image of individually wrapped sour warhead candies in someone's hands. caption: "POV: you are the first 8th century peasant I see after I step out of my time machine"

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[–] 27 points 8 months ago (8 children)

If you eat enough at once, all the skin in your mouth will peel.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    I ate an entire bag of lemon warheads on the ride back from a band competition in highschool.

    Teenage me would absolutely do it again (and probably did). Not so sure about middle aged me now though....

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Fun story about these. When I was a kid and first came across these, my classmates had convinced me that lemon was the weakest flavor. This meant that when I had one, it was way too strong, and I assumed all the others must be worse, so it was the flavor I always picked when offered.

    Moral of the story: don’t always take others word for it and be willing to try options that you’ve been told are wrong.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I now have the strength to try heroin, thank you kind stranger

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    It's it just me, or, are the current day versions of these way way way toned down compared to the 90s versions?

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They are nothing like they used to be. The old ones could physically damage your mouth, a layer of skin would peel off from acid burns if you went at them for a while. Probably inappropriately acidic. In the intervening years, litigation has become more routine, I don't think they want to get sued for Little Jimmy's pain and suffering - let alone a choking case.

    I got a few of these that were actually sweet through and through, no sour at all, was so disappointed. Anything with the Warheads brand is like this now.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Could be that or could be your tastebuds as a kid couldn't handle strong flavors as well. I remember those fireball things being pretty hot but as an adult they weren't spicy at all

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  • [–] 69 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    They'd probably kill you on the spot for holding something they've never seen and you wearing strange clothing while speaking in an unfamiliar accent and language.

    This has already been recorded in the documentary Timeline(2003).

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    When I was in middle school all the kids at my church, me included, kind of got obsessed with these things. As a consequence now I can basically eat anything sour with no difficulty whatsoever. No pucker factor. I can eat a lemon like it was an orange if I want. I mean I don't cuz that's weird but still.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    If in an 8th century peasant, then I'm stabbing you with my pitchfork, witch

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    An 8th century peasant probably wouldn’t immediately call you a witch, and even if they did, they probably wouldn’t execute you for it, so long as nothing suspicious happens afterwards. So long as you don’t literally show up in your Time Machine in the middle of the day directly in front of them, you’ll be fine. Keep a low profile and people will write a lot of things off as exotic goods. You could just say these are a candy from somewhere far away and they would have no way of knowing.

    See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSdFrPnlRg

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    If you haven't had one since you were a kid I've got some bad news for you.

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    They're not very good now, and sort of taste like chemicals. :/

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    "Ic þancie þe swiðe - "

    first time tasting something that sour

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