Brit vs American Candy 🍬🍫

[@rachelrabbbit2553]

10 seconds in and, as an American, "chemicals stuck to a slug" is not the least accurate description of American candy I've ever heard, lol, but I still like it!

[@popechucky]

She is NOT lying🏳️‍🌈😊

[@slamcrank]

No lies detected! (American here) - PS - to understand why Hershey chocolate tastes the way it does, check out “Hershey Chocolate WW2” in your favorite search engine. Basically, it wasn’t meant to taste very good. The recipe was meant mostly to give people some energy without the decadent “nice” chocolate taste. Some people actually liked it a lot and so Hershey kept the recipe (generally).

[@danbongard3226]

My thought was "I wonder what candy that is? There are so many possibilities". Time to watch the video and find out!

[@jeneeba1313]

5:09 I have seen people on the Internet say that Nerds satisfy our innate inner urge to eat aquarium gravel and I can't say I necessarily disagree.....

[@chalco_isanns]

💯💯🤣🤣

[@IsaacKuo]

Grape Nuts satisfy our innate inner urge to eat kitty litter.

[@jonathon5075]

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are way better than a jellybean that tries to imitate it. Highly recommend

[@deriamis]

This. But with strawberry jelly - not grape 🤢 - and on their own slices of bread rather than that pre-mixed nonsense.

[@Insertia_Nameia]

I prefer strawberry or blackberry preserves the best for it.​@@deriamis

[@vforwombat9915]

peanut butter and honey sandwiches.

[@chalco_isanns]

This!

[@nesomnia]

I've had those PBJ jellybellys. when I saw that I just thought "oh no, bad time incoming." They're hideous, and I am a fan of PBJ sandwiches.

[@Max.Paprika]

"Not disgusting, but pointless and expensive." Emma's thoughts on spray sugar from America match my feelings on living in America.

[@txdeadhead]

Dots have always been a staple for American theaters going back to the 1950s.

[@BB-rh2ml]

Emma is the sweetest British candy 🦆

[@RaunienTheFirst]

😳

[@telgato711]

Dots are a fav of mine. Especially in theaters.

[@Arrowdodger]

I feel like your answer of "a comb" for the riddle works, but that it'd be better used for a gag of, "What has teeth, but brushes you".

[@ssgtmole8610]

American industrial chocolate is flavoring and filler, some fraction of cacao, and milk solids if it is milk chocolate. I didn't know there was better chocolate until I visited Canada. There are hand crafted chocolatiers in america these days, but they are much more expensive because they are aiming to be honest chocolate - unlike Hersheys.

[@thebaccathatchews]

Peanut butter and banana go well on a sandwich.

[@chuckoneill2023]

Elvis was a fan, I've heard.

[@jamesrule1338]

My favorite sandwich as a kid. Haven't had one in decades.

[@rachelwhite2210]

I never thought about how peanutbutter and jelly sandwich would be strange to other people. I personally don't like the combination but it's pretty much a basic sandwich for kids here.

[@jamesrule1338]

I'm not a fan of peanut butter and grape jelly on sandwiches, but I love peanut butter and strawberry jam on crackers.

[@MoonJellyGames]

Canadian, here. Nerds have always been a favourite. Nerd rope tastes like delicious chemicles stuck to a delicious slug.

[@jontastic]

I wish USA would adopt EU food standards. Jams and jellies are both soft, sweet spreads made from fruit, sugar and pectin. The main difference between jam and jelly is that jam is made with fruit whereas jelly is made with fruit juice.

[@egrintarg230]

A good trade off would be that the USA agrees to EU food standards and Europe agrees to the USA constitution and Bill of Rights.

[@ParsonNathaniel]

Charleston Chews aren't really popular in America outside of the South. We actually freeze them before eating. Try them that way if you haven't already tossed them in the bin😂

[@flameyay5207]

I agree. I'm sort of an oddball for liking them. I don't know anyone else who likes them, other than my son, and I live up north.

