Someone please bring back “Altoids Sours”.
This is funny because like 10 years ago or so they had to lower the amount of acid they put in warheads because people kept getting acid burns from eating too many.
I remember them being way more sour back then. I chalked it up to me being an adult for why they are less sour lol
…when were you a kid?..sour candy was a thing before i was growing up in the seventies and ever since, so, like, since at least the mid-sixties…
SweeTarts are hardly part of the mega-sour family tree. They are essentially compressed Pixy-Sticks, as the article you linked to said. They’re tart, but being for was never part of the advertising, that I recall. That may have changed since '94.
Just because you didn’t like something doesn’t mean other people don’t. Adults who didn’t grow up eating Hershey’s chocolate frequently don’t like it due to a compound that they use to preserve it that tastes kinda like vomit. What you like is influenced by society and what you grew up eating.
Like other commenters have said, sour candies have always existed in some capacity (before Lemonheads it was likely candied fruit including lemons and limes), and back in the 90s Warheads were super popular due to the edgy marketing and the “kids doing foolish shit” factor. I’m part of the generation that grew up with Warheads being popular and I once kinda gave myself a chemical burn by sticking way too many in my mouth at the same time. Sour Patch Kids are one of my favorite candies now as an adult. And guess who the parents of the kids today are? Yup, the same people who ate the entire package of Warheads in one mouthful in a dare.
Mid-80s, these were the only sour treats available.
