Best Convinece Store Candy

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The Marshmallow strawberries and Lik-M-Aid

― anthony, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Charleston Chew. But you have to freeze them first.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can tell you the worst : circusfuckin g peanuts!

― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can tell you the worst : circusfuckin g peanuts!

― Mike Hanley at, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A couple of weeks ago, to my absolute horror, I discovered that they've changed the flavor of the pink SweetTarts. I am still distraught. Pink SweetTarts were a reason for living.

― Melissa W, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jeez, 'circusfucking' is NOT one word. please god no.

― ethan, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I so need to get involved in the convenience store candy scene again. Kids got some crazy shit these days, green goo in test tubes and such, I just have to try it.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Those orange wedge things. Mmm.

― Josh, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The new stuff is so odd , i just cannot process it.
Computers and Steros should be newfangled, candy should be oldfangled.

― anthony, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pop rocks.

― Kim, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually, I've heard of clown sex fetish

― Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

warheads - bring it on.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Warheads! rock! Also, my friend bought some Durian candies recently. If you can eat one, yr a hero, if you can eat two at once, you're without a doubt asian.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But circus fucking peanuts are GRATE!!! They have the best use in the world... take them to open mic nights, poetry readings and slams, and throw them at anyone who violates the rules of Taste.

Endless fun...

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Irn Bru bars. Yum.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

take them to open mic nights, poetry readings and slams, and throw them at anyone who violates the rules of Taste

You'd run out of peanuts fairly rapidly I fear.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We'd usually buy about 4 bags...

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Definitely not those shrimps - they taste like sweaty pillows. Highland Toffee is dead nice but an absolute bugger to eat, the confectionery equivalent of Stretch Armstrong.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will second Irn-Bru bars and add whams desperate dan bars, refreshers, dennis the menace bars.

Chsnging nsmes of Sweets Classic or Dud?

As i seem to rember, according to the ad campaign, they change the name of marathons to snickers cos australians would be to dumb to know what a marathon was. Spurious reasoning methinks and undervaluing the intelligence of aussies

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's an antique shop in Glasgow that used to have a selection of sweets with their old wrappers. it was about £10 for a Marathon or a packet of Opal Fruits. They did look cool though.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Those Irn-Bru bars are the sweet equivalent of a nuclear meltdown.

But I just read about m&ms which have got dulce de leche in them, this sounds like the most heavenly piece of confectionery ever manufactured, if anyone's tried them please give me a report as my flatmate is going over to the states next week and he's underinstruction to bring me back a box of them and a box of peanut butter twixes

― cabbage, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I refuse to eat m&m's since I saw this http://www.m- ms.com/bakery/tips.html which seems to be an m&m throwing itself up.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Throwing food = sport of Gods. Cue anecdote: in moovee theatre (aged 12-about), once initiated v. heated candy-projectile fight. Started when I pipped someone right good on back of head w/ a Jaffa. He (& friends) were similar armed, so they unloaded on us & we unloaded on them (me: box each of Jaffas & Tangy Fruits). House lights & multiple ushers intervened. Then settled down & watched film: Blue Thunder = v. good, w/ big fuck-off helicopter.

― AP, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peanut butter Twixes do sound nice but not as nice as Sour Skittles, which are probably old hat to Yanks. I must admit to being something of a sweet fan, so here's what's rotting my teeth at the moment:

Irn Bru bars. Old favourite. You've got to have about five in a row, with a can of Irn Bru to wash them down, to get the full motherfucking effizzect.

Cola bottle variants. It's a well-known fact that cola bottles are put in Haribo in large amounts because they're cheap. However, fizzy cola bottles, fizzy cherry cola bottles, fizzy bubble gum bottles (yes - the fucking shit) etc. are wicked.

Astro belts. You've probably guessed that I mainly like sour stuff by now. I prefer strawberry flavour but apple's alright.