[@CincyFlight]

I've always thought of them as kind of an older person sweet but would definitely eat before an almond joy...

[@slamcrank]

My neighbor has the sweetest little pug dog and his name is Charleston Chew 😂 I love that little dude.

[@CincyFlight]

@@slamcrank that's awesome! I couldn't think of a better name for a pug. Lol

[@andrewjones6693]

Green Apple and Banana are the best flavors of Laffy Taffy! Another popular American lunch sandwich is the "FlufferNutter" (Peanut Butter and Marshmallow spread)! Yum!

[@fractuss]

Mmm, fluff.

[@Ahzpayne]

marshmallow is humanity's greatest shame. or it should be if we had any taste or sense.

[@EmmaThorneBackstage]

WHAT! That's a dessert, not a lunch!

[@Mad_Elf_0]

*England* may only use "jelly" for the gelatin desert, but... Scots usage: jam has bits of fruit in it, jelly has been sieved through a cloth jelly bag and has more setting agent in it. Usually pronounced "jeely" in Glasgow; jeely pieces were a staple snack for anyone born in the '70s or earlier. No peanut butter though. My gran's bramble jelly was awesome.

[@_RHCreations_]

The best sweetie here is Emma herself!

[@thechangingtimes]

Our best Hersheys is the Symphony bar- WAY better than the waxy flavor of regular Hershey’s. But Europe still has the best chocolate- Godiva in particular is our favorite 😎 My wife and I compiled a list of our fav’s: 1. Snickers 2. Reese Peanut Butter Cups 3. Skittles 4. M&M’s - especially peanut 5. Twix 6. Kit kat 7. Starburst 8. Charms pops 9. Whoppers 10. Dove chocolate

[@liesleberhardt211]

Love the Heath bar and Hot Tamales as well.

[@liesleberhardt211]

Steer clear of circus peanut candy, nasty.

[@jamesrule1338]

Reese Peanut Butter Cups are sooo good. I'm weird because I like to put them in the freezer before I eat them.

[@beecee6211]

I agree that traditional jelly beans blow Jelly Bellies out of the water, but I can't believe you never had a peanut butter sandwich or a fluffer-nutter sandwich (peanut butter + marshmallow cream).

[@liryns]

As someone who is VERY into sensory foods and candy: Nerds Gummy Clusters, Jolly Ranchers (Lime flavored), and freeze-dried Skittles are my go-tos

[@EmmaThorneBackstage]

What in tarnation are freeze dried skittles???

[@roadrun030]

I would think the 0-3 years old warning on the Slush Puppies Candy is in reference to the cap as a choking hazard.

[@adarkerstormishere]

@14:25 Mike n' Ikes also has a version called Hot Tamales, which, as you might have guessed, are cinnamon flavored and occasionally get *intensely* spicy. Would recommend if you're a fan of Red-Hots or cinnamon gum.

[@wrenrowell]

Starkid reference!!! "Red Vines... what the hell can't they do?" (taste good. they can't taste good.)

[@vforwombat9915]

red vines cannot give you wings.

[@orcashton69]

Isn't jelly fruit juice with sugar and jam is mashed/pureed fruit with sugar

[@CrankyQuokka]

I read ages ago that the main issue with the majority of US confectionery is the fact they use corn starch in nearly everything instead of actual sugar like we do in Australia and is used in Europe. It leads to having to use different chemistry to make products. I found the mini Tootsie Roll lollies to be quite good. A friend bought me back a big bag of them, and I had to make sure I didn't scoff them all too quickly. Tasted a bit like the choc eclairs lollies that have choc on the outside and a soft chewy caramel inside.

