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[duckduckcari]

Hello, I'm new here. Candy was a very important part of my life when I was younger, but I just can't chew and chew with the same vigor as I used to. It could be due to the questionable brushing habits of my childhood.

Question 1: How do you guys feel about orange flavoured candies, specifically in bags of 'assorted flavours'? I find orange, and

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[thisisfurious]

oh my! your anecdote technique is AWESOME. seems like i've heard of a similar plan involving tubes to allow surreptitious consuption of booze...

[duckduckcari]

The beer hat is in no way as inconspicuous as the candy sleeve! Unless you're referring to another, more diabolical apparatus...

[thisisfurious]

no, this involved a camelback hidden under a shirt, beer-belly-style with the drinking tube goingup the torso and along the sleeve. pretty inconspicuous.

[duckduckcari]

oh ho!! that's clever.

[trywhy]

orange i enjoy, i find grape to be so preposterouly out of synch with the citrus schemes in most assorted candies that frequently i pick them out and eat them after (if at all).

yes

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[duckduckcari]

I think we should stop eating the candies we don't want to eat out of principle. Save them up in a big dish and use them like glass pebbles, or varnish them and make obnoxious candy mosaics. or send them to the companies in one-pound quantities saying, here, you fucking take these; I think they're garbage.

[thefooliscool]

with almost every candy that i eat, there is one flavor that i feed to my friends. i refuse to eat candy that i don't like. it's a waste of chewing energy.

[_stormthesea]

I secretly LOVE gum in the center. I've always silently hated the tootsie roll in the tootsie roll pops, but didn't tell anyone because I was afraid of the consequences.

[duckduckcari]

Wow... that's the exact opposite of how I feel. I just get so pissed off, you know, like I've worked so hard at not crunching this lollipop just so I could get to a center that I couldn't even eat? Total bullshit, in my opinion.

[gittapet]

1. I like the orange flavors by themselves, and I combine grape flavors with lemon ones (i.e. Skittles, Warheads) because I like the juxtaposition.

Your anecdote is awesome.

2. Almost. I stopped right before the actual bleeding stage.

3. I do not enjoy the taste of the gum center much because it almost always loses what little flavor it has very quickly. However, I do like the texture for the half hour or so before it becomes unbearably rubbery.

[duckduckcari]

Ah, that's interesting, because someone mentioned up there that they couldn't stand the clash between the grape and the lemon! ...I remember once I ate three skittles from the purple bag, I think it was a green one, a blue one and a purple one... and it all tasted like maple syrup.

[wateredsilk]

1. Orange = good. Grape = not so good. My body is extremely alcohol-intolerant, and I think I associated purple grape juice with red wine really early on, so I've just never warmed to grape-flavored things. Ironically, I really like green grapes, but red/purple grapes or artificial grape-flavor? No, thank you.

Your anecdote made me wonder if you ended up having with little fuzzy hairs on your tongue after running the Fruit by the Foot through your blazer.

2. Absolutely. I blame those "Super" Japanese-brand candies that were so sour, your tongue started to crack after just one.

3. That sort of gum always reminded me of those rubber gum erasers I'd use in art class: fun to play with, but not tasty.

[duckduckcari]

Aha! You've forgotten about the silky-smooth inner lining of the blazer. All candy consumed was 100% fuzz-free. Or, I was just 12 and didn't care.

3. I had one of those erasers once... I don't think I actually succeeded in erasing anything with it.