Sour death balls

by Nicole Weston, Posted Nov 2nd 2006 @ 11:01AM

Most sour candy seems to be marketed at kids and I'm willing to wager that at elementary schools around the country, perhaps around the world, kids still have contests to see who can out-sour their friends by eating extremely sour candies. I never went in for the sour candies because, to be honest, they don't usually taste very good. The overpowering sourness gives way to an almost burning sensation and you wonder if you are ever going to regain the use of your tastebuds even after you have spit the candy out. But they're fun to eat, right? Isn't that why people subject themselves to them in the first place? I have no idea, but I can say that the people eating the sour candies in the Sour Death Balls video, where they seem to be trying to keep the candies in their mouths as long as possible, above don't exactly look like they're enjoying every moment of the experience. For us viewers, on the other hand, the faces they make are pretty funny, though.

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Filed Under: Cooking With Kids, Television/Film, Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: candies, candy, comedy, film, funny, oddities, sour, sour candies, sour candy, sour death balls, sours, video, you tube

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11-03-2006 @2:31AM Charles said... hahaha I lvoe the simplicity of this video, i've never been a huge fane of sour candies bu i did like the sweet center it eventually brings... but this deathball doesn't seem to have a sweet center, funny video though!
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11-02-2006 @12:46PM Brian said... That was fantastic! I am not a fan of "endurance" candy at all. I don't mind things a little tart, but I wouldn't go near any of these types of candies. Watching those people really try to keep at it gave me the laugh I desperately needed today.

Thanks Nicole!
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11-02-2006 @5:09PM Adriane said... Ha! That movie made my mouth water just watching it- not because I wanted the candy, but I was thinking of how sour it must be to produce such faces!
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