[@Where_is_Waldo]

The USA and Canada both use high fructose corn syrup instead of sucrose in just about everything which effects the flavor and also makes it hard on people like me in terms of digestion (I'm fructose intolerant). They even use it as a preservative in Rolled Gold pretzels... which... I mean it's just weird to have a form of sugar that functions as a preservative. Why do they do this? Well, I'm not sure if Canada actually provides the same subsidies but the USA subsidizes the production of corn that's been genetically modified to be high in fructose so that, even though the cost of producing sucrose is objectively lower than the cost of producing high fructose corn syrup, the farmers can undercut that cost by selling below their cost and still making a profit because of the subsidy. This isn't a rant about GMOs, it's the motivation, not the technology that causes the ethical problem.

[@xliquidflames]

PB&J is a classic American _kids_ lunch. I would never pack it in my lunch for work as an adult. But, yeah, a PB&J sandwich and some plain Lays chips to go with it. It works. It's lunch. On a budget. If I had a choice, I wouldn't pick it over anything else. It's like the cheapest, lowest effort thing you can make for lunch.

[@kittywampus]

"sweet as all fuck" my favorite quote. And Hershey Dark Chocolate isn't as horrible as their milk chocolate. Still mostly crap, but better.

[@MrAzhrarn]

As long as they keep adding Butyric Acid to their products it will always taste like sweaty socks to me... 🤣

[@danilooliveira6580]

here I'm playing Subnautica for the third time while watching Emma dis American candy. it's great when life is simple.

[@Aireze_]

I will say, (and I know many people may have already said this but any comment is engagement right??) that jam and jelly are two different things. Jelly has gelatin in it and is strained of pulp (and does not have the consistency of Jell-o, but is easily spreadable and easily drips off into your lap)

[@Patriot009]

7:12 Here in the US, generally. Jelly is made with fruit juice. Jam is made with pureed/crushed fruit. Preserves are made with mostly intact/whole fruit. Standard grape jelly will be made from juice and containing no grape pieces.

[@Pendrake]

Blow pops are usually a lollypop, and at that size the amount of gum inside is at least chewable. Also, we do get european chocolates here too, they're just a bit pricey. We aren't just stuck with hershey.

[@iago20011]

For Jelly Belly jelly beans, try the A&W root beer flavor. Once upon a time I worked for a company that was pioneering packaged cotton candy. They made it in a smaller size and, well, it was the size and shape of a sanitary napkin.

[@DeliveryMcGee]

Dr Pepper is best Jelly Belly flavor. So ... I guess they do soda flavors well?

[@CincyFlight]

There's a lot of jelly belly flavors that just shouldn't be made...😂 butter popcorn was always pretty decent although.

[@iago20011]

@@DeliveryMcGee They have, I have not paid attention lately. They also did an IBC Cream soda that was quite nice.

[@draygosmith]

Whenever non-Americans get ahold of our candy: "No! Don't do it! You'll regret it!"

[@GlassSpiider]

When I still ate candy all the time, besides chocolate, I loved Sweet Tarts the most, and hard candy Jolly Ranchers would be runner up. At Valentine's Day and apparently no other time, Jolly Rancher sells assorted flavor heart-shaped lollipops and it's the only time you can get their pink lemonade flavor and it's outrageous. 💖

[@Brainwav]

"Does candy often have fat in it?" Mostly, no. We're just obsessed over here with "fat free=healthy" or at least less-bad. So it gets slapped on stuff where it's irrelevant sometimes.

[@FergieTheTaurus]

As an American, I will confirm that American candy is awful lol. So much sugar!

[@saffral]

Personally I like "acrid" if describing a strong and unpleasant taste over "chemical". Or it'd be nice to know the general sphere of chemicals, like ones for cleaning, or the kind of stuff you smell when you pass a petrochemical refinery, or the ones you smell when your neighbours decide to have a burning party, or the ones you smell when things go horribly wrong in the kitchen.

[@eligoldfarb2112]

Ah, Airheads. I remember them well from my days in summer camp. The cheapest of the candy selections, so they were plentiful. We used to grab the package by one end and shake it so the candy all bunches up at the other end in one big mass. Didn't change a thing about them, but that's what we did. As for the taste? Yeah, I'd say Emma's about right on that one.

