Hi, friends!
Happy Tuesday!
Popular opinions theme – what’s the worst Easter candy?
I would argue it’s a tie between black jelly beans and white chocolate Easter bunnies.
I love black licorice and I love fennel, so you’d think I like black jelly beans.
And you’d be wrong.
The distaste for white chocolate Easter bunnies is entirely due to that year as I kid that I ate the entire bunny and was sick as hell. My grandma used to make us lovely baskets out of the fancy expensive Fannie May candy she’d go to the specialty store for. Haven’t been able to do white chocolate since then.
Marshmallow peeps. Always dried out, always tasteless, never tasty.
I always like the idea of peeps until I go to eat one.
Then again I haven’t had a peeps in over a decade so I think I’m just going to continue that trend of not having them.
Absolutely dead on, peeps are bullshit. Peeps are to marshmallow what Tootsie Rolls are to chocolate.
Aged Peeps are the best Peeps!
Buuuuut I’ve always liked “extra sugar on my sugar”… I like (and grew up with!) the canned yams/sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top at Thanksgiving, too!😉🤣💖
These weird chicken peeps are an Easter Lovecraftian abomination
Maybe they’re supposed to be doves?
In high school, one of my science teachers put one of these in a vacuum chamber and removed the air. That was fun.
Don’t keep us in suspense. What happened to the Peep in the vacuum chamber?
They expand like a scifi monster to fill the entire space! Worth watching on youtube!
Peeps are awful! The only good thing about Peeps is this scene from the great show Malcom in the Middle…
That was such a good show.
Peeps are super-satisfying for whipping back and forth at your friends.
They don’t hurt if you hit someone in the face, but they have enough mass to get noticed. The bright colors make them easy to track as they fly through the air, and the irregular shapes mean they make noticeable sounds and not perfectly linear paths as they go back and forth.
They don’t really leave stains when they hit and they don’t leave a sticky residue if they hit a wall. And they’re big enough to get a decent grip before you hurl them.
Peeps: for when a NERF ball isn’t handy.
I’m in the all-jellybeans-are-bullshit camp. What a waste of empty calories.
Same with Peeps. Same with gumdrops (more of a Christmas thing, but still).
Gimme all the chocolate.
The only good jelly beans are Jelly Belly’s. I love the black licorice and cinnamon ones. Peeps suck, and Cadbury Cream Eggs are always a disappointment.
I like the popcorn ones!
When I had a German girlfriend I learned they have the best candy, mostly because they fill it w/ shots of booze, which I needed to tolerate her.
https://europeandeli.com/products/schladerer-fruit-liqueur-filled-chocolate-eggs-gift-box-assortment
Fennel is the devil’s own food. Nobody really likes it. People who say they like it are just trying to be cool and sophisticated, like people who say they like Drambuie or Malört.
I still have trauma from when I was a kid at Thanksgiving and there was fennel (finocchio) in an appetizer dish on the table and I grabbed a piece thinking it was celery.
The worst candy is C. Howard’s Violets (see below). These are not my opinions, but my objective observations.
I had that once & put it out of my mind until now. You win! That was like eating a car freshener!
I like fennel and I love fresh fennel seeds. I’ve also loved black licorice since I was a kid. *shrugs*
Agreed! I love fennel!!!
Salted black licorice is good.
Black jellybeans are an abomination, because black licorice ×extra sugar=awful.
Marshmallows with extra sugar on the outside, however, are tasty!😉
But the worst candy we’d get in our Easter baskets when we were kids, were circus peanuts!!!
THOSE are a complete abomination, and an insult to the genus Candy!!!🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