I love the shift into junk food videos! This is a niche I feel isn't really touched on much in the commentary community, and you definitely do your research. I like how wholesome this channel has always been. The world is so full of sadness and atrocity, it's great to have so many of these positive channels to kick back and relax to. And your community is just as nice as the content!
I 100% agree with you, but one problem i have is that his "coca-cola" jokes are weak and not really funny but If you don't mind these jokes or you agree with them i rightfully respect your opinion
@@manuelvasconcelos8982 I'll give you that! It might sound weird but I don't really come to Striders channel for comedy, moreso for just how pleasant he seems like as a person! I love any of those channels where it kind of sounds like a friend is just sitting down explaining things they're fascinated by to you, and he's a perfect example of that.
Try GFUEL. It’s an energy formula with 0 sugar and hardly any calories. I personally haven’t tried it yet although I’d like to because a lot of Pokémon RUclipsrs I watch really like it and are sponsored by GFUEL so they’re always promoting it.
The zombie skittles sounds like the same kinda thing as jelly belly’s bean boozled, which was also intentionally bad flavours hidden alongside normal flavours.
Bean Boozled has a catchy name (bamboozled) and came out on the perfect times fads of viral challenges. I feel like that’s the only reason they survived.
@@faeri_ they survived because people usually buy them due to curiousity or as a party game for a quick laugh, no one buys them on their own when there's normal candy, unless they are masochists or adventurous
The Zombie Skittles remind me of the Bean Boozled jellybeans, all the beans look like normal flavors and while some tasted like normal flavors, other beans had intentionally bad tasting flavors. Some boxes even had a spinner where you choose the bean the arrow lands on, eat it and hope it isn't bad
One day on the school bus on the way home, one of the high schoolers had one of those candy cigarettes. They were the type that would even “smoke” if you blew the candy dust off of them. Well the bus driver saw the teen “smoking” & thought it was the real thing. The bus driver yelled & pulled the bus over. The teen ate the “evidence” & the bus driver refused to continue to drive home until someone fessed up & gave over the cigarette. There was nothing to give!! We sat there for hours until the school demanded we drive back to the school. Meanwhile, none of the parents (like mine) knew why the school bus was hours late & this was before cell phones. So all the kids on our route just “vanished!” In the end no one got in trouble - teen or driver - & I missed the Disney Afternoon that day because it was before we owned a VCR…
I actually remember candy cigarettes having the same branding as real cigarettes. I fondly recall getting a pack of Camel candy cigarettes a few times as a kid. I remember them being chocolate flavored. Always liked them, but hated smoking. I still hate smoking. Also, the fact Fritos didn't market Wow chips with the phrase "they're the shits", is a missed opportunity.
Oh yeah, haha, I used to get them when I was a kid as well. A bunch of my uncles smoked and I would always tell them not to, with a pack of chocolate cigaretts in my pocket lol
I’m embarrassed to admit that I loved the taste of the candy cigarettes as a kid and as an adult.. I still buy them at the corner store to this day and I’m in my 20’s 😂
I am not embarrassed to say I liked them and still do. They're still available in Canada under the Popeyes brand as "candy sticks", and I think I'm going to pick some up soon. Guess what the solution is? You don't think about it too hard. It's just a stick of sugar, and I've always had a bit of an oral fixation. Never smoked, never will, and I grew up around a smoker. It helps I can't work a lighter even if it was to save my life.
Being a Mexican myself I've never seen the chicos candy, and it translates literally into "guys", so the term itself hasn't any derogatory meaning IMO, the fact that they're chocolate and its color alludes to Hispanic people on the other hand might be the reason they got rebranded. A similar case happened here in Mexico where a chocolate covered pastry was called "Negrito"... things didn't go quite well and got rebranded into "Nito" which means nothing in particular.
Interesting... Hell even I never heard "Chico" used derogatorilly. Perhaps is one of those words where the derogatory meaning referes to a more archaic use?
@@TheArceusftw nope. I think it is something only a small portion of Americans, probably from a place in the West Coast, know. I've never seen that slur until today. And I'm Mexican.
Oh the candy cigarettes, I've only had them like once and they were given to me by my grandparents. I remember vividly the thing I thought was cool about them was that it was literally cigarettes but for me, and candy. A lot of my close family smoked and I was convinced I would do that when I was older. Now that I'm actually older, I get to see the consequences of smoking not just on my family but by the public as well.
We actually still have candy cigarettes over here at my little convenience store but they're not called candy cigarettes they're just called sugar sticks and they're a lot smaller and skinnier than candy cigarettes probably so that they look as little as a cigarette as possible
I remember being a kid in the early 90's and going to store with Mom, she would buy herself a pack of smokes and get me the candy cigs, until she quit awhile later.
The funny thing with the Skittles is that this immediately made me think of just how far manufacturers went with the real life Every Flavor Beans, actually including all the nasty flavors that were mentioned in the Harry Potter books. But at least those had a legitimate excuse in that this was done to be as authentic to the source as possible. This just feels like a really bad Halloween prank gone wrong.
I honestly feel like the Rotten Flesh Skittles was more an attempt to appeal to the spirit of the Halloween season gone too far than anything else. I mean, if you compare them to the Every Flavor Beans, you'll notice that those had flavors that were meant to be gross intentionally, most likely as a sort of "risk versus reward" kind of gamble, if you want to think of it that way, in my opinion. Besides, sometimes kids actually WANT to try something that sounds like it might be unappealing, even if just out of curiosity; in fact, I remember that my younger brother and sister had at one point when we went to a huge candy store each bought a bottle of bacon flavored soda, despite them not expecting it to taste good. It wound up sitting in our fridge for quite a long time (I think it was years, if I'm not mistaken) before they finally decided to try them out of curiosity, I took a sip, too, and while it was definitely odd, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, all things considered
if I'm honest I don't even think it was taken too far. the skittles were edible, i just find the concept a bit baffling. zombies don't exactly eat other zombies. i guess they wanted to capitalize on the zombie boom, but even considering that, they were a bit late for that train by 2019/2020. dunno, they could do green sludge or something like fanta when they did a blood red version a halloween or two ago.
To me Pepsi Blue looked too much like you were drinking windshield washer fluid which could lead to cruel and dangerous jokes being played since windshield washer fluid is poisonous.
@@danielfranz6560 no bubblegum cigars are different. Bubblegum cigarettes looked like filterless cigarettes wrapped in white paper with powdered sugar on the inside of the paper so when you blew through them they would send out puffs of sugar that looked like smoke.
As a latino I don't think the name "chicos" is offensive, i even find it adorable because the candies resemble baby-shaped people and chicos means "boys" anyway (sorry if my english is weird :(( )
I'm Cherokee/ Scot. Redskins may be a bit insensitive, but Chico certainly is not. Some folks just aren't happy, unless they're offended by something. 🙄👈
I can definitely relate to the sugar-free gummy bears one. I had a bag when I was visiting my older brother in Maine. The second day was spent on the hotel toilet with Pepto-Bismol
If you’ve ever been to a Halloween party where they have those “feel the gross object” thing going on, that’s probably what makes Zombie Skittles so popular during the holiday: it fits the more “Do you dare” aspect without doing something rather questionable. The fact that it’s just a gross flavor that makes it infamous probably helps too, as it’s pretty much harmless in contrast to everything else on this list.
yeah, i think it just failed because bean boozled was already doing the same thing, and kinda did it better by having different kinds of gross flavors to make the challenge more interesting
@@garywheeler7039 And they actually came out with them IRL like another comment mentioned and then Jelly Belly brought them back as bean boozled, it's crazy how accurate flavors like dirt and grass were, and I could see earth worm being accurate but don't remember how close the ear wax one was. They're fun but are at least balanced with a good flavor of the same color and not knowing what you're going to get. Not sure if the Skittles one has good flavors mixed in or not. EDIT: I guess most are good flavors but still, a minority being one bad flavor is kind of weird and it could be any random color, not multiple weird flavors that are color coded but with a good one of the same color.
The epic airport security review on Amazon of the sugar free Haribo gummies had me rolling and feeling horrified at the same time. The poor guy ate some while waiting in the airport security line and when the rumbling started the TSA thought he was smuggling something and well it didn’t end well for the TSA agent or the poor consumer.
According to one tribe that once practiced cannibalism, human flesh tastes similar to to pork (which makes sense as pigs are sometimes used by scientists as human analogs due to similarities in body tissues) which is why they referred to it as "long pork". Saw it on an episode of River Monsters where host Jeremy Wade was investigating a case involving a species of fish that was attacking the "privates" of local men (known locally as the "Ball Cutter") and Jeremy used pork (as a substitute for human flesh) as bait. Ironically, he discovered the culprit was introduced species of piranha which normally feed upon nuts and vegetation, but unfortunately they became a invasive species and became carnivorous due to the ecological damage they caused by eating local plant life. The episode always stuck with me cause it answered the question, what does human meat actually taste like? So I'd imagine rotting human flesh would probably taste similar to rotting pork!
@@tonyrogganbuck2413 That's why the name the natives gave the attacking fish translates as Ball Cutter. Makes you wonder if they were attacking men's testicles cause they mistook them for actual NUTS.
About Zombie Skittles, last year I went trick-or-treating with my friends. At one of the houses, the only thing there was a GIANT BAG OF ZOMBIE SKITTLE PACKETS.
I remember reading sugar-free gummy bear reviews with my family and dying of laughter at how creatively descriptive they all were. 10/10 would read again.
Honestly it stuns me that you grew up with no friends. You are one of the kindest most understanding people I've ever come across! I grew up without friends too. Your channel has helped me through panic attacks. Thank you for that
There was actually one that you missed... Called Chocolate Babies... You might obviously realize why they were banned and discontinued, but... Surprisingly enough, they were actually a favorite candy of the late Beatle George Harrison
My country sell something with a similar name, Choco Babies, but they're just harmless little chocolate pellets that look suspciously like rabbit poop.
the strangest thing is I actually saw the "cocaine" drink at five below the other day, so it is still mildly available at stores. edit: I also remember seeing a four loko can on the floor, and again I was questioning their legality
Now that's how you do a sponsorship Strider! You really went above and beyond in making it personal and less soulless than others. Just a taste of personality and proof that the RUclipsr actually tried the sponsorship makes the ad actually watchable.
sounds to me like skittles tried doing their own take on the iconic "beanboozled beans" with their zombie skittles idea, which i guess makes sense, but in my honest opinion, if i wanted to do a new twist on a piece if candy, i wouldn't wanna mimick beanboozled in the slightest. what about making flavors meant to troll others is a good idea? just the gamble of it all? im overall very mixed on this
well in the case of beanboozled it leans more into the Russian roulette aspect of the candy in the form of the beanboozled challenge. in case you didn't know, the beanboozled jellybeans come in a special box/tin/case with a spinner wheel included. the challenge involves you and one or more of your friends taking turns spinning the wheel, with each space having corresponding jellybean, or rather two. this is where the risk comes in as you have to eat the jellybean matching the one you landed on, but there's a catch: as each jellybean on each space represents two different beans that, while the look the same taste radically different. (for example one could be peach or barf flavored.) with points being awarded accordingly. (two for swallowing a bad tasting bean, one for spiting it out and none for getting the non-gross bean.) with the goal of getting the most points at the end. though players are allowed to come up with custom rules to add to it, such as how many time a player must chew before swallowing the bean etc.