[@42JustLooking]

I don’t think I’ve ever had the peanut butter and jelly Jelly Bellies, but hands down the best in my opinion is juicy pear. They somehow captured the taste you get from the skin of the pear. It’s amazing.

[@lemonflavouredquark]

Emma: trying the sherbet with spray. Me thinking: This is how the zombie outbreak starts

[@New_Wave_Nancy]

Original Blow Pops are lollipops with gum at the center. I loved them as a kid. (We also have Tootsie Pops, which are lollipops with a Tootsie Roll center.) I only ever had Dots at Halloween when some people gave out mini boxes of them. I would never buy them.

[@fractuss]

Tootsie pops are way better IMO.

[@benstone5895]

Specifically "Holiday Mint" flavor M&M's are my favorite (U.S.) candy in the (U.S.) world. Possibly because I can only get them in the two-to-three month holiday season each year which keeps them special, but they are objectively better than the ordinary Mint M&M's by a long shot.

[@IsaacKuo]

My favorite American candy are aplets and cotlets. They're basically just Turkish Delights made with apples and apricots. Maybe a bit sweeter to suit American tastes.

[@korg13]

60s candy , Good n Plenty, Pop Rocks, Bottle Caps, Smarties, Big Hunk, Buttons, Boston baked beans, Bit O Honey, Jolly Rancher stix.

[@diplenski]

The more I distance myself from junk foods and sweets, the less I’m able to tolerate them. I dehydrate fruits, lately apples and figs, if I want something sweet. I’m also not a fan of all the dyes they put in everything either. Dots are good though.

[@pascallefevre1148]

Suffering from a terminal case of sweet tooth myself, I suggest that you try to explore the wonderful world of Japanese candies. Classics like Morinaga’s Hi-Chew and Chocoball, Kasugai’s Frutia Gummy Candy, and Glico’s Giant Caplico for its amazing texture.

[@EmmaThorneBackstage]

Ooh yes I've had some amazingly weird and tasty Japanese candy

[@fepeerreview3150]

I'm not a big candy eater but there are a few classics to be tried. Kit kat Mars bars (now called Snickers Almond) Reeses Peanut Butter Cups are edible.

[@T.L.G_studios]

We do have the first two in the uk. Peanut butter cups sounds….. interesting?!

[@Where_is_Waldo]

Mars bars are still called Mars bars in Canada, there's no almond involved. Do you have almonds or almond flavor in your Mars bars in the USA?

[@Where_is_Waldo]

@@T.L.G_studios Peanut butter cups are pretty good, it's sort of a half-assed alternative to homemade peanut butter bars which are basically peanut butter and icing sugar (maybe with some added syrup in some cases) covered in chocolate. There may be some ingredients I missed, my sister used to make them but I haven't had the homemade peanut butter bars since I was a kid. Reese cups are a half-assed substitute when I crave peanut butter bars.

[@Faustustopheles]

I wish I was so discerning when it comes to candy and food in general. I can eat pretty much almost anything. My favorite candies ever are in the gummy style. I do have favorites which I prefer but I just try not to buy anything because I will just eat entire packages.

[@DharricRolyat]

I'm type 1 diabetic. While I lived in America, treating hypoglycaemia was exciting because finding something to deliver a sugar hit that wasn't awful was tricky. Reese's Pieces was about the only thing that didn't taste or feel wrong.

[@evilbob840]

My favorite candy is circus peanuts. They are large, orange, peanut-shaped candies, so of course, they taste like banana flavoring. Word of warning though, I've found that something like 80% of people that try them find them absolutely foul. I think is mostly from the texture, they are not quite chewy, not quite fluffy, sort of like an extra stiff marshmallow.

[@ebwarg]

Now I’m going to have “Shniggedy Ding Dong” stuck in my head for days.

[@EmmaThorneBackstage]

I'm not even sorry it's a banger

[@virtualbri]

Had no idea PB&J is so foreign to the UK; now I want Emma to try them.

