Kandy Kommentary -- Gross-out Goodies and Creepy Confections

I have nothing new to review right now, just leftovers of candies I have previously reviewed, so I thought I'd make some "sweet" remarks about candy.
I have noticed a new trend in the confectionary world -- disgusting candy. Not candy that tastes disgusting, but treats themed around disgusting subject matter such as blood, guts, vermin, refuse, dismemberment, disease, and bodily filth.
Here are some gross-out goodies from Stupid.com
Chocolate in the shape of a doggie deposit. http://www.stupid.com/fun/DOOD.html
Gummy candy in the shape of a heart -- an ANATOMICAL heart, not a Valentine-type romance heart. Not pretty. http://www.stupid.com/fun/GMHR.html
Gummy candy in the shape of a tapeworm. http://www.stupid.com/fun/GMTW.html.
A lollipop shaped like a toilet plunger that you dip into a toilet-shaped container of sour crystals. http://www.stupid.com/fun/FLSH.html.

Oriental Trading has its own complement of creepy confections. Like toy IV bags filled with red liquid candy to simulate blood. http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/browse/processRequest.do?demandPrefix=12&sku=25/3517&prodCatId=380403&mode=Browsing&erec=0&Ipp=16&No=16&sp=true&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&N=380403&requestURI=processProductsCatalog&sd=Candy+Blood+Bags

A green cotton candy intended to look like toe jam.
http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/browse/processRequest.do?demandPrefix=12&sku=25/5474&prodCatId=380403&mode=Browsing&erec=9&Ipp=16&No=0&sp=true&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&N=380403&requestURI=processProductsCatalog&sd=Toe+Jam+Cotton+Candy+Treat+Packs

gummy severed fingers

http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/browse/processRequest.do?demandPrefix=12&sku=25/3975&mode=Searching&erec=0&D=flesh&Ntt=flesh&Ntk=all&Dx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&y=17&N=0&requestURI=processProductsCatalog&x=10&sd=Gummy+Flesh+Fries


And here's the king and queen of gross-out candy, http://candyaddict.com/blog/2006/07/20/candy-scabs/


I know it's all in fun, but such gruesome "delights" didn't exist when I was a child and I kind of have to know what has happened in recent years that today's children find fun in eating something that is intended to represent dirt, sickness, vermin, or bodily wastes. In my childhood, candy was pretty -- or at least yummy-looking.
As far as Halloween candy, whatever happened to those yummy sweets consisting of plump, brightly-colored pumpkins and bronze autumn leaves molded from candy-corn-type "mellocreme" confection? (Those get a D rating from me) And the Molasses Peanut Butter Kisses? Bite-sized chewy sweet delicacies with a peanut-butter filling. The salty spark of that filling partners deliciously with the sweet of the molasses candy, making a combo I would rate D, because they DO taste divine (though others may disagree). Oh, I know such delights are still around, but when placed on the same store shelf as something like gummy vomit or candy scabs or lollipops in the shape of plungers, things like mellocreme pumpkins and Peanut Butter Molasses Kisses aren't going to be the biggest seller in the times we're living in, and that's kind of a shame.