Jelly beans. Fuck all those expensive jelly beans - you just want cheap ones. Does anyone else find that there's usually one flavour that's just horrible but you eat them anyway?

Those Starburst (i.e. OPAL FRUITS) gums with the jelly ones and the sour ones. They put them up from 10p a packet to 30p the day after I bought 8 packets. They had me hooked.

Foam bananas. If you've got a friend that looks like a monkey. 1p each for a bit of bullying.

Lemon Crystals - basically just lemon-flavoured sugar. It's not sour enough though and it's the one sweet I worry about my health while eating.

Jelly Babies. But not Bassetts because they're too expensive and a bit sickly.

It's not really the same thing, but for the record my favourite ever sweet is the Sherbet Lemon.

I'm not even fat.

― Greg, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wine gums are nice as long as they Maynards or Marks and Spencers (yes I am a terrible snob)

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Durian candies? Doesn't matter if you're Asian or not, *anybody* who could get two of those things down at once is certifiably nuts. As one article described it a few years back, it's 'the bastard fruit of the goddamned to hell.'

Dark chocolate of any kind = good. Ghirardelli's dark chocolate = heaven.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually the best use for circus peanuts involves the microwave oven

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.bad-candy.com/

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Psycho Rats! Look like they're made of blu-tak, taste like they're made of blu-tak!

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything that involves dark chocolate with mint inside, ie York Peppermint Patties, Junior Mints. They're chocolate and they're mint, they're very refreshing.

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peppermint and dark chocolate... that must be a... PEPPERMINT CRISP!!! Do they make them anywhere outside of South Africa? It's like dark chocolate with mint flavouried fibre optics inside... there is no other way to describe. Yummier than anything on earth. Oh GAWD, are there any Seth Efrikans on this board willing to box some and mail them to me, since my gran has gone into a nursing home?

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oooh, Pyramints. They had great adverts.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Psycho rats? I can get psycho rats, psycho mice, psycho faces, psycho skulls, psycho pizzas all in one shop. They all taste the same.

― Greg, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fruit Salted Plum Suckers?

― Madchen, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yes Penut butter filled sweets from the states. Also fruit roll ups. Hershey bars suck big time though. Penut Butter Snikers is probably the king of amerincan chocolate.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nads. Slogan: 'Get your hands of my fruity nads!'

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

of == off

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Remember those adds where the paenut butter jar weilding person would bimp into the chocolate bar eating person and their mutual anger at gettin g the two mixed woud end in glory as they discovered a new taste? Well, why the fuck was someone walking around eating a jar of peanut butter?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've done that before. I've also eaten a jar of spaghetti sauce.

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete once caught me (well, it wasn't too hard as I was standing in the middle of the kitchen) scoffing a whole jar of yummy tomato and olive pasta sauce from Sainsburys then went and told all our mates that I was a complete freak for doing so.

― Emma, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hadn't heard that one actually Emma. Urgh.

Mind you it wasn't a jar of pasta from out of the bin.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Richard I like "of" beter.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

An even better food implausability in commercials are those damn breakfasts they show with cold cereal bowls. I have my doubts.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are your cereal bowls usually hot then, Ned?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay, so I'm not the only person who has eaten spaghetti sauce, sans pasta. I don't feel so weird now.

It's just that sometimes I don't have food in my house. And other times I am wicked binging and purging, and need something to stuff in. Peanut butter is good by itself though, why do you need to add anything to it, you can eat a spoonful of it, it's good.

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peanut butter is for fools. DIsgusting! I only like it in pad thai. And to eat peanut butter inthe subway...just inexcusable.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Am I the only person who initially read "eating a jar of peanut butter" as gnoshing on the entire thing, glass and all?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I, too, have eaten pasta sauce straight from the jar. Star sauces are too good to put pasta in, I think. I have also been known to squirt cream straight into my mouth.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pasta sauce binges seem to be a chick thing. Oh them crazy hormones.