Just wanted to comment and say your videos have been really wonderful to watch while I’ve been home sick! You are such a cheery and nice fellow, thank you for your kindness and the effort you put into your videos 😊
Strider, you could literally make a top 100 list of the most boring words. I’d still watch it. You bring so much life to your videos and I’m really enjoying you branching out and trying new subjects. You are literally my favorite content creator on this website
To be honest, it's more the personality I feel that makes these videos interesting. You can have the most interesting video topic in the world but I'll still be checking my watch if there's no shits given in the presentation. For instance, a lot of the time with Top X videos, you've seen them once you'll never go back. A lot of them are done-in-one throwaway mindless content. Think Watchmojo, it's dozen spin-off channels or Top 15s. Strider's content exists in a weirder place in that even his worst videos (mainly from using examples that he's used before like SpongeBob's multiple Top X lists) he's already used in other videos) are still very watchable just because he shows some personality beyond "dead inside robot."
I tried the "Zombie" Skittles when I was in school. I remember it tasting like an expired drink but in a physical form. Another time I tried it, it tasted like dried orange pulp.
#1 Pepsi Blue was an interesting soda with a berry flavor. I also remember Jolt Cola in the 1980s for the insane amount of caffeine. What I really like is the Mountain Dew flavors of "Code Red," "Voltage," and "White Out." This led to the Independence Day (July 4th) themed "Red White and Dew" flavor that mixed all three flavors that give the soda a purple color. It has a nice berry soda taste, and I'm one person petitioning Applebee's to feature this drink for the summers.
@@OliverRatts I might actually have something to "one-up" you on this. PEEPS FLAVORED PEPSI. I am totally serious, and I tried this interesting flavor adventure. It is very sweet, but drinkable. It has a caramelized sugary finish to it. It is interesting, but I will not be drinking anymore of this. I think Pepsi wanted to bring in Spring and/or Easter with a splash. This was terrible!
I remember Jolt. I drank a can of it before I left Chicago and drove all the way to the middle of NY, the Mohawk Valley area, without stopping except to use the restroom. When I got to NY about ,16-18 hrs later, I was still jumpy and couldn't sleep until the next night. It lasted about 48 hrs for me, I guess bc I wasn't used to all that caffeine and sugar. I tried almost everything to flush it through my system and to calm down but it was no use it just had to run its course I guess. It was very powerful for me. If it's your first time trying any energy drink be prepared for anything. They are not safe bc it can lead to heart palpitations and heart attaches as well as weight gain and other issues to. Just remember everything in moderation, bc to much of any one l thing can be harmful.
I’m not surprised that the “blackout in a can” was made by people from Ohio University. I’ve lived in Ohio my whole life and both my parents went to OU for college. That city has so many bars and restaurants, it’s literally the perfect place for college parties.
I've been subbed for years and years. And still you're doing such unique and special videos with a style of your own. Just wanted to thank you for this. Much love
Fun fact with the wonderballs, a big part of their repeated reappearances had to do with people smuggling Kinder Eggs in from Europe which were very popular, it was an attempt to cash in on the popularity with people [the most common story is a foreign relative or family friend sneaking a case of them in via their luggage, usually with glowing nostalgia] but often failed because they usually didn't understand that the toy/candy filling was fairly secondary to a fond family memory and actually fairly unusual chocolate for an American palette [Kinder Eggs are two-toned, german milk chocolate on the outside, white chocolate on the inside, and the chocolate softens and turns flexible before it melts] and so they'd usually flop. They finally managed to regain some staying power in the last rough decade.
I remember mindlessly picking up a zombie skittles packet from my Halloween candy bag. The flavors were pretty good but then I just started gagging when I took a green one. I had to read the packaging and I hated myself for the rest of the day 💀
I remember trying the rotten flesh skittle. It was pretty gross and tasted similar to the rotten egg jelly bean. It was fun trying it with my friends tho lol
i tried them, and it wasnt so bad. it's like those harry potter jelly beans. you know what your getting into by trying them, and the reactions more than make it worth the money.
As a kid, anti smoking PSAs scared me away from any cigarettes. Even seeing candy cigarettes made me feel disgusted. Hearing that tobacco companies were preying on kids to smoke doesn’t shock me in the slightest. Imagine a vape candy 🤢 Also those skittles remind me of those jellybeans that could taste like pear or boogers and stuff like that
I was born in the mid 50's. So I grew up watching commercials on tv where they claimed that DOCTORS recommended certain brands of cigarettes. Then as we, as basically an entire generation, became old enough to smoke, big tobacco companies started adding chemicals to the tobacco to get us and KEEP us addicted.
I remember when I was a kid, I used to buy those candy cigarettes from the icecream truck.. the ones they used to sell there, had extra powder wrapped in them that you could blow out so it looks like smoke! 🚬 I'm surprised nobody is mentioning that aspect of them. Thankfully, I never became a smoker but I understand how crazy it is that they were ever sold to kids!
I actually my play group did have Candy Cigarettes. We were doing a production of the Outsiders and in context of the book, the main cast are teenagers in gangs, which included drinking and smoking… so we had prop cigars that did look like it puffed smoke and the candy ciggerates… I was such a non smoker that I didn’t even try the fricking CANDY cigars cause I was worried it would lead me to real smoking…. Amazing list like always Strider!
I didn’t know about the history behind Pepsi Blue. A year ago I just saw it at the local gas station, was curious and tried it. I liked it. I’m a little sad to know it might never come back
I continue to be delighted by just how kind of a person you try to be. The respect, tone and overall attitude you bring to the table makes me hope you continue making content for a long time.
Calling cigarettes "deathsticks" just reminds me of that one scene in Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Remember, when someone tries to get you to smoke, tell them to go home and rethink their live, just like Obi-Wan said.
As a Latina, we don't mind the Chicos name. In fact we love it. We're just happy to get some acknowledgement Also I distinctly remember Wonder Balls and Pepsi Blue and enjoyed both. I had no idea about Pepsi Blue causing cancer though
Also a Latina here but I gotta partially disagree. This was my first time seeing/hearing about it and I at first didn't understand why they were controversial. I didn't mind it but I also had no idea 'chico' was a derogatory term used for us.. upon learning that, I rather not have that type of acknowledgement..
Actually tried the 2021 version of Blue Pepsi once and it was pretty alright, It had a nicely subtle blueberry flavor. Now if they could bring back Crystal Pepsi…I can’t help but miss it.
I got one releases of Blue Pepsi (that one from the Philippines in 2018 or 2019 (?) ), and I can tell you it just tasted like blueberry Pepsi. Also in 2018(?) Coca-Cola Clear got released in Japan and I also got it. And it tasted like a citrus soft drink (like 7up or Sprite) but just a little bit sugary and with a pinch of salt (well it's normal for Japanese Coca-Colas to have salt added to it). Another less known Coca Cola, because it was another Japan-exclusive was Strawberry Coca-Cola (in 2020) and it was your typical Japanese version of Coca-Cola (it has more caramel taste than sugary sweet (or terribleness of artificial sugar found in the "diet" version of soft drinks) and has that pinch of salt in it) mixed with a creamy strawberry soft drink (yea creamy sodas and other soft drinks of this type are popular in Japan and many other countries from Asia region). And those two things mixed worked very well. It's so sad it was a limited release. I hope someday it would come back. It was one of my favorites.
@@RyeLeeBread I saw it as well! Loved it as a kid and wanted to try it again! I can't remember, but it was missing something (either sugar or caffeine?) I think. Those would have been the only reasons I can think of for not buying it. I was an EMT so caffeine and sugar was something I wanted lol.
24:34 that’s rich coming from a company like Nestle. Also, thank you for handling the controversial topics with respect. It felt refreshing to watch as well as insightful.
I *loved* Pepsi Blue when it came out and if I think long and hard about it, they might have definitely put something in it because it bordered on addiction. The aftertaste, as I remember, was more cotton candy than blueberry to me. And then they pulled it from shelves when the EU banned Blue 1 as an ingredient. I still miss it to this day.
When I saw the explanation of Zombie Skittles, I thought of BeanBoozled jelly beans. I never tried those jelly beans, but when looking at the boxes alongside Harry Potter themed jelly beans, I saw a few "gross" flavors in common between them, though not identically named
I really love these food/drink top tens! Not only are the controversies entertaining AND informative, the little parts focused on nutrition and health are the cherry on top! Love all that you do for us strider! 💕
I feel like the whole appeal of the Zombie Skittles was supposed to be akin to the Bean Boozled challenge from a few years back. You get to play something of a party game with your friends or prank someone and then shove it online for internet clout. I'd say they had pretty damn good reason to rail on this and not the original, though; the original Bean Boozled challenge had quite a bit of variety in the flavors, good and bad, while with the Zombie Skittles you only get, like, 10 flavors if you count each "zombie" variant as a different flavor.
I used to mix a 20oz bottle of Pepsi blue and a 20oz bottle of code red every lunch break back in 2002ish when I worked at Kmart. This mixture turned into a fantastic kinda translucent purple drink that I’m sure has caused health issues. Tasted great though.
I’m curious if there’s enough candidates for cancelled cereal products such as the Froot Loops cereal straws. I feel like such a list would be neat. Also as an American while candy cigarettes aren’t banned, they aren’t sold anywhere major either.
Right, I remember I used to get these things in every Easter back I would get as a kid. Which kind of annoyed me cuz I was never into candy cigarettes. I was very very picky with my candy. By the time I got to high school it's like they just disappeared. Never saw a box again in stores or an Easter egg baskets or anywhere really. I mean, this is literally vanished straight off the earth. I can't remember the last time I've seen anybody eating a candy cigarette
@@supersmilyface1 I haven't seen them in gas stations for a long time, but then again I haven't stopped by a particular gas station in years. The only place I've seen them being sold now is a cigarette store in a town I usually go to once or twice a month.
6:57 the reason candy cigarettes aren't banned in the USA is that we have no reason to ban them. outside of symbolism they have no ill effects and can't be pulled legally. and I honestly think that's a good thing. I'd rather see a kid with a candy cigarette in their mouth than a real cigarette and most people i know say that they taste bad enough that they make real cigarettes seem much more unappealing. the thought process goes "if this is how bad the candy version is the real one must be nightmarishly bad"
#9 I'm 51, and I remember these as a young kid in the 1970s in the U.S. They had a mint like taste, which was actually like mouthwash. In the 1980s, there was also Big League Chew bubble gum. This was shredded bubble gum that resembled an outsized attempt to look like chewing tobacco, and the bag it came in looked like a traditional chewing tobacco pouch.
The rotten zombie skittles tasted to me what I imagine a mix of raw meat and some insanely sweet cherry would taste like, it was the worst tasting food i’ve ever eaten.
I believe you missed Doritos Roulette which were similar to the zombie skittles. only difference was that instead of rotting flesh flavored chip, you would be likely to bite into either a normal nacho cheese flavored chip, or one VERY spicy chip; measuring 78k on the Scoville Scale apparently! This amount of heat alone was enough for the states to ban them, but spicy food daredevils in the rest of the world were welcome to try their luck (hence “roulette”). The bags even stated that they were not meant for children, but the apparently didn’t stop one asthmatic student in the UK from getting her hands on the bag, then being hospitalized after eating the hot chip. As a result of this incident, the chips were actually banned in schools across the UK. They’ve done a rerun of the chips in 2021, but I’m not sure if they were limited or not (the 2021 version packaging looked pretty good tho).
