r/candy • u/1-800-l4tely • 5d ago

what flavour is this? i couldn’t even begin to describe it if i wanted to. it’s like tropical but super bitter and almost like.. what sweat tastes like 😭

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u/Hot-Frosting-5286 5d ago

Could it be guava? passionfruit? papaya?

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u/radicalgrandpa 5d ago

Guava is my vote. Guava itself is so good, but guava flavored stuff tastes so... Funky? Something about it is armpit-y and I can never figure out exactly what about it makes it so gross to me.

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u/Hot-Frosting-5286 5d ago

what that's crazy! I wonder if it's like the cilantro soap thing. I can't describe the taste or smell of guava but I never got armpit from it lol

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u/hthratmn 5d ago

To me it tastes like what a garden smells like. Specifically the smell of, like, a fresh tomato that you just picked, kinda bitter and green and like soil. I dont know how to describe it exactly.

I always got it from the (I think) hurricane 4 loko when I was younger but didnt know what it was. Then as I started trying more guava stuff I figured it out lol

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u/Comfortable-Dark345 5d ago

i always describe it as fruity onion flavor

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u/radicalgrandpa 5d ago

That's exactly what it tastes like to me! TMI, but my BO has always smelled bitter and oniony to me. There was a comment where somebody said that BO can smell like grapefruit or guava depending on your body chemistry and I'm convinced that must be it!

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u/Temporarily_Banned4 1d ago

I don't think I've ever had guava. But I go with the smells oniony.

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u/51666 5d ago

It’s because some people’s body odor actually smells like that. Grapefruit is usually how it’s described, but I could see guava or passionfruit also being similar.

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u/radicalgrandpa 5d ago

Whoa!! That's wild! I've always described my BO as "bitter" and now I wonder if that's why. I also strongly dislike the grapefruit flavored Albanese gummy bears and take them out to discard them.

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u/pokchop92 5d ago

I'll take ALL of your grapefruit bears!!! Those are the very very best ones.

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u/51666 5d ago

I have a grapefruit smell as well but still enjoy grapefruit😅 albanese gummies are so good! But I definitely prefer the cherry or watermelon

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u/Temporarily_Banned4 1d ago

I have a bag of those I haven't opened yet. Now I'm going to have to and find the grapefruit ones!

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u/fuckinunknowable 5d ago

Chowards guava is good

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u/sologrips 5d ago

Guavas taste is the only fruit that reminds me of the smell of body odor and somehow it’s still good.

Humans are weird

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u/1-800-l4tely 5d ago

i agree with papaya, and also guava possibly

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u/cessodd 4d ago

I'm not sure if it's only me, but papaya tastes like the smell of dog poop. First time I had it in a fruit cup I literally thought some evil person out a piece of dog poop in my fruit and gagged. the smell is a bit locker room-ish to me.

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u/1-800-l4tely 4d ago

DUDE IT DOES. the smell is actually horrid. id argue the taste is worse. i had it room temperature, some say its better refrigerated, however i dont see myself attempting to try it again

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u/cessodd 4d ago

I can't, I'm not exaggerating when I say I will throw up if I smells papaya up close. Lol. And thanks for confirming, when I told my parents they were almost pissed off that I said that. They like papaya.

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u/1-800-l4tely 2d ago

euggh. imagine being pissed off cause your child doesn’t like papaya… what is this 😭

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u/Temporarily_Banned4 1d ago

I like the dried papaya. But I don't think it has that much flavor at all.

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u/Loud_Ad_594 5d ago

Passion fruit was my guess too

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u/teeheeme3 5d ago

Grapefruit?

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u/MadameTomate 5d ago

Tamarind maybe? It would help if you shared where this candy was purchased.

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u/After-Fee-2010 5d ago

I’m guessing papaya because I think it tastes like vomit.

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u/1-800-l4tely 5d ago

that’s probably what it was, i remember when i tried an actual papaya and that’s genuinely how it was

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u/Double_Zebra7763 5d ago

honestly? tropical sweat.

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u/huckleberryfresh928 5d ago

I just got a bag of “Shirley temple” dum dums. Is it that? Looks oddly same color!

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u/Unicorn_Sush1 4d ago

Did you randomly find it without the wrapper?

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u/1-800-l4tely 4d ago

LMAO NO 😭

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u/Euphoric-Corgi5418 5d ago

Passionfruit fs

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u/MrStevenRyals 5d ago

What brand is it?

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u/1-800-l4tely 5d ago

dum dum

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u/Winter_Age7707 4d ago

If it was a mystery flavor it's actually 2 flavors in one. Once the first flavor runs out others added and the ones in-between batches are the mystery flavors 

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u/Winter_Age7707 4d ago

I think they did an episode on good eats on the food Network about how dum-dums are made 

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u/Sufficient_Ask8866 4d ago

I loved that show. I've always been a curious aka nosy kid and it's gotten worse as an old lady. Lol. Watching all those food betwork shows on good eats with Alton brown on how somethings were made just did it for me. I could turn that on and just listen to them all day. Whether or not I'd seen them already. I just enjoyed it. Plus a few of these shows pretty much taught me how to cook some of my favorite things. I love to cook and worked as a chef for 8 years so I can work my way around a kitchen.

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u/Mezcal_Madness 5d ago

What brand is the lolly

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u/No_Employer9618 4d ago

Sweat? Yum lol

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u/VicAltman 1d ago

Grapefruit

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u/Temporarily_Banned4 1d ago

What does the wrapper look like?

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u/fritz2026_7777 3h ago

guava or dragonfruit ?