[@ceciljb]

I've lived in the USA for 72 years and I've only heard of 3 of those and I've tried Mentos once or twice. I used to live a few miles from a chocolate factory in Hershey Pennsylvania and hated when roasting days coincided with the wind blowing the smoke my way--you might think it would be pleasant-ish, but it was actually awful. Ghirardelli Chocolate from San Francisco is quite good, but most chocolate bars I buy are from Europe.

[@draygunnz]

8:06 I just have to say that as an Aussie, it's not a think here either, but i have tried a peanut butter and jam sandwich, and i quite like it. But when i was a kid, i was always trying weird combinations, so maybe i am just weird.

[@wolftaske]

FYI In the us Jelly and Jam are two DIFFERENT things Jelly is made from the juice of the fruit and Jam is made from the whole fruit, So In US fridges it is possible to both have grape jelly and jam and both are different in how they go on PB&Js I tend to like Jams more but thats just me

[@alexdar7409]

Seeing you on a sugar rush was the best part......LOL

[@Mark_Agamotto1313_Smith]

So, whether it has fruit bit or not doesn't make a difference in England? That is how we differentiate between Jam and Jelly. Jam has fruit bits, jelly is just jelled juice.

[@Insertia_Nameia]

I want to say that jelly isnt quite the same as jam. We have variants depending on how much is actual fruit. Lowest to highest levels we have: Fruit spread (this doesn't contain enough fruit to be jelly,) jelly, jam, and then preserves (marmalades would generally fall under this last one.) Jelly was generally the cheapest until the fruit spread started existing. Usually its grape, but i honestly prefer strawberry or blackberry preserves on my pbj sandwiches.

[@JarlJimbo]

Jam is just different than jelly, but we have both available in the states. (Also preserves.) I only buy jam because the flavor and texture are much better. Strawberry is my... my jam. It's my jam.

[@lukewarmninja9767]

Mystery flavor usually is when they're swapping batches where it mostly tastes like one flavor but has a bit of the previous flavor mixed in. It's basically trying to Prevent waste in a way kids can get excited about. As far as candy flavors go, cherry and strawberry are semi safe, but stuff like orange and watermelon usually tastes like chemical. I don't know why with orange, but I think watermelon is weird because real watermelon doesn't have much taste and candy usually wants flavor. As for Hershey's chocolate tasting like advent calendar chocolate, maybe you should compare your advent calendar to American advent calendar chocolate. Hershey's is better than advent calendar chocolate, at least here. I've heard European chocolate is more akin to American dark chocolate than American milk chocolate. Id recommend a dark chocolate Hershey's as your next Hershey's.

[@tunedintight6156]

As a little boy in northern USA, from probably age 5 to 11 "candy" was always in my possession. Loved candy. Not obsessed with it, normal weight an all, but I always had some on me. Kind of like a smoker always has cigarettes. I know you are too young to have experienced this, but we had drug stores where you could buy all kinds of candy, some of which was only 1/2 or 1/4 cent (you had to at least buy 2 or 4). The candy was in hoppers and the clerk used a scoop and a little brown bag lol. Soooo long ago...

[@fepeerreview3150]

Remember buying chewing gum in the shape and color of a filtered cigarette? I'm out of touch with all that now but I expect that's no longer available.

[@Where_is_Waldo]

I grew up in a small village in Canada during the '90s and we had a little convenience store/restaurant that sold candy that way, didn't have 1/2 cent or 1/4 cent candies but they had penny candies.

[@Where_is_Waldo]

@@fepeerreview3150 Never saw the gum but we had sort of a chalky white hard candy meant to resemble cigarettes and it came in a pack meant to resemble a pack of smokes too. I think I actually saw some of those still being sold in a local dollar store recently.

[@Sleepy.Canadian.P.M]

you should try Jolly Ranchers. Highly recommend. They have hard candies and also gummies, and a few other varieties.