We had the original run of Canadian ones, they were hot but not that crazy. I'm not a spicy food person and it hurt but it wasn't that bad, my bf ate them like regular lays lmfao.
Can see why they were left off is Strider's even aware of them. They're factually very similar with (as you said) only the gimmick being different. If it came to a toss-up, I can imagine he left it off since there's just more joke potential than burning your mouth off. That or there's just more ways to describe zombie flesh flavour than a food with its gimmick being "this was really fucking hot."
This is honestly one of the most wholesome channels I’ve ever come across. A fun channel that teaches me new things with every video, I’m glad I found your videos ❤️
The older version on candy cigarettes I remember in the 70s/early 80s were chocolate sticks wrapped in an edible rizla/rolling paper! They even came in boxes that were perfect recreations of genuine brands (I always loved the look of the Camel brand)
The ''older version" dates back to at least the '40's, when I was a kid. They were essentially molded powdered sugar with a dab of red food-coloring as "fire" and they were loosies, two for a penny.
I love this new direction you’re taking with all these new theme park and junk food lists, it’s very creative. Keep up the good work, Strider! I really hope you make another junk food video like this soon
Those candy cigarettes have reached a point where they are rare enough in the States that trying to ban them now would just increase people's awareness that they even exist. I haven't seen one in 10 years
I’ve only ever seen them in tobacco stores. So the only people really exposed to them are smokers. They’re a great prop for high school plays for a prisoner character or something, and a way for people quitting smoking to get the whole oral fixation without the chemicals and stuff. Something more powerful got them off of mainstream shelves than governments: money. Advertising smoking directly to kids is distasteful, and turns people away from buying other stuff.
@@inkersbrew6370 I'm an 80's kid and I remember them. The last time I saw a pack in a Stop and Go was 1992 when my friend's sister pointed at them and their dad yelled "not even as a joke." I would have told anyone they tasted like chalk and I'm not surprised people told you that. Candy cigarettes were made more for the image than anything else.
I had to go to a tourist retailer who sold all sorts of more obscure candy to find them. The rock candy on the shelf next to it and the chocolate coins were far more appealing to me though
The cocaine drink is a really awful example of companies not caring for people as much as they act. If they really cared they wouldn’t have changed the name back to cocaine! Great video, Strider. I love the wholesome content on this channel.
They didn’t accept the FDA telling them what to do and didn’t allow their double standard of allowing a soda product that still to this day, although you won’t see it on the ingredients list for obvious reasons, still includes a very small trace of actual cocaine and banning them, a product which simply uses the word cocaine as a trademark. I’ll agree though that calling your energy drink that definitely isn’t the smartest from a sales and marketing perspective, and while it does have an absolutely absurd amount of caffeine, at the end of the day it’s up to any potential consumer of it to remember: _caveat emptor_ (“Let the buyer beware.”).
1: As a Native American, I've gotta say hats off to them rebranding that candy. 2: Olestra is now being used as a heavy machinery lubricant in many industries. So, yay for repurposed failed food additives. 3: I did pick up a Pepsi Blue when it was re-released. It wasn't far off from the taste I remember back when it first came out. Crystal Pepsi also has been occasionally re-released over the past 5-6 years, and tends to sell well at our local stores. So, perhaps Blue might come back without the Blue 1 at some point.
Rebranding the candy and football team is the equivalent to giving us Anthrax laced blankets again - it pretends to be for us but hurts us down the road. Native Americans are being whitewashed from history. These cancel culture people are often doing the opposite of what they set out to do, intentionally or not. There was nothing derogatory about this term. We are slowly being removed from history and the Washington DC football team was a huge hit. It was an honor to be part of the nation's capitals football team.
The Spanish name makes no sense though. That is just American companies refusing to actually ask the opinion of Spanish speakers. I mean, that is like naming a candy garçons in France. It wouldn't and isn't seen as derogatory in either country.
I remember that I bought those zombie skittles to share with my friends on Halloween. I thought they were just regular skittles with Halloween themed packaging. Whenever one of us tasted the zombie skittles we spat them out straight away. They were super gross and it's hard to even swallow them. I should've read the label before thinking about buying them.
I have never understood why anyone would want to give a drunk caffeine, especially if they are being obnoxious. You just ended up with a wide awake drunk.
I think it is always worth mentioning that cultures evolve and what is considered 'offensive' changes. Many of these products had culture change around them and found themselves considered offensive over time. When they moved to change their names they were just keeping up with market changes.
@@SilveniumTheDrifter someone needs to tell a lot of people that just because it might remind you of something offensive, does not mean you get to be all offended and take the center of attention over it
I think it is more an economical decision then the companies actually caring though. One would think racism sounding candy would sell less so changing their name is just the smart thing to do no matter how old the name is. Claiming censorship is a bit ridiculous, any corporation want to maximize their profits so they will change names for any product if that will increase sales, that is just capitalism.
I will say though, I can still understand why people can get uppity over such changes given how baffling and tone-deaf some of them can be. Just look at Land-O-Lakes butter
No, people are LOOKING for things to be offended about. "Red Skins" was a candy but more importantly Washington DC's Football team, which was a huge honor. My family is Cherokee. We see this as just washing us from history - anthrax laced blankets again. Pretending to be helping us and actually harming us. Cancel culture is just out to find things to complain about.
After hearing that opening, I’ve decided it Strider is literally the most perfect human being on this planet. He has no flaws. He is pure, and none of us deserve him
The zombie skittles tasted just like the rotten egg flavor from that Harry Potter every flavor jellybean thing. Or the vomit one. It was bad. I found you could crush them with a spoon and tell by the smell, but even that was too much after awhile so I just threw the rest out.
I remember when these were announced and I was in absolute shock over them but come next Halloween I couldn’t find any I guess now I know why. And also yes this is 100% like the beanboozled game
@@ronnieeilert8491 yea but honestly the jellybeans didn’t taste too bad, the skittles tasted like if I took diet pepsi, gunpowder, and liquid shit and made it into a skittle
Man strider, your videos always give me joy, and you literally talk about these subjects with respect and deep care, and that's always what I like about you
I'm in the US and you're absolutely right when you said "it starts with you". I had candy cigarettes in the 70's and I haven't ever once wanted to smoke. They were a fun novelty. No need to ban things, just teach the kids the difference between candy and cigarettes. It isn't that difficult.
These cancelled food items/snacks videos are really entertaining honestly I'd love too see more videos like that because it goes really well with your style of making videos
I've waited a long time for you to look into these banned food items. Also, glad you mentioned Kinder Surprise Eggs. I think you should look more into that. There are many reasons of why it was banned in these selected countries.
I'd buy those candy cigarettes solely for the box art. They're very cool. Also here in my country we had chocolate cigarettes until the 90s, but just one brand made them so no collectible potential. Nowadays they are rebranded as innocuous colored pencils. They still taste like crappy hydrogenated "chocolate" though. Ah, the nostalgia.
So i had a bag of sugar free haribos back when was trying to cut back on sugar because it makes me break out and I genuinely regretted my life choices. I actually had to stay home from school because of it
I actually had Fads about a week ago. I'm really confused about how I can still easily find them even though I live in Australia since the video said they got banned. I don't mind the taste, yeah they aren't good but they are ok, I guess. I always knew about the history behind them but never wanted to smoke, mainly because of the gross packages of actual cigarettes I'd see lying on the ground and the stories I had heard about what it can do.
I'm guessing the ban he's referring to is more calling them candy cigarettes and having similar packing, Canada rebranded popeye's cigarettes to candy sticks and others still exist using similar names like fun sticks
I never smoked just because it tasted terrible.. My friend gave be a puff and it was ugh. All these people that talk about the anti smoking ads and the gross packets on the ground, what gross packets.. What did they wipe their arse with them... They were a simple box design with a lift up lid.. Did the ones you see on the ground have human remains in them or contain some demonic portal to hell.
5:43 A bit of not widely known trivia: The color scheme for Marlboro packs is due to it originally being introed and marketed FOR women - the paper on the filter was "lipstick red" so their own lipstick didn't show on it (although I believe culture lately that bit of smear "sexy"). So it's kind of wild how it evolved into a rugged he-man cowboy image!
The Nestle magic ball had a warning on the packet saying very clearly "warning toy is not suitable for children under 3 years old, choking hazard" My guess is adults brought them for under 3 year old children without even bothering to read the warning. I was 7 years old so I never stuck them in my mouth.
#9- I remember those well. They were actually quite delicious, but… yeah probably not the best to make candy based on cigarettes. Hopefully there wasn’t any nicotine in the candy itself.
As a fellow Latino... I don't know which specific countries say chicos is derogative, but in Chile it's not derogative, like a all. Chicos means boys, like kids. Between friends we even call ourselves chiquillos. Hell, chico/s is used constantly here in Chile (some places even using chico as part of their name). We Latinos normally don't care about the names, except if it's REALLY insulting. But most most of the time we laughed it off xD In fact, what actually makes us angry is when people not from latin america say we found something offensive when it's not (the speedy Gonzales controversy and the Whitewashing in Encanto come to mind). Also when you call us latinxs, please never do that If we don't raise our voice about a topic we actually don't really care. Sometimes we like this kind of stupid representation xD
As a latino myself I was confused about how chico was even supposed to be offensive until I looked it up. Apparently in Australia it's used in a insulting and racist manner towards latinos and since the candy is based there, that can explain why they rebranded.
This reminds me of the controversy around the episode of The Golden Girls that was removed from Hulu. A lot of people of color, my family included, found the situation funny. Another complaint I saw on Reddit was the guy that called Crayolia, can’t spell, racist because the Spanish word for black is negro. There are some things that are obviously wrong, but if you’re not sure, look to see how the specific group feels.
I agree. I am in the usa and never hears Chico used as a racial slur (it may be in some areas) I have heard of people saying "Chiks". I am glad however that they changed the names. To be Cheekies sounds much cuter!
“Personally I’m not an energy drinker myself. I run on anxiety.” That’s- incredibly relatable- Also you’re probably my favorite RUclipsr at the moment, just as of late I’ve really went back and rewatched a lot of your old and new content I used to watch when I was younger. And I get a sense of- security and just a good feeling watching your stuff. Keep up the amazing work! You’re also well in a way one of the kindest RUclipsrs there are, which I love seeing
As a native American and Mexican, I'd prefer to be made fun of just like everyone else, but people are always telling me what I need to be offended by, and when all the funny native jokes go away, we're left at the bottom of society still pushed into America's dark corners not even left with jokes to acknowledge our existence. Also Chico has always been a fairly endearing term imo, my grandparents called my Chico and it's really cute
Yeah, you ever notice its always rich white people pushing this crap? LOL at him thinking it had nothing to do with cancel culter. THese companies don't give a crap about any color except green. Also find it funny he brings up BLM imagery considering they were infact a scam run by terrorists.
