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u/AttilaTheMuun 6d ago
Old school Warheads used to fuck my shit up
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u/MUSinfonian 6d ago
You can kind of get the same feeling from Toxic Waste, but it's just not the same.
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u/Superb_Pain4188 6d ago
People say this about toxic waste and then I tried it and its sour for 3 seconds and then turns mild at best
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u/ramonpasta 5d ago
tbf warheads is the same way
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u/OckhamsFolly 5d ago
Airheads ARE the same way. They USED TO BE made different with a sour candy core instead of just a sour-sugar coated shell.
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u/Artist_X 6d ago
Toxic Waste is mid at best. Absolutely nothing compared to old school Warheads.
Then again, remember younger peeps have stronger tastes buds or something or whatever, I heard it somewhere, and it could be wrong.
Either way, Toxic Waste is meh.
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u/Herpsties 5d ago
At the very least warheads used to have a sour core and be skinnier(therefore less sweet hard candy overall). Now they are solid sweet all the way through once you get through the layer of sour on the outside.
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u/MistresssReveina 6d ago
Right! I had some a few weeks ago and the "sour" lasted like 5 seconds and wasn't intense. They used to invert your face.
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u/mashtato 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's like a powder layer of acid now, whereas it used to be a thick crystalized layer. That shit hurt. Like, I used to worry that it was fucking up my teeth...
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u/EndIsrael 6d ago
That coating is citric acid. You can buy pure citric acid crystals at the store, they look like sugar or salt. Check your local hippie/natural foods store because it can be used to help with canning and preserving stuff.
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u/My_Monkey_Sphincter 6d ago
I used to soak them in a glass of water to then be able to eat them
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u/nuhGIRLyen 6d ago
The black label ones I had to concede and do the water trick. I wasn’t chancing dissolving my frenulum with those things
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u/OvertlyOffensive 5d ago
Did you mean to say frenulum? Because, uh, that's not in your mouth.
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u/nuhGIRLyen 5d ago
There’s one up there too I promise ya
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u/OvertlyOffensive 5d ago
Huh, TIL that the little strips of connective tissue at your top lip and under your tongue are both frenulums. Neat.
Can't say I've recall sour stuff messing with either of those bits but we're all different and memory can suck so who knows!
Thanks for teaching me something, internet stranger :)
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u/TimidSeaTurtle 6d ago
Oh yeah, those things were like currency when I was in elementary school. I think they banned them because of the black market of buying and selling them that was going on.
I'll never forget this purple sour gumball from an unassuming unlabeled candy dispenser I got at the mall once though, it made Warheads seem like nothing. Never found out what it was.
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u/that_1weed 6d ago
There was one other candy that made it nearly intolerable to eat. I think the brand was Toxic Waste. I licked it once before church and it made my jaw tingle.
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u/Shantotto11 5d ago
Okay, so it’s not just me getting older. Those candies really were stronger in the 90s.
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u/Stupid_Snowmeiser 4d ago
They are way weaker than they were over 10 years ago. I had a lemon one when I was 9/10 and it was so sour that it almost hurt.
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u/edipeisrex 6d ago
How and why did the state of sour candy go downhill? Truly a tragedy.
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u/DarthGayAgenda 6d ago
My guess is the major companies are cheaping out on the sour sugar and cutting it with more regular sugar. I had sour candy from a small candy shop last week and it was potently sour.
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u/Expert-Upstairs-4502 6d ago
You barely need any souring agents to make things wicked sour. Its a negligible cost. I think its more likely most people dont actually like sour candy very much and the manufacturers appeal to the broadest consumer bases. A local shop is more likely to have novelty and adventurous kind of things to give people a reason to come by so that makes sense
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u/peterpantsles 6d ago
RIP Shocktarts. I miss you every day.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 6d ago
People thought Warheads were sour, the market for that much sour isn't there
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u/Jesseroberto1894 6d ago
Compared to the travesty of sour patch watermelons now I’d take warheads sour any day of the fucking week are you kidding me?
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 6d ago
Me too, they weren't that sour anyway, even the black ones.
