/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11754582
I used to get ripe cactus fruit for my mom. I only did it three times bc it fucked up my hands bad.
My mom made killer jam from it though.
Fucking dumb cunts who brought them to Australia should be shot though.

who eats this shit?

>>11754582
I used to find this stuff in Wisconsin

didnt they have this on an episode of Unwrapped

>>11754609
oh fuck just fuck my shit up senpai I could eat it for days

>>11754609
people who want to remove their dental cavities

>>11754683
>it's like a power wash for your insides

that's a nice way of saying it gives you explosive diarrhea

>>11754609
Boys love candy!

>>11754609
It's quite popular around the holidays.

Unrelated question: do Americans not have Turkish delight? It seems to be a common mistake for them to think its an English sweet (or a fictional sweet) because Narnia, but I dunno if I'm making that up.

>>11756615
99% of american candies boil down to chocolate, syrups of varying acidity and viscosity, and gummies.

>>11756615
Only time I see it out is around Christmas. Usually alongside "Aplets & Cotlets".

>>11756615
I've only ever seen it in an international store, imported from Turkey

>>11756615

>>11756615
Yeah we do and it sucks

i got something for you, OP

>>11756799
tastes like soap

>>11756878
they smell like flowers, right?
fucking weird.

>>11756615
never seen it desu

>>11754585
Why are cactuses in australia bad?

>>11756878
Yoooo, theres a gum in Canada thats purple and its tagline on the gum package is "Yes. It still tastes like soap!" I legit love it.

Not sure if obscure necessarily, but I have to go to a specialty candy store to get them where I live.

>>11756615
Not really, I always wanted to try it as a kid because I couldnt find it anywhere, we eventually did visit turkey sometime when I was 12 and it was one of the first things I asked to do.

Aniseed flavour tablet. It's distinctive.

>>11758320
Why?

>>11756615
There were times in my life when I'd have sold out members of my family for surprisingly little, and yet I'd still have held out for more than a box of Turkish delight.

>>11758339
I think I actually saw some of these in a gas station convenience store once, I was surprised because the only time I ever heard of them before was in the film Taxi Driver, and I assumed they went out of production during the 1980s.

>>11758353
Would that just taste like licorice?

>>11758339
The bastard son of these guys.

>>11758284
Ever heard of invasive species? Plants can take over an environment and kill off competing local flora, therefore depriving local fauna of food.

I DONT KNOw if these are obscure, but if you've never had 'em, try 'em! They're delicious. And there's a little prize in every package! (=

wax

>>11758857
Some gas stations near my house sell them (Mallo Cup). Not bad.

Now these fuckers will pull your teeth out.

>>11756640
These are fucking delicious

>>11758903
based

These fuckers though

>>11758542
makes my teeth hurt just looking at it

>>11758903
those are delcious you fucking jamoke

>>11759322
>>11758903
Are these regional? I can get these at any gas station.

>>11756878
yes but in the best way. love chowards

>>11758925
worth it though

Clove flavored hard candies, like granpa always had.

I've tried several makes I've bought online, but all are weak, don't have that sharp clove flavor.

>>11754582
Are these good? I have those on one of my Amazon wish lists.

>>11758363
it doesn’t taste bad or like actual soap, it’s just rose water flavour which isn’t that well known in Canada and people just associate the flavour with soap or fragrances.

>>11754582
That's not obscure, they have it all over the place where I live.

>>11759560

This stuff, best served at least a day after opening the package so that the wax covering can harden a bit.

i like candy bubble gum and taffy

>>11754582
>best flavor of said brand
>only found it in some 7-11s
>can't find any of this flavor anymore but there are others that I don't like as much

>>11759624
NO ONE likes these and dont even say you do.

>>11758319
It’s called Thrills

>>11754582

Those cactus candies are legit.

>>11758339
Fuck these if you have any fillings. Those mfers will be g.o.n.e.

>>11759653
that's fake ass shit i loved runts as a kid

>>11759646
This shit's in my local grocery store. I'll have to give it a try.

>>11759790
Fuck me, these are amazing, especially the red ones.

>>11759805
Is this still made?

>>11759790
Mexican candy is great.

>>11759646
>liquorice
>strawberry and cream
So it's not liquorice then?

>>11759861
Apparently the whole trio is made in a single batch every 2-3 years by Cadbury Adams. But I know Cracker Barrel stopped carrying it

>>11759525
They are, definitely worth a try. I wouldn’t say try to hoarde them or buy them on the regular though. Have a very distinct flavor

>>11759883
Depends on what you get. Enchlokas is the best though. Dollar store has em and they sell out pretty fast. Maybe its because people are putting tincture on it before consumption.