Bro, same. I'm a bit more annoyed that people were offended by the word chico. It's literally just a Spanish term for boy. Chico could be used in the derogatory manner depending on context and who is being spoken to. But so can the English word boy. If you're talking to a black man in a condescending tone. That doesn't mean the word boy and of itself is a condescending word. It just depends on context. Like all of human language. Frankly I feel more offended that people keep being offended for us. As if we can't take a fucking joke. Oh, half of the time us Latino's are making more offensive jokes than white people or half the other races. Except black people. They're just making as much offensive joke as us. That's why so many of the Great comedians are black men. Those men know how to take a joke, give a joke, and can crack a smile on anybody's face. Even if they don't understand the experience. Dave chappelle, Chris rock. In comedy is supposed to be offensive. Or it wouldn't be comedy. It wouldn't be a joke. I wish more people would understand that. I have no doubt that you do my man. But I just wish more people would understand that. And honestly, the Redskin name change does make sense. That one's literally adjusted derogatory term. Chico isn't in any way from or fashion. But hey, if you didn't care and didn't mind poking jokes about it then that's great. But just in my opinion, that's the only name change that really made any sense between the two. Well, I am also find it weird that they changed the word fags on the candy cigarette. Yes it's a derogatory term, but I imagine that in Australia and in the UK the word fag is still a word that just means cigarette. Which, once again, it just depends on context. Since technically that word can have three different contexts. A slur for gay people, referring to a cigarette, or a bundle of sticks. It's original definition. But then again, with that word as a slur catching up so quickly amongst English speakers all over the world then I guess it makes sense to change that one. Teaching kids to smoke is bad enough, don't need to teach them new slurs. 🤷
I have German British and native American in my blood and unless it's a trail of tears or Holocaust joke I don't care. I always get so pissed when people think that a German Bar Maiden outfit is offensive like no it's only offensive if you go out of your way to be offensive to Germans. Also I don't care if someone has a Dream Catcher I'm like okay and it may help them sleep it's not offensive like wearing a headdress when you aren't a Chief to some stupid music festival
@@elizabethsmith3374 that, are people just get them for decoration. There are plenty of people even within the culture that don't believe in that shit. But they still get a dream catchers just because they're decoration. I agree, there's nothing wrong with that. I've seen plenty of people of plenty of ethnicities, people were not even part of their culture have dream catchers. Plus, I doubt the people of said culture would be offended that people are interested in their culture. Interested in their traditions. I would imagine most other people would find that flattering. Like so many people nowadays who are into Japanese culture. Or the Japanese being into you're German culture. Which I'm just finding out recently that for some reason, as seen in a lot of their anime, the Japanese have somewhat of a little bit of an obsession for the German culture. At least a minority group within Japanese society. And personally I think it's fascinating. I don't see anything wrong with people being fascinated by another culture that's not theirs.I've been interested by so many things of so many cultures that are not mine. Both are in the present and in ancient times. Or comparing cultures and traditions with another culture and tradition that's similar. Such as Mexico's Day of the Dead tradition and, I forget what it's called in japan. They do something very similar. But with the addition of letting lanterns go in the sky the way to honor a dead family member. I could be butchering the explanation of that tradition come and again I don't remember it to a teeth. But in so many ways it's very similar to The Day of the Dead from Mexico. Which honestly surprises me how similar those traditions are from two different cultures on two different sides of the world. Let people have their dream catchers, their samurai swords, whatever the fuck they collect from another culture. There's nothing wrong with intriguement and fascination of a culture that's not yours. What matters is that people respect that culture that's it and that's all. Plus, it's not like you have to be those ethnic people to be a part of that culture. Whether it's just joining in on traditions with Friends of that culture, marrying a lover of that culture and ethnicity, or even just being born within the culture even though you were never blood related. And since I was using Mexico and Japanese people as examples, there are actually plenty of Japanese people within mexico. During world war II they couldn't go to Canada or the us. Till they ended up going Mexico to avoid the war. Same with the plenty of koreans. Same with some chinese. So there's quite a healthy population of Asian people in mexico. Plenty of Asian mexicans, even if they're not ethnically Mexican they are nationally mexican, that grew up with the culture. Plenty of people that are probably more Mexican than me. Being a half-blooded Mexican. For the simple fact that that's the culture they grew up in. Yes or ethically japanese, and hopefully they didn't completely abandon their original culture for their own. They can easily still keep both. But since they grew up in it, since that's a part of their life, I would say that's very much their culture as much as it would be mine by blood. Cultures and traditions are meant to be shared. Even with those who are not blood related. Even thoughs not originally part of the culture. As a wonderful thing. When people can share each other's cultures with each other. Share each other's traditions. If more people would do that, more people would be together, more people would be close to each other. More people would have a better understanding of the other. You being a better place if we shared everything including our cultures. Maybe the world would have more respect for each other like the Greek State for the egyptians. When they first stumbled on to them back in the day, way back in the day, they fell in love with their culture and their architecture. Although the Greeks did many great things in their own civilization, they were mesmerized by the ancient Egyptians culture. I mean how come there's a reason why we have geometry and a lot of stuff. You'd be amazed by what we got from the Egyptians just because they give it to the Greeks. Out of all the ancient empires that existed in the past, those two got along the best. A full-blown symbiotic relationship. Something the world could really use right now.
Actually, as someone who lives in Australia, when I went to the TimeZone gift centre the other day, they were actually selling the candy cigarettes for about 20 or more tickets I believe?
I remember having the candy sticks back when I was younger, the one I would always go for was the Popeyes themed ones. Never realized people would actually smoke them like actual cigarettes though
I always got ones with Spiderman on them in my trick or treat bag as a kid! I knew they were supposed to be cigarettes but it never occurred to me to pretend to smoke them lol. My mom smoked and quit and then took up smoking and then quit again on and off throughout my childhood, and I had no desire to imitate that kind of behavior. Plus cigarettes make you smell like ass.
I find it humorous that Strider is practically the anti-MatPat due to his pure disdain for Coca-Cola, which was MatPat's favorite soda for the longest time (well, Diet Coke actually, but you get what I mean)
When I was in my high school production of Grease, we used candy cigarettes, but there was one rehearsal where we were forced to use un-lit real ones since the candy ones were hard to find. It resulted in the theater smelling bad for the rest of said rehearsal.
I actually really enjoyed Pepsi Blue when they brought it back in 2021. I never got to try it back when it was first out since I was only a toddler, but I had heard about it and so when I found out it was coming out for a limited time, I went and bought a pack every time I was at the store. Kinda wish they kept it as a regular
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I love the shift into junk food videos! This is a niche I feel isn't really touched on much in the commentary community, and you definitely do your research. I like how wholesome this channel has always been. The world is so full of sadness and atrocity, it's great to have so many of these positive channels to kick back and relax to. And your community is just as nice as the content!
I 100% agree with you, but one problem i have is that his "coca-cola" jokes are weak and not really funny
but If you don't mind these jokes or you agree with them i rightfully respect your opinion
Yeah same
@@manuelvasconcelos8982 I'll give you that! It might sound weird but I don't really come to Striders channel for comedy, moreso for just how pleasant he seems like as a person! I love any of those channels where it kind of sounds like a friend is just sitting down explaining things they're fascinated by to you, and he's a perfect example of that.
@@celinepersonman6448 Yea same.
@@celinepersonman6448 yeah i feel the same, strider really seems like a Very wholesome and respectful person
"Personally, I'm not an energy drinker myself. I run on anxiety."
I feel that, dude.
Same... I often get anxiety, but last time I could really tell I run on it... I was so anxious for over a week...
Same here
Me too. I don't need more Red Bull or cocaine to give me the energy that over blows my anxiety 😣
i live off water ,apple juice and tea . but i drink mainly water
Try GFUEL. It’s an energy formula with 0 sugar and hardly any calories. I personally haven’t tried it yet although I’d like to because a lot of Pokémon RUclipsrs I watch really like it and are sponsored by GFUEL so they’re always promoting it.
The zombie skittles sounds like the same kinda thing as jelly belly’s bean boozled, which was also intentionally bad flavours hidden alongside normal flavours.
cashgrab attempt at a fad
They taste like spaghetti. Gross for candy
Bean Boozled has a catchy name (bamboozled) and came out on the perfect times fads of viral challenges. I feel like that’s the only reason they survived.
@@faeri_ they survived because people usually buy them due to curiousity or as a party game for a quick laugh, no one buys them on their own when there's normal candy, unless they are masochists or adventurous
@@vooshmoozik6185 that too.
The Zombie Skittles remind me of the Bean Boozled jellybeans, all the beans look like normal flavors and while some tasted like normal flavors, other beans had intentionally bad tasting flavors. Some boxes even had a spinner where you choose the bean the arrow lands on, eat it and hope it isn't bad
Ah yes,a classic
Hey I had the one with spinning wheel I played with my friend on Christmas last year
I remember those
Yeah i stopped eating that stuff after i got a puke flavor one and then it literally made me puke
I still have a pack I got years ago as a prize for being the top student in chemistry for candy prize
One day on the school bus on the way home, one of the high schoolers had one of those candy cigarettes. They were the type that would even “smoke” if you blew the candy dust off of them. Well the bus driver saw the teen “smoking” & thought it was the real thing. The bus driver yelled & pulled the bus over. The teen ate the “evidence” & the bus driver refused to continue to drive home until someone fessed up & gave over the cigarette. There was nothing to give!! We sat there for hours until the school demanded we drive back to the school. Meanwhile, none of the parents (like mine) knew why the school bus was hours late & this was before cell phones. So all the kids on our route just “vanished!” In the end no one got in trouble - teen or driver - & I missed the Disney Afternoon that day because it was before we owned a VCR…
It's almost like real cigarettes smell horrible and candy ones don't.
Were was that chippewa falls Wisconsin?
I actually remember candy cigarettes having the same branding as real cigarettes. I fondly recall getting a pack of Camel candy cigarettes a few times as a kid. I remember them being chocolate flavored. Always liked them, but hated smoking. I still hate smoking.
Also, the fact Fritos didn't market Wow chips with the phrase "they're the shits", is a missed opportunity.
Lol!
🤣🤣🤣
Oh yeah, haha, I used to get them when I was a kid as well.
A bunch of my uncles smoked and I would always tell them not to, with a pack of chocolate cigaretts in my pocket lol
Can we just appreciate that someone actually decided to name their soon to be unpopular product "Fads"?
Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy, eh? XD
I don't know anyone who actually liked those candy cigs. I sure didn't.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting yeah they were gross.
Train
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting my siblings and I would literally only get them if we had little to no pocket money or were given them by friends or family
I’m embarrassed to admit that I loved the taste of the candy cigarettes as a kid and as an adult.. I still buy them at the corner store to this day and I’m in my 20’s 😂
Better than regular smokes
Nice!
There is nothing wrong with them. Glad I live in the us and not some pussified country.
I like them, they are better than actually smoking😂
I am not embarrassed to say I liked them and still do. They're still available in Canada under the Popeyes brand as "candy sticks", and I think I'm going to pick some up soon. Guess what the solution is? You don't think about it too hard. It's just a stick of sugar, and I've always had a bit of an oral fixation. Never smoked, never will, and I grew up around a smoker. It helps I can't work a lighter even if it was to save my life.
Being a Mexican myself I've never seen the chicos candy, and it translates literally into "guys", so the term itself hasn't any derogatory meaning IMO, the fact that they're chocolate and its color alludes to Hispanic people on the other hand might be the reason they got rebranded. A similar case happened here in Mexico where a chocolate covered pastry was called "Negrito"... things didn't go quite well and got rebranded into "Nito" which means nothing in particular.
Tbh I want the old name back. "nito" sounds dumb. I can't even pronounce it without feeling stupid.
Interesting... Hell even I never heard "Chico" used derogatorilly. Perhaps is one of those words where the derogatory meaning referes to a more archaic use?
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo Oh gee that must happen so often that's totally worth not avoiding racism, how embarrassing for you.