[@Sleepy.Canadian.P.M]

if you get some jolly rancher hard candy, just dont try to chew them, you will lose some teeth lol. they become sort of soft, but they will not let your teeth go if you try to chew one lol. Amazing flavor though, very intense fruit flavors.

[@markpaprocki8315]

Watching a European react to American snack food is a fascinating study in the verbal articulation of disgust.

[@daguard411]

For most European candies and food labels sold in the US, Kraft has many of the licenses thus most have greatly altered recipes. The only candy bar I like is the Milky Way bar. The great thing about living in Australia is getting access to candies not chalked full of corn syrup, preservatives, and soy in some form. Though I really miss A1 Sauce and cheap Blue Cheese salad dressing.

[@BernicePanders]

As an American, I only like PB on toast or maybe on bananas, etc. & like strawberry, blueberry & apple preserves/jam, also on toast. I rarely like PB chocolate, but do love the chocolate treat in the Kinder Eggs, with the little round crispy balls in chocolate, or my fav being Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark squares, which I get a 50pc bag of every year. I think most of the candy spray/powder/gummies here taste fake AF, but there are a few that just taste like super concentrated yummy fruit flavor. Example: Haribo peaches or watermelon gummies, and beverages like Orange or Strawberry Crush, peach Minute Maid juice, etc...

[@shouldbewritig]

Petition for Emma to try peanut butter and jam as a sandwich (ps jam and jelly is different in America, they have different consistencies in runniness/spreadability)

[@Where_is_Waldo]

Never been a fan of jam or jelly but have you tried a peanut butter and butter sandwich? It's pretty good, needs to be salted.

[@fractuss]

Often actual licorice is hard to come by here but something called "Good and Plenty" is usually available. It's decent licorice.

[@kevinwalsh8524]

The same company makes a product called Good & Fruity. They’re hard to find in a lot of places, but they’re a bit like Ike & Mikes with a slightly harder candy coating. I loved them as a kid. I haven’t had them in many years, so I don’t know if the taste and quality has changed.

[@lilmikeegee]

Yes good and plenty and, even harder to find, good and fruity are fantastic

[@fractuss]

@@lilmikeegee Haven't had them in years, I'll keep a lookout.There is a chain of candy stores called "Grandpa Joe's", They have an insane variety of candy and soda pop. Try and visit one.

[@CaraiseLink]

We call fruit preserves "jelly" in America because so many of them are packed with so much sugar and preservative chemicals that they are literally gelatinous. You don't so much spread it as roll it around on the bread until it's broken apart. That combined with cheap American bread means it takes more force to coax the jelly flat than it takes to shred the bread, so when I was a kid my sandwiches would always have holes in them and fall apart halfway through eating them. It was sooooo gross. Luckily I live in Seattle now, so there's a unionized store nearby where I can usually find jam if I'm willing to look like a crazy person inspecting jars.

[@noneya3635]

We now have the proper pronunciation of nougat.

[@MrAzhrarn]

For a more reliably good American chocolate experience, I can heartily recommend Girardelli chocolate. Might be a little harder to come by, but should be tasty stuff.

[@VonSnootingham]

21:23 singing Sniggedy Ding Dong? Is Emma a Game Grumps fan?

[@granthamlin8126]

Has to be right? I don't know what else it could be from.

[@Virjunior01]

Was about to say... Alternatively, could just be a Sbassbear fan

[@EmmaThorneBackstage]

Huge I love me some Game Grumps (and Sbassbear)

[@jamesrule1338]

Wonder if you would like any Canadian candy. We have some really good baked goods. The only Canadian candy I can think of is Smarties (very different from American Smarties. More like M&Ms), Coffee Crisp bars, and Caramilk bars. Oh, and apparently Eat More and Crispy Crunch bars are also Canadian. neat.

[@JustMe-tx3nm]

We enjoy some of what you tried partially because we can't get the top shelf stuff nearly as easily. Plus our food tend to have a lot more sugar in it then your used to. I order Jammie Dodgers and I love them.

