Candy is typically made to be delicious and sweet, meant to be enjoyed. However, this isn't always the case. Today's topic is proof of that. For some unknown reason, some manufacturers have recently started making the most disgusting candies you could ever eat.
You'll see this for yourself by looking at the list of such "sweets" presented in our article. These candies are clearly not created for pleasure.
1. Earwax Candies
It doesn't even matter what the flavor of these candies is. What sane person would enjoy scraping earwax out of a plastic ear and then eating it? The whole idea just makes you want to gag yourself. This "masterpiece" even comes with its own wand. I wonder how many kids will start picking their ears after this candy runs out? Can you imagine?
2. Scabbers Candies
The main idea behind these candies isn't their taste, but that they're designed to look like a dried wound, complete with a bandage. While that might be acceptable, just imagine a mother giving her child a treat in the form of such candies... A silly idea, you'd agree.
3. Dubbel Zout
Firstly, these Dutch candies are counterintuitive, being flavored with spicy licorice. Many people enjoy the taste of this root, but that doesn't mean it's actually good. Secondly, they're loaded with salt. That's right, they're salty candies! Add to that the fact that they look like something you'd expect to find on the floor of a nightclub, and you have a real opportunity to make money off these disgusting candies (pun intended).
4. Hotlix – dangerous candies
At least they're sweet. Credit where credit is due. But inside each one is a real scorpion. Yes, when you lick off the sugar coating, you'll find a scorpion for a snack. Whoever invented this candy should be forced to eat a Dubbel Zout.
5. Gorilla Boogers
These candies are actually sweet dried black beans, very popular in Asian cuisine. Anyone who's ever been to Korea has probably seen something similar. The process involves pounding them into a soft mass and then shaping them into small pieces. The taste is absolutely disgusting. That's all there is to it.
6. Ant Candy
Like the scorpion candies described above, Ant Candy is simply a lump of melted sugar with a bunch of dead ants thrown into it. Of all the possible ingredients in the world, they somehow chose ants. How does such nonsense get through the FDA? It's beyond me!
7. Cheese & Pizza
Greetings again from Japan. As the name suggests, these candies boast a flavor combination of hard cheese and pizza that's exotic for the confectionary world.
Some of the candies listed resemble the figment of a pastry professor's sick imagination, who decided to experiment with humane methods of exterminating the human race. But this once again confirms how diverse people's tastes are – after all, someone buys them.
8. Crick-Ettes
Even though Moses and the Hebrews ate locusts in the desert, no one should do it now! Crick-Ettes are real crickets, flavored in various ways. They're quite similar to potato chips (which, by the way, aren't labeled as candy), and they're so unpleasant that they deserve another place on this list. Anyone who tries to eat these deserves criticism.
9. Durian Candy
Durian is a fruit native to Southeast Asia. For those unfamiliar with it, it typically evokes a feeling of utter disgust. One writer described it this way: "Its smell is most reminiscent of pig shit, turpentine, and onions, combined with a whole gym of dirty socks.".
It's not even allowed into hospitals or hotels in Southeast Asia. In Singapore, there are signs prohibiting it from being brought onto public transport. That's how disgusting Durian is. So what's the point of making candy out of it? But someone did it. It would have topped this list if not for...
10. BeanBoozled
These are jelly beans in a rather attractive package. They contain BeanBoozleds—10 colorful beans with 20 different flavors. Each color has one good flavor and one bad one. The idea behind these candies is that you'll never know which of the two you've chosen—the good one or the bad one. This makes them perfect for playing games of chance.
So, why did these candies take the top spot? Once you try the "bad" flavors, you'll understand: you might get a candy that smells like skunk, used baby wipes, or the disgusting taste of moldy cheese, rotten eggs, vomit, and much more.