@@TheArceusftw nope. I think it is something only a small portion of Americans, probably from a place in the West Coast, know. I've never seen that slur until today. And I'm Mexican.
@@Toastybees I could not care less about what American leftists think of me.
Oh the candy cigarettes, I've only had them like once and they were given to me by my grandparents. I remember vividly the thing I thought was cool about them was that it was literally cigarettes but for me, and candy. A lot of my close family smoked and I was convinced I would do that when I was older. Now that I'm actually older, I get to see the consequences of smoking not just on my family but by the public as well.
We actually still have candy cigarettes over here at my little convenience store but they're not called candy cigarettes they're just called sugar sticks and they're a lot smaller and skinnier than candy cigarettes probably so that they look as little as a cigarette as possible
Ah yes.. They had some in a campgrounds candy store
I remember being a kid in the early 90's and going to store with Mom, she would buy herself a pack of smokes and get me the candy cigs, until she quit awhile later.
I remember the only time I got them was from an ice cream truck in the neighborhood. They were awesome lol.
Candy Cigarettes don't cause children to smoke, friends and loved ones smoking around children influence them to smoke.
The funny thing with the Skittles is that this immediately made me think of just how far manufacturers went with the real life Every Flavor Beans, actually including all the nasty flavors that were mentioned in the Harry Potter books. But at least those had a legitimate excuse in that this was done to be as authentic to the source as possible. This just feels like a really bad Halloween prank gone wrong.
i was thinking about the every flavor beans too! at least you can tell the grody flavors apart from the desirable ones with those :/
I honestly feel like the Rotten Flesh Skittles was more an attempt to appeal to the spirit of the Halloween season gone too far than anything else. I mean, if you compare them to the Every Flavor Beans, you'll notice that those had flavors that were meant to be gross intentionally, most likely as a sort of "risk versus reward" kind of gamble, if you want to think of it that way, in my opinion. Besides, sometimes kids actually WANT to try something that sounds like it might be unappealing, even if just out of curiosity; in fact, I remember that my younger brother and sister had at one point when we went to a huge candy store each bought a bottle of bacon flavored soda, despite them not expecting it to taste good. It wound up sitting in our fridge for quite a long time (I think it was years, if I'm not mistaken) before they finally decided to try them out of curiosity, I took a sip, too, and while it was definitely odd, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, all things considered
just made me think of bean boozled
I never got the appeal of this kind of candy. Feels like a waste to me
if I'm honest I don't even think it was taken too far. the skittles were edible, i just find the concept a bit baffling. zombies don't exactly eat other zombies. i guess they wanted to capitalize on the zombie boom, but even considering that, they were a bit late for that train by 2019/2020. dunno, they could do green sludge or something like fanta when they did a blood red version a halloween or two ago.
I LOVED Pepsi Blue! When it got discontinued I was equally sad and happy, my mom had several packs given to her from a local supermarket.
Me too
It’s my favorite soda ever, I’ve kept an unopened bottle since it got discontinued
That was probably the only Pepsi I actually liked.
@@craigauclair4026 same
To me Pepsi Blue looked too much like you were drinking windshield washer fluid which could lead to cruel and dangerous jokes being played since windshield washer fluid is poisonous.
I remember eating candy cigarettes as a kid. Actually
liked the flavor.
They were basically
solidified marshmallows.
Exactly that is a good discrip of them I to use to like them as a kid . Use to smoke I mean eat two picks a day. By the age of 8,🙃 true story
The bubblegum ones with the powdered sugar that you could blow out like smoke where better. They where a penny apiece when I was a kid in the 90s.
@@DrCarlBooze those where the cigar ones though right?
@@danielfranz6560 no bubblegum cigars are different. Bubblegum cigarettes looked like filterless cigarettes wrapped in white paper with powdered sugar on the inside of the paper so when you blew through them they would send out puffs of sugar that looked like smoke.
I found some for sale at Big Lots. Got them for my kid as a surprise...not as tasty as I recall.😅
It's been interesting to see you cover a lot of different topics from theme parks to junk foods. Would you consider making videos about travel?
I would like that
I agree 👍🏻
I’m now thinking Strider’s going to make a Paw Patrol list concerning he mentioned them in this video. But I’m probably aiming too high.
Ohio especially
I think he was best when he was removing shows and movies
As a latino I don't think the name "chicos" is offensive, i even find it adorable because the candies resemble baby-shaped people and chicos means "boys" anyway (sorry if my english is weird :(( )
Yea white people have a habit of trying to speak for other cultures nowadays lmao
Hi buddy 😃
I am latina as well (Brazil) and I don't think "chicos" are offensive.
most of the time tht happens, I just find it funny
ye im latino to i understand youu
I'm Cherokee/ Scot.
Redskins may be a bit insensitive,
but Chico certainly is not.
Some folks just aren't happy, unless they're offended by something. 🙄👈
I can definitely relate to the sugar-free gummy bears one. I had a bag when I was visiting my older brother in Maine. The second day was spent on the hotel toilet with Pepto-Bismol
Why eat an entire bag?
@@charadreemurr4839 I was hungry, and there were no restaurants opened by the time we got to Maine. It was THAT late
Fair enough, you have a stronger stomach than me then. I'd probably vomit before eating half of a bag.
If you’ve ever been to a Halloween party where they have those “feel the gross object” thing going on, that’s probably what makes Zombie Skittles so popular during the holiday: it fits the more “Do you dare” aspect without doing something rather questionable. The fact that it’s just a gross flavor that makes it infamous probably helps too, as it’s pretty much harmless in contrast to everything else on this list.
yeah, i think it just failed because bean boozled was already doing the same thing, and kinda did it better by having different kinds of gross flavors to make the challenge more interesting
Ironically, people wanted to buy it because of packaging but then saw it tasted bad and put it down.
I think its like that candy in the Harry Potter book, that varied in flavor, one flavor being ear wax that made people cringe.
@@garywheeler7039 And they actually came out with them IRL like another comment mentioned and then Jelly Belly brought them back as bean boozled, it's crazy how accurate flavors like dirt and grass were, and I could see earth worm being accurate but don't remember how close the ear wax one was. They're fun but are at least balanced with a good flavor of the same color and not knowing what you're going to get. Not sure if the Skittles one has good flavors mixed in or not.
EDIT: I guess most are good flavors but still, a minority being one bad flavor is kind of weird and it could be any random color, not multiple weird flavors that are color coded but with a good one of the same color.
Main question, how did they get the rotting flesh flavor (wrong answers only)
The epic airport security review on Amazon of the sugar free Haribo gummies had me rolling and feeling horrified at the same time. The poor guy ate some while waiting in the airport security line and when the rumbling started the TSA thought he was smuggling something and well it didn’t end well for the TSA agent or the poor consumer.
I remember reading that one. I was in tears.
LMAO!
What happened in that story?
@@fluffystream3772 long story short he shat on the TSA agent (iirc)
Sheesh. That’s just plain horrific. Speaking of Haribos, does anyone acknowledge how hard and chewy they are?
According to one tribe that once practiced cannibalism, human flesh tastes similar to to pork (which makes sense as pigs are sometimes used by scientists as human analogs due to similarities in body tissues) which is why they referred to it as "long pork". Saw it on an episode of River Monsters where host Jeremy Wade was investigating a case involving a species of fish that was attacking the "privates" of local men (known locally as the "Ball Cutter") and Jeremy used pork (as a substitute for human flesh) as bait. Ironically, he discovered the culprit was introduced species of piranha which normally feed upon nuts and vegetation, but unfortunately they became a invasive species and became carnivorous due to the ecological damage they caused by eating local plant life. The episode always stuck with me cause it answered the question, what does human meat actually taste like?
So I'd imagine rotting human flesh would probably taste similar to rotting pork!
thanks, i hate it!
"Feed upon nuts" ! LOL
@@tonyrogganbuck2413 That's why the name the natives gave the attacking fish translates as Ball Cutter. Makes you wonder if they were attacking men's testicles cause they mistook them for actual NUTS.
That would jive with what I read once. Someone asked a firefighter what a burnt human body smells like, and he said 'barbecue'.
Well, I thought I hated pork already but it's even worse now.
About Zombie Skittles, last year I went trick-or-treating with my friends. At one of the houses, the only thing there was a GIANT BAG OF ZOMBIE SKITTLE PACKETS.
I remember reading sugar-free gummy bear reviews with my family and dying of laughter at how creatively descriptive they all were. 10/10 would read again.
Can't anymore now that Amazon took the product page down. A crime against comedy, I tell you!
@@SupersuMC aww they did? Oh well, at least I can Google some
Honestly it stuns me that you grew up with no friends. You are one of the kindest most understanding people I've ever come across! I grew up without friends too. Your channel has helped me through panic attacks. Thank you for that
Got it...
There was actually one that you missed... Called Chocolate Babies... You might obviously realize why they were banned and discontinued, but... Surprisingly enough, they were actually a favorite candy of the late Beatle George Harrison
My country sell something with a similar name, Choco Babies, but they're just harmless little chocolate pellets that look suspciously like rabbit poop.
Shall I mention the **erhem** Jelly Babies?
There's also a statue of a Jelly Baby family outside a large mall
Actually here in Australia, they sre called "Cheekies". I can still buy them with that name
@@sally-annebrown1298 *Cheekies* 💀💀💀
the strangest thing is I actually saw the "cocaine" drink at five below the other day, so it is still mildly available at stores.
edit: I also remember seeing a four loko can on the floor, and again I was questioning their legality
Four Loko is legal again bc they removed the caffeine. if you can find the Warheads sour flavor you should try it, it’s actually tasty (but strong)
Recently I saw it at my local gas station. I haven’t tried it, but I am a little curious about it
"What's wrong with showing a package of chips and saying, 'Hey, these taste good!'?"
Give this man all the advertising awards.
Now that's how you do a sponsorship Strider! You really went above and beyond in making it personal and less soulless than others. Just a taste of personality and proof that the RUclipsr actually tried the sponsorship makes the ad actually watchable.
sounds to me like skittles tried doing their own take on the iconic "beanboozled beans" with their zombie skittles idea, which i guess makes sense, but in my honest opinion, if i wanted to do a new twist on a piece if candy, i wouldn't wanna mimick beanboozled in the slightest. what about making flavors meant to troll others is a good idea? just the gamble of it all? im overall very mixed on this
Yooo, I thought I was the only one who thought that!
well in the case of beanboozled it leans more into the Russian roulette aspect of the candy in the form of the beanboozled challenge. in case you didn't know, the beanboozled jellybeans come in a special box/tin/case with a spinner wheel included. the challenge involves you and one or more of your friends taking turns spinning the wheel, with each space having corresponding jellybean, or rather two. this is where the risk comes in as you have to eat the jellybean matching the one you landed on, but there's a catch: as each jellybean on each space represents two different beans that, while the look the same taste radically different. (for example one could be peach or barf flavored.) with points being awarded accordingly. (two for swallowing a bad tasting bean, one for spiting it out and none for getting the non-gross bean.) with the goal of getting the most points at the end. though players are allowed to come up with custom rules to add to it, such as how many time a player must chew before swallowing the bean etc.