[@Where_is_Waldo]

It's also a different type of sugar. The American government subsidizes high fructose corn production so farmers can sell it below cost which is the only reason high fructose corn syrup costs less than sucrose which is why everything from America and most things from Canada are loaded with fructose. As a fructose intolerant person, that fact in it's self is annoying but there are multiple kinds of sweet corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup is often just listed as corn syrup in the ingredients which makes for an unpleasant trial and error process.

[@TheVan453]

I feel like I'm having a sugar rush just watching. I hope you managed to sleep ok after that 😂

[@poigntless]

That's a good haul; looks like an American candy aisle. I have to recommend Circus Peanuts, if you've never had them, because no one else will.

[@neil2796]

No one else will because circus peanuts are gross. :)

[@poigntless]

​@@neil2796 I love them a lot. They're sure to cause a strong opinion anyway haha

[@fractuss]

@@neil2796 Pretty awful although if they are around I will stuff them down my gob. That's why I don't keep snacks in the house.

[@pixelpoppyproductions]

This is all the candy that us parents leave to the kids, while we “hide” all the good stuff. Like, I would never buy any of these - other than Dots or Mike & Ikes 🤣

[@nataliesullivan9858]

As an American (not proud of that due to *gestures vaguely *) my personal favorite is a 100 grand bar.

[@adarkerstormishere]

11:07 Dots are rarely seen here outside of cinemas and Halloween candy stashes. They are... boring, just sugary enough, and inoffensive.

[@JP317]

I like the Watermelon and Cherry Nerds, although I'm not sure why you needed to import them unless it's a different regions have vastly different things as our local Tesco has quite a big Nerds section.

[@ChrisOhalloran-w8m]

Yeah I have a crazy sweet tooth myself especially with chocolate

[@otaku-sempai2197]

Emma, have you ever tried a Skor bar? It's a toffee bar enveloped in milk chocolate. Created to compete with the Heath bar.

[@adrianstanczak1127]

Hershy's tastes like it was made with milk from a very very sick cow, and also the milk went sour and then someone found out after making the chocolate and tried real hard to cover it up and still sell it.

[@shanem1129]

"Shligiddy ding dong" needs to be on a T-Shirt

[@michaelprozonic]

heyyyy Mike & Ike’s are made just down the road from where I live. The company, Just Born, is most famous for marshmallow Peeps. They make billions of them. They have a a VW beetle shaped like a Peep that drives around town,. US President Ronald Raegan had Jelly Bellies on his desk during all 8 years of his administration. Jelly Bellies come in more than 100 different flavors

[@rickallanolsen]

Pay Day candy bars.

[@heathriley3692]

Baby Ruth candy bars, or Payday candy bars are pretty-good. Baby Ruth has chocolate coating, and Payday has salty peanuts as the coating. I don't taste that 'vomit' (butyric acid) aftertaste that Hershey's uses in the Baby Ruth. It might still be there, but it's nothing like straight-up Hershey's. But they both have salty peanuts, which I love. Other than those, when I can find them, I like the 100,000 bars (don't know if they're still made), 'Goobers' which are chocolate-coated peanuts, and another old-fashioned candy bar is the 'Neopolitan Coconut Bar' which may or may not have 'rainbow' in the name, and may be marketed as 'coconut slices'. They're basically the same things, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry-flavored candied coconut. You may like or loathe them. Most people I know loathe them, but they're one of my favorites. I grew-up with them. But yeah, our candies / sweets tend to be too sweet, and blatantly artificial. Great example, have you had a 'Cadbury Egg'? The kind with the fake yolk and white inside a chocolate shell? They used to only be available around Easter. We also have Salted Caramel filled ones, and a 'fudge' filled version too. I don't like the 'fudge' filled chocolate egg, but the other two are a nice occasional over-the-top "Dibeetus Intensifies" . . . uh, 'treat'? 'Torment'? Whatever, you get the idea. :)

[@JeremyPatMartin]

Hershey bars are very popular in the states

[@RichWoods23]

"Jello... the jiggly, like, sort of dessert substance" Also an essential component of vegetable salads, if you live in the Midwest. Apparently it fits because it's green. A lurid green.

