In praise of Tootsie Rolls and other maligned candies

They are horrible for your teeth. Do you have any left OP?

I can't go without brushing my teeth, flossing and using my water pick after eating anything. Albeit, cum and an very occasional ass.

Candy Corn

Come for me...

R1 yes, I have all my teeth. LOL. I brush and water floss 2x a day. I don't chomp down hard on the Tootsie pops until they melt down a lot.

R2 I like Candy Corn but like Candy pumpkins even more. Why, I can't say - maybe they seem softer?

I also love candy corn.

I've always loved Tootsie Rolls. All the different sizes of them.

I like candy corn, don't love it. I wouldn't spend money on it but if somebody offered me some I'd take. Same with those pumpkins.

I don’t like Tootsie Pops but I love tootsie rolls and the fruit tootsie rolls, too. I live about a half hour from Winco, and they sell all varieties in bulk bins. They even have Tootsie Rolls Sours (not that sour but more flavors for the array). I stop in and buy some when I’m near Winco.

I've never met anyone who actively disliked Tootsie Rolls, OP.

From my childhood experience, they're just as popular as Snickers, Reese's, etc.

Is this something you've noticed just in your own family?

Me and my relatives are the only people I've ever known who enjoy black licorice (partial Baltoscandinavian background).

Not just black licorice, but marzipan and cordial cherries too.

R7 - we do candy handouts for employee events (HR) and the tootsie rolls (not fruit variety) are usually the last to go. This is with hard candies and chocolates mixed in, too. I don't get it. They also don't seem to like lollipops, like Dum Dums, Tootsie Pops with the exception of the ones from Sees. No one seems to like black licorice/jelly beans or NECCO wafers.

It seems someone has already bought and consumed Halloween candy

[quote]From my childhood experience, they're just as popular as Snickers, Reese's, etc.

How many decades ago was this "childhood experience?"

Tootsie Rolls aren't unpopular or maligned.

[quote] I like Tootsie Rolls!

Thank you! Secret: I never tucked it.

Mary Janes, sugar daddies. Both horrible for your teeth.

Haven’t eaten them in years

Tootsie Rolls look like turds.

STEALTH SCAT TROLL 🚨

I don't any kind of "kid" candy. All of it gets stuck in your teeth. I do like kitkats, peanut butter cups and very good dark chocolate.

I always loved the fruit flavored tootsie rolls (especially 🍒), as well as the regular chocolate ones. I am 60 and have a much too large investment in dental caps and crowns to eat them anymore.

A lot of times Tootsie Rolls are stale and that makes them hard as a rock. That could be why people avoid them.

I also love Bit O'Honey - which have the same issue.

R11 born in 1991, so roughly 2.

R9 I understand the lollipops not being popular in an adult workplace setting because of the time it takes to eat them, but the Tootsie Roll thing is interesting. if you didn't mention the fruit-flavored ones still being popular, I would've theorized that maybe it had something to do with teeth (as R1 already mentioned).

I once knew a lady who told me she used to love Riesens and Bit-O-Honey when she was younger, but was cautious about enjoying them in her middle age because she had VERY old (70's era) fillings/dental work. Not sure if her concern was valid or not, but it's what she told me.

🎶 The world looksh mighty good to me / 'Cush Tootshie Rollsh are all I shee. / Whatever it ish I think I shee / becomesh a Tootshie Roll to me! 🎶

Candy Spelling

I hate Tootsie rolls but mice seem to like them. A friend swore that he used them as bait on a mouse trap — and the mouse has a go at every time. Death!!

Sen-Sen. Sadly discontinued and the factory closed.

I feel super trashy eating them but I like Smarties (the U.S. version.) Chalky sugar discs

So this is where SSI money is going to some nitwit with no life.

It's one of life biggest mysterious: How can Tootsie rolls suck beyond repair, while Tootsie pops are a small slice of heaven?

Oh, her concern was valid, R20.

A crown is thousands of dollars, to say nothing of implants, for which they’ll tell you they need a bone graft, etc. A few root canals and crowns is an easy $10,000.

[quote] Not just black licorice, but marzipan and cordial cherries too.

When I was growing up I was the only one in my family who liked cordial cherries. My dad usually received a couple of boxes from his employer and my grandmother used to give us a box. I was the only one who ate them.

R7 / R29 I like cordial cherries, black licorice and marzipan too. I come from a Danish family so maybe that's why. Black licorice, cherries/red fruits and almond flavoring are common.

Another vote for candy corn. I only ever eat them around Halloween. There's just something about the sickeningly sweetness of it that appeals to me. I just buy one bag at Halooween.

I also love those (are they called circus peanuts)? The jumbo marshmallowesque orange monstrosities that are made to looke like peanuts.

I have always loved chilled cordial cherries. I could go for some right now.

