’d all be clutching them right now.
Surely you looted some pearls back in the 700’s from innocent townsfolk.
And even if it’s not sweet, it can at least be tangy, sour, or tart.
Black licorice just taste like fucking death
It is evidence of how bad life used to be. If that shit was the treat, what was normal food like?!
Ah, yes, the world before refined sugar, lol
I got a monthly food box for my wife a number of years ago. Each month they sent snacks from a different country.
I can’t remember which country it was from, but one month we got some round, hard candies. It was one of the most unfortunate things I have ever intentionally put into my mouth.
I don’t even remember the flavor (licorice, maybe?), because my brain attempted to bleach it out.
Everything else was usually tasty, though.
That may have been one of the Scandinavian countries. Sorry.
If you have any leftover, plz send.
My wife looked it up. It’s a hard licorice candy with a salty filling from the Netherlands called Napolean Zwart-Wit (which loosely translates to “tarred scrotum”).
Well, licorice is definitely up there.
There’s some pralines that with some alcohol based filling that’s also really gross.
But I still remember I was a kid and my parents bought these cheese crackers. They were awful, the it was a bit crumbly but they had this really bad taste of something I can only describe as for fungus & cream cheese. I literally had to take a break and concentrate on not barfing even though we just wanted to play tabletop games. I know it’s not sweet but that stuff lives rent-free in my head to this day.
One Halloween as a kid we got gummy false teeth. It looked exactly like how you think it would look. I cant actually remember how it tasted, but it want good. Second was some sugar free sour patch kid clones, they mostly tasted like soap.
Black licorice. Or anything containing black licorice. It’s just fucking disgusting.
American or South African chocolate products.
NOT an anti-American/-Saffer thing. They add butyric acid, which tastes like vomit to the rest of the world. (Accurate, as vomit contains it).
Presumably because the market there have been trained to expect that flavour for some reason. To the rest of us, a US or ZA origin is usually a sign to avoid.
Growing up and living in the US and then accidentally learning to taste the butyric acid after tasting chocolate without it made me sad :(
A colleague came back from the US with a big back of mini Hershey’s flavours. Most were ok but I legitimately thought the standard plain flavour had spoilt.
Oh my God is that why I taste vomit if I eat a Hershey’s bar then drink a glass of water
That reason is because Hersey chocolate was the first chocolate the common American could afford and the processing method that Hersey used to produce it would create butyric acid from the milk. Now they add it back in because customers complained when they refined the process.
While in American, in right there with you. Aldi fortunately imports a good selection of chocolate so not all of us have to suffer.
That explains a lot, thanks.
Aldi has such awesome chocolate! Thanks for pointing out the reason.
I tried to like the Aldi chocolate bars but they leave this strange fatty coating in my mouth after eating them. I don’t experience that with other brands.
We usually get things like the chocolate covered cashews or sea salt caramels. They occasionally have some peanut butter or maybe cashew butter cups and those I remember being really good.
Those Choceur bars are pretty good. My favorite treat are Droste pastilles but the aldi bars will do.
Black licorice is just horrific. I try it every once in a while as I age thinking “Old people like this, maybe I’m old enough to like it myself, now”, but no. It’s still an instant headache/nausea combo at one taste. Ugh.
I’m seeing a lot of black licorice mentions, but there’s a special hell for Läkerol’s menthol black licorice.
This just brings to mind the dreaded menthol filter tipped liquorice roll up. These were never intentionally done, but running out of either ordinary tips or blue rizla would often end up with being the only option.
I quite cigs years ago but for some reason I’m really craving one of these right now, ha ha.
:adds to shopping cart
That sounds delicious what
I need to find this
When I was a kid someone gave me a “buttered popcorn” flavored dum-dum sucker. It tasted so terrible that it gave me a taste aversion to real buttered popcorn for nearly 2 decades.
I was coming into this thread to mention buttered popcorn flavor jellybeans.
It was bad.
… Those are my favorite
😦
Well, it’s a win win. You can have them
At my place of work, one project we worked on involved a lot of contractors from a place based in China. (The project was an absolute cluster-fuck all the way from soup to nuts, but that’s a story for another day.) When the project concluded, they sent our office a thank-you gift box of various Chinese snacks.
One of the snacks was a… dried… meat… “candy”… I guess? The taste wasn’t “sweet” so much. It tasted like it had been dipped in perfume. And the texture of the meat was hard to describe. Not chewy like jerky, and it didn’t have that highly-processed Slim Jim sort of texture to it. Maybe it was sortof freeze-dried or something? I also couldn’t identify what animal the meat might have come from. (And I couldn’t read the text on the packaging.)
I’m not sure whether it was just an acquired taste or rather a practical joke by the folks at the Chinese company. Lol.
Sounds like meat floss. I’ve never had it, but several variations pop up pretty high when I sort snacks on Yami (Asian snack shopping site) by popularity.
I’ve been meaning to try this - I’ve found it in stores a couple times now, but it just sits on my shelf. I imagine there’s an expiration and it’s long past
Very likely! What I had was formed and individually wrapped in little wrappers like you might expect Werther’s caramels to come in, bu the texture does sound similar to that. Neat!
Was it a little cube? A Taiwanese exchange student once gave me a few “fish-tidbits”. Holy shit those things were the fishiest things I’ve ever tasted. Just concentrated chum bucket, instant bad breath. I’m sure that cats would love them, but I’m still not convinced that she wasn’t pulling my leg giving me a cat treat or what was essentially a bouillon cube and calling it “candy”.
I don’t remember it being fishy or cube-shaped. If I had to guess the meat, I’d guess beef or pork. And the shape was roughly spherical, but kindof… lumpy? It looked like it had been maybe torn off of a larger chunk of meat and then formed a bit.
Was it like eating cold hot dog meat? These sound like fish/beef balls used in soup like pho though they’re a Vietnamese thing.
The mention of “cold” makes me think you’re thinking they were prepared food of some sort or at least “wet”. These were shelf-stable, individually-wrapped “candies” (I think the note on the gift box even referred to them as “candies”) that came in a larger, plastic bag with art and text printed on it. Like you might think of bags of, say, these. Except they were a dried meat product, not losenges or caramels or whatever. And they weren’t “sweet” the way you think of candy. They tasted like you might imagine something dipped in perfume (and then dried) might taste. One more detail: I remember them being drier than any jerkey I’d ever eaten. They simply didn’t have enough moisture in them to have any heat conductivity to speak of. (Asking if they were cold is like asking if room-temperature Rice Crispies dry and straight from the box are “cold”.)
I guess I meant “cold” in the sense of “uncooked” hot dogs that have a very distinct texture, but it doesn’t sound like these are the same as what I’m thinking of either way.
any American chocolate tastes like vomit
Only if you didn’t grow up with it. Also it’s just Hershey (and derivative brands, which is many)
Licorice, that funny retro looking shit with the black and bright colors
Allsorts, we call em. They taste of chalk and disappointment.
Twinnings did an Allsorts flavoured Earl Grey at one point that was the best thing I ever drank.
I’m one of those that rather like Allsorts though, the bobbly jelly ones particularly. I wouldn’t really call Allsorts liquorice though, liquorice flavoured maybe.
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.
