I was talking to my friend Elisabeth the other day, and the subject of Nerds gummy clusters came up (she hates them, I love them.)
Then we got to talking about other non-chocolate candies we either love or hate, and I said to her, “I should write a blog post about this!”
And she told me she already had one in her drafts. Ha. Great minds think alike. So, we agreed we should both publish one on this Very Important Topic.
Her post is set up as a Top Five, Bottom Five format, with her five most favorite and her five least favorite, and I will follow her lead. 😉
Top Five
1. Nerds Gummy Clusters
These come in a pink bag and a blue bag, and I prefer the blue bag because they are slightly more sour.
I don’t know what it is about these candies, but they are oddly enjoyable to me. Normally it is not hard for me to limit my candy consumption, but woo, I can eat a lot of these in one sitting if I am not careful. 😉
2. Skittles (but only the orange, lemon, and lime)
I almost always prefer citrus flavors in candy, and this holds true for Skittles. If I could just have the orange, lemon, and lime ones, I’d be a happy camper.
For a while, they changed the green ones to an apple flavor, and I felt that was a serious downgrade; I will always be Team Citrus.
3. Sour Patch Kids (but only the orange and lemon)
I have a coworker who swears that all Sour Patch Kids taste the same, but I beg to differ. The ones I enjoy are the orange and lemon flavors (again with the citrus!); all the rest of them are either “meh” (green and blue) or “yuck” (the red ones).
I know the green Sour Patch Kids are supposed to be lime-flavored, but for some reason, these ones don’t appeal to my citrus-appreciating heart.
4. Hot Tamales
I can eat so many of these; the spicy burn is very addictive.
They used to make a Hot Tamales variety that had three different levels of spice, and I loved those!
5. Atomic Fireballs
Continuing with the spiciness…we used to sometimes get these as kids, and I still like them! When I was a kid, I think my young tongue was a little more sensitive, and I thought these were crazy hot and I could barely keep them in my mouth; I’d have to take breaks by holding the fireball between my front teeth.
But to my middle-aged tongue, they seem only mildly spicy, and I never need a break.
Bottom Five
1. Twizzlers
I actively dislike these. The flavor is terrible, and the texture is dry but also kind of oily and kind of hard.
Blech.
It is absolutely no problem for me to resist eating these.
Side note: in my candy-photographing quest, I came across these, which I imagine to be horrifying:
A Twizzlers texture plus a chocolate flavor? Yuck.
2. Smarties
Elisabeth says their Canadian Smarties are more like our M&Ms, so I would probably like those. But to me, American Smarties are like eating a piece of chewable medicine, and I disliked them even as a kid.
In fact, they remind me a little of my childhood chewable Tylenol, which I also hated.
(Dishonorable mention: I give SweetTarts a thumbs down for all the same reasons I give Smarties a thumbs down.)
3. Tootsie Rolls
These almost taste like chocolate, but not quite, and their texture is questionable.
Not at all tempting to me!
4. Banana candy of any type
I’m cheating a little bit here, because this is not a specific brand, but: I hate banana-flavored candy.
I love bananas, but banana flavoring is a whole different animal, and it tastes awful to me.
Now-and-Laters, Laffy Taffy, Runts, jelly beans…if there’s a possibility it’s banana and not lemon, I’m out.
5. Candy Corn/Pumpkins
I know candy corn is a classically polarizing candy, and I do fall on the “dislike” side of the spectrum. I find the pumpkins (which I think are made of the same ingredients) to be even worse, largely because they are so overwhelmingly sweet.
I also don’t think they have enough of a flavor; the whole experience is too much like eating straight sugar.
I have occasionally enjoyed candy corn in a sweet/salty snack mix, but that’s really the extent of my appreciation.
What are your top five/bottom five? And for the purposes of this exercise, no chocolate is allowed!
P.S. Click here to see how Elisabeth’s top five and bottom five compare to mine. 🙂
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