The red gum that's just pure cinnamon or something. Plus it's spicy. Ew. Just ew
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Probably these little lychee candy things I had years ago. No fruit flavor at all. Tasted as though someone mixed powdered blackboard chalk and sugar.
Chocolate brandy beans.
They always seem to be made with cheapest shittiest chocolate as well but that brandy liqueurs inside is revolting enough on its own thread the chocolate is usually completely forgettable
The Harry Potter bean things which has awful flavors mixed in, like puke etc.
I tried Hershey's (American chocolate) before and it tasted absolutely disgusting. it will never ever come remotely close to Dairy Milk or Galaxy
I haven't actually tried this but my friend did.
Twizzlers.
I tried them in the US and it just felt like I was chewing on a piece of plastic.
On the other hand, unlike most of the people in the comments, I love licorice.
Delicious, delicious carnauba wax...
Maryjanes? (Very old yucky candy, not cannabis related)
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've only tried one, blind, it was worms. Never again. That was over twenty years ago and I still gag just thinking about it.
Licorice. Anise flavored candy. It's disgusting.
I tried some matcha mochi once. It didn't really taste good, but the worst thing about it was that it was just boring.
Hersheys "chocolate". I spit it out, and a bit embarrassed, asked "could it gone bad during the flight?"
Well, obviously this stuff does taste like vomit, and Americans seem to be OK with that. Explains a lot about American behavior. If chocolate here would taste like that, we probably would have more mass shootings, too.
Hersheys used to be our only choice. However now that we have better choices, many of us are waking up to chocolate as a good thing (other than the sugar rush). It can be hard to get over the price and quantity difference though.
Luckily, we are spoiled for choice here. German, Swiss, Belgian, English chocolate all around. And no Hersheys anywhere.
I'm allergic the something they put in mass produced milk chocolate over here I think. Idk what it is, I've no allergies I know of. But if I have a Hershey Kiss, my throat burns a little after, feels painful.
This doesnt happen when I have good dark chocolate, it's only the garbage mass produced chocolate. US chocolate wasn't always this shitty, but it sure as fuck is now. I doubt there is much actual cocoa in it these days
If I had to choose between leather belt flavoured licorice and vomit flavoured Hershey's. Licorice wins everytime.
Ever had Dutch licorice? All the salt of a thousand oceans in one little bite.
I've tried the licorice thats made with ammonium chloride.
I love love love, licorice. Theres a store by me that often carries international candies and goods. I saw salty licorice there, and it sounded good, so I bought a little bag of the stuff made in one of the nordic countries, it was a bit ago, I don't remember which one.
Driving home with a piece in my mouth and I taste it. Why do I taste cat piss? Wtf? My face sours, and ammonia comes to mind. My nose flairs, I spit it out. I get home and search up ammonium chloride, which I found on the package lable. I'm horrified what I find. It is processed with ammonia. WTF
Salty licorice might be good, but y'all can keep the ammonium chloride stuff, I'm good. Taste like cat piss smells
American candy. Not American brand candy which different outside the US, but actuall American candy. It's all so bad quality and vile that it would never sell outside the US and not even be legal to do so in many places.
In my schoolboy days American teachers would bring candy from USA and the kids would absolutely devour it. Things like fruit gushers and sour warheads were absolute crack to primary school kids compared to the domestically available choices.
I went to America once and tried an American coke. It left this weird film in my mouth. I don't understand how they drink it.
Put cheap "rum" in it.
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