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August 7, 2018 2:32 PM

I inherited the casual office candy jar. Tell me your favorite Amazon-able individually wrapped candies!

Looking for candies more interesting than your standard drugstore variety. We've had these Chimes Ginger Chews in the past (delicious!), and I've refilled with Hi-Chews but they're running low.

Thank you!

posted by blueberrypuffin to Food & Drink (30 answers total)

I lost a crown to ginger chews. Sorry if they are not interesting, but Peppermint Life Savers are may favorite office candy.
posted by Rob Rockets at 2:40 PM on August 7, 2018 [2 favorites]

I love Pearsons's Mint Patties. The fancy massage place I go to always has a bowl of them out, they are amazing.
posted by nanook at 2:41 PM on August 7, 2018 [1 favorite]

I had those strawberry goo filled hard candies for a while and they were a hit. People called them as "church lady candies" which amused me.
posted by phunniemee at 2:42 PM on August 7, 2018 [3 favorites]

Best answer: These gummies are delicious and individually wrapped.

If you want to get out of candy jar duty buy durian candy.
posted by gregr at 2:42 PM on August 7, 2018 [4 favorites]

If you want to be broke but adored: giandujotti.
posted by praemunire at 2:44 PM on August 7, 2018

The key Amazon search term is "asian candies" or check out your local Asian grocery store.
posted by plastic_animals at 2:44 PM on August 7, 2018 [5 favorites]

Best answer: A couple more suggestions:
- guava candies
- these chewy White Rabbit candies
- Haw Flakes (I grew up eating these, possibly an acquired taste)

Seconding the Japanese gummies linked above (SO GOOD) and the suggestion to wander around a local Asian grocery store.
posted by invokeuse at 2:53 PM on August 7, 2018 [3 favorites]

Root beer barrels are the best hard candy and you will be a criminal if you don't include them in a candy jar
posted by Dmenet at 3:07 PM on August 7, 2018 [4 favorites]

Old school classic Tootsie Rolls!
posted by tipsyBumblebee at 3:08 PM on August 7, 2018

Best answer: Kopiko! and I don't even drink coffee.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:11 PM on August 7, 2018 [1 favorite]

Sugar-free mints and the easy choice is LifeSavers. Sugar is really bad for people, and the candy jar is a constant test of willpower, which comes in finite doses. Maybe peppermint patties occasionally as a treat. The provider of mints is an office hero.
posted by theora55 at 3:30 PM on August 7, 2018 [1 favorite]

Best answer: My great grandma got my mom into hopjes who got me into them. They're coffee flavored and not very sweet. Interesting and different but not bizarre, very retro. Mom just about cried when I sent her a package a few years ago after a failed search for them pre-amazon.
posted by Mizu at 3:35 PM on August 7, 2018 [3 favorites]

Best answer: These little YumEarth fruit-flavored hard candies are great; the flavors are tangy, natural, and not too sweet. I first tried them because a co-worker used to keep a dish on her desk. They also make lollipops, including a truly fantastic chili mango flavor that sadly isn't available in non-lollipop form.
posted by karayel at 3:41 PM on August 7, 2018 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Kopiko is basically the Indonesian version of hopjes. (cultural appropriation anyone?) But what you really want is Napoleons!
posted by ouke at 3:48 PM on August 7, 2018

Kasugai!
posted by bunderful at 4:05 PM on August 7, 2018

Coffee Rio. Mmmm.

Orange Lifesaver Mints
posted by Sassyfras at 4:06 PM on August 7, 2018 [1 favorite]

Those kind of soft, kind of poofy peppermint puffs.
posted by 4ster at 4:08 PM on August 7, 2018 [4 favorites]

Sour Smarties!
posted by namewithoutwords at 4:22 PM on August 7, 2018 [2 favorites]

These Dove chocolates were my go-to back when had the candy jar.

I get them at my local drugstore when they go on sale; they come in packs of single-flavor in addition to combo packs like this.
posted by Sunburnt at 5:02 PM on August 7, 2018 [2 favorites]

nth-ing the Kasugai gummies suggestion. (Grape are my favourite.)
posted by robcorr at 5:08 PM on August 7, 2018 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Milk Candy! The original and green tea flavors of the hard candy are both absolutely delicious - creamy and not too sweet.
posted by Everydayville at 5:12 PM on August 7, 2018

These tiny Italian confetti candies are very nice.
posted by Lexica at 6:16 PM on August 7, 2018

They individually wrap prunes now, too!

Also Heavenly Organics pomegranate honey patties. (They come in other flavors, including double chocolate, and mint, but pomegranate's the best.)
posted by aniola at 7:38 PM on August 7, 2018 [1 favorite]

I love GoOrganic Honey hard candies.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:53 PM on August 7, 2018

Seconding hopjes. Also Werther's butterscotch.
posted by huimangm at 10:40 PM on August 7, 2018 [1 favorite]

I love durian candy! This one time I had a sore throat and I ate durian candy and drank pisco and it was soothing and drove off curious onlookers.
posted by Don Pepino at 4:05 AM on August 8, 2018 [2 favorites]

Seconding the guava candies. It's the little green hard candies that some Thai restaurants give out when they bring the check. Don't pay the crazy amazon price on the link though, I got a big bag for less than $2 at my local Asian market.

Also, UHA 8.2 milk candies are great.
posted by bsdfish at 7:16 AM on August 8, 2018 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Zotz - sour with goo in the middle. yummy yummy goo.
posted by hydra77 at 9:08 AM on August 8, 2018 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Woohoo great suggestions, thanks! Durian candy gave me a laugh, I like my coworkers too much to do that to them, but maybe I'll keep a bag in my car to throw at the drivers who cut in line on the bay bridge when I drive to work.
posted by blueberrypuffin at 10:59 AM on August 8, 2018 [2 favorites]

Gummi bears! Or these; I had to go find them after having a couple at a local Japanese restaurant.
posted by sarcasticah at 4:32 PM on August 8, 2018