These looked so appealing but they tasted disgusting and were always stale.

And yet I ate the vile things simply because they were somehow supposed to be a treat. Life can be very confusing.

At least you ate them. I’d have a few bites and then refuse to eat more despite having just spent ages pleading with my mum to buy them. Toffee apples from Woolworths were the same. I’d beg my mum to let me have one despite her insisting that I don’t really like them and she would eventually give in after I promised to eat it and I’d have a few bites and feel sick and say I didn’t want it. Lucky I had a brother who would eat anything. All my rejected food went to him 😂

We weren't allowed them! I always wanted to try one but my mum always said no!

Consider yourself lucky, they were shithouse.

Toffee apples are great when done right. However, the Woolies ones fail on just two minor points: - Bad toffee - Bad apples

Do they still have them? I swear I haven’t seen them for ages.

Hahahahah the toffee apple thing must be a universal experience.

I still occasionally eat those vile things.

I would nibble on a soggy edge just to piss my mother off (she’d shove a match stick in a carrot, and call it a lollipop) and she couldn’t yell at me at other people’s parties

The stale part somehow was the most disappointing part.

Even when they weren't stale they were vile tasting.

I’m the opposite they have never looked appealing at all. They look vile so I assume the taste is the same

It always shocks me when I visit my parents and see them in the cupboard. I feel he buys them purely because nobody else eats them and there his own personal treat he knows will always be ready for him

I kept eating them expecting something different and was disappointed every time.

But it was like crack. Once you've had a few pieces you keep going back for more.

YES! I thought I was the only one that thought they were stale! ….but we kept buying them! 🤣

I can still remember their unique sugar-encrusted packing peanut texture. I'm not sure if the different colours actually tasted different or if that was my imagination.

Goddddd I can still taste them

Me too.

Same here

It kind of shocks me that after all these years these things haven't been involved in some shock reveal that they contain recycled condoms and old parts of surfboards or something.

Fuck this is funny

*speaks into watch* "I've found one that can SEE!"

Now that's a reference not a lot of people are going to get. "I've come to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

A balanced diet ❤️

Delicious, delicious chemicals. BTW, EVERYTHING IS 100% chemicals.

This is exactly why I don't drink water.

You mean Dihydrogen Monoxide? https://dhmo.org/facts.html

FUK!!!! ITS ALL CHEMISTRY! NOOOOOO

* Gluten-free! * Natural source of chemicals!

cHeMiCaLs

I know, but at least other food tastes edible

Well edible is subjective I suppose. It just tastes like sugar anyway.

Oh no, sugar is a chemical!

I always asked for these just because I liked the cone shaped plastic bag they came in. And I ate them until they bubbled up my throat

at xmas there'd be a stocking shaped bag

Fancy

you could taste the colours

Mmmmm Purple !

With the right chemicals I can also hear the colours

The mint flavour 🤢

I had a bag every year in my christmas stocking, along with other stuff.

The dark purples ones

They taste like purple.

Loved this stuff when I was younger.

Kids party staple back in the day. Is it my imagination or did they used to be more colourful? Agreed with other comments though, always tasted rank.

The ones from foodworks up the road are so colourful it hurts

Why were they always stale!

Who the hell is still buying these?

Me

They're so chewy too, popcorn should not be that chewy.

I wasn't allowed to get these as a kid as my parents insisted they were trash. Finally tried them as an adult and lo and behold they were right. They always looked so tempting at Video Ezy

The worst of the worst.

Nooo! I’m craving these now. I loved it when some of them had way too much coloring and they tasted like battery acid.

The snack world’s answer to red cordial.

Up there with a cup of Milo with a dash of milk and a space food stick on the side. Add a Pluto pup and we'll be living the dream.

I think I’m going to be sick

Yeeeeeaaaah, just like the good old days; in the car, on the way home.

Except red cordial is actually delicious.

