What hard candy do you have in the house now?

[Archae]

I have two boxes of "Gobstopper" jawbreakers, and a bag of Werther's caramel hard candy.

I eat maybe 1 or 2 a week.

[Lunabell]

1. None.

I have a bad habit of chewing up hard candy, even jaw breakers, lol. At 60 years old I still have all of my teeth, but I just can't afford a broken tooth. I love Werthers. But my absolute favorite hard candy is Luden's wild cherry throat drops. I also love red hots.

[relayerbob]

2. None. Yikes

[ret5hd]

3. .

[Liberty Belle]

4. None, since I was a kid and a child nearly choked to death on one.

Mom was babysitting a friend's child and the candy got stuck in her throat. Thankfully Mom held the tot upside down and thumped on her back until the candy popped out.

I had to do the Heimlich on my own son once to save him from choking, so am mindful of not eating things one can easily choke on when home alone.

[TexasTowelie]

5. I bought a bag of assorted fruit flavor hard candies from Mexico last week

and have made it through about half of the bag.

[Murphyb849]

6. Life Savers

[Ocelot II]

7. Cinnamon Altoids.

[eShirl]

8. cough drops

a large economy size bag, still unopened after 2+ years

[yellowdogintexas]

21. I do have cough drops. Hall's nt

[Emile]

9. Butterscotch

[peacefreak2.0]

10. Ginger mint drops.

[MissMillie]

11. Do lollipops count?

I think we have maybe 4 or 5 Tootsie Pops in the cabinet.

[Glorfindel]

12. None

[malthaussen]

13. Starlight mints. My bedtime snack. n/t

[highplainsdem]

14. None. Don't like hard candy any more. Don't ever buy candy except at Halloween, when

I try to give it all away before I eat any of it.

I did like Life Savers when I was a kid, and I would occasionally buy their Creme Savers candies when those were first introduced, would keep a few in my purse.

I think Creme Savers, which I remember as very good, might have been copying a European brand of hard candy, Campino candies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campino_(candy)

which were first sold in the 1960s. They're supposed to be similar. Not sure, though. Never heard of Campino candy until recently, and only because the German band Die Toten Hosen has become one of my favorite bands (since DFW mentioned them weeks ago), and their lead singer, Andreas Frege, has the nickname Campino, reportedly because of a food fight, a candy fight, when he was still in school. (He tried to get a nickname that might seem better in his early, punk-rock days, but he's said he couldn't get anyone to call him "Billy Alibi" and got stuck with Campino, or Campi. Live by the food fight...)

[DFW]

15. Hopjes !!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopje

They are available in North America, too!

Warning--don't get started unless you get prior approval of both your dentist and your cardiologist: addiction comes fairly quickly. If you have, or are prone to diabetes, forget you ever saw this post.

[highplainsdem]

17. I hope everyone will check out that Wikipedia article explaining how those candies were

invented.

Quite a story...

[DFW]

18. DON'T SAY THAT!!!!

I'll have half of DU sending me their doubled dental bills!!!!!!

[XanaDUer2]

16. None. I'll chew it and break a tooth nt

[yardwork]

19. Jolly Ranchers but they got all stuck in their wrappers.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. NONE. nt

[electric_blue68]

22. Lollypops from Chase bank. 😄

[Wicked Blue]

23. Peppermint Lifesavers

Great for tummy aches