Favorite/best candy capable of pulling out all of your teeth

laffy taffy!

sugar daddy is one of those things you think upon first inspection is soft enough to chew, but it never is. at least jolly ranchers dissolve, but i'm sure there are bits of sugar daddy cemented to my teeth from when i was 7.

I had never heard of Annabelle's BIG HUNK before looking for options for this poll but I am now kind of obsessed with trying it.

also Sugar Daddy ftw

("why are tooth-hostile candies named after overbearing male sexual partners" is possibly a good sub-topic of discussion here)

other - dots

oh fuck yes, I can't believe I forgot about DOTS

seriously dots are a huge player in this field

girl shake that laffy taffy
on 2nd thought i'm going to the dentist later this week

I love Sugar Babies, I guess they don't really count though.

sugar babies are sugar daddies 4 babies rite?

You could get a pack of 5 Now & Laters from the general store in town for I think A DIME, when I was like 12. Soooo many summer days of riding my bike 5 miles to buy as many as possible. That sharp flavor of cheap fruit-ish chemicals tastes like childhood freedom.

WTF I forgot Sugar Babies too

I totally fail

considering redoing this poll

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Unless someone else has actually had experience of a sweet pulling out a tooth, then these are the winner.

RIP Upper premolar, 1993

if you redo the poll, tootsie rolls should be added

but can you make the code automatically sb anyone who votes for them?

I, personally, have lost teeth to:

- a Sugar Daddy (shut up)
- a Now and Later
- a Jolly Rancher (the big flat stick one, not the bite-size one they started making to keep kids from pulling their teeth out)

I tried to use a Charleston Chew to pull out a tooth but the tooth wasn't loose enough.

Yes, my childhood did largely revolve around me trying to ditch loose teeth as soon as humanly possible.

HI DERE- not ur archetypal dentalfreak yank, then

more like an honorary brit, really

I tried to use a Charleston Chew to pull out a tooth but the tooth wasn't loose enough.

also wtf, did you not have doors, string nor grandmothers?

using a door & string: sudden pulling followed by pain

using candy: slow tugging followed by some soreness, but HEY I HAVE CANDY, AWESOME

charleston chew - great candy, great vintage name, plus weird thing where u can freeze it

bloody candy with ur tooth in it, again i say to u wtf

i once rocked out a tooth on a big chocolate bar

(despite all this, my first cavity cropped up at age... 27?)

if the tooth is loose enough, there's no blood; you are a victim of premature tooth-pulling

NB i took the tooth out but finished the candy

ugh i said candy instead of sweet fuck this board f'real

Q:What goes tick-tock, woof-woof?
A: A watchdog.

Q: Why did the elephant eat the 100 watt light bulb?
A: He wanted a light lunch.

those terrible Laffy Taffy jokes are seriously a reason to keep living in this crazy, mixed-up world

sittin' there with a gun in my mouth and a laffy taffy candy in my other mouth

i don't know from laffy taffy but i am a devoted fan of salt water taffy, wrapped in wax paper, acquired and eaten somewhere on the jersey shore in summertime

there was a phase of my life where I was eating so much salt water taffy that it was probably dangerous for my health

pretty sure I got 7 cavities at once when my parents bought a 2 lb bag of jelly bellies when I was 10

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jujubees

Write in vote for Salt Water Taffy (Molasses Mint! Teaberry!)

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but I also like Goldenberg's Peanut Chews

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and Walnettos

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but I also like Goldenberg's Peanut Chews

word

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fuck I have been eating false flavors all my life!!

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I ate this stuff for a whole summer circa 1964. I would take it over a Sugar Daddy every day of the week.

^ never had it but was my mom's favorite candy

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These always were tempting, but they would pull my jaw entirely out of shape and I'd swear them off again.

Milk duds otm. Saw one of those bad boys pull out my husband's wisdom tooth while watching "Last Samurai" at the movie theater. Also: the most exciting thing that happened during that snoozefest.

Bit-O-Honey

Okay, I voted for Charleston Chew, but certainly I can't be the only person who remembers the now-defunct Tangy Taffy? (HI DERE, I used to buy it all the time at Dueber's!)

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I am the hugest fan of Big Hunk bars! Probably the #1 fan. I recommend HI DERE and all other curious parties try them ASAP. I like all of Anabelle's mildly off-center candy bar offerings. They also have great, classic graphic design.

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http://www.annabelle-candy.com/images/tshirt-abbazaba.gif

^^^mildly tempted to order this...it comes with a bag of miniature Abba-Zabbas!

best childhood memory of now and laters. extra point for being one of those phrases that as a kid was basically conflated into one word in my mind (nowanlater). i guess partially because it was nonsense anyway - were you really expected to save some for later? maybe they figured by the time you suffered through the three layers of paper and plastic or whatever these things were packaged in it would be "later" anyway.

honorable mention: smushing a bunch of starbursts together into a large ball and eating it whole.

dishonorable mention: mary janes. most disappointing trick or treat offering. seriously i'll take the box of raisins ffs.

Not my favorites, but #1 Jujubees, followed closely by #2 Sugar Daddy are most effective candy teeth-extraction methods by MILES

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