Hard candy! Your likes!

glenda_al

10 years ago

Not a peppermint person!

ICE was one of my favorites. Only place I could find it was Fred's, but it's gone from my area.

Next to ICE I enjoy butterscotch flavored hard candy.

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Jodi_SoCal
10 years ago
Lemonheads, Red Hots and Fireballs.

Not sure they are technically 'hard' candies but I love them. But my favorite is Gummy Bears and Sour Bears. I'll eat them until I'm sick. We may be in old bodies, but we never really grow up. LOL

Jodi-
chloecat
10 years ago
I don't like hard candy, really - never have. I'll occasionally have a peppermint (maybe at Christmas).
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heather_on
10 years ago
My DH is addicted to Werthers. I hardly ever have a hard candy, but if I were to choose, it would be Cherry lifesavers.
Holly_ON
10 years ago
BD (before diabetes) orange lifesavers were my favourite. Just enough tang to them. Didn't have too many of them though.
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
10 years ago
Love horehound candy and those wonderful gin gins, made from ginger. Hard ginger candies can be extremely helpful for someone with a queasy stomach.
Terri_PacNW
10 years ago
Peppermints
Butter Rum Life Savers
Butterscotch
wanda_va
10 years ago
My favorite is Ice Blue Mint Coolers by Brachs. I can't find them in the stores anymore, so I order them online from candyfavorites.com

I keep them in both vehicles, plus in a candy dish on each level of the house.
gazania_gw
10 years ago
Home made hard tack in the spice flavors. Clove is my favorite, then cinnamon and ginger. Like the mints too, cool mint and spearmint are good, peppermint ok. Almost forgot...sassafras and rootbeer, love them. Have never been a fan of the fruit flavored hard candy.
glenda_al
Original Author
10 years ago
Wanda, that's the one I love! Knew it has ICE in the name.

I had some in the freezer and pulled them out, and used them up with the cold I have. Hacking cough! Now I have no more :o(
patti43
10 years ago
Butter rum lifesavers and spearmint mints (look like peppermint only green and white).
kittywhiskers
10 years ago
Use to love butter rum lifesavers can't find them around here anymore. I like just about any hard candy as long as it isn't real sour.
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Marilyn Sue McClintock
10 years ago
One favorite of mine are Cinnamon Balls.

Sue
glenda_al
Original Author
10 years ago
Marilyn, I remember those cinnamon balls. That was from my youth! They were strong.
Georgysmom
10 years ago
Rootbeer and butterscotch.
mary3444
10 years ago
In our house it is Werther's.
donna37
10 years ago
Butterscotch
Cinnamon
Rootbeer
Peppermint
kayjones
10 years ago
Mint all the way for me!
susanjf_gw
10 years ago
nips...esp coffee flavor! love those mints that melt in seconds...of ten I get star mints to use instead tums...(not allowed)
Lindsey_CA
10 years ago
In no particular order...

Firestix
Rootbeer "barrels" (like the ones they have at Claim Jumper restaurants)
Butterscotch
Lemon drops
Peppermints
Almost all flavors of Lifesavers
glenda_al
Original Author
10 years ago
My dad loved his Christmas hard candies that came in a can. Someone always made sure he had a can for Christmas.
roseluver
10 years ago
Coffe flavored Werthers, sugar free for me. I have them stashed every where.
dances_in_garden
10 years ago
I used to love those ones that are wrapped like a strawberry, and have a soft middle filled with jam. I had one recently and it was so sweet I nearly croaked. I remember them being more tangy.

Have you ever seen those really small ones that are wrapped in mylar, and are flavoured with anise (Ouzo) and Cinnamon? I love those. I also love to watch the faces of people that assume they are mints, then get a mouthful of black licorice flavour ROFLMAO! I happen to love that flavour but I know most people hate it.

I don't eat hard candy very often though, as it blisters my tongue. If I would let it just sit in my mouth and melt I would be fine, but I can't do that!

dances.
graywings123
10 years ago
I used to keep Jolly Rancher watermelon flavored hard candies around. But I stopped for the sake of my teeth - I tended to chew them and would give myself a headache by the end of the day.
glenda_al
Original Author
10 years ago
Forgot all about Life Savers! Haven't seen them in a long time. Are they still around?
minnie_tx
10 years ago
I'm with arosegirl Coffe flavored Werthers, sugar free
bengardening
10 years ago
Mine would be anything cinnamon
gmatx zone 6
10 years ago
Yes susanjf.....definitely NIPS!! I like both flavors but the caramel is my favorite. Buy them 6 boxes at a time to make sure I don't get caught without them.
blfenton
10 years ago
The ones with chocolate in the middle - butterscotch or butterrum on the outside maybe?

otherwise anything dark chocolate. Do the Lindor Truffle balls count?
dances_in_garden
10 years ago
Ooooh - remember those life safer booklets? We used to get them every year in our stocking for christmas. It had assorted rolls, and wild cherry, butter rum, mandarine orange, I know there were more. We LOVED those things. Saw them a couple of years ago and wanted to get one for DD's stocking - and there were FOUR rolls in there, all assorted. What the heck??

We used to crunch the mint ones in the dark trying to make sparks ROFL!

Dances.
jannie
10 years ago
I like Jolly Rancher hard candies. Tho I read the ingredients and they are artificially flavored.
jemdandy
10 years ago
Its Life Savers for me. I suppose that I'm old fashioned.
susanjf_gw
10 years ago
gmatex..lol...one of my cyber pals is off coffee for a while, so we suggested those for a break....
marilyn_c
10 years ago
Life savers and lemon flavored candy. There used to be a hard candy called Napolean Bonbons. They had a very sour powder in the center of them. They were in lemon, but also other flavors could sometimes be found. Those were my very favorite hard candy.
nanny98
10 years ago
Can't believe you coffee lovers haven't discovered Trader Joe's "Coffee Rio". May not be "TJ's" but that is the only place I have found them. Best "cuppa" in town.
jemdandy
10 years ago
Glenda:

"Forgot all about Life Savers! Haven't seen them in a long time. Are they still around?"

Yep. lifesavers are still around. Those are available in both hard and gummy soft. What I haven't seen lately is the little compact rolls of lifesavers. What the local stores stock are bags of lifesvers and these candies are a bit larger than the ones packaged in rolls.

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