None of us like modern society, yet we have to live in it. Part of that means finding candy for your kids, because although I too dislike beet-derived refined sugar, they're going to get exposed to it, so you want an option at home that's not chock full of chemicals to shrink their testicles and give them cancer or pre-AIDS. Ideally, from the somewhat paranoid perspective of a protective parent, you would be able to give them sugared zucchini, but let's be realistic about what kids will accept. Tavener's "Sour Lemon Drops," coming to us from that bastion of hopelessness that is the UK (a/k/a "Brokeback Island"), offer a simple solution: sugar, glucose syrup, citric acid, natural flavouring: lemon oil; colours: turmeric; lemon juice concentrate (0.2%). These boiled sweets are hard as rocks and take a full seven minutes of speech-impeding slurping to consume for the average child, and deliver full lemon flavor -- sweet, sour and citrus tangy -- the whole time. They are as boring as rain but tasty like a lemon, and if you convince a child to like them (which won't be hard, since they're also quite good), they'll have learned a lesson in life: a complete flavor beats a passing sensation which creates secondary problems as it poisons you with invisibly corrosive modern culinary chemical warfare. In addition, this candy offers what I call a "complete product": packaging is recyclable, marketing is wholesome and not cosmopolitan, the flavor and use requires some introspection on the value of life to appreciate, and it's designed for normal people not elitist yuppies. Although they're about 50% more expensive than the corresponding junk, they're also wholesome and complex in taste, teaching from an early age that modern society can be avoided in favor of subtler but more profound rewards.