Warheads
It's from 1993, before you were born.
- Maker
- Impact Confections
- Type
- Extreme sour candy
- Debuted
- 1993 (US)
- Note
- intensely sour coating
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About
As of 2026, it's 33 years old.
Warheads are less a candy than a playground endurance test. The hard candies are coated in a sourness so aggressive it makes your face involuntarily collapse, and the entire point was to see who could survive the longest without flinching — a contest with no winners, only survivors.
Arriving in the US in 1993, the steaming-headed mascot said it all, and a generation of kids voluntarily inflicted them on each other for fun.
Mouth-puckeringly sour and gleefully cruel, Warheads is the candy you 'enjoy' the way you 'enjoy' a dare.
Warheads through the years
Arrives in the US
Hard candies famous for an extreme sour coating.
The extreme-candy craze
Surviving the sourness becomes a playground dare.