11. Sour Candy Liquid Urine Samples
Conceptually, the most unequivocally disgusting sweet-and-sour candy is the liquid candy in a urine sample container. This idea may seem funny to many, as urination is a bodily function that lends itself to many jokes and pranks. The most common of these involve guys peeing into a beer or water bottle and offering other guys who haven't seen them take a sip, or drawing their names in the snow with urine. However, this candy goes beyond all bounds. The containers, with screw-on lids and stickers, are "sterilely" filled with a bright yellow liquid. Perhaps the bright yellow liquid is the only unrealistic aspect of this "treat," as this color of urine is typical for a patient with severe dehydration. We certainly wouldn't dare drink a glass of this fake urine.
12. Chili Pepper-Shaped Lollipops
This is one of those candy creations that's quite hard to fathom. Jalapeño and chili pepper-shaped lollipops, which share the same flavor. These sweets are definitely not for the faint of heart—they're so hot they can burn. Why anyone would ever want to suck on a jalapeño-flavored lollipop remains a mystery. These lollipops come in three flavors: habanera, jalapeño, and sugar-free chili (apparently for the health-conscious). One can only assume that people buy these candies as a cruel Halloween prank.
13. Mini blood bags
This treat comes in cherry and strawberry flavors, but that's where the good stuff ends. These mini blood bags are exactly what you'd expect – realistic-looking blood bags, like those typically used in blood transfusions. Instead, to get to the treat, you have to suck the "blood" out of the bag. Perhaps the creators went a bit too far, adding stickers with blood type, donor name, and expiration date. Fortunately, these blood bags are advertised primarily around Halloween, but they can be found in stores year-round. We don't know about you, but we'd be shocked to see a child walking down the street drinking blood from a bag in the middle of summer. The disgusting packaging ruins the good taste of the treat itself.
14. Hose Nose Candy
This candy isn't an ordinary mask. The "Nasal Hose" candy consists of two parts: a hideously ugly nose mask that fits over your own nose, and a sticky liquid candy that drips out of the mask and must be caught with your tongue. Yes, it's a replica of a runny nose, and it allows you to eat fake snot. We don't even know what's more disgusting: having to wear a mask or having to catch the sticky snot with your tongue. The liquid candy is green and apple-flavored, while the nose mask looks like it's covered in pimples or warts. If you don't want to eat the snot but still want to impress everyone with this awesome mask, don't worry, the red cap will plug the holes where the sticky green goo flows. There are so many disgusting things about this invention that we won't even describe it any further, lest we make you vomit.
15. Vinegar Pie
No, this isn't a pie with a little vinegar added to the dough, as you might think. This is a REALLY vinegar-flavored pie. Who would ever dream of making such a disgusting thing?! We suppose no explanation is needed as to why it's disgusting...
16. Pie in the cat litter box
Want to impress a cat lover with a slightly twisted sense of humor with a dessert? Or maybe you just want to disgust guests you don't like? Make this pie. While it doesn't contain the actual contents of a cat litter box, it still raises one question: does anyone really want to eat something that resembles cat poop so much?
17. "Cheese plate" with rotten cheese
Why people choose cheese platters over desserts, other than to say to themselves, "Oh yeah, I'm better and superior to all those stupid desserts," is a different matter. But deliberately choosing rotten cheese for dessert is even stranger. Casu marzu from Sardinia is rotten, maggot-ridden cheese that doesn't meet any sanitary standards. Essentially, you're eating garbage—and paying a fortune for it, because it's a delicacy!
18. Bloodplatter
Pancakes are a rather deceptive dish: the guise of a hearty breakfast usually conceals a real dessert. But everything changes if you're in Sweden or Finland! That's because the Vikings invented the recipe for blodplätter—the most disgusting pancakes in the world. These pancakes are made with... pig's blood!
19. Lamprey pie
Lamprey pie is a staple of Game of Thrones, so you can probably imagine how twisted a dessert this can be. Before baking the fish into this pie, it's soaked in cold syrup. Cold syrup, fish, and pie—can you imagine? And yet, this pie has long been considered a delicacy among Europeans and was the official coronation cake of Elizabeth II!
20. Ambrosia salad«
Ambrosia Salad is like someone ate all your favorite foods, then vomited them all into a bowl, and then served the result to you in a bowl like a delicacy. It uses sour cream (yuck), canned pineapple (great pairing with sour cream), pudding (very questionable), tangerines, and coconuts (are you serious?!). It might be edible, but it's just INCREDIBLY ugly!
