In our tradition of providing something for everyone, we have a list of religious candies. I must confess that I was quite surprised to find such a large selection out there – but I guess the demand must be high. I am presuming that the majority of these comes from the USA, but if not, someone may be able to shed some light in the comments. This is our last list before the site turns one tomorrow!
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Candies 1 – 5
1: Cross Candy
2: Jesus Canes
3: Promise Seeds
4: Cross Bracelets
5: He Lives Pops
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Candies 6 – 10
6: God is love Chocolate
7: Cross Pops
8: Walking with Jesus Jandals
9: Noah’s Nuggets (worst name ever?)
10: Bible Character Jellybeans
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Candies 11 – 15
11: Scripture Candy
12: Sweet Truth Candy
13: Bible Gum
14: Testiments
15: Bible Bar (containing the 7 foods of deuteronomy!)
Sheesh, and these are only the Christian ones…
Althoug that Bible Bar sounds tasty.
mmmm…sacra-licious.
*speechless
lol @ jadester…
Here is a link to Orientaltrading.com They have 45 listings for religious candies. Are bible verse fortune cookies candy tho?
http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/browse/processRequest.do?Ipp=16&No=0&Ne=90000&sp=true&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&categoryFromSearch=true&N=379641&requestURI=viewEndecaCategory
I grew up Christian and have “enjoyed” many of these candies. Specifically the Testamints. Haha. I would suggest avoiding them.
I’ve actually heard of the Bible Bar! Never seen any of these, though. Are they all real? It’s not April Fool’s Day again, is it?
warrrreagl, you are 100% correct!
On the other hand, this opens up a whole discussion of various business opportunities… I’m sure that there are millions of believers of other faiths that are just waiting to satisfy a soul and sweet tooth.
buddhist bonbons anyone?
(no offense meant)
mmmmmmmm, sweet truth candy, it lets all your sins out at the wrong time.
Damn that stuff looks tasty. If they gave that stuff out at church I’d go.
Atone-mints
Ooh bible bars. They are actually healthy(as healthy as chocolte gets), with nuts, raisins
Noah’s Nuggets!!! It seems they didn’t think that one all the way through, lol
truly astonishing! I don’t want to see Noah’s nuggets, let alone eat em’. They do look tasty though.:)
Jesus canes? That’s not very PC of him
The Bible Bars look the yummiest!
Happy Early Birthday!!
Congrats, Jfrater!!
Oh yeah, it’s July 1st here too
Happy Birthday to Listverse!
Is that supposed to be Jesus Sandals?
Fun list!
MPW I would eat Noah’s Nuggets
this might be the most appropriate time in the history of language that “is nothing sacred?” be asked.
Ned Flanders would be so proud
Vera Lynn: I’ll keep that in mind:)
Also try forbidden apple flavored Jolly Ranchers
I’m with you DiscHuker there is something very creepy about the whole thing
noahs nuggets is the worst name ever, not possibly. i would deffinately not eat those! lol
i would call this list strange christian candies because its all jesus, cross, bible, etc
Is it weird that these candies are mostly ‘indulgences’? I mean these aren’t really the kinda thing the Bible encourages are they?
I havent laughed so hard in a while, haha jesus canes!
He lives pops?! who, who I ask came up with these names?
:-S ???
Who wants to suck a cross?
Hehe… oh dear.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jandals
I bet the ancients would be freaked out at the modern obsession with crucifixes and crosses, and painting images of Jesus getting crucified. It would be like us painting pictures of children getting raped. At least, that’s the closest thing I can think of. I don’t know of anything worse than crucifixion, except possibly for impalement and sawing.
About two weeks ago I had a Bible Bar for the first time. It was absolutely delicious.
The Candy Crosses would be even weirder if their was a little edible Jesus on it but then it would be a candy Crucifix I suppose. Sorry If anyone is offended.
I first heard about bible bars while watching Ripleys. They have this part called “spot the not” where they show you three incredulous things of which one is a hoax. So in one episode, these bible bars were one of the 3 things. I can’t remember though, which one was the fake,but after having read this list, looks like the bible bars were real after all.
Here are some I just made up. I will be submitting these to the candy factories for approval.
Tower of Babel bars
Lemontations
Peter& Paul’s picked peck of pickled peppermint gum
Seems this could be the ‘Judeo Christian Candy List’… what about all the other religions of the world? Oh, that’s right, most of them don’t eat depictions of their prophets and holy symbols.
#1 – You can eat it, or crucify your hamster!
#2 – Jesus didn’t live long enough to need a cane…
#3 – Promise Seeds – a tummy ache promise in every pack
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Ah, the possibilities are endless… I’ll stop while I’m behind.
wow. edible effigies.
this REALLY creeps me out.
It reminds me of the way adults ‘convert’ their young children from believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny(by actually telling them at some point that Santa & Easter Bunny are not real) to believeing in God and Jesus. (which parents are more reluctant to tell their children are not real…)
I always wondered why we have kids sit on strangers, in cheap red costumes, in a mall, during the holiday season instead of sitting on the lap of someone dressed up as God, or Joseph, or an Angel.
ringtailroxy
Thank God edible prayer beads are not here! The pope would condemn us all!
Interesting.
XD
Slightly insane and scary. Sweet Truth! I totally want some so it can save my soul..lol. But to each its own. Hope Baby RUth’s aren’t Satan’s candy cause They’re the best!
I bet there were a lot of nuggets on Noah’s Ark… just none that were edible.
Ive had a bible bar before, they’re not bad.
Yay, Decadence!
Shouldn’t this be the “Top 15 Strange ‘Christian’ Candies?” Where are the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Scientologist, Mormon candies? These are the only fifteen weird religion-based candies in the entire world? Do we have to keep bashing these people? Not all of them are fundamentalist, hate-filled wackos.
Candies to be created:
1. Malachi’s Chocolate Dung in your Faces (splatter on your face and lick it off!) (See Malachi 2:3)
Please add your own!
“Noah’s Nuggets”? No thanks.
Happy B-Day Listverse!! Yay!!! Maybe you could come out with a commemorative religious candy, jfrater. Maybe your own Bible fortune cookies… “Listverses”!
I thought gluttony was a deadly sin…
“mmmm…sacra-licious.”
lol that’s wonderful
I would like to see some from other religions too haha
CK2005: I am not sure islam would have any – they are not allowed to make images of Mohammed or they get murdered.
i think i’m the first to notice, but the #9 is listed twice and there is no 10
nikki: oops – good spotting – thanks
I have fixed it now.
Oh, I had heard of Testamints before. I was in Nunsense III (I played Sister Mary Annette, the puppet) and we used them as pre-show gifts for the audience.
Hmmm- I know it’s candy only, but I wonder about hot-crossed buns. And how different are Jesus canes from candy canes?
WWJE (What would Jesus eat)?
Now you know.
“Noah’s nuggets: Get two of each in your mouth today!”
O.O
“That’s right, He Lives…now in six delicious flavors!”
You might view this negatively as the cheap commodification of faith, but you could also look at it as people who are not bound by fearful religious or superstitious prohibitions.
Now that we’ve got Judeo/Christian candies out of the way (obviously, the author must think that this is the only religion out there), how about some others:
choco buddha
Admittedly, it’s hard to find such kitsch from other faiths…
How many licks does it take to get to eternal damnation?
What happened to the India list? I thought it was lovely!
The Bible Gum looks pretty good. It’s one of the more clever names; I mean, Noah’s Nuggets???