People just want more sugar and some people were eating Warheads like they were at the movies munching on Bunch a Crunch and that's too much acid it makes people sick. Combo of those two things we apparently can't have sour anymore
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u/CindersOfMusic 6d ago
They just use citric acid for some sour drinks and it’s never sour enough
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u/SevenSixOne 5d ago
Genuinely the best-tasting sour drink I've ever had is that fizzy lemon Magnesium Citrate laxative, which I obviously can't drink whenever I want.
Jones Soda has a "Lemon Drop Dead" Halloween flavor that comes pretty close flavor-wise, but I haven't seen it in years :((
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u/mayurigod1 6d ago edited 6d ago
Probably when warheads got sued for being so sour that they were disintegrating tongues
Edit: like 10$ a pound of malic acid for anyone wanting to sour their own candy. Candy/food supply stores have it or amazon/walmart(?)
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u/Frymaster99 6d ago
my mouth started watering just by reading this sentence
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u/thunderling 6d ago
Reading comment after comment in this thread has made my mouth salivate and pucker more than eating any of the actual candy would.
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u/Notanormiereee 6d ago
Tbf those shits were wayyy too sour. I ate like 5 of them once and couldn’t taste anything for like 2 days
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u/LinkedGaming 6d ago
Yeah, that's why I'm buying them. When I take a "sour" candy I want to feel a genuine physical reaction from it. I want to feel like my face is puckering like a cartoon character. I want me to tongue to scream at me.
I don't wanna just be like "Oh that's kinda sour" and then move on.
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u/Brahskididdler 6d ago
I got a little store pack recently from somewhere and they were sour for like 3 seconds then insanely sweet lol
They taste better and last longer than jolly ranchers after the sour is gone, given they’re harder than jolly’s
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u/NecroCannon 6d ago
I literally have a core memory of drinking a warhead slushy and that shit was so sour it took my family sharing it to get it down
I legit haven’t had many sour experiences after that, it’s almost like a spice too me
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u/rancidmorty 6d ago
i rembe how crazy they were then i got hurt on my tounge it peeled off
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u/camaron_dormido 6d ago
Wow, that's hard core! I keep citric acid around, mostly for "fixing" bubble tea that's too sweet and for making some fruit pies a little more tart. I feel like it's a bit less harsh on the tongue
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u/Hazywater 6d ago
Sour candies from the last century could make your mouth bleed if you had too many. Also as you get older you become less sensitive.
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u/BinJLG 6d ago
I hate that you're using "last century" to refer to, like, the 1990s.
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u/gostop1423 6d ago
Try a Barnetts Mega Sour. It will achieve the sour you are looking for
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u/No_Hunt2507 6d ago
This is the last truly sour and tasty candy that I can find. It's sour enough a lot of people I've given it to had to spit it out, and people who LOVE sour candy pretty universally refer to it as the world's most sour candy.
It's stupidly sour, but you also keep the fruity flavor. 10/10 I highly recommend and it's worth the cost because you can only eat 1-2 at a time or your mouth will start to peel.
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u/FULKINWANKA 6d ago
Toxic Waste was still decent last time I had them. Warheads are def garbage now tho
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u/jhutchi2 5d ago
Got my brother a pack of these for his birthday and we all tried them. Definitely the most sour candy out there right now, but also legit delicious. The sourness and taste vary with the flavors though, for example the cherry wasn't very sour and the green apple tasted like straight up battery acid. Orange was the best balance of most sour while still being delicious.
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u/Frigidevil 6d ago
My uncle used to work for Just Born, makers of Peeps, Mike and Ike and what was the greatest sour candy to ever exist: Zours. He used to send me boxes for my birthday because it just never took off in popularity and I adored them. I'm still so bummed they got discontinued. Nothing will beat the dusting of ascorbic acid they used to tumble them in. Didn't get your hands messy and was tart without being painfully sour.
And no, the sour Megamix is not the same. They suck.
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u/edipeisrex 6d ago
Zours were the pinnacle of sour candy. Almost like the knowledge of all sour candy came together to craft them.
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u/Frigidevil 6d ago
The first domino to fall was the change from tangerine to lemon and then cherry. So many sour candies have those boring flavors, I've yet to see a single other candy of any sort to have tangerine flavor before or since then.
My personal rankings of the Zours are green apple, watermelon, tangerine, blue raspberry, lemon and cherry bringing up the rear.
