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Original question by @zachimusprime44@lemmy.world

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I haven't actually tried this but my friend did.

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is this brittle thing of foam everyone likes to make into weird shapes like little birds... I don't know what it is called and I don't want too

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I tried some matcha mochi once. It didn't really taste good, but the worst thing about it was that it was just boring.

[–] RalphWolf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Sunsofold 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Black licorice.

I firmly believe candy should be sweet; not bitter.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If we had pearls here in Scandinavia we'd all be clutching them right now.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Bitter? You must have had some weird fake crap. I've never had any liquorice that bitter, and I'm Swedish and love liquorice.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I got a monthly food box for my wife a number of years ago. Each month they sent snacks from a different country.

I can't remember which country it was from, but one month we got some round, hard candies. It was one of the most unfortunate things I have ever intentionally put into my mouth.

I don't even remember the flavor (licorice, maybe?), because my brain attempted to bleach it out.

Everything else was usually tasty, though.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

My wife looked it up. It's a hard licorice candy with a salty filling from the Netherlands called Napolean Zwart-Wit (which loosely translates to "tarred scrotum").

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That may have been one of the Scandinavian countries. Sorry.

If you have any leftover, plz send.

Edit: Not our fault this time, but thanks for the tip!

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Licorice, that funny retro looking shit with the black and bright colors. They are as revolting to me as sushi

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[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

When I was a kid someone gave me a "buttered popcorn" flavored dum-dum sucker. It tasted so terrible that it gave me a taste aversion to real buttered popcorn for nearly 2 decades.

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[–] card797@champserver.net 2 points 1 day ago

Licorice. Anise flavored candy. It's disgusting.

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

any American chocolate tastes like vomit

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

At my place of work, one project we worked on involved a lot of contractors from a place based in China. (The project was an absolute cluster-fuck all the way from soup to nuts, but that's a story for another day.) When the project concluded, they sent our office a thank-you gift box of various Chinese snacks.

One of the snacks was a... dried... meat... "candy"... I guess? The taste wasn't "sweet" so much. It tasted like it had been dipped in perfume. And the texture of the meat was hard to describe. Not chewy like jerky, and it didn't have that highly-processed Slim Jim sort of texture to it. Maybe it was sortof freeze-dried or something? I also couldn't identify what animal the meat might have come from. (And I couldn't read the text on the packaging.)

I'm not sure whether it was just an acquired taste or rather a practical joke by the folks at the Chinese company. Lol.

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The red gum that's just pure cinnamon or something. Plus it's spicy. Ew. Just ew

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's an easy one - Durian bonbons from China. Durian is also known as the "stink fruit". You need many hours to get that taste out of your mouth

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Well, licorice is definitely up there.

There's some pralines that with some alcohol based filling that's also really gross.

But I still remember I was a kid and my parents bought these cheese crackers. They were awful, the it was a bit crumbly but they had this really bad taste of something I can only describe as for fungus & cream cheese. I literally had to take a break and concentrate on not barfing even though we just wanted to play tabletop games. I know it's not sweet but that stuff lives rent-free in my head to this day.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First of all, licorice is good actually, though black jelly beans are trash.

One time I bought olive flavored gummies from the Asian market because I love olives and I was curious. Absolutely horrible, didn't even finish one.

[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chinese olives are from a different plant entierly to western olives btw. I've never had them candied but they're really good pickled as a side dish with spicy food.

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