Chocolate licorice is also a favorite treat.

I haven’t eaten candy corn in many years after having problems with crowns two years in a row.

Not necessarily maligned, but I like the Almond Snickers bars, and buy them at the airport in case I get hungry on the plane.

I love Reese’s Peanut Butter cups, too.

I can’t have sweets like these because I don’t have a shutoff valve and I can overdo it if I let myself. Toblerone is another guilty pleasure.I could buy a kilogram version of one at the Duty Free shop at the airport and then gnaw through it like a wood chipper. It’s so good.

Thesr

I can't really think of ANY candy I don't like, with the possible exception of ones that are too sour or have a fruit flavor I don't like (e.g., apple or watermelon.)

[quote] When I was growing up I was the only one in my family who liked cordial cherries.

There was a poster, in another thread, asking about cordial cherries and which ones to buy. I wish I could remember which ones we had when I was young. I think they can be good, especially if you're a kid. They taste like liquor and you feel like it's an adult thing to be eating them.

I love Tootsie Rolls and hadn’t had one in a couple of years. Sadly, the quality has deteriorated.

Sugar Babies? Not sure if they're maligned, but I like them. Good with popcorn.

I love orange slices. Love them. I never buy them because the bag will be empty in ten minutes.

My sisters have made fun of me for this my entire life.

I like Mary Janes and NECCO Wafers. Many here can't stand either.

Ribbon Candy. It is piss elegant yet grandmotherly and tacky too. Sometimes dangerous.

I don’t know how long these have been around but a new obsession for me is Lindor Truffles.

I can’t wait to try their salted caramels truffles.

I always thought that peanut brittle was some kind of old people's candy and why would you want to eat that.

However ... I visited a friend and asked her what she wanted me to bring her. She said See's peanut brittle, so I bought a box (package?) and brought some to her. She opened up the box, right away, and started eating it. I said, "Give me some of that ... let me taste." OMG. It was really good. Buttery and good texture.

Did you misunderstand the criteria, R42? Nobody in most of the world maligns Lindt candies.

I don't like *any* maligned candies, OP. There's a reason they're maligned.

Darn it R44. I thought there would be more for me.

Whatevs.

I used to teach at an hbcu, and I learned there that black people really hate candy corn.

Oh, hell I like almost all of them. Tootsie Rolls, the pops, chocolate cherry cordials, candy corn, black licorice, NECCO wafers (especially chocolate), SenSen, Mary Janes, and Sugar Babies. I haven’t had any of them in decades, but wouldn’t turn them down.

But no marzipan.

The commercial song is a classic. These poor kids are completely obsessed with Tootsie Rolls.

I like little marzipan Christmas candies

R48 is it the texture or flavor of marzipan that you don't like?

It’s the flavor of the marzipan or at least what I recall the flavor is. To be fair it has been ages since I’ve tasted any marzipan.

Do people dislike Jujubes? I like those.

Niederegger marzipan is delicious with the bitter chocolate. But just have a small piece with coffee and or Asbach.

Anything gummy, fruity, and chewy tends to be maligned. Somehow, though gummy bears and Skittles / Starburst get a pass.

Examples of disliked / possible maligned candies: Jujyfruits, Good & Plenty.

IMO, gummy bears are meh. I don't understand the hype.

Someone must like Good & Plenty besides myself. They've been on the market for elebentyzillion years.

I don’t hate candy corn. It’s ok once a year.

I like marzipan and cherry cordials, although I haven’t had either in years.

Jujyfruits, Dots, and non-pareils are the worst.

I like Good & Plenty. But I’m not a licorice fan. I don’t like plain licorice.

I used to love chocolate everything. It was a major part of my food intake. Suddenly about 6 months ago I completely lost my taste for it. I can't even imagine eating it now. Now I'll eat a Payday bar if I see one around.

I’ll eat a Tootsie Roll despite the bigger one’s resembling dog turds.

I dislike and will completely skip Tootsie Rolls. Their not-quite chocolate flavor reminds me of German chocolate cake, which seems like watered-down chocolate.

I do, however, like Tootsie Pops, especially the orange ones.

Hershey Kisses are only acceptable in peanut butter blossom cookies.

For maligned candy, I like Werther’s Originals and Brach’s peppermints. I also love the chewy peppermints with a Christmas tree in the middle.

Brach’s had two great candies I don’t believe they make anymore — the butterscotch discs and gum balls covered in a translucent red candy coating. Some other company makes discs that never get smooth like the Brach’s versions did. I haven’t seen any facsimiles of the gum balls.

Mary Janes

^My grandmother always had them as well as ribbon candy and a tiny replica black coal bin with harsh black licorice. Her dad was a coalminer.

I like those Brach's butterscotch discs. Call me Grandma. I like them.