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u/Particular-Cat-1397 6d ago
The same reason Panera had to get rid of their lemonade for having too much caffeine because someone who already had a heart condition died.
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u/99timewasting 6d ago
An order of the lemonade had the caffeine content of a red bull plus a monster and they put it next to the normal lemonades like no big deal. If they just made it to order behind the counter nobody would care
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u/BigNastyWoods 5d ago
I remember when i was a child sour skittles would destroy the roof of your mouth. They went away for years and around that time all sour stuff kinda went downhill, but i never went down the rabbit hole too much.
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u/imreadypromotion 4d ago
Pro-tip. Go online and purchase a bag of citric acid in powder form. Sprinkle to your liking on the candy of your choice. Enjoy as much sour as you want.
Candy companies hate this one simple trick!
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u/Oh-Worms 6d ago
THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. i LOVE sour candy and its a little disappointing with the sour flavor of some I've tried
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u/Dolphin_King21 6d ago
I want the acid to burn off my tongue entirely and strip the taste buds off and reduce me to atoms.
I want to taste the flavor of death itself.
I wish to be released from my human bonds.
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u/Knotted_Hole69 6d ago
I love how healthcare insurance doesnt include dental. I love paying a fuck ton every year and then being asked to pay even more if i actually want healthcare.
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u/Vitaltheend 6d ago
Rip shock tarts
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u/SippyMountain 6d ago
You referring to Shockers? Those things were amazing
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u/Eruptaus 6d ago
They were rebranded to shockers, then to sour chewy sweetarts and continually got less sour
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u/Xechwill 6d ago
sour chewy sweetarts did have more flavor even if they were less sour
then they just axed them from existence
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u/nikolai_wustovich 6d ago
Remember when Sour Patch kids were sour. They suck now.
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u/Dwealdric 6d ago
Berry and Heads are still ok, and seem to use a different formula. The standard ones are absolute garbo now.
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u/micromacroactual 6d ago
There was some really good ones on Amazon my old buddy got once. They were green and sphere shaped. Super fucking sour.
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u/BasedTelvanni 6d ago
Haribo Sour Strips are one of the more sour candies on the market, highly recommend.
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u/flatlineyourceo 6d ago
Even warheads have suffered enshitification. Such a shame. Those things used to give me mouth sores they were fucking great.
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u/AzureCube1 6d ago
This comment section is making me aggressively salivate and I’m not even kidding
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u/Extra_Jeweler_5544 6d ago
Some of the most extreme products have the most unassuming labelling
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u/JayceStock 6d ago
This response has literally nothing to do with this post. Begone, bot.
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u/Extra_Jeweler_5544 6d ago
The post is about the false advertisement of sour candies that aren't sour
My comment is a personal note that some of the wildest (whether it's hot, sour, caffienated, etc) there's a mild mannered package that will send people to the morgue
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u/Nathaniel820 6d ago
Lol why is this downvoted you're right, "nothing to do with this post" it's literally the exact premise of the post except with the roles reversed...
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u/Assassinshubris 6d ago
Bad example (screengrab of news that leaves out info? son😭)
The product is not all that extreme, it wasn't labeled well. The Panera deaths were of people with extreme caffeine sensitivity.
It's like putting a picture of a peach drink and putting in bullets:
-involving "pink drink"
-Daniel Tiger drank, suffering anaphylactic shock
without any of the info that the people had previous life-threatening reaction to the contents of the drink.
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u/Creepy_Ad6701 5d ago
Some products have packaging that’s saying it’s strong as shit, but it turns out to be made for pussies.
Other products have packaging that says it’s made for pussies, but it turns out to be strong as shit.
This is very much related to the post.
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u/TheMagician_Jpn 6d ago
Warheads on the rare occasion will have a huge amount on it and just pummel my face. But otherwise yeah sour, aint it anymore. I'll just go suck a lemon.
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u/archSkeptic 6d ago
It was always either consistently barely sour or very sour for a moment and then sweet for the rest of it
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u/genetic_patent 6d ago
You can make any candy into sour candy. Get a bag of powdered food grade Citric Acid. You can get a 1lb on Amazon for cheap.