21. Fruit pizza
The combination of two excellent dishes—pizza and fruit salad—created this ugly Frankenstein. There's no understanding of what pizza should be like here, nor any respect for desserts! If someone serves you fruit pizza for dessert, know that they're a dangerous person, and you should stay away.
22. Lobster ice cream
How could anyone even think of putting seafood in ice cream?! Are these people out of their minds?! However, in the American states of Maine and Massachusetts, they don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. Yes, they do serve lobster-flavored ice cream, and yes, you need real lobster to make it! Disgusting. Just don't combine lobster and cream—and everything will be fine!
23. Stewed fruits
Hot fruit?! Who wants to eat or serve hot fruit unless it's a pie filling?! Yes, there's also compote, where fruit is boiled with a huge amount of sugar, but stewing it in its own juice is beyond our comprehension.
24. Red bean pie
This dessert disaster is a delicacy in Asia! The main ingredients are red bean puree seasoned with sesame seeds and gelatin. Red beans, let's face it, are not even REMOTELY tasty, let alone anything resembling a dessert. I wonder if people actually eat this? It looks awful!
25. Pie with lard
This traditional spiced pie is popular in the counties of Berkshire, Sussex, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Hampshire in the UK. What's so disgusting about it? The main ingredient, besides raisins, spices, sugar, and flour, is REALLY lard. The pie is incredibly sweet and greasy, making it practically undrinkable!
26. "Green Dysentery"«
This dessert is served at the Taiwanese restaurant Modern Toilet, and it's hard not to gag just by looking at it. Almost all the food at the restaurant is served in toilet-shaped bowls, and that alone is disgusting. As for the "Green Dysentery," it's served with kiwi sauce, but if you want a bloody twist, they serve it with strawberries. If you can overcome your disgust and eat THIS from THIS bowl, hats off to you.
27. Sussex pudding
This is a traditional pudding you can try in Sussex. It's actually a whole lemon baked in a terribly greasy pastry, which is then boiled or stewed for several hours. It's hard to find anything good about this dish, revived by chef Heston Blumenthal. The caramelized sauce oozes out of the pudding when you cut it, creating a veritable sweet "pond" on the plate around the lemon and greasy crumbs. If that's not disgusting, we don't know what is!
28. Fungal Fingers Cookies«
Believe it or not, there's a whole "genre" of food made to look like human body parts. It's so repulsive that it's hard to imagine putting it in your mouth. It's so disgusting that you'd only eat it in a desperate need!
29. Jane-Jane Tasty Tuna Tidbits
Fish-flavored candy. I probably don't even need to explain why this idea is so, so bad. These candies, wrapped in brightly colored foil, are quite deceptive, looking like the tin of delicious cookies your grandmother uses to store her embroidery supplies. But don't let them fool you. These candies are made with tuna as the main ingredient, laced with a mountain of chemicals and sugar. They taste like dried fish that has been processed, packaged, and left on the shelves for an indefinite amount of time. One Asian store describes the taste of these treats as "natural, healthy, and fresh" after they've been sitting on the shelf for 12 months. Sadly, we'll have to skip this treat, as we don't dare try it, but those who have tried them claim that the taste is as disgusting as the idea itself.
30. Bean Boozled Jelly Beans«
Oddly enough, Jelly Belly, a reputable company that generally makes delicious and decent products, has created a package of jelly beans with such disgusting and awful flavors that we almost threw up reading about them. The worst part is that the blended jelly beans look so similar to normal beans, you'd never suspect you're popping a vomit-flavored treat instead of a peach-flavored one. The company calls these flavors "Wild and Weird," but we'll just call them disgusting. Flavors include canned dog food, rotten eggs, stinky socks, boogers, blue cheese, vomit, baby wipes, skunk glands, grass clippings, and toothpaste. The motto for this marvel is: "Millions of 'Ew!'" and that's not all«, we would like to add to their list – Ugh!