@@donaldpaccerelli198 Damn, you could make a whole Wikipedia page with this info
Just wanted to comment and say your videos have been really wonderful to watch while I’ve been home sick! You are such a cheery and nice fellow, thank you for your kindness and the effort you put into your videos 😊
Strider, you could literally make a top 100 list of the most boring words. I’d still watch it. You bring so much life to your videos and I’m really enjoying you branching out and trying new subjects. You are literally my favorite content creator on this website
I agree with you
Yes, Strider is so vibrant all on his own!
True he makes anything he talks about sounds so Interesting and fun and entertaining
And also like how there's this air of sophistication and Intelligence in his video's it makes all his videos feel very professional and smart
I’m very happy that your starting to mix things up a bit with your videos. These fast food videos are so enjoyable to watch!
I totally agree. I like his food videos a lot!
Same 👍🏻
And his reactions to all of the entries are so fun to watch. And he gives a lot of cool facts!
To be honest, it's more the personality I feel that makes these videos interesting. You can have the most interesting video topic in the world but I'll still be checking my watch if there's no shits given in the presentation. For instance, a lot of the time with Top X videos, you've seen them once you'll never go back. A lot of them are done-in-one throwaway mindless content. Think Watchmojo, it's dozen spin-off channels or Top 15s. Strider's content exists in a weirder place in that even his worst videos (mainly from using examples that he's used before like SpongeBob's multiple Top X lists) he's already used in other videos) are still very watchable just because he shows some personality beyond "dead inside robot."
Wow, that’s a really interesting depiction. I never thought of that lol
Watchmojo is just oversaturated garbage anyways
I tried the "Zombie" Skittles when I was in school. I remember it tasting like an expired drink but in a physical form. Another time I tried it, it tasted like dried orange pulp.
#1 Pepsi Blue was an interesting soda with a berry flavor. I also remember Jolt Cola in the 1980s for the insane amount of caffeine. What I really like is the Mountain Dew flavors of "Code Red," "Voltage," and "White Out." This led to the Independence Day (July 4th) themed "Red White and Dew" flavor that mixed all three flavors that give the soda a purple color. It has a nice berry soda taste, and I'm one person petitioning Applebee's to feature this drink for the summers.
It's funny how Jolt Cola seemed like super high amounts of caffeine...yet now you can get a 300mg can of caffeine in any flavor you can think of.
I hate code red, it makes my mouth completely numb and just tastes like puke.
@@OliverRatts I might actually have something to "one-up" you on this. PEEPS FLAVORED PEPSI. I am totally serious, and I tried this interesting flavor adventure. It is very sweet, but drinkable. It has a caramelized sugary finish to it. It is interesting, but I will not be drinking anymore of this. I think Pepsi wanted to bring in Spring and/or Easter with a splash. This was terrible!
@@howardg2435 I read this first as Pepsi flavored Pepsi lmao had to go back n reread lol
I remember Jolt. I drank a can of it before I left Chicago and drove all the way to the middle of NY, the Mohawk Valley area, without stopping except to use the restroom. When I got to NY about ,16-18 hrs later, I was still jumpy and couldn't sleep until the next night. It lasted about 48 hrs for me, I guess bc I wasn't used to all that caffeine and sugar. I tried almost everything to flush it through my system and to calm down but it was no use it just had to run its course I guess. It was very powerful for me. If it's your first time trying any energy drink be prepared for anything. They are not safe bc it can lead to heart palpitations and heart attaches as well as weight gain and other issues to. Just remember everything in moderation, bc to much of any one l thing can be harmful.
I’m not surprised that the “blackout in a can” was made by people from Ohio University. I’ve lived in Ohio my whole life and both my parents went to OU for college. That city has so many bars and restaurants, it’s literally the perfect place for college parties.
Same, and the fact the power went out all day yesterday because of the storm..?
I don't remember the original 4Lokos but I know I had it the current version is gross
I've been subbed for years and years. And still you're doing such unique and special videos with a style of your own. Just wanted to thank you for this. Much love
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@@giftedgummybee8917 well I hope i'm not 😅
Why not just say “ Life will kill you!”
After all, no one gets out alive!
Fun fact with the wonderballs, a big part of their repeated reappearances had to do with people smuggling Kinder Eggs in from Europe which were very popular, it was an attempt to cash in on the popularity with people [the most common story is a foreign relative or family friend sneaking a case of them in via their luggage, usually with glowing nostalgia] but often failed because they usually didn't understand that the toy/candy filling was fairly secondary to a fond family memory and actually fairly unusual chocolate for an American palette [Kinder Eggs are two-toned, german milk chocolate on the outside, white chocolate on the inside, and the chocolate softens and turns flexible before it melts] and so they'd usually flop. They finally managed to regain some staying power in the last rough decade.
I remember mindlessly picking up a zombie skittles packet from my Halloween candy bag. The flavors were pretty good but then I just started gagging when I took a green one. I had to read the packaging and I hated myself for the rest of the day 💀
I remember trying the rotten flesh skittle. It was pretty gross and tasted similar to the rotten egg jelly bean. It was fun trying it with my friends tho lol
I feel like they were trying to be the next Beanboozled challenge or something now that you mention jelly beans.
lol yea, my friend and i tried them like the bean boozled jelly bean game
@@LOVE-iv2pw yeah that's what I thought of too
i tried them, and it wasnt so bad. it's like those harry potter jelly beans. you know what your getting into by trying them, and the reactions more than make it worth the money.
"I'm no an energy drinker myself, I run on anxiety"
OMG brilliant line. I hear you brother.
As a kid, anti smoking PSAs scared me away from any cigarettes. Even seeing candy cigarettes made me feel disgusted. Hearing that tobacco companies were preying on kids to smoke doesn’t shock me in the slightest. Imagine a vape candy 🤢
Also those skittles remind me of those jellybeans that could taste like pear or boogers and stuff like that
Candy cigarettes were awesome tasting
Bean boozles I think is what those were
Try huckleberry licorish. It does kinda taste like vape juice actually.
shhh! dont give them ideas! 🤢
also, i believe that it’s bean boozled jellybeans that you’re referring to.
I was born in the mid 50's. So I grew up watching commercials on tv where they claimed that DOCTORS recommended certain brands of cigarettes. Then as we, as basically an entire generation, became old enough to smoke, big tobacco companies started adding chemicals to the tobacco to get us and KEEP us addicted.
I remember when I was a kid, I used to buy those candy cigarettes from the icecream truck.. the ones they used to sell there, had extra powder wrapped in them that you could blow out so it looks like smoke! 🚬 I'm surprised nobody is mentioning that aspect of them. Thankfully, I never became a smoker but I understand how crazy it is that they were ever sold to kids!
Yes. We're purchased for us kids all the time. I wouldn't buy them for children.
I actually my play group did have Candy Cigarettes. We were doing a production of the Outsiders and in context of the book, the main cast are teenagers in gangs, which included drinking and smoking… so we had prop cigars that did look like it puffed smoke and the candy ciggerates… I was such a non smoker that I didn’t even try the fricking CANDY cigars cause I was worried it would lead me to real smoking….
Amazing list like always Strider!
I didn’t know about the history behind Pepsi Blue. A year ago I just saw it at the local gas station, was curious and tried it. I liked it. I’m a little sad to know it might never come back
I continue to be delighted by just how kind of a person you try to be. The respect, tone and overall attitude you bring to the table makes me hope you continue making content for a long time.
Calling cigarettes "deathsticks" just reminds me of that one scene in Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
Remember, when someone tries to get you to smoke, tell them to go home and rethink their live, just like Obi-Wan said.
As a Latina, we don't mind the Chicos name. In fact we love it. We're just happy to get some acknowledgement
Also I distinctly remember Wonder Balls and Pepsi Blue and enjoyed both. I had no idea about Pepsi Blue causing cancer though
Also a Latina here but I gotta partially disagree. This was my first time seeing/hearing about it and I at first didn't understand why they were controversial. I didn't mind it but I also had no idea 'chico' was a derogatory term used for us.. upon learning that, I rather not have that type of acknowledgement..
Still have a candy named Filipinos...
@@candiedpandie frito bandito
@@Plsrateeight What? Lmao
@@candiedpandie I thought chico just meant like little kid 🤷🏻♀️
Actually tried the 2021 version of Blue Pepsi once and it was pretty alright, It had a nicely subtle blueberry flavor.
Now if they could bring back Crystal Pepsi…I can’t help but miss it.
Crystal Pepsi was back in 2019! Probably will return again at some point.
I got one releases of Blue Pepsi (that one from the Philippines in 2018 or 2019 (?) ), and I can tell you it just tasted like blueberry Pepsi.
Also in 2018(?) Coca-Cola Clear got released in Japan and I also got it. And it tasted like a citrus soft drink (like 7up or Sprite) but just a little bit sugary and with a pinch of salt (well it's normal for Japanese Coca-Colas to have salt added to it).
Another less known Coca Cola, because it was another Japan-exclusive was Strawberry Coca-Cola (in 2020) and it was your typical Japanese version of Coca-Cola (it has more caramel taste than sugary sweet (or terribleness of artificial sugar found in the "diet" version of soft drinks) and has that pinch of salt in it) mixed with a creamy strawberry soft drink (yea creamy sodas and other soft drinks of this type are popular in Japan and many other countries from Asia region). And those two things mixed worked very well. It's so sad it was a limited release. I hope someday it would come back. It was one of my favorites.
@@RyeLeeBread can confirm saw it once but sadly didn't buy
Crystal pepsi came back in 2016 for a few years
@@RyeLeeBread I saw it as well! Loved it as a kid and wanted to try it again! I can't remember, but it was missing something (either sugar or caffeine?) I think. Those would have been the only reasons I can think of for not buying it. I was an EMT so caffeine and sugar was something I wanted lol.
24:34 that’s rich coming from a company like Nestle. Also, thank you for handling the controversial topics with respect. It felt refreshing to watch as well as insightful.
I *loved* Pepsi Blue when it came out and if I think long and hard about it, they might have definitely put something in it because it bordered on addiction. The aftertaste, as I remember, was more cotton candy than blueberry to me. And then they pulled it from shelves when the EU banned Blue 1 as an ingredient. I still miss it to this day.
Is there an alternative to blue 1?
@@jaredsamples6969spirulina is a good one
When I saw the explanation of Zombie Skittles, I thought of BeanBoozled jelly beans. I never tried those jelly beans, but when looking at the boxes alongside Harry Potter themed jelly beans, I saw a few "gross" flavors in common between them, though not identically named
I really love these food/drink top tens! Not only are the controversies entertaining AND informative, the little parts focused on nutrition and health are the cherry on top! Love all that you do for us strider! 💕
I feel like the whole appeal of the Zombie Skittles was supposed to be akin to the Bean Boozled challenge from a few years back. You get to play something of a party game with your friends or prank someone and then shove it online for internet clout.
I'd say they had pretty damn good reason to rail on this and not the original, though; the original Bean Boozled challenge had quite a bit of variety in the flavors, good and bad, while with the Zombie Skittles you only get, like, 10 flavors if you count each "zombie" variant as a different flavor.
I used to mix a 20oz bottle of Pepsi blue and a 20oz bottle of code red every lunch break back in 2002ish when I worked at Kmart. This mixture turned into a fantastic kinda translucent purple drink that I’m sure has caused health issues. Tasted great though.
I’m curious if there’s enough candidates for cancelled cereal products such as the Froot Loops cereal straws. I feel like such a list would be neat. Also as an American while candy cigarettes aren’t banned, they aren’t sold anywhere major either.