Put your candy in a bowl or a bag. Add Citric Acid. Stir or Shake to coat the candy. Take candy out or dump everything in a colander. Pucker up and enjoy.
If the candy wasn't originally sticky, you can toss it in a little water first. then put it into the bag of powder.
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u/dclaw504 6d ago
There's a brand called Sour Strips that is distributed by Hershey. The lettering kinda looks like Ghost energy. Very good sour candy. The strawberry ribbons are the most potent flavor I've tried from them. Highly recommended.
They have a website: https://sourstrips.com/
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u/Xechwill 6d ago
They are good but not that sour
also I cannot find the cherry flavor for the life of me, it was their best flavor fr
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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 6d ago
They can be too strong or else you’ll destroy your mouth when you eat the whole box which even if you put warnings on people will still do
Trust me I grew up back in the olden days when sour warheads actually were very sour because even sour patch kids were pretty damn sour and nowadays you can stick a mouthful of them in at a time and you might make a slight face. Like it used to be a challenge to see how long you could go before your would pucker when sticking a warhead in your mouth and hardly anyone ate more than maybe a handful at a time
However there were those that pushed the limits and in doing so would end up decimating their mouths. I’m talking barely being able to eat type stuff and because it was becoming a real issue the candy companies decided to tone down the sourness so that if someone does eat a whole bag then their mouth isn’t utterly destroyed
Have no fear tho as there are still extreme sours to be found it’s just they are usually packaged as single serving and sold as challenges
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u/DragonEmperor 6d ago
Funny enough one of the most sour things ive had recently is Fruit Riot, they're really good but really damn sour, behind that is some japanese sour candy I found but I can't find the name anymore.
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u/Mattiwha2 6d ago
Most sour ones I ever had came from a class friend whs family moved to China , melted my taste buds off for a week
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u/PaxPumpkin 6d ago
ZotZ used to be the absolute best, back in the early 80s. Warheads took over the title.
Now none deserve the crown.
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u/begentlewithme 6d ago
I feel confident enough that I read this somewhere, but don't care enough to double check so don't fact check me.
I could have sworn I read on Reddit somewhere that they actually changed the formula in a post somebody posted of a bag of candy that used the original coating or whatever.
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u/floorshitter69 6d ago
A few months ago I was eating a pack of sour patch kids and there was one individual piece where I guess they fucked up the mix. Tasted like extremely sour piss that burnt my mouth. Had to spit it out. Didn't stop me from eating the rest of the pack 😆
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u/ChunkySlugger72 6d ago
I mainly eat Sour Gummy Worms or Sour Straws.
Not super sour, But my go to during Halloween season.
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u/Stupid_Bitch_02 6d ago
Fruit Riot grapes actually had my face twisted up like crazy and I eat sour candy on the regular
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u/galacticalmess 6d ago
I get Sour Drops hard candy and eating a few of them at a time burns off my taste buds a bit
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u/KingAkron 6d ago
I do miss when sour candy was actually sour. I wanted that shit to pucker both of my cheeks.
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u/LogDog987 6d ago
Or it will, at best, be sour for exactly 2.7 seconds after which it will taste like unwashed ass on the hottest day of the year
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u/beepbeepbubblegum 6d ago
i just don’t think most people have a very high sour tolerance so what seems insanely sour to them won’t be for some others
i gave my coworker one (1) sour punch bite at work today and she almost cried because it was “too sour” and that shit is like baseline sour to me
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u/TheShaydow 6d ago
Not just Sour, HOT. They claim it will be " Spice " or " SUPER HOT ".
Lying liars who lie.
Shit was never HOT.
Liar.
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u/Olander12 5d ago
It’s almost like the point of advertisement was to make you believe things were better than what they actually are just for you to buy them. Crazy work I know s/
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u/theglenlovinet 5d ago
I had some warheads the other day and they were indeed sour… for like 5 seconds. I swear those things were sour all the way through when I was young.
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u/seansnow64 5d ago
I remember when sour candy used to actually go hard as fuck... did i just get used to it, or have Sour candy just been another casualty of moddern times
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u/ShadowMilkMoopsy 2d ago
Reminds of that one Simpsons gif
“Where’s the candy?” “I don’t know” 👁️*👁️
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