>>11759883
I had some Mexican candy that was a disgusting fucking spice and salt coating on a god-tier mango candy. Very conflicting.

Not the most obscure thing, but I don't see them around much anymore. Sometimes a nice bakery has them.

>>11758324
i found out that asian markets sell these but in generic glass jars and for like half the price too and you get more.

>>11754582
That's not candy, it's clearly fruit.
do Americans really think fruit is candy?

>at the mall
>suddenly have cravings for some candy
>go to one of the candy shops to buy some bulk candy
>always hot chick working there
>never buy anything because i dont want her to see me buy lots of candy.

>>11754609
>now extra sharp!

>>11759322
Five Below has a huge selection of these nowadays for like 5 for $5. They also have giant bags of Trolli's Sour Neon Worms and Haribo Goldbears for $5 too, which is a better deal overall, but much less variety. I still need to try all the different Haribo flavors so I might stock up on them later.

>>11760236
>no milk and salty coins added

>>11754582
>not eating based neccos
do you guys even know what candy is?

>>11759577

Licorice with sea salt in them. Loved these things.
Too bad the only shop that sold these stopped stop selling.

>>11754582
Arizonafag here. Prickly Pear candy is only really good if you make it yourself, boiling the fruit, picking off the needles & skin, etc. Most of the stuff in stores is way too sugary to actually taste the actual flavor of the fruit, which is way earthier than you would expect.

It's too much of a pain in the ass to make regularly, so if you're not then you can buy the candy but don't expect anything special.

>>11760909
Bought a sugared barbary fig in France the other day, it was pretty good. I think their flavour is a bit underwhelming for how exotic they are, though.

>>11760908
>salted liquorice
>obscure
Unrelated but I almost got kicked off my Duke of Edinburgh because I bought three bags of Tyrkish Peber in the middle of it

>>11760173
Nice, they taste just as good?

>>11756615
we have it here in the bronx but it’s a notorious Jewish neighborhood
probably regular pink skinned pig eaters are afraid of it so stores won’t sell anything with a “foreign” name

>>11754582
>Cactus candy
>obscure

Idk my mom buys a ton of that shit

>>11754683
Ostrich skin boots look retarded

>>11758363
>MÊME

>>11760908
its not sea salt though
its Ammonium chloride

>>11760856
they dont make them anymore i think

>>11759810
This, the bananas were my favorite candy but the others were great too. You just don’t have any taste.

>>11758339
These are obscure? I see them all the time.

>>11759620
Sneed

>>11763642

My favorite type of candy is gummy followed by sour gummy so when I lived in Japan I would fucking go they packets of pure (brand name) sour candies. Especially because asia appreciates goat flavor of white peach and Concord grape. I can sometimes find them here at 3x mark up but I'll still do it once in a while. Yuzu flavor also high tier, and somehow the mandarin and apple flavors are all better there.

>>11760856
I wish they released a version of these that were just clove, licorice, cinnamon and wintergreen instead of those shitty chocolate only ones.

>>11756640
Never seen those in my area but I'd probably like it.

>>11763846
>just clove, licorice, cinnamon and wintergreen
So you want them to go out of business for lack of sales? got it.

I'm a massive fan of a Dutch salted licorice called Katte Koppen. I used to it like crazy when I was regularly munching on sweets. They even come shaped in little cat faces, it's great.

>>11758324
They're solid in discount stores and asian supermarkets where I live. I see them all the time.

>>11756640
lol shit I remember these
My aunt got them all the time and I'd snack on a couple when I visited

>something like 20 years ago, there used to be a kind of candy that was basically chocolate orbs filled with some kind of a white nougat filling with a very unusual consistency mixed with crunchy bits
>hasn't existed in ages, don't even remember what they were called or what the bag looked like or anything
I miss them, it was good shit.

>>11759624
apple lute sea bass ta

>>11758925
25 years ago. My mom would give me a dollar every Saturday and I'd walk about a mile to this small shack of a kwikiemart
They had penny, nickle and dime candy back then and these were one of those. Forgot how much these were

>>11760293
She already seed that you’re st and can do the math.

