Candy Intended Solely For Eating At The Movies: Search and Destroy

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I bought a box of Jujyfruits last night when I was at the convenience store with emily_s and j_blount. It was some sort of peer pressure; they bought junk, so I had to buy junk. I'm convinced I couldn't have made a worse choice, as the things are even harder, more flavorless, and (somehow!) weirdly addictive than I remember.

What's interesting is that the convenience store seems to have a whole shelf of large-box candies specifically aimed at the moviegoer seeking to avoid a gouge at the concession stand. But supposing you're not on your way to the pictures - are these legitimate candy under any other circumstances? Where do we stand on these various confections? Including but not limited to: Sno-Caps, Raisinets, Goobers, Junior Mints, the aforementioned Jujyfruits (and their purportedly even more inedible cousins, Jujubes), etc. I know I love Junior Mints, but at the same time I sort of don't know what to do with them if I buy them outside of the movies.

Also, what about those candies that come in little red plastic bags, always with just too few in a bag to justify buying them out of curiousity? I don't know how to describe these except to say that one of the various available candies is, without fail, Circus Peanuts.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 July 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Dots! I don't know WHAT they're made of but mmm chewy synthetic goonbess!

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i want gummi worms

― you bet it's great to be a movie star. (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 July 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

sour patch kids

stick 'em in your mouf, then throw them in others' hair, at the screen, etc

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 1 July 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Jaffas! Also good for chucking at people.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 1 July 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

fact: dots are vegan!

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Saturday, 1 July 2006 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link

RED VINES
I like using them as a straw in a very cold drink so they get real hard. they last longer that way too, in my hands.
i used to gorge on jujyfruits on my walk home from school. what's your problem? suzy otm -- dots are good but the flavor is so mysterious it gives one serious pause about halfway into the box. milk duds > still having my own teeth when I'm 50, i hope. I don't like any other movieish candy unless peanutles count, unless they have the good gummi bears(Heide!)

d: junior mints, raisinets goobers, whoppers(except in minute amounts), don't know what the hell sno-caps are, seen them tho

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 1 July 2006 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link

sno-caps are nonpareils, no?

― you bet it's great to be a movie star. (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 July 2006 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link

d: junior mints

i don't even know you any more

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 1 July 2006 06:10 (seventeen years ago) link

(although if you wanna get formal about it the nonpareils are the sugar beads on top of the chocolate)

― you bet it's great to be a movie star. (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 July 2006 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

buy one giant bag of NIBS, http://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/images/products/licorice/825.jpg then drive around for half a year with leftover nibs in drivers-side door, slowly eating. slowly giving up.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 06:32 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh those taste like cherry flavored cheese or something. addictive, of course.

sno-caps are nonpareils, no?

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 1 July 2006 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

junior mints taste like my toothpaste. red vines are the way to go.

― candice (divifold), Saturday, 1 July 2006 07:01 (seventeen years ago) link

cherry flavoured cheese makes me hate nibs even more

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link

See, I knew DOTS were genius.

I must confess NIBS and Milk Duds are also great here, apart from Milk Duds make even the demure drool, and NIBS totally coat your teeth in a lingering pink sludge.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Having never heard of any of those (not for sale in Belgium, I guess), for all I know you guys could be discussing illegal drugs...

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 1 July 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Miniature Charleston Chews are where it's at!

O YUM

http://www.taquitos.net/dbimages13/Charleston-Mini.jpg

My mom is obsessed with Junior Mints. She can tell you the average number of mints per box and how it's shrunk since she grew up in the 1970s. ("What a lucky day! 19 mints in this box, one more than the current average.") I always found her melted summertime Junior Mints in the passenger seat of the family VW, a dark brown smashed/melted blob of "chocolate" (read: wax) with minty puss dripping out. Those things are bad.

I disagree on the Dots front. They hardly taste like anything and they stay on your teeth until you brush. If you're going to make that dental sacrifice, at least go for Jujubees.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 1 July 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to gorge on jujyfruits on my walk home from school. what's your problem?

I have yet to finish a single one from this box without at some point having to pick its squished-up, cementlike form off of at least one molar. Is there some way to improve these things? Maybe boiling them or something? I'm concerned I'll never be rid of them.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 July 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I WANT REAL GUMDROPS! NOT "SPICE DROPS" OR DOTS BUT GUMDROPS OR GUM-DROPS THE KIND I USED TO HAVE BACK WHEN I WAS A WEE 'UN! BUT I CANT FIND THEM ANYWHERE EVEN ON THE INTERNET. HELP ME!

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Jujyfruits DO get into the valleys of molars something rotten.

Remy, think of a company you know makes candy corn and circus peanuts, and try that, also I think Haribo do them.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.gardenoffriendship.org/sweetshoppe/gumdropheader.jpg

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i always liked the strawberry charleston chew.

― you bet it's great to be a movie star. (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

mary janes, man!

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

personal favorite: nerds, a cross between pop rocks and caviar.

