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Posted on 10/26/2016 8:03:07 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Kerr’s seems to be a respectable enough company.
Founded in 1895, the Ontario-based candy maker popularized the lollipop in Canada, they fuel the nation with Scotch mints and they are a leading manufacturer of lemon drops, caramels and the other sweets populating candy bowls from coast to coast.
But none of that can forgive the fact that Kerr’s has spent more than six decades selling tons upon tons of the worst Halloween candy ever devised by human hands: The Kerr’s Molasses Kiss.
Unique to Canada, the seasonal individually wrapped candies are visually similar to another hated Halloween candy, Tootsie Rolls. However, the Molasses Kiss ups the unpalatable ante by being 10 per cent composed of molasses, giving the candies an earthy, old-timey taste.
Here’s a cursory summary of online posts from Canadians describing childhood encounters with the confection:
“Not only do they get stuck on your teeth, they get jammed in between your teeth.”
“Trading these was an exercise in futility. Everyone always knew better.”
“The easiest way to remove loose fillings.”
“Poo-Candy”
Despite this universal scorn, the Kerr’s Molasses Kiss remains a fixture on store shelves. There’s even a competing brand of awful taffy-based Halloween candies. The Original Brand Halloween Kiss, manufactured in Quebec, is a similar lump of tasteless sugar served in orange wax paper that has been cursing trick-or-treat bags for decades. Except for 2013, when it was recalled for containing metal shavings.
But why does such an objectively inferior product continue to thrive?
The answer is a spooky journey into Halloween economics. First posted by the National Post for Halloween, 2015, the above video explains the murky market forces behind the commercial success of rock-hard molasses paste.
Quite simply, a holiday where strangers give candy to children has a way of encouraging illogical consumer choices.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
Candy Corn
What’s wrong with Tootsie Rolls. Those are completely acceptable candies.
I prefer a good bag of gummy bears or raspberry jellies or (of course) Jelly Belly.
If you want to talk really bad Halloween candy, it would have to be those Circus Peanuts. I can eat maybe one or two every five or ten years, but they really are an oddity.
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I love circus peanuts!
Gummy things, however, are simply dreadful.
I love circus peanuts!
Gummy things, however, are simply dreadful.
I like tootsie rolls, even the non-chocolate flavors. I don’t like Mary Jane’s peanut butter taffy though.
To me the worst candy is Twizzlers.
Why not just take a rubber hose out of your car engine, sprinkle sugar on it and chew. Same thing, I’d imagine. Blech!
Circus peanuts were created by Satan!
Yes, Candy Corn is the worst. Its become even more diabolical in the last decades. They are putting more wax in it, or something.
My southern grampa LOVED circus peanuts! He also liked Starlight Mints and “Co-Cola.”
Lol!
Perfect!
A starchy sweet rubber hose.
Circus Peanuts rule!
Sugar free Gummy Bears are a LAXATIVE!
laffy taffy can bite me
I remember nearly retching from one of those. I haven't touched them, since.
Always hated Twizzlers myself too. Pointless.
Always hated Twizzlers myself too. Pointless.
Circus peanuts. They were orange and peanut shaped, but tasted neither of any sort of citrus or peanuts known to humans, but of some sort of adulterated banana abomination with the odd texture of desiccated sponge. It is like some alien race caused them to be made on earth so they would have something ready to snack upon post-invasion.
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