What is your favorite non-chocolate candy?

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:02 am

If it doesn't have chocolate in it then what's the point?

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:36 am

As a Chocolate purist I am almost offended by this question.

Actually, dried fruit is my favorite non chocolate "candy". I used to like "Chic-o-sticks" (these are very similar to the innards of Butterfingers). Have also enjoyed "Necco Wafers". However, given that the chocolate I eat is almost pure cacao mass sometimes, my tolerance for anything made with lots of sugar is about zero. Hurts my teeth!

Least favorite are Gum Drops, especially Spearmint flavored ones. Yuck!!!!

Casey

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:15 am

Gummi worms, you can eat'em and going fishing wid'em

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:36 am

Hot Tamales all the way. Plus, your breath smells nice afterwards.

breqwas · Post by **breqwas** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:44 am

Do you guys have Raffaello candies in your americas? :)

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:24 pm

breqwas wrote:Do you guys have Raffaello candies in your americas?

We do, yes! I've had them and they're good! Light and melty.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:34 pm

I prefer the Ferrero Rocher, myself.

No-one has mentioned old-fashioned candies like sponge toffee or candy-canes or saltwater taffy or turkish delight (the real stuff).

djm

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:57 pm

CHasR wrote:chewing gum.

Dentyne makes a new Chocomint gum.... not bad.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:01 pm

I suppose I like most non-chocolate candies, if they don't have peanut butter in them. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate all peanut butter, just not in cooked confections. I like Reese's peanut butter cups, but they have chocolate.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:19 am

Actually I just thought of one I like that doesn't have chocolate.

Tablet.

http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/tablet.htm

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:58 am

Though Hot Tamale's and Sweetarts and Nerds are all high on my list as sources of massive sugar ingestion, my favorite non-chocolate candys are Necco Wafers. Ummmmm. They're so versatile. You can roll them on your tongue, you can nibble the edges or you can just toss 'em back in the gullet.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:25 pm

If peanut brittle is a candy that's my pick. But a good homemade caramel is also awesome

Also, I love these for some reason

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:15 pm

Oh ya mon! Peanut brittle. If it's fresh, it's hard to top.

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:49 pm

anniemcu wrote:
CHasR wrote:chewing gum.
Dentyne makes a new Chocomint gum.... not bad.

that's completely perverse.
I never really got into chocolate like these addicts do...honestly could take it or leave it. I dont see the draw of it at all.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:10 pm

Chocolate and Candy are two entirely seperate things. We keep sugar cubes in our house. Little children go absoltely goo-goo eyed over sugar cubes. And I tell the little children that visit us that I'm allowed to eat as many as I want because I'm a grownup. We keep candy (and chocolate) all over our house in all kinds of containers and hiding places.

I used to have a hollow fish the size of a bed pillow where we kept candy. To get to the candy, you had to stick your hand in the fish's mouth. That fish was so much fun, a kid broke it.