When you’re weary, feeling small, or indeed at any time at all, confectionery is a good thing, right? Wrong. Or, more precisely, it depends. It can’t be good when it’s bad. So I’d like to dedicate this post to Bad Candy – you know the stuff, people act like it’s meant to be nice. But it’s not.
I’ve put together a little gallery of the Least Wanted, which ranges from the humdrum to the profane. Let me know if I’ve missed any out.
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- Coconut: Never a good thing.
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- Don’t know what this is, but I know I don’t like it.
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- As above. No thank-you.
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- Think it’s got bits in. Another one to avoid.
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- Heard a rumour once this was peanutty. Pass me the barge-pole.
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- The Cream Bar, this is not. Doesn’t go with chocolate, shouldn’t be allowed.
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- Why did they have to mess with it? Haven’t touched it since.
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- Don’t like walnuts, don’t like whips. How could this be good?
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- Not for girls? Thank Christ for that. Keep your inferior chocolate recipe to yourselves!
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- A place-holder this is, for all things licorice. Avoid like plague.
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- Another place-holder. If it says Haribo, it’s got to go. Yuk and minging.
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- Not good. Quite unnecssary. Just goes to show, you can’t polish a turd, eh?
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- Truffles. Any truffles. No matter how you dress them up, no matter how pretty the box. Still truffles.
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- Not my best. Not worth the extortionate price-tag either.
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- 2% of these might be edible. Just. Thanks anyway.
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- No thank-you Mister Ambassador!
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- Lovely happy box. Same isn’t true of the contents, sadly.
Seems a bit harsh… Coconut Boost, no longer available, and the hybrid offspring of two of your top (or bottom) three, was a masterpiece of confectionary concoctions…
Well, I’ll say this, Matteus: each to their own
Well, I’ve never had too much trouble with candy, I like liquirce and coconut too. Don’t like the boxed gift chocolates where it’s like Forest Gumps say’s sometimes you don’t know what your gonna get. Therefore I don’t try…..those jelly centers and soft center are awful….(to me)
I’m so glad you’re blogging again.
Hi Claire,
I’m a third year student at Canterbury Christ Church University studying Film, Radio and TV studies. Like you and others on here, I’m a very picky eater, so using this as inspiration I’m doing my radio feature assessment on adult fussy eaters. I would love to interview you for it to get another picky eaters perspective on the subject.
If you would like to get in contact my email address is gc105@canterbury.ac.uk, I would appreciate it. (but understand if you don’t).
Many thanks for taking the time to read this,
Georgina.
I agree with you on most of those… except i love turkish delight (especially frozen), Lindt chocolate is my fave and i adore truffles (as long as they aren’t those black fungus chunks)
Oh, i also like licorice, as long as it’s not allsorts.
but everything else i totally agree!!
Hi Claire,
I’m a journalist in New York, writing a story about picky eaters. I was hoping you’d be amenable to an interview about the subject. Email me back if so, and thank you.
Best,
Katie