Best Convinece Store Candy

Endless fun...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Just impulse bought some Pop Rocks. Still good.

going to get some candy brb

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.

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

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.

Blackjack and Clove gum are back in production again, yay

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.

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

sourpatch kids could kill me

They make my tongue numb for days.

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

Mamba fruit chews are my vice

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.

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

Sour worms r beautiful

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

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.

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.

^^ this!!

see also zagnut bars