Right, I remember I used to get these things in every Easter back I would get as a kid. Which kind of annoyed me cuz I was never into candy cigarettes. I was very very picky with my candy.
By the time I got to high school it's like they just disappeared. Never saw a box again in stores or an Easter egg baskets or anywhere really. I mean, this is literally vanished straight off the earth. I can't remember the last time I've seen anybody eating a candy cigarette
They’re only sold in novelty shops at this point, just like bubblegum cigars
I've only seen candy cigarettes at gas stations, candy shops, and the state fair here in Ohio.
@@HK47_115 The dollar tree has them on occasion as candy sticks in the seasonal candies.
@@supersmilyface1 I haven't seen them in gas stations for a long time, but then again I haven't stopped by a particular gas station in years. The only place I've seen them being sold now is a cigarette store in a town I usually go to once or twice a month.
6:57
the reason candy cigarettes aren't banned in the USA is that we have no reason to ban them. outside of symbolism they have no ill effects and can't be pulled legally. and I honestly think that's a good thing. I'd rather see a kid with a candy cigarette in their mouth than a real cigarette and most people i know say that they taste bad enough that they make real cigarettes seem much more unappealing. the thought process goes "if this is how bad the candy version is the real one must be nightmarishly bad"
I think they are often sold as Candy Sticks in the USA.
they do taste bad, yet i kept eating it anyway. I guess it would be like real tobacco, it tastes bad but you're addicted.
This is easily one of my favourite channels on RUclips. You’re so endearing, and your content has so much variety.
#9 I'm 51, and I remember these as a young kid in the 1970s in the U.S. They had a mint like taste, which was actually like mouthwash. In the 1980s, there was also Big League Chew bubble gum. This was shredded bubble gum that resembled an outsized attempt to look like chewing tobacco, and the bag it came in looked like a traditional chewing tobacco pouch.
The rotten zombie skittles tasted to me what I imagine a mix of raw meat and some insanely sweet cherry would taste like, it was the worst tasting food i’ve ever eaten.
Eww!
I think jelly belly did something similar where they had mysterious flavored jelly beans that ranged from popcorn flavored to sweaty socks
@@kameronbiggs5495 Bean-Boozles. Those were nasty! 🤮
Bean boozled still exists
I believe you missed Doritos Roulette which were similar to the zombie skittles. only difference was that instead of rotting flesh flavored chip, you would be likely to bite into either a normal nacho cheese flavored chip, or one VERY spicy chip; measuring 78k on the Scoville Scale apparently! This amount of heat alone was enough for the states to ban them, but spicy food daredevils in the rest of the world were welcome to try their luck (hence “roulette”). The bags even stated that they were not meant for children, but the apparently didn’t stop one asthmatic student in the UK from getting her hands on the bag, then being hospitalized after eating the hot chip. As a result of this incident, the chips were actually banned in schools across the UK.
They’ve done a rerun of the chips in 2021, but I’m not sure if they were limited or not (the 2021 version packaging looked pretty good tho).
We had the original run of Canadian ones, they were hot but not that crazy. I'm not a spicy food person and it hurt but it wasn't that bad, my bf ate them like regular lays lmfao.
Can see why they were left off is Strider's even aware of them. They're factually very similar with (as you said) only the gimmick being different. If it came to a toss-up, I can imagine he left it off since there's just more joke potential than burning your mouth off. That or there's just more ways to describe zombie flesh flavour than a food with its gimmick being "this was really fucking hot."
Thanks for the information kind stranger
0-0 What in the name of Arceus?! I mean, I can't help but feel that's CERTAINLY something on the outright INSANE scale!
This is honestly one of the most wholesome channels I’ve ever come across. A fun channel that teaches me new things with every video, I’m glad I found your videos ❤️
The older version on candy cigarettes I remember in the 70s/early 80s were chocolate sticks wrapped in an edible rizla/rolling paper! They even came in boxes that were perfect recreations of genuine brands (I always loved the look of the Camel brand)
The ''older version" dates back to at least the '40's, when I was a kid. They were essentially molded powdered sugar with a dab of red food-coloring as "fire" and they were loosies, two for a penny.
I love this new direction you’re taking with all these new theme park and junk food lists, it’s very creative. Keep up the good work, Strider! I really hope you make another junk food video like this soon
Those candy cigarettes have reached a point where they are rare enough in the States that trying to ban them now would just increase people's awareness that they even exist. I haven't seen one in 10 years
Ironically enough I was lucky enough to find one retailer who sold them when I was 12. The people were right, it tastes like chalk lol
I’ve only ever seen them in tobacco stores. So the only people really exposed to them are smokers. They’re a great prop for high school plays for a prisoner character or something, and a way for people quitting smoking to get the whole oral fixation without the chemicals and stuff.
Something more powerful got them off of mainstream shelves than governments: money. Advertising smoking directly to kids is distasteful, and turns people away from buying other stuff.
@@inkersbrew6370 I'm an 80's kid and I remember them. The last time I saw a pack in a Stop and Go was 1992 when my friend's sister pointed at them and their dad yelled "not even as a joke." I would have told anyone they tasted like chalk and I'm not surprised people told you that. Candy cigarettes were made more for the image than anything else.
I had to go to a tourist retailer who sold all sorts of more obscure candy to find them.
The rock candy on the shelf next to it and the chocolate coins were far more appealing to me though
I haven't seen those candy cigarettes in well over twenty years... Glad they are now rare - the purpose of those things is insidious.
The cocaine drink is a really awful example of companies not caring for people as much as they act. If they really cared they wouldn’t have changed the name back to cocaine!
Great video, Strider. I love the wholesome content on this channel.
They didn’t accept the FDA telling them what to do and didn’t allow their double standard of allowing a soda product that still to this day, although you won’t see it on the ingredients list for obvious reasons, still includes a very small trace of actual cocaine and banning them, a product which simply uses the word cocaine as a trademark. I’ll agree though that calling your energy drink that definitely isn’t the smartest from a sales and marketing perspective, and while it does have an absolutely absurd amount of caffeine, at the end of the day it’s up to any potential consumer of it to remember: _caveat emptor_ (“Let the buyer beware.”).
or they just chad pulling a chad move
3:12 his description of it is actually brilliant.
I love watching your vids. You are just so chill and respectful about everything and everyone!
1: As a Native American, I've gotta say hats off to them rebranding that candy.
2: Olestra is now being used as a heavy machinery lubricant in many industries. So, yay for repurposed failed food additives.
3: I did pick up a Pepsi Blue when it was re-released. It wasn't far off from the taste I remember back when it first came out. Crystal Pepsi also has been occasionally re-released over the past 5-6 years, and tends to sell well at our local stores. So, perhaps Blue might come back without the Blue 1 at some point.
That would be intriguing. :O
Rebranding the candy and football team is the equivalent to giving us Anthrax laced blankets again - it pretends to be for us but hurts us down the road. Native Americans are being whitewashed from history. These cancel culture people are often doing the opposite of what they set out to do, intentionally or not. There was nothing derogatory about this term. We are slowly being removed from history and the Washington DC football team was a huge hit. It was an honor to be part of the nation's capitals football team.
Imo red ripper is 100 times worse
Wont say why but google will
The Spanish name makes no sense though. That is just American companies refusing to actually ask the opinion of Spanish speakers. I mean, that is like naming a candy garçons in France. It wouldn't and isn't seen as derogatory in either country.
@@southaussiegarbo2054 red runners
I remember that I bought those zombie skittles to share with my friends on Halloween. I thought they were just regular skittles with Halloween themed packaging. Whenever one of us tasted the zombie skittles we spat them out straight away. They were super gross and it's hard to even swallow them. I should've read the label before thinking about buying them.
I have never understood why anyone would want to give a drunk caffeine, especially if they are being obnoxious. You just ended up with a wide awake drunk.
I think it is always worth mentioning that cultures evolve and what is considered 'offensive' changes. Many of these products had culture change around them and found themselves considered offensive over time. When they moved to change their names they were just keeping up with market changes.
This. The amount of things that the young generations are growing sensitive to and to the point of "needing warnings for" is sickening, however.
@@SilveniumTheDrifter someone needs to tell a lot of people that just because it might remind you of something offensive, does not mean you get to be all offended and take the center of attention over it
I think it is more an economical decision then the companies actually caring though. One would think racism sounding candy would sell less so changing their name is just the smart thing to do no matter how old the name is.
Claiming censorship is a bit ridiculous, any corporation want to maximize their profits so they will change names for any product if that will increase sales, that is just capitalism.
I will say though, I can still understand why people can get uppity over such changes given how baffling and tone-deaf some of them can be. Just look at Land-O-Lakes butter
No, people are LOOKING for things to be offended about. "Red Skins" was a candy but more importantly Washington DC's Football team, which was a huge honor. My family is Cherokee. We see this as just washing us from history - anthrax laced blankets again. Pretending to be helping us and actually harming us. Cancel culture is just out to find things to complain about.
Hey more junk food videos! Great stuff as always Strider and major props to you for showing such respect with some of these subjects
After hearing that opening, I’ve decided it
Strider is literally the most perfect human being on this planet. He has no flaws. He is pure, and none of us deserve him
“This product has been around for 45 years, Let the disease change its name.”-Frank DiPrima, now that, is a rare insult.
Who can remember the infamous sugar-free gummy bear review? That was one of the greatest and weirdest things I've ever read.
The zombie skittles tasted just like the rotten egg flavor from that Harry Potter every flavor jellybean thing. Or the vomit one. It was bad.
I found you could crush them with a spoon and tell by the smell, but even that was too much after awhile so I just threw the rest out.
They're durian flavored
They are absolutely horrible. My brother got me some and I’d have to crack them open with my teeth just to see which ones were safe.
I kept thinking it’s very similar to Jelly Belly’s Beanboozled game kit.
I remember when these were announced and I was in absolute shock over them but come next Halloween I couldn’t find any I guess now I know why.
And also yes this is 100% like the beanboozled game
@@ronnieeilert8491 yea but honestly the jellybeans didn’t taste too bad, the skittles tasted like if I took diet pepsi, gunpowder, and liquid shit and made it into a skittle
Man strider, your videos always give me joy, and you literally talk about these subjects with respect and deep care, and that's always what I like about you
I'm in the US and you're absolutely right when you said "it starts with you". I had candy cigarettes in the 70's and I haven't ever once wanted to smoke. They were a fun novelty. No need to ban things, just teach the kids the difference between candy and cigarettes. It isn't that difficult.
These cancelled food items/snacks videos are really entertaining honestly
I'd love too see more videos like that because it goes really well with your style of making videos
I'm glad my friends never pulled a rotten flesh skittle prank on me. I tried beanboozled once and threw up just the bean I had eaten.
I love how you handle everything with the upmost respect. Even something as harmless as junk food gets a disclaimer. Props to you my man 👏
Dang man. What Coca-Cola ever do to you?! lol
I really love how you're branching off to new subjects. I enjoy your recent videos very much.
I like how much boo has evolved from being a cookie cut boo from the Mario games, to having a sense of character.
I've waited a long time for you to look into these banned food items. Also, glad you mentioned Kinder Surprise Eggs. I think you should look more into that. There are many reasons of why it was banned in these selected countries.
I'd buy those candy cigarettes solely for the box art. They're very cool.
Also here in my country we had chocolate cigarettes until the 90s, but just one brand made them so no collectible potential. Nowadays they are rebranded as innocuous colored pencils. They still taste like crappy hydrogenated "chocolate" though. Ah, the nostalgia.