>>11764200
>She already seed that you’re st

>>11760856
Only way they could get kids to buy these is cuz you got a shitload of em

>>11758835
So you're saying LOCAL flora and fauna are bore important, and we should kill the immigrant plants? Sounds pretty racist to me DESU

>>11764217
Lol unironically loved them when I was a kid. They were a patrician Smarties desu

>>11764149
looks fucking creepy

>>11759954
look at jew food places, they usually have them.

>>11764227
Not to mention Necco's Valentine's hearts are way better than Brach's hearts. I'd take cloves over that nasty artificial concord grape shit any day of the week.

>>11754582
I’m looking for the name and source for these little greek chocolates with a hazelnut inside. They were small squares individually wrapped in a shiny green wrapper that had a hazelnut picture on top.

>>11754609
Grandmas

>>11764184
Sounds kinda like whoppers

These Triple Layer gummies were great.

>>11760236
>>11760246
>>11760252
>>11760264
i hope you actually die of cancer

Like half of these candies I can get.
Ricanfag here

>>11759783
Don't chew them lol

>>11756799
Do they still have violet jujubees? I havent had a box in a year or two.

>>11759488
Look for horehound candy, might be that, my great grandfather used to carry them alot.
Also going to throw these into the ring.

>>11764926
Doesn't look like it, I remember the filling being more of a creamy or runny thing with the crunchy stuff being totally different from the texture of the rest of the filling.

>>11764184
a chocolate truffle?

>>11759624

THESE

who here /turkishdelight/

>>11759883
>made in san antonio, texas, usa
Very Mexican Mexican candy.

>>11754582
I look for this whenever I visit southwestern states. It’s a really good flavor, almost like fruit punch. Cactus candy is god tier

>>11756615
We don’t unless it’s usually imported, one of my favorite sweets though.

>>11759577
$195 dafuq

>>11764955
GOAT snacks

>>11759322
god tier

>>11765382
Didn't even bother reading the thread..

OP said obscure candies, not meme candies you ding dongs

>>11765520
don't care virgin

>>11765592
I have a kid you speculative idiot

>>11756640
Aplets and Cotlets are made in/from Cashmere, Washington. They (and their variations/other flavors) are some of my favorite candies due to the soft but chewy texture. I realize the proper name is lokum (Turkish delight). In Washington you can find Aplets and Cotlets year round and some of their other flavors (such as Fruit Delights).

>>11759805
village store has this, Clove gum, and Beeman gum.
Wikipedia-- "Beemans is sporadically produced by Cadbury Adams as a nostalgia gum, along with the other historic gums Clove and Black Jack."

>>11765599
doesn't make you not a virgin, virgin

>>11760856
>>11763502
necco wafers are gone for now but the company that bought the assets are going start making them again, supposedly.
the chocolate ones are actually pretty good.

unironically the most delicious lolly.
It's got that perfume flavour you crave, nothing else comes close.

>>11758320
>>11758319
Did someone say, thrills gum? I lcoe that rosewater flavoured shit.

>>11759805
My mom always talked about blackjack gum being around when she was a kid, never been able to find it though. Just thrills and chiclets

There used to be these sour peach hard candies that came in a metal tin. Can't remember what they're called, but they were amazing.

>>11759577
Not obscure, just overpriced. Got a couple of these from a client once.

>>11756615
It's so good, I would sell out my family for it.

Cherry Sours are the best fucking treat on planet earth. The texture AND flavor are delightful. You wanna chew em? Go ahead. You wanna suck em? Go ahead. They are absolutely spectacular and more people should pop a Cherry Sour more often.

Heard these were as good as it gets for sour gummys. Anyone had em who can verify?

>>11766142
Probably altoids

>>11765265
no clue.

>>11754582
Every few months I get a pang of nostalgia for these and I am sad I can never have them again.

>>11766295
They're definitely good. It's one of the few things I miss now that I've moved away from Haribo-country..

>>11754582
Tried them when I visited Hungary on 2012, usually hate cottage cheese but on it tastes pretty cool, give them a try if you got the chance

I love how American sweets keep their old school packaging. Here the packaging changes every other year to disguise the fact they're shrinking the serving size.

>>11767241
>serving size

Our Wegman's used to have them all the time, but have since replaced them with normal gummy worms. I can't find them anymore, and they arguably have the best gummy texture and gummy-experience overall.

>>11758339
they last longers

>>11759805
There's a place called "The Vermont Country Store"
that carries Clove, Beeman, and Black Jack Gum. Plus a bunch of other old fashioned nostalgia candies that are in limited production.

