These Are The Worst Candies Ever Made

This is hardly a hot take. Who actually likes candy corn? In fact, we've probably all heard that old wives' tale about how they only made one batch of candy corn, which is then collected from the dumpsters to use again year after year since nobody actually eats it.

But apparently, that's not true. These candies have allegedly actually been in production since the 1880s, according to Always a Treat. That's a lot of time to be producing a candy that not many people want to eat. The company that we now know as the makers of Jelly Belly candies started the trend and has continued to make these little morsels of tastelessness for more than 100 years.

Our gripe about them? They don't really taste like anything. Sure, they're sweet, but there's not that much else there. When you add in the half sticky, half grainy texture, it makes it hard to eat a whole piece of candy corn without feeling slightly nauseous. Yes, it might look good in a decorative bowl on your kitchen table right before Halloween. But, when the season passes, you can throw that candy corn straight into the trash.

Milk Duds pretty much explain it all just in the name alone. If you're already calling your candy a dud, what do you expect other people to think about it? In fact, the candy is so hated that Today even posed a question in a headline reading: "Are Milk Duds the worst candy on earth?" It's not a good sign if that's a question you even have to ask.

Twitter users apparently had different opinions about whether Milk Duds are, in fact, the worst candy in the world. One user, though, had this to say about the candy: "People who like Milk Duds wear their mask with their nose out." (Note: Your nose shouldn't be sticking out of your mask.)

Another had this to say about the typical Halloween treat: "Those little yellow boxes of Milk Duds bad people gave out at Halloween were a bottom three candy, the ones you only ate when everything else was long gone. Terrible."

While some Twitter users disagreed and said that they actually enjoyed Milk Duds, they were certainly in the minority. After all, if you want a candy that tastes like chocolate, why on earth would you ever choose a Milk Dud?

Ah, Dots: the candy that you sadly eat as a last resort when you have already exhausted the actually tasty options from your Halloween candy haul. If you weren't familiar with their taste the first time you tried them out, you could mistake them for a delicious candy. Will they be delightful sour or fruity and sweet? Their colorful hue makes them appear promising. But, as soon as you take your first bite, you recognize these candies for what they are: glorified plastic-y sugar, with hardly any flavor.

A writer from Thought Catalog certainly didn't mince words when they expressed their intense dislike of the well-known but not-so-well-thought-of candy: "I don't know a single person who eats and enjoys Dots un-ironically. If I were given the ability to make my worst enemy eat a single food for the rest of their life, I would make them eat Dots, because I'm a vengeful and opportunistic person and because Dots are that disgusting."

Do we really have to say more than that? Stay away from these tiny boxes of candy crime if you actually want to enjoy your cheat day treat.

You may love licorice, but we're not alone in rating it as one of the worst candies out there on the market. In fact, there could even be a scientific reason why so many of us have an aversion to the stuff, especially black licorice. (Yes, we'll eat some Twizzlers when we're desperate and craving sugar. We've all been through a breakup before.)

According to NBC News, some of us get an unpleasant taste from black licorice for a reason: "When we bite into a piece of licorice, we taste glycyrrhizin, a natural sweetener in licorice root, which can taste, to some, like saccharin, the artificial sweetener found in Sweet 'n' Low. With licorice, this sickly sweet lingers, causing some to wrinkle their noses in displeasure."

If you're someone who likes desserts that are on the sweeter side or you're more used to eating artificial sweeteners, you may absolutely love the taste of licorice. But some of us have an excuse for turning our nose up at the stuff whenever we see it grace a grocery store shelf or candy bar at a birthday party.

We've already discussed the near-universal hatred of the despised candy corn. But, did you know that there is another sweet whose haters rival even those of candy corn? Welcome to the corner of the internet with a deep, burning hatred for the circus peanut, a concoction of orange food coloring and enough sugar to induce diabetes in high-risk individuals (this isn't an factual medical statement but more the feeling eating circus peanuts evokes. But, I mean, too many of these could conceivably lead to diabetes for real, so be cautious).

An Odyssey Online writer was not shy about their disgust of the inexplicably orange candy. They pose the question: "Why are they flavored like bananas?" And that's a great point. We get why you wouldn't want to make them actually taste like peanuts, but artificial banana is perhaps the most obnoxious and over-the-top flavor out there, so... why?

What's even worse? They're also available in other colors and flavors. If you ever see these in your local grocery store aisle, our thoughts are with you. Just back away from them as quickly as you can and rush to the high-quality chocolate aisle instead.

For full transparency, we didn't always hate Fun Dip. To be completely honest, it doesn't really taste bad if you have an appetite for stuff that's mouth-puckeringly sour (and we do). We also loved the fact that you could get so many different flavors of Fun Dip, according to Snack History, which meant that you could branch out and try something new while still knowing you were going to get a relatively tasty candy.

So, it's not really the flavor of this candy that throws us off. The problem, rather, is the delivery method. If you've ever eaten Fun Dip before, you know it comes as a powder and a stick made out of hard, compacted sugar. The idea is to lick the stick to get it moist and then dip it in the powder, bring the powder to your mouth, and then go back in for another dip.

Looking back on our childhoods, we realize that this method of eating candy is, in fact, disgusting. Just imagine how covered in saliva that little sugary stick can get. Since nobody ever we knew even ate the stick, it would often just sit there in the dust of the real candy, moist to the touch and probably crawling with bacteria.

Despite the fact that Good & Plenty is one of the oldest branded candies in the United States, according to Hershey's, we don't have to like it. In fact, we can't stand it, and neither do legions of others who hate the taste of licorice, which is basically what these absolute worst candies are in another form.

You already know our stance on licorice, so it's no surprise that we can't stand Good & Plenty either. What makes it even worse than licorice is the fact that, not only does it taste like medicine, but it actually looks like medicine, too. How the marketers convinced children to take something that looked like an antibiotic and tasted like the nastiest cough syrup we've ever had is beyond us.

With a black licorice interior and hard sugar capsule on the outside, the brightly colored white and pink candies just aren't for us. Luckily, you don't see these bad boys much of anywhere besides movie theaters these days, so at least they're less of a hazard now.