― Emma, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well DAn thatwould be more interesting. Maybe if it were a little jar. Some people eat glass you know. (And I dont mean Phillip's wife)

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm hot enough without them, Richard, thank you very much. And if you do eat the whole damn jar of peanut butter, does that mean chewing up Peter Pan's pert, punchable face?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/75.html

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most peanut butter jars are made out of plastic nowadays.

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not all of em . We ain't livin in a plastic world All y.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked all those candies in little boxes - Alexander the Grape, Lemmonheads, even Boston Baked Beans (which were in fact, Peanuts it I remember correctly).

― tOM p, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I eat Mariono Sauce out of the Jar.

― anthony, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's just sick.

― Mike Hanley, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay so my taste for anal sex is cool and my need to be spanked is a quirk. My Catholicism is an oddity , but my eating already cooked Pasta Sauce out of the jar makes me a freak ? Christ this board has odd standards Mr Cosby Clit Comaprere (sp)

― anthony, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

ok can i just give it up to willy wonka for mankin the best candy still? i just ate some runts, gobstoppers and bottlecaps.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 10 February 2003 09:16 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven years pass...

Just impulse bought some Pop Rocks. Still good.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 January 2015 17:17 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

going to get some candy brb

― macropuente (map), Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:00 (seven years ago)

I did a taste test between Heath Bar and Skor the other day. Damn, I never new Skor was so much better. I could have been eating it all this time.

― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:25 (seven years ago)

I really enjoyed a small box of supermarket brand butterscotch drops yesterday.

― calzino, Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:33 (seven years ago)

Speaking of Pop Rocks, how about Zotz? Hard candies with Pop Rocks-like sodium bicarbonate foaming powder in the center, which evidently are still available somewhere, though I haven't seen them since the '70s.

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 21 January 2019 02:24 (seven years ago)

Blackjack and Clove gum are back in production again, yay

― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 January 2019 02:59 (seven years ago)

Zotz are still around - a coworker has a huge dish full of em. They might have been manufactured in the 70s for all I know...every time I open one it explodes in your face and it feels like getting battery acid all over yourself.

― frogbs, Monday, 21 January 2019 04:17 (seven years ago)

"Got any Beeman's?" - Sam Shepherd as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 21 January 2019 04:21 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

sourpatch kids could kill me

― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 16:20 (four years ago)

They make my tongue numb for days.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 17:53 (four years ago)

The best candy is Hershey’s Symphony bars, especially the blue kind with almonds and toffee chips.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 22:35 (four years ago)

Mamba fruit chews are my vice

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 22:46 (four years ago)

Lately on a York Peppermint Patty kick because they've got a bin of singles at the convenience store counter.

I always wondered why something called Circus Peanuts (which I actively enjoy) tasted like bananas and had the texture of expanding foam insulation. Thanks to this thread, I've just learned that in the UK they're called Foam Bananas.

https://abitofhome.ca/5785-large_default/bumper-bag-foam-bananas-180g.jpg

From now on I will wonder why the yellow Foam Bananas became orange-colored and named Circus Peanuts.

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:30 (four years ago)

sour worms (pair with lime seltzer)
any dark chocolate + mint thing - peppermint patties, junior mints, mint m&ms etc. are dangerous for me

― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:33 (four years ago)

Sour worms r beautiful

― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:36 (four years ago)

I love SPKs but have bought into the possibly fake news that they will strip my teeth of all enamel

― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:44 (four years ago)

I remember when I was a kid and I didn't have any fillings yet and I could sink my teeth into Charleston Chews and Now'n'Laters...and grown-ups nostalgically reminisced about when they could eat very sticky foods, presumably pre-dental work.

I'm on the other side now.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 23:54 (four years ago)

I'm a big fan of Chick-O-Sticks, peanut butter + coconut -- I stay away from convenience stores because those things are bad for me.

― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 01:55 (four years ago)

^^ this!!