>>11766099
That looks like the packaging for an antivirus

>>11754582
Is this count?

>>11756799
>worked at a candy shop
>manager and I had never tried these but both enjoyed the smell
>he pops a package open and we try then
>says "This tastes like a urinal cake"
>laugh
>try it
>it fucking tastes like the smell of urinal cake
>disgusting
And that's what we told everyone that wanted to buy them. Curiosity sells.
>>11766099
>>11769416
Shit looks like the absolute cheapest lowest quality dollar store clearance bin Bic pen package you could buy.

>>11754582
I had a friend who spends most of his time on hockey forums. One day he left his PS3 unattended and we used the browser to look on his Facebook. For some reason, he completely ignored all the friend requests he had from his classmates, but added all the strangers he met online. One online stranger asked for his address so he could give him boxes of candy. A week or two later the same box in OP's pic arrived and he ate it without any hesitation.

>>11767210
What year were these discontinued? Could have sworn I could still get these around 97/98. I remember buying gummy watches from Long's drugs.

>>11756640
I went to a manufacturing plant for these in WA once
Delicious, cheap, and straight from the source
Incredible but can't eat too many or you'll go into diabetic shock

>>11760173
What's the brand name?

>>11754704
this.
Shit just tastes like toothpaste

>>11769465
Do Yuros really put candy in cigarette boxes?

These were like Nerds but good.

>>11770699
You are a faggot, your friend is alright though

Are there any Italian anons here? When I was in Italy I ate a shit ton of these liquorice candies that had a fruit flavored filling in them. I swear that they were called Ripineri but I can't find them anywhere online, they were sold in small bags alongside Haribo and other candies.

>>11759620
lol

>>11770705
Those watches were the shit. One time I got one that was an alligator biting its tail.

>>11770767
Not usually. It's convenient like a cigarette box, you can take the box with yourself and seal it tightly.
Also this is not regular "candy", it's a salty licorice...

>>11756640
These are the fucking bees knees and everyone looks at me like im a fucking grandma when im eating a box of them

turkish delights are amazing and should be more popular

>>11754609
It's more for decoration.

>>11760856
I fucking love these. I don't give a fuck what a bunch of faggots say. Old people have great taste in candy. Werthers are based too. Same goes for those strawberry candies.

>>11759624
I fucking love runts, can olny find they in those 25 cent machines though.

>>11771340
strawberry candy tastes like old man breath

>>11764094
Umm...

>>11759343
>haribo
nigga its in every part off the jewish kosher isle

>>11758903
I am usually the one that posts blue sharks. They have a similar taste to Pepsi blue.

>>11771340
Speaking of the strawberry candies if you can't find them dollar stores sell them.

>>11754582
Unironically my favorite candy.

>>11760246
this is good too

>>11756799
I love these fucking things. Used to eat a pack a day in high school. Tastes like delicious floral soap, chalk, and sugar.

>>11770753
I recently found these at a movie theater:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HMZ004/?coliid=I37O7AV66C5XR8&colid=28KKBO64FYEBJ&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1
And I haven't been able to find it anywhere else.

They're more fruity flavored and have more of a jelly candy on the outside instead of a taffy candy, but if you like cow tales, you'll like these as well.

>>11775230
You found it on Amazon, that's somewhere else

fucking love these

>>11771438
> Pepsi blue
I used to love that shit... do they still make it?

>>11775233
All of these "obscure candies" are on amazon.

>>11754704
You mean fillings?

>>11756615
One of the most popular chocolate bars in Canada is pic related.

>>11758320
I love Thrills, especially giving it to someone for the first time without telling them.

>>11760269
Mixing fruit puree with sugar and pectin does make it a candy, yes.

>>11765100
Those are amazing. Did you know they were originally marketed as a meal replacement?

Do these count as candy?

Why the fuck are you retards posting shit that you can find at any walmart or gas station?

>>11775275
fucking underrated, these and peanut butter bars are like crack even though they murder your teeth.

Can never find these fuckers anymore

>>11775425
Not in the US. You can get it in the Philippines....

>>11770999
its not just salty licorice
salmiak is made with ammonium salt. it releases a little bit of ammonia in your mouth, which can help with infections because it is a strong antisepctic.

also it burns like a motherfucker if you have wounds or sores in your mouth, and tastes very weird

>>11760745
based and pedopilled

>>11765288
Instead of a rabbit, it should be a hamster

>>11767210
Always wanted these as a kid but my mom was convinced that something like this must be toxic.

>>11759805