Road Kill Gummi Candy

by Trolli

2004 – 2005 GONE FOREVER

Gone, but never banned: no regulator touched it, whatever the banned-candy listicles say — Kraft quit the product on its own, under protest pressure, in 2005. Trolli is alive and selling sour crawlers, with Ferrara holding the US rights; only this line ended.

The New Jersey SPCA had never complained to a company about a product before it met the gummi snakes and chickens with tire treads pressed across them. Two days after Kraft pulled the web ad, the candy went too.

🧾 One more thingThe withdrawal came with no recall: production was to stop as soon as possible and whatever was already bagged would sell through, so flattened squirrels kept riding checkout belts in stores that still had them.

Filed under: Candy & Gum · the ’00s & later

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