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/images/items/Large/hfca089.jpg

― you bet it's great to be a movie star. (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

remy: http://oldtimecandy.com/gum-drops.htm

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

charleston chews hate teeth.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

alternately, remy, candydirect.com? (i'm not sure what constitutes a "real" gumdrop, though)

Plump jelly gum drops bursting with assorted flavors with a coating of sugar on top!

Our Price: $21.50
Pounds: 5

surely they are still around? or when you were a kid was each one hand-carved by a swiss master using only the cartilage of the gentlest baby unicorns?

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Red licorice sucks. In fact, it isn't even licorice. I'd say people that like red licorice are going to hell when they die, but evidence suggests that they are already in hell since they're eating red licorice.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 1 July 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

the only licorice that's red and doesn't suck is the panda kind. i think the fact that it's raspberry, not strawberry flavored helps. though i do have fond memories of my aunt buying twizzlers for the movies and using them as straws... they got all gross when the carbonation attacked the waxy part of the candy, but it was still fun.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Saturday, 1 July 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

MIKE/IKE: http://www.ohnuts.com/UploadedImages/smImage/WM_S678.jpg

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, so seek Mike and destroy Ike? I'm confused.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

C'mon. We all know Mike's been carrying that freeloader for far too long.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: Good vs. Plenty

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Like, Earth to Ike: the only reason you're in the candy game at all is because your name happened to rhyme with Mike's.

Plenty.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.nostalgiccandy.com/store/images/products/raisinettes_2.JPG

― slick dickens (slickdickens), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

mmmm...chocolate covered rabbit turds.

― slick dickens (slickdickens), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

sno-caps were the first thing to come to mind when i saw the thread title. they seem like a candy from another time.

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

a more INNOCENT time.

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

what are sno-caps?

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to july - i love black licorice but it's not really movie theatre candy. i don't even eat food at the movies. but when i was a teenager we would sometimes sneak candy in, and that is when my love for red twizzler licorice began. fuck that stuff is good. it's the perfect combination of fake-fruit taste and edible plastic texture. nothing else is like that. and you can tie it up in knots. now i eat it, like, twice a year, and it is still damn good.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Are snocaps like what we call freckles, but with white sugar dots instead of multicoloured ones? ie a disc of choc, coated in sugar sprinkle thingamees?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 August 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Toblerone is a candy that I don't care about

― ath (ath), Thursday, 17 August 2006 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

These days, I don't eat at the movies. But my confection of choice used to be Jordan Almonds, and I'm surprised they haven't been mentioned yet...

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― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 17 August 2006 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm, maybe this picture will work:

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― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 17 August 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link

snocaps are little waxy chocolate chips covered with white nonpareils. delicious!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

in the spirit of this thread i went to the deli and got some sour patch kids & lion king fruit snacks (timon & pumba fruit snacks, actually, in the shape of bugs with "gooey" centers.)

snocaps are gross. do you really like stale chocolate, lauren?

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

snocaps are a special case.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot Tamales anyone?

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9iby4N4zeREYH8A3h2jzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=12dblpoa8/EXP=1155931896/**http%3a//www.nestle-icecream.com/Media/moreproducts_bon.gif

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Ice Cream Bitch

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Raisinets. You should never pass up chocolate-covered raisins. Or chocolate-covered peanuts, which I also find at the movies. Also good to select: the bite-size Butterfingers, Reese's Pieces, and the Kit Kat bar large enough to share.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 18 August 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://stcroix.globat.com/~colehardware.com/images/41/45/414504.JPG

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 18 August 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I have just noticed that, unless I am misunderstanding, Abbott's MOM grew up in the 1970s.

I know Abbott is young, but I didn't know that anyone was that young.

― the bellefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M29A6rZpKqk

I wonder how much this influenced my lifelong affection for Junior Mints - - pretty sure my family started getting them at the movies right after this aired. They're very refreshing!

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 April 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

Jordan Almonds rule. Around here it's rare to see them available anymore though. So I go hungry.

― andrew m., Thursday, 12 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

I don't mind
Junior Mints
but i prefer
Jordan Almoooooonds
Mm hmmm...
I'm goin' hungry,
GOIN' HUNGRYYYYEAHHHHHHHH

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 April 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link

four years pass...

One marker of change in my 30s: I've been getting into Sour Patch Kids in a major way.

― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 9 January 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link

Word, have you seen the big ones? The big ones are awesome.

― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 January 2017 12:51 (seven years ago) link

like how big

― adam, Monday, 9 January 2017 13:19 (seven years ago) link

Milk Duds

― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MEuXoHRH-k

― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link

sour patch kids are so good

― mh 😏, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link

http://www.candywarehouse.com/products/big-sour-patch-kids-candy-18-pound-bag/

note: does not actually take you to an 18 pound bag

― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link

BTW my wife introduced me to her practice of shaking a box of milk duds into a bag of movie popcorn.

I was skeptical.

It is magical.

Try it.

― there is important candy to be crushed (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link

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