The best candies are the once that threaten to pull out/damage your teeth when you eat them

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Jolly Ranchers
jawbreakers
toffee
taffy/Now & Later

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
I am overly attached to my teeth and don't know goodness when it hurts me 18
Yes 7


¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link

nerds

F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link

i like chocolate

flappy bird, Monday, 9 January 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link

thats like toffifee

F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link

it's okay to like chocolate but it's undeniably true that chocolate would be better if it was also capable of pulling out your teeth with a careless chew

¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link

Yes, like Riesen is the perfect, delicious synthesis of chocolate and grill-destroying road tar.

Dr. Shitfuck (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link

I fucking hate toffee/taffy. Jolly Ranchers and jawbreakers are OK but nothing I'm attached to. Going with the second option.

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link

hate all of these

jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link

this is also why the best candy bars are Charleston Chew and 100 Grand

¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link

(honorable mention to Heath bar/Skor)

¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link

emeralds. actually lost a premolar to one

loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Monday, 9 January 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link

Sweettarts were always my favorite all time candy, but they are relatively general. But I also loved Gobstoppers, which could be challenging until you go to the sweettart like center.

Jeff, Monday, 9 January 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link

I love the flavor of Sweettarts; I will allow them since the probability that you will cut the inside of your mouth/your gumline while eating them is approximately 95%

¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link

This thread is making me hungry for a Butterfinger.

o. nate, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link

Dan do you also feel the best roller coasters are the ones without lap bars

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link

love the flavor of Sweettarts; I will allow them since the probability that you will cut the inside of your mouth/your gumline while eating them is approximately 95%

― ¶ (DJP), Monday, January 9, 2017 3:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was my favorite candy as a kid until I ate so much one night I almost vomited.

now it's my second favorite

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link

jujubes

tha frash prance (alomar lines), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 06:18 (seven years ago) link

U FORGOT MILK DUDS

I lost two of my baby teeth to those fucking things. On separate occasions.

Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 07:45 (seven years ago) link

MILK DUDS RULE

(The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link

I will never understand some people's tastes in sweets.

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 13:27 (seven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link

WIMPS

(The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link

toothache is soul-destroying tbf

Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link

true

OTOH, candy is a wonderful replacement for a soul

(The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link

Milk duds are for tourists
Sugar Daddys are the real masochists delight

i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link

right next to the stale Now & Later's left over from people's kids' Halloween bags that usually come out right about now

frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link

I always think of Jolly Ranchers as hard candy, what we call boiled sweets. should've had an option for roof-of-the-mouth ulcers from sucking on too many of those

Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link

wait, so what would you consider to be "candy"

(The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link

Those Highland Toffee bars surely win this thread

kinder, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link

There were once calls for McCowan’s to make a Highland Toffee surf board

A surfer’s website once called for McCowan’s to make a disposable anti-shark Surfboard, made entirely from Highland Toffee. They suggested that any shark attacking such a board would find its teeth so gummed together that it would be unable to attack the surfer who could then escape.

The idea prompted Alan McCafferty, who owned the company at that point to respond: ”If there’s a profit in toffee surfboards, I’ll make them.”

kinder, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link

wait, so what would you consider to be "candy"

sorry i thought the whole thread was about chewy stuff and there was some weird Jolly Rancher i'd never seen

Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link

ah, no this is about all types of confectionery that can wreak havoc on your mouth, hard or chewy

(there are Jolly Rancher chews out there, tho)

(The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link

three years pass...

lol why did I create this poll

DJP, Friday, 18 December 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link

It was a simpler time

mildew and sanctimony (soda), Friday, 18 December 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link

I lost a filling to a Jujubee.

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 December 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link

These results are messed up. It’s not like you can’t brush your teeth right after you spoil them.

pomenitul, Friday, 18 December 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link

there’s a great scene in the Guided By Voices documentary where Mitch Mitchell is brushing his teeth and keeps pausing periodically to take a drag off a cigarette

brimstead, Friday, 18 December 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link

These results are messed up. It’s not like you can’t brush your teeth right after you spoil them.

― pomenitul, Friday, December 18, 2020 12:50 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

we're talking the kind of candy that breaks your teeth when you bite or rips out something out you open your mouth after biting down. not sugar content

Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link

^^^^

DJP, Friday, 18 December 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link

my sister got me a bag of sockerbit for christmas; it's real good

the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link

Ah, my bad. I would like to revise my opinion, then: these results are very much correct.

pomenitul, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link

I love Bit-o-Honey but I'm afraid they'll rip my molars out.

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link

I pulled out (and ruined) a crown eating a Milk Dud

never again

howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link


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