I liked the Brach's jelly nougats

I love black licorice and I also like circus peanuts in small doses.

I can't forgive Tootsie Rolls for being chocolate-looking and slightly chocolate-flavored but not actually being chocolate.

Candy Corn

Smarties

Mary Janes

Pixie Stixs

Fun Dip

And Tootsie Rolls of course!

Unfortunately, after thousands of dollars in dental work, I don’t dare eat any of them.

I love many of the maligned candies, including tootsie rolls, candy corn, circus peanuts, and those Goetze bullseye caramels with sugar in the middle.

My favorite Tootsie Rolls are the big ones that kind of look like a cigar.

I love candy corn, and I will not apologize for this.

Oh, Brach's, R61! Their Pick-a-Mix was always fun. I grew to love those white nougat-y ones with the bits of jelly candy suspended in them. I even looked them up the other week, but it turns out that, like most good things from my childhood, they've gone away.

OMG!, DOTS. I forgot about them.

Do they still make Sugar Daddies? (The kind on a stick, not the kind that supports your hedonistic lifestyle in exchange for sex.)

R73 excuse me!

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Oh, and Chunky. The trapezoid of chocolate chock full of raisins and toenails (what my younger brother thought coconut flakes were) and other unexpected surprises. I don't think anybody ever handed them out for Trick or Treat.

I liked those Brach's (?) caramel roll candies that looked like jelly rolls from the sides. I think they're officially called "Milk Maid Royals."

R56, I do!

They're in my top five.

Where's everybody on Jolly Joes?

Jolly Joe was DPed by Mike and Ike.

I used to store a Tootsie Roll in the glove box and put it on the dash of my car whenever Shriners and Elks Club beggers showed up at stop lights.

The best candy

How many licks does it take…

I was diagnosed with heart problems a few years ago and my doctor told me not eat two things- grapefruit and licorice. They mess up the efficacy of the medication I was prescribed. Kinda strange.

Heed the warning...

I guess they do indeed still make Sugar Daddies!

I liked Black Cows but not Slo-Pokes.

I love black licorice - it is my favorite candy. When I'm on a road trip I will always buy a cheap drugstore branded bag of both spearmint leaves and cinnamon bears - I love spice drops as well.

You live on the edge, r88.

That's why I limit it to road trips, R89

Black Crows are now called Crows. I loved jujubes because they would last forever. They make dark chocolate cherry cordials now, very good.

I used to like to take a small green (lime) Tootsie Roll, stretch it out a bit, stick one end in my nose and the other end in my mouth.

Then I'd walk into a room with it covered in a Kleenex, pretend to sneeze, remove the Kleenex, and watch the horrific reaction of people who thought it was an actual huge green booger dripping into my mouth from my nose.

Or sometimes I'd forgo the whole sneeze/Kleenex charade and just walk in licking the end that was in my mouth.

Hilarious! If grossing people out with food is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Doesn't everyone love a Big Hunk?

R9 your company gives candy to employees? Is that instead of paying them a living salary?

[quote]Doesn't everyone love a Big Hunk?

Oh Henry!

Necco wafers, satellite wafers and “salty” Finnish licorice.

R94 it's for events like charity drives, sign-ups, promoting a new service line or what not. Not in lieu of salary, although some may want to endorse their whole paycheck to Sees.

Coffee Nips were a staple in our house growing up, and I love them to this day, though I probably haven't had one in decades. I'm not even sure if they make them anymore, but I'm the only person I know who likes them.

Here you go, R98.

Maple Nut Goodies - I have always liked them.

I didn't like cherry cordials much as a child but I like them now. Probably wouldn't buy them. But I would still buy Maple Nut Goodies.

r100 Are you talking about the Brach's Maple Nut Goodies or the Pearsons Nut Goodies-Maple? I was reading a book where the heroine was addicted to the latter and I started craving them even though I've never seen one in my life.

Are Lemonheads maligned? They were my favorite candy at the theater when I was young, the perfect balance of sweet and sour. I also loved cinnamon imperials, though they were more for baked goods.

Lemonheads could cut my tender young virginal tongue.

Good news [R98]! Not only do they still make Coffee Nips, they’ve expanded to different flavors! Chocolate, caramel and butter rum. The butter rum are my favorites.

My mom adored Coffee Nips. When she died in 2019 I found an unopened box in her pantry. That box sits way in the back of my pantry. I can’t bring myself to throw them out.

R98 Add me to the list of people who like the Nips candies. I love the chocolate parfait and butter rum ones. They are so hard on dental work, though.

All hard fruit flavored candy tastes like chemicals these days.

[quote]Coffee Nips were a staple in our house growing up

They're on the shelf next to the Sugar Tits at this Jew candy store that I go to.

Marcy Seppellick used to suck dick behind the jew candy store…