• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 hours ago

    I’m baffled that it even lasted that long. I have never even seen anyone ever buy or eat one of those. I don’t even know what it looks like out of the packaging and every time I see it at the store the picture on the box reminds me of something straight from a medical encyclopedia.

    • Mycatiskai
      1·
      2 hours ago

      My partner went out to the store and bought 36 of them, clearing the shelf. They are her moms favorite candy, so she is going to give her a year+ supply of them.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      9 hours ago

      The last one I remember eating was in the 1980s from my grandmother, we used to buy them for her for Valentine’s I think? They were so so horribly sweet and drippy and gooey and not in a good way.

  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
    4·
    10 hours ago

    Sooooo unbearably sugary and sweet. Yikes.

    I bought one many decades in childhood and couldn’t finish it despite loving cherry-centred chocolates.

    I found out when we visited the Hershey plant in Smiths Falls before the closure that it was originally a local brand targeted for the super-sweet preferences of Eastern Ontario and Quebec - which are apparently shared with Louisiana and Georgia.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      9 hours ago

      Yes the Maritimes is in mourning my friend says. The last one I had was probably 1980 but I hate fruit in chocolate by and large.