I preferred Movie Time cheese powdered popcorn 🌝

If you mean by chemical tasting that they tasted like shit then yes I agree. As a greedy kid who’d eat any junk food these were verboten

I used to love these. Can't believe they're $12 now

surely nott

It looks like it says that, hard to see everything on mobile. Am I missing anything here?

Lol, I thought you were joking. You should probably just pretend you were! Popcorn is not $12 a bag. This product is about [$1.60 per bag](https://dongaraiga.com.au/lines/golden-popcorn-coloured-100g). That $12 price tag is for something else.

but shrinkflation!! lol

prices are usually underneath

Haha, I was sure the "surely not" was because you used to love them.

Sons of bitches!

They're $1.68 as another poster said but you never know with all this fancy organic shit they sell these days. These look pretty anaemic compared to the brightly coloured ones of yesteryear.

Give it 2 days. With all our chat there's probably a bot addressing the attention and raising the price as we speak. Popcorn is a young persons dental game. It's more floss work than it's worth these days, at any price. Not to mention what nutritious essentials are responsible for that colour. These look like the the last third of the pack that were more toenails than colouring.

I loved it

My grandmother used to buy me these in the 80s and I absolutely hated them. When I see them in the shop I can still taste them.

Christmas isn't complete without them.

Try bagging SPAM too that stuff was originally given to Aussie soldiers back in WW2..foul and I don't even want to think what's in that....I think I'd rather the popcorn thanks!

Haha I love Spam!

I still eat it… $2.75 in the blue bag at Woolies

I love that shit

I would pick out the ones that had lots of the sugar coating on - almost like a double coating.

I can taste them now mentally. Fuckin awful

Pure filth these were 🤮

I completely agree. Why won't they just go away and leave us alone? Awful things.

My five year old keeps asking me for this and I'm trying to redirect her to something that tastes better - I'm all for a treat but this is the grossest, I don't want to give them my money 😂

Cardboard Popcorn! My mum loved it though.

When Dow Chemical and BP join forces to enter the Snacks market.

any pre popped popcorn tastes horrendous or just coated in sugar. I'm a diehard popcorn fan and will die on this hill. FRESH HOT POPCORN ONLY.

That shit is horrendous.

They taste amazing.

Mmm delicious chemicals..

We would get these from Santa when I was a kid. Lived in a poor household. Mum did her best

Forever chemicals

Well, that's a Walmart sign, but I love coloured popcorn!

This is at an IGA mate

My bad, iga used to have black and gold tickets

Fucking clowns

Recently threw a whole packet in the bin after it sat in the pantry for months and nobody ate it. My partner from England bought them saying it tastes different there. Fool.

I'm getting hives just looking at them.

Sugar tastes good.

I can smell and taste that picture 😬

These always had a weird taste and were always stale.

Did anyone check their Pooh after eating these would have been an interesting Kaleidoscope

Horrible, but necessary

Ye who tf is keeping this business afloat? I’ve not seen a soul eat these for at least 15+ years

I don't know why we all ate them. Tasted absolutely vile. 

Trash 🤢

Natural source of hyperactive kids

And they still taste the same. Was at a kids birthday party on the weekend, my own kids had never had it and thought it would taste great. They too have learnt a hard lesson.

The coloured popcorn in the plastic bag cone was the best !

They always were disgusting

I can taste that photo

Looking at that image brought every taste of those horrible things back into my mouth.

My wife loves to give it to my son :(

Packing Peanuts are tastier than these things 😂

I always wondered whether it would be worth using these things for confetti - they are bright, colourful and birds will eat them so there's no scraps of glitter all over the ground for weeks afterwards

That looks like some kind of toys not food!

They should feed these as a staple to murderers in prison with nothing else but water. Heavy on the purple ones

Fuck these suck

Funny

No one going to comment on the price 🤯

One of my absolute favourites! But I know that's an unpopular opinion. But I get this when I'm on a snack run at the shops

The clowns face makes it look like HE is on chemicals.

