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aeischeid @lemmy.ml

3mo ago

What would you put in the bowl?

For me it would be candy corn, or dots.

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Whoppers are 95% great. It's that gross 5% that really makes me savor the rest.
- Yea, the periodic weird one really makes it an exciting gamble.
  
  Holy crap, it wasn't just me!
- Are you taking about those weird chewy ones? Because those are my favorites.
  
  I found my people here.
  
  those are milk duds?

How about circus peanuts?
The first bite of circus peanuts tastes to me like an alien artificial intelligence had to create a sugary treat and only had petroleum by-products to make it with.
The second bite tastes like accepting your fate.
- 🤡🥜🧑‍🚀🔫👽
- I love whoppers, candy corn, dots, and circus peanuts...
  
  monster!
- Maybe once every two or three years I get in the mood for circus peanuts. I eat maybe five of them, horribly regret every decision in my life that has led to me purchasing this bag, then vowing to never touch them again.
  
  Same. The instant it touches my tongue I'm transported back to being a kid and my grandmother thinking these were amazing treats and giving them out to us and then getting really upset if we didn't finish them.
  And then I remember I have to actually eat the rest of it. So I finish off the first one and then I see the tiny little 59 cent bag that's only got four more of them in it and I feel like it would be a waste of my money and my effort in acquiring the circus peanuts and so I force myself to eat the rest of the bag and then vow to never eat them again.
  Until I forget and get another bag.
- Wait... Is it always the same circus or a brand named circus? What are circus peanuts?
  Edit: Nope found it. WTF? Do they taste like peanuts?
  
  Do they taste like peanuts?
  No. They taste like chewy sugar rubber goo. Idk how to properly describe it, but I haven't eaten them since childhood.

Stock cubes
- Joke's on you, I loved munching on those as a kid, they're basically savory candy!
  
  Well to be fair i did tried once but noped out.
  
  My aunt used to get the jello concentrate cubes. They were like intense jelly candy.
  (For anyone who has not heard of them: they were in a box, like segmented chocolate bar. But super concentrated jello base. You would tear off 2-3 cubes and add hot water, then let it set. Or as a kid tear off a cube and munch on it.)

Bouillon Cubes
- Me knew it was a bouillon spoon
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbnQZrK8xA

I leik whoppers
- I leik em too.
- Whoppers are good but the risk of getting a bad one is not worth it. Ech
  
  A bad one?

WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS SLANDER

This is so wrong! Love sucking on them Whoppers
- Did you mean to imply fellatio?
  
  Frick no!
  But for real though, I suck on the whoppers and let the malt center dissolve. Only downside is sometimes it makes the roof of your mouth raw😂

thumb drives full of maoist literature

Salty licorice
- If you're reading this and have never tried this, get some, it's a religious experience. You might find god. God might be a very sick cat.
  
  Yep, I'm a big fan. It's definitely an acquired taste, though.
- Some of that is amazing.
  If you ever see a Pantteri Mix bag, pick one up.
  Some or most salty licorice is pretty shit tho imo
  
  It is definetly an acquired taste
- I was going to say black licorice
- Can I get some? Please?

Airheads.
They taste like I imagine flavored window caulking would.

- Been thinking about them beans

Jell-O cubes. Unpackaged.

What you do is you let them dissolve in your mouth, do that and they turn into at least an A tier candy trust

Lifesavers because they are some sick Os

Whoppers are great! I don't understand the hate.
- There are dozens of us! Dozens!
- Crunchy, so I liked them since I'm a texture eater. But I get why people don't like them. It's almost chalky at times on the inside.

Toxic Waste

Lol, you're something else, candy corn?? That stuff is vile.
The worst I can say about dots is they're just sugar, albeit glued to paper.
Will you come organize my candy bowl this year? 😆
- In the US, dots are hard gumdrops.
  Also, if your candy corn sucks, it's because it's not Brach's.
  
  In the US dots can also refer to candy buttons as well as the gross gumdrops
  
  I was going to agree, but I haven't had Brach's candy corn in a while, every so often those large companies change the formula to make things cheaper* so it's hard to be sure.
  *latest fad
- You really need to try mixing the candy corn with salted peanuts. 👁️👄👁️👌
  
  I was gonna say the same. Always hated candy corn till someone had me try this.

White chocolate Reese's peanut butter cups.

Whoppers never make it to the bowl on my house. They're too good.

Candy
- Candon’t

Just Almond Joys and Mounds.

Black licorice
- With or without Ammonium chloride?
  
  Half and half is only fair. Trick or treat

Necco wafers.
- Yum

How about those stale tar-like hard candies.
- Molasses candy

Peets marshmallows from easter

Chunky bars. Kids like raisins in their chocolate, right?

What are whoppers?
- Thin chocolate coating on the outside, crunchy malted milk on the inside that will sort of melt in your mouth if you can resist chewing it. They are delicious and used to always come in a paper carton.
- They're like Maltesers

Piping hot chili with ladle

This is correct

Mounds/Almond Joy. Yuck. Always threw those out as a kid (well OK probably gave them to my mother).
- Dude why are you throwing away my favorite chocolate bar?

Liquorice

M&M's, Reese's, skittles
All in the same bowl
- With or without the brown ones?

Professionally wrapped chocolate covered brussel sprouts.

Good & Plenty and Mike and Ikes.
- Gotta go with the good ol' "Spike & Ike's" where you mix in some Extra Hot Tamales.
- I’m with you on Mike and ikes but I love good and plenty

Necco

Lavender candy

Bit O’ Honey

Butterfingers
- Alas, we will no longer know the joy of the original formuloni

Cherry Lips

Rock candy.

Those licorice flavored taffy candies that are in a black and orange wrapper.
They are fucking gross as is most anise flavored things but their stickiness makes them worse than other things.

Skittles, except it's 100% green apple skittles and no other flavors.
I love how they reverted green back to lime in the regular bag. They knew they blew it. You gotta know some higher up loved green apple and wanted it in every skittles bag. Fuck that person. You have terrible taste.
I'm glad to be able to purchase skittles again after a decade+ boycott

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