The best sour candy?

Atomic Warheads, hands-down.

30 secs of torture, then a sweet candy to nurse for a bit.

Good god, those things make my lips pucker just thinking about them

I've been to 4 stores looking for them so far. 2 of which were on their site as stores who carry them. I did find liquid candy warhead drops but passed.. maybe I should go back and get it. Meanwhile I did pick up skittle sours to try. I will post once a taste test has been completed.

I believe I saw some warheads most recently at Hollywood Video.

Based on your ranking of sour patch kids as 6, I would say...
Warheads: 15
Sour Skittles: 9 and my favorite.
Altoids Citrus Sours (Tangerine is my favorite): 8
Shock Tarts: 7
Sour patch kids and the like: 6
Sour gummy worms: 2

Another excellent choice, though not candy, is Lemon Sorbet.

Thats all I can even think of, if I think of any more I'll post.

Oh and once you eat all the skittles don't forget to pour out the citric acid powder onto your tongue. mmmmm

Ok I'm just back from trying the Skittles Sours. I'm not eating whole packages so later I can do side by side comparisons so your mileage may vary on the results.

One at a time they taste to me like regular skittles coated in a course acidic coating. The result is, when you pop them in your mouth, they give a pretty convincing sour start but its ruined as soon as you start chewing by the sweet & average skittle innard.
Side by side with Sweet Tart Shockers, overall I think that the Shockers are more sour.

I will say that the outer coating on the skittles by itself is pretty sour. If you pop several in your mouth, your tongue will take note. After a little less than half a pack, I'm still feeling it.
I've never been much of a Skittles fan so the plain Skittle inside is where my interest wanes. I think this one would be a real contender if they made the actual Skittle sour too rather than wimping out the moment you chew.

The coating on the Skittle gets a 9, but as soon as you chew the whole experience drops to a 6.

TEAR JERKERS!

Thanks for reminding me what those were called, Cross!

I've had Warheads. Tear Jerkers blow them away in my opinion. The outside of the gumbal is coated with this sorta powdery-crusty stuff... Once you get through that, its just an ordinary cheap gumball and you can spit it out... But holy crap is that outer layer sour. Two or three of them in your mouth at once can actually make you sick to your stomach.

That said, they are sour as hell, but not all that /good/. They don't really have any specific flavor... It's just a generic acidic sour taste. And go through more than a handful in an hour and the chemical sludge in your stomach started to make you sick.

Do they still make those anymore? I used to buy gallon pails of them at Sam's Club.

Yes! It seems they do still make them!

I couldn't find a company website, but do a google search for "Tear Jerkers" gum.

http://www.candydirect.com/novelty/Tear-Jerkers-Extra-Sour.html

On further followup, their website is

http://www.concordconfectionsinc.com

But it's just one of those corporate websites that doesn't help the average person. But googling found tons of online stores that sell them by the box/bucket/etc. You might call around to candy stores, movie theaters and rental places, etc, see if they stock them. If you have a mall around you with one of those awsome, evil candy stores, you might wanna check there, dunno.

I havn't heard of a lot of the stuff they make, but they are also the makers of Double Bubble gum and those Tounge Splasher gumballs that were such a fad like 10 years ago.

Sound similar to the Skittles sours. I concede to Tacos point, the have to be sour and worth having.

Gee, and it only took you a week to realize I'm absolutely correct. You're an atypically quick learner, some people still don't realize I'm right about everything!

I'll cast a "me too" vote for Sour Skittles. I like Skittles, so when the sour wears off I still like them. I ate a whole big bag once (the kind you find in the bulk candy aisle) and did some serious tongue damage.

I was disappointed with Shock Tarts. Didn't even make me wince.

Does anyone else find the smallest white grapes and blueberries just to get the sour ones? Or eat the lemon off your drink bottle neck? I loves me sour!

I'm not a terribly big fan of sour candy myself so I will withhold comment on that part, but the inadvertent (or blatant) release of salaiva from one's mouth we used to call "geez" (pronounce like cheese but with a hard G sound like Guitar) hell back in Jr. High me and several other unsavory characters would have geez wars LOL spraying eachother from 2 desks away omg how gross!