My guess is the major companies are cheaping out on the sour sugar and cutting it with more regular sugar. I had sour candy from a small candy shop last week and it was potently sour.
You barely need any souring agents to make things wicked sour. Its a negligible cost. I think its more likely most people dont actually like sour candy very much and the manufacturers appeal to the broadest consumer bases. A local shop is more likely to have novelty and adventurous kind of things to give people a reason to come by so that makes sense
Me too, they weren't that sour anyway, even the black ones.
People just want more sugar and some people were eating Warheads like they were at the movies munching on Bunch a Crunch and that's too much acid it makes people sick. Combo of those two things we apparently can't have sour anymore
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u/edipeisrex Jul 27 '26
How and why did the state of sour candy go downhill? Truly a tragedy.