Hot Tamales
are a cinnamon candy manufactured by Just Born.
They are shaped like Mike and Ike candies and were introduced in 1950.
In addition to the hot and spicy flavor, there is also Hot Tamales Fire
(originally Super Hot Hot Tamales
) which are more intense than the original, a darker red in color, and less opaque.
Hot Tamales originated as a way to use rejected Mike and Ike candies by reflavoring and recoloring them to make Hot Tamales. The strong spicy cinnamon flavor and bold red coloring of Hot Tamalaes masked the original flavor of the Mike and Ike candies.
Hot Tamales are manufactured in the USA.
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Ingredients
Listed as seen on Original Hot Tamales box and Hot Tamales Fire box:
Sugar, corn syrup, modified food starch, contains less than 0.5% of the following ingredients: pear juice from concentrate, sodium citrate, pectin, citric acid, malic acid, fumaric acid, confectioners glaze, carnauba wax, white mineral oil, artificial flavors, artificial color, magnesium hydroxide, red #3, red #40, yellow #5 (tartrazine), yellow #6, blue #1, blue #2 lake.