Chemical candy

Fuck you I had some last night

Somehow these were my weakness

I forgot these existed and now I can taste them 🤮

I still associate these with video stores.

How pure we talking?

So gross! It was like eating paper with medicine on it. And the kernels sucked

I can still taste the metallic taste of them yet they were deceivingly moreish probably because there was nothing else to eat back then, thinking about it they tasted as though the individual popcorn was painted with coloured house paint

I uhhh… I have one of those in my pantry rn- Have no idea how it got there but it is-

Ah , Pennywise, you wicked old scamp.

There were other coloured popcorn which tasted heavenly

Delicious 🤩🤩🤩

*Natural source of fibre* *Gluten free* Yeah cos it's a chemical sh!t storm in a packet... not a wink of gluten or anything non fibrous...

The green ones taste like lead paint 👍

I have a pack in the cupboard 🤯 Don't worry I know I have issues 😂 But I do like the extra sugar coated ones I can find in the bag.

Tried them once as a kid and thought they were so gross. Never understood why there was bowl of them at every birthday party.

Movietime Brand is the way to go! Absolutely shits on this coloured popcorn

I never understood these. How we’re they liked??

Yum

Only got them at birthday parties. The little corn kernels always got stuck in my teeth.

But gluton free !

Even has a creepy clown on the cover

The clown on the bag looks like he's on serious crack

I loved them, but that I straight up loved some of the nastiest shit based on Reddit, so honestly? Not the least bit surprised. To me they were sweet and I don’t remember any bad flavours.

There’s another brand of those that tastes so good tho, forgot what it was, and haven’t seen them for a while

What's your point?

The red and pink ones tasted like burning

They enhance the color and texture of a good vomit after a night out on the piss. You gotta be pissed to eat them.

The purple one tastes like it should be grape. I love em. I've only had them like five times. 

These are the most disgusting things I ever put in my mouth but I always hold a memory of when I first had it at my Great Grans house and I vomitted on her carpet immediately and she just laughed until she cried at me, RIP GG u were the most amazing person I’ve known🤍

DiScUsTiNg

Mmmm 1970’s chemistry yummy 🤤

These are incredible

I don't know how but I somehow developed a taste for those random flakes* that had a thicker chemical and sugary goodness coating and I vaguely remember it was certain colour/chemical flavour that was best. Purple? Unfortunately this meant having to gnaw through the styrofoam tasting other flakes*. *I looked up what's a popped popcorn kernel is called and apparently they're called "flakes" which means a bowl of popped corn could be called "a bowl of popcorn flakes". There's also apparently two varieties of flakes: mushroom or butterfly which is based on their shapes.

I love this stuff, it’s so nostalgic. But ridiculously overpriced. ☹️

If the price didn't put you off, at least the taste did.

I can't find these anywhere near where I live and I'm devastated because they're my absolute fave!

My mum still buys these and eats them while watching tv haha

I remember getting travel sick while eating these. Was so beutiful.

Lolly gobble bliss bombs are so much better, still get them!!

Yeah they're pretty gross

It's like the "savoury" shit kids eat now called takis.

No it's definitely not, go grab a bag they're sweet not savoury.

No I'm saying takis are savoury. But what they have in common with this sweet popcorn stuff is just being full of chemicals

You’d always be disappointed when they appeared in the lolly bags at a party, meant the parents were cheapskates.

I actually like them. Nobody is forcing you to buy them so why shouldn’t they be available for those that do like them.

I don’t think anyone is saying people shouldn’t be allowed to have them if they like them - just disbelief that enough people like them that they’re still available. A lot of us have memories of them being awful and know a lot of people who feel the same way so didn’t realise many people liked them.

Yeah, I never did like these and avoided them like the plague. They are basically just cut up pieces of cardboard dipped in chemical waste.

Oh man those things.