When were you a kid? Sour patch kids and warheads the like have dominated the candy aisle for the last few decades.
Looks like 1993 was the start of the sour candy surge in the US. I did most of my candy eating in the 60s and 70s.
"These days" being those that comprise the recent entire half of your life is a hell of a framing
Sour candy sales jumped 25% last year.
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Here's another article not from 30 years ago
I said "these days" not to mean all the time since I was a kid, but to mean "these days".
I included the personal information to indicate that the phenomenon has occurred entirely within the time since I was a kid.
Really sorry to confuse you. I hope we're good now. You seemed upset.
I wasn't upset and I think it's sad that you're primed to interpret things that way automatically
So Atomic Fireballs had already existed for a good decade or so when you started. It sounds more like you just became more aware of sour candy recently.
Ah, fair. I blame Saturday morning cartoons and a transition from violence for fun towards self harm. No need to punch each other or slap fight for competition if you can just see who can stand the most warheads at a time.
Its almost in the whole world, and I think its because of SOME. Back in my young days, there were more locally some market for that.
...when were you a kid?..sour candy was a thing before i was growing up in the seventies and ever since, so, like, since at least the mid-sixties...
SweeTarts are hardly part of the mega-sour family tree. They are essentially compressed Pixy-Sticks, as the article you linked to said. They're tart, but being for was never part of the advertising, that I recall. That may have changed since '94.
...if you're specifically talking about modern malic-acid flavors, that technology wasn't developed until the mid-seventies in east asia and wasn't imported stateside until the early nineties, but it was an immediate hit and quickly swept through the domestic sour-candy market, with most brands offering 'extreme' variants of their existing products...
...i can't recall any time when sour candy wasn't a major product sector and a quick perusal of candy history essays shows it dating back nearly as long as manufactured candy has been a thing, with a history of sour preserved confections before that...
Now THAT is an awesome answer to the question! I'm sure that's EXACTLY right!
Thank you kind person!