So i had a bag of sugar free haribos back when was trying to cut back on sugar because it makes me break out and I genuinely regretted my life choices. I actually had to stay home from school because of it
I actually had Fads about a week ago. I'm really confused about how I can still easily find them even though I live in Australia since the video said they got banned.
I don't mind the taste, yeah they aren't good but they are ok, I guess. I always knew about the history behind them but never wanted to smoke, mainly because of the gross packages of actual cigarettes I'd see lying on the ground and the stories I had heard about what it can do.
I'm guessing the ban he's referring to is more calling them candy cigarettes and having similar packing, Canada rebranded popeye's cigarettes to candy sticks and others still exist using similar names like fun sticks
I know In the uk they are re branded as candy sticks I think they did even dissappear for a while
They were called FAGS back in the 80s just had name changed so it wouldn't offend people
I never smoked just because it tasted terrible.. My friend gave be a puff and it was ugh.
All these people that talk about the anti smoking ads and the gross packets on the ground, what gross packets.. What did they wipe their arse with them... They were a simple box design with a lift up lid.. Did the ones you see on the ground have human remains in them or contain some demonic portal to hell.
They are only banned from sale in new south wales apparently
5:43 A bit of not widely known trivia: The color scheme for Marlboro packs is due to it originally being introed and marketed FOR women - the paper on the filter was "lipstick red" so their own lipstick didn't show on it (although I believe culture lately that bit of smear "sexy"). So it's kind of wild how it evolved into a rugged he-man cowboy image!
I used to eat that brand all the time, I remember the grape and cherry flavor where the best 😃 good times good times
Cigarettes used to be associated with sophisticated ladies and the rugged, macho men were associated with cigars.
The Nestle magic ball had a warning on the packet saying very clearly "warning toy is not suitable for children under 3 years old, choking hazard" My guess is adults brought them for under 3 year old children without even bothering to read the warning. I was 7 years old so I never stuck them in my mouth.
#9- I remember those well. They were actually quite delicious, but… yeah probably not the best to make candy based on cigarettes. Hopefully there wasn’t any nicotine in the candy itself.
pretty sure they were just solidified sugar XD
As a fellow Latino... I don't know which specific countries say chicos is derogative, but in Chile it's not derogative, like a all. Chicos means boys, like kids. Between friends we even call ourselves chiquillos. Hell, chico/s is used constantly here in Chile (some places even using chico as part of their name).
We Latinos normally don't care about the names, except if it's REALLY insulting. But most most of the time we laughed it off xD
In fact, what actually makes us angry is when people not from latin america say we found something offensive when it's not (the speedy Gonzales controversy and the Whitewashing in Encanto come to mind). Also when you call us latinxs, please never do that
If we don't raise our voice about a topic we actually don't really care. Sometimes we like this kind of stupid representation xD
As a latino myself I was confused about how chico was even supposed to be offensive until I looked it up. Apparently in Australia it's used in a insulting and racist manner towards latinos and since the candy is based there, that can explain why they rebranded.
Right? Chico and the Man, tv show? Chica and Chico are said by Latino/as all the time. I think this guy being in another nation is confused.
This reminds me of the controversy around the episode of The Golden Girls that was removed from Hulu. A lot of people of color, my family included, found the situation funny. Another complaint I saw on Reddit was the guy that called Crayolia, can’t spell, racist because the Spanish word for black is negro. There are some things that are obviously wrong, but if you’re not sure, look to see how the specific group feels.
I agree. I am in the usa and never hears Chico used as a racial slur (it may be in some areas) I have heard of people saying "Chiks". I am glad however that they changed the names. To be Cheekies sounds much cuter!
Latinx is actually a word? I thought it was just a grammar error and they simply meant latin.
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Candy cigarettes are a crime against humanity. You’ll never see me toking on those chalky sugar death sticks.
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As a native American and Mexican, I'd prefer to be made fun of just like everyone else, but people are always telling me what I need to be offended by, and when all the funny native jokes go away, we're left at the bottom of society still pushed into America's dark corners not even left with jokes to acknowledge our existence. Also Chico has always been a fairly endearing term imo, my grandparents called my Chico and it's really cute
Yeah, you ever notice its always rich white people pushing this crap? LOL at him thinking it had nothing to do with cancel culter. THese companies don't give a crap about any color except green. Also find it funny he brings up BLM imagery considering they were infact a scam run by terrorists.
@@blancfan1 finally someone agrees. Every time i share my opinion there's even more people telling me what to be offended by
Bro, same. I'm a bit more annoyed that people were offended by the word chico. It's literally just a Spanish term for boy.
Chico could be used in the derogatory manner depending on context and who is being spoken to. But so can the English word boy. If you're talking to a black man in a condescending tone.
That doesn't mean the word boy and of itself is a condescending word. It just depends on context. Like all of human language. Frankly I feel more offended that people keep being offended for us. As if we can't take a fucking joke.
Oh, half of the time us Latino's are making more offensive jokes than white people or half the other races. Except black people. They're just making as much offensive joke as us.
That's why so many of the Great comedians are black men. Those men know how to take a joke, give a joke, and can crack a smile on anybody's face. Even if they don't understand the experience. Dave chappelle, Chris rock.
In comedy is supposed to be offensive. Or it wouldn't be comedy. It wouldn't be a joke. I wish more people would understand that. I have no doubt that you do my man. But I just wish more people would understand that.
And honestly, the Redskin name change does make sense. That one's literally adjusted derogatory term. Chico isn't in any way from or fashion. But hey, if you didn't care and didn't mind poking jokes about it then that's great.
But just in my opinion, that's the only name change that really made any sense between the two. Well, I am also find it weird that they changed the word fags on the candy cigarette. Yes it's a derogatory term, but I imagine that in Australia and in the UK the word fag is still a word that just means cigarette.
Which, once again, it just depends on context. Since technically that word can have three different contexts. A slur for gay people, referring to a cigarette, or a bundle of sticks. It's original definition.
But then again, with that word as a slur catching up so quickly amongst English speakers all over the world then I guess it makes sense to change that one. Teaching kids to smoke is bad enough, don't need to teach them new slurs. 🤷
I have German British and native American in my blood and unless it's a trail of tears or Holocaust joke I don't care. I always get so pissed when people think that a German Bar Maiden outfit is offensive like no it's only offensive if you go out of your way to be offensive to Germans. Also I don't care if someone has a Dream Catcher I'm like okay and it may help them sleep it's not offensive like wearing a headdress when you aren't a Chief to some stupid music festival
@@elizabethsmith3374 that, are people just get them for decoration. There are plenty of people even within the culture that don't believe in that shit. But they still get a dream catchers just because they're decoration.
I agree, there's nothing wrong with that. I've seen plenty of people of plenty of ethnicities, people were not even part of their culture have dream catchers.
Plus, I doubt the people of said culture would be offended that people are interested in their culture. Interested in their traditions. I would imagine most other people would find that flattering.
Like so many people nowadays who are into Japanese culture. Or the Japanese being into you're German culture. Which I'm just finding out recently that for some reason, as seen in a lot of their anime, the Japanese have somewhat of a little bit of an obsession for the German culture. At least a minority group within Japanese society.
And personally I think it's fascinating. I don't see anything wrong with people being fascinated by another culture that's not theirs.I've been interested by so many things of so many cultures that are not mine. Both are in the present and in ancient times.
Or comparing cultures and traditions with another culture and tradition that's similar. Such as Mexico's Day of the Dead tradition and, I forget what it's called in japan. They do something very similar. But with the addition of letting lanterns go in the sky the way to honor a dead family member. I could be butchering the explanation of that tradition come and again I don't remember it to a teeth. But in so many ways it's very similar to The Day of the Dead from Mexico.
Which honestly surprises me how similar those traditions are from two different cultures on two different sides of the world. Let people have their dream catchers, their samurai swords, whatever the fuck they collect from another culture. There's nothing wrong with intriguement and fascination of a culture that's not yours. What matters is that people respect that culture that's it and that's all.
Plus, it's not like you have to be those ethnic people to be a part of that culture. Whether it's just joining in on traditions with Friends of that culture, marrying a lover of that culture and ethnicity, or even just being born within the culture even though you were never blood related.
And since I was using Mexico and Japanese people as examples, there are actually plenty of Japanese people within mexico. During world war II they couldn't go to Canada or the us. Till they ended up going Mexico to avoid the war. Same with the plenty of koreans. Same with some chinese. So there's quite a healthy population of Asian people in mexico. Plenty of Asian mexicans, even if they're not ethnically Mexican they are nationally mexican, that grew up with the culture. Plenty of people that are probably more Mexican than me. Being a half-blooded Mexican. For the simple fact that that's the culture they grew up in. Yes or ethically japanese, and hopefully they didn't completely abandon their original culture for their own. They can easily still keep both. But since they grew up in it, since that's a part of their life, I would say that's very much their culture as much as it would be mine by blood.
Cultures and traditions are meant to be shared. Even with those who are not blood related. Even thoughs not originally part of the culture.
As a wonderful thing. When people can share each other's cultures with each other. Share each other's traditions. If more people would do that, more people would be together, more people would be close to each other. More people would have a better understanding of the other. You being a better place if we shared everything including our cultures.
Maybe the world would have more respect for each other like the Greek State for the egyptians. When they first stumbled on to them back in the day, way back in the day, they fell in love with their culture and their architecture.
Although the Greeks did many great things in their own civilization, they were mesmerized by the ancient Egyptians culture. I mean how come there's a reason why we have geometry and a lot of stuff. You'd be amazed by what we got from the Egyptians just because they give it to the Greeks.
Out of all the ancient empires that existed in the past, those two got along the best. A full-blown symbiotic relationship. Something the world could really use right now.
Actually, as someone who lives in Australia, when I went to the TimeZone gift centre the other day, they were actually selling the candy cigarettes for about 20 or more tickets I believe?
Yep, these are still available in Australia.
I remember having the candy sticks back when I was younger, the one I would always go for was the Popeyes themed ones. Never realized people would actually smoke them like actual cigarettes though
I always got ones with Spiderman on them in my trick or treat bag as a kid! I knew they were supposed to be cigarettes but it never occurred to me to pretend to smoke them lol. My mom smoked and quit and then took up smoking and then quit again on and off throughout my childhood, and I had no desire to imitate that kind of behavior. Plus cigarettes make you smell like ass.
I find it humorous that Strider is practically the anti-MatPat due to his pure disdain for Coca-Cola, which was MatPat's favorite soda for the longest time (well, Diet Coke actually, but you get what I mean)
When I was in my high school production of Grease, we used candy cigarettes, but there was one rehearsal where we were forced to use un-lit real ones since the candy ones were hard to find. It resulted in the theater smelling bad for the rest of said rehearsal.
I actually really enjoyed Pepsi Blue when they brought it back in 2021. I never got to try it back when it was first out since I was only a toddler, but I had heard about it and so when I found out it was coming out for a limited time, I went and bought a pack every time I was at the store. Kinda wish they kept it as a regular
Is it still available in 2022?
I actually tried Pepsi blue a couple of months back, and I agree that they should have kept it on shelves
@@harukoharuhara1863 It's available just recently here in the Philippines for this year's elections. It might be for a limited time, though.
@@thetraeyway23 I want to try it,where can I get it?
@@CosmicYan I'm American, I'll have to ask my local convenience store to order some
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