Cry Baby Gum
Extra-sour bubble gum with a crying cartoon mascot and a sour coating that fades once you start chewing. It came out in 1991, and the maker promised the tears would last only 40 seconds.
#Sour Candy
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Sour Patch Kids
Sour then sweet: a gritty coat of citric and tartaric acid that made your whole face pucker, then a soft gummy kid underneath as the apology. The 90s schoolyard sour-candy arms race arguably starts here.
Sour Skittles
Regular Skittles under a grainy sour-sugar coating that genuinely shredded your tongue if you finished the bag — and everyone finished the bag. The green-and-yellow pouch turned the candy aisle's safest brand into a dare.
Warheads
The sour candy that burned your face off for five glorious seconds. Warheads turned the playground dare into a $40 million industry — keeping a straight face through the first ten seconds made you playground royalty.