[@rukus8847]

Jelly isn't like jello. Jello is it's own thing, a cold fruity gelatin dessert (we don't put jello on bread). Jelly is a smooth jam, no fruit particles, very processed. Jam is slightly less processed and contains a lot more of the fruit. And then there are preserves which is like a jam but with a much higher fruit content. And then of course we also have marmalades as well

[@chloewright1]

Hello Emma! 👋 P.S microphone sounds good btw 👍

[@jaimerivera2382]

It's funny. I'm American, and I have a *massive* sweet tooth, but I almost never buy American candy. When I do, it's always a bar of chocolate of some kind.

[@melissaspradley8901]

If the blow pop mini seems odd to you, you should try a real blow pop. Its a sucker (lolli in the UK?) with a whole piece of gum in the middle that looses flavor in like 2 seconds.

[@Sableagle]

"Chemicals stuck to a slug." US 'food' in general, that.

[@mightyone3737]

FWIW American poor people's food is designed to punish them for being poor, it's intended that it tastes like toxic waste. Stuff made for rich people tastes a lot more like Canadian or European stuff, where we don't hate the common people. Part of this is because poor people aren't supposed to be buying pre-made food as a rule (and thus should be punished accordingly), but nobody has the time/wherewithal to cook after working more than 12 hours at soul crushing work, they either pre-made stuff or they're eating stuff someone ELSE pre-made. This is also why workers were supposed to be in tightly knit family units that supported one another, if you have two adults and several children it's almost a given SOMEONE can make SOMETHING for supper, it's not normal for everyone to be busy on a given night, and a 'smart' family would plan around that/take advantage of it (my two older siblings were REALLY into music and had to stay late after school, so I would get home first and start supper, because Mum wouldn't be home for at least an hour. Nothing makes me laugh harder than poor people talking about name brand mac n cheese (expensive 'food' that has no real food value) or heavily marked up fast food as 'cheap'. This is also why people end up with scurvy and rickets, they're eating too much processed food that has no vitamins (both of those diseases are making a big comeback in North America). Jelly over in the new world means you've made something jam-like but you have zero fruit solids because you've strained it, jam is supposed to have fruit bits. Yes I've done canning, how can you tell? Gelatin based deserts are their own thing, ranging from ambrosia to straight up plain jellio. Most people think plain jello is very much a children's desert, but some people stay fond of it into adulthood, as a kid it was a lot of fun making shapes using extra thick jello.

[@Virjunior01]

Bit-O-Honey is an old school candy, but VERY tasty, despite an intial papery feel. And Rule #1-875: *NEVER trust candy or chips that claim to taste like complex food.* That includes taco doritos, cheeseburger flavored potato chips, and peanut butter & jelly jellybeans. Rule #876: *Don't buy "crossover" slop.* This includes anything incestuous by Frito-Lay or Yum Foods, such as Doritos Locos Tacos, chili cheese Frito Slim Jims, Dorito-flavored Lays, Fanta-flavored Mentos, any of that "processed junk flavored like other recognizable processed junk."

[@doctortorchwood6115]

Germany has good chocolate too. Milka chocolate is probably the best.

[@draygunnz]

17:27 dude, we call it "fairy floss" in Australia. its like you decided on a middle ground of some sort. Lol

[@pseudotasuki]

The bioengineered ingredient is probably just sugar from corn (fructose) or sugar beets (sucrose).

[@Toshibaclovis]

You should try a 5th avenue. The best combination of peanut butter and chocolate.

[@ayanavade3742]

i quite like the strawberry flavoured mentos. the rainbow one has lemon flavoured ones and that i just cannot bear with! can't speak for the other brands, ain't familiar with them.