Shrimp ramen, toast and baked bean candy canes are real this year

Archie McPhee, the Seattle novelty company behind pickle and gravy candy canes, added three new flavors for Christmas 2026. There are 14 in all at $9.50 a box, and one of them tastes like possum.

Snickers candy canes were just the warm-up.

Archie McPhee, a Seattle novelty company, added three new candy canes to its website on Oct. 1: Shrimp Ramen, Toast and Baked Bean. Each box has six 5.25-inch canes and costs $9.50.

They join 11 other flavors still on sale, including gravy, ketchup, pickle and a possum flavor that the company says has a “garbage-fueled flavor.”

So, yes. You can put a shrimp ramen candy cane on your tree this year.

What do Archie McPhee’s new candy canes taste like?

Going by the company’s own descriptions:

• Shrimp Ramen: red and white stripes, with “the flavor of the shrimp variety” of instant ramen. The product description signs off with “Feliz Navi-prawn!”

• Toast: brown and white stripes. Archie McPhee says they taste “just like toast” and suggests watching “It’s a Wonderful Loaf.”

• Baked Bean: brown and orange stripes that “taste just like baked beans.” The company jokes that Santa and his reindeer fuel up on baked beans before their big night.

The baked bean description ends with a warning about “strange noises” on Christmas Eve. We’ll let you work that one out.

What candy cane flavors does Archie McPhee sell in 2026?

Fourteen, all $9.50 for a box of six, according to the company’s online store on Oct. 12:

• New for 2026: Shrimp Ramen, Toast and Baked Bean

• Added in 2025: Chicken Soup and Pacific Northwest Salmon

• Added in 2024: Bigfoot, which is pine-flavored, and Jalapeno

• Added in 2023: Possum, Dante’s Inferno, which is mildly spicy, and Gravy

• Older favorites: Ketchup, Mac & Cheese, Pickle and Bacon

The years are when each flavor first appeared on Archie McPhee’s current website.

Gravy is a comeback. It was around in 2016, Elite Daily reported, but it wasn’t on the company’s list in 2022, according to The (Everett) Herald.

What’s the grossest Archie McPhee candy cane?

That depends on your stomach, but Possum is hard to beat. The company says the pink-and-gray canes “taste like porky possum.”

Pacific Northwest Salmon comes close. Archie McPhee admits getting people to try them “is like swimming upstream.”

And Chicken Soup is pitched as a gift for someone who’s sick. The company says it’s “not nutritious at all.”

Even the people who make them have opinions. In 2022, Archie McPhee’s “Director of Awesome,” David Wahl, told The Herald that bacon and pickle were top sellers, “and, shockingly, mac and cheese, even though it tastes kind of like a foot.”

How much are Archie McPhee candy canes?

$9.50 for a box of six, or about $1.58 a cane. Each box weighs 3.8 ounces, according to the packaging in the product photos.

That’s up from $6.95 a box in December 2022, when The Herald wrote about them. By our math, that’s about a 37% jump in nearly four years.

They were even cheaper before that. The Impulsive Buy paid $5.95 a box in 2018, and Food Network listed them at $6.50 in 2019.

What Archie McPhee candy cane flavors were discontinued?

A lot of strange flavors have come and gone. These were all sold at some point, according to past coverage, and none of them are on Archie McPhee’s candy cane page now:

• Clam, sold as Clamdy Canes in 2018

• Kale, Pizza and Ham in 2019

• Brisket, Butter and Caesar Salad, all new in 2022

• Sardine, Hot Dog and Sour Cream and Onion

• Coal, Krampus and Rotisserie Chicken

• Pho and Shiitake Mushroom

• Wasabi and Sriracha

The company once predicted that ham “is going to be the pumpkin spice of Christmas,” Food Network reported. Ham is gone. Pumpkin spice is not.

Who comes up with Archie McPhee’s candy cane flavors?

Wahl and his team. The Herald reported in 2022 that the company makes three new flavors a year, and Wahl said they “blind taste-test them first.”

The Herald also called the canes social media sensations. “It’s a fun group activity. It’s kind of a dare,” Wahl said.

Archie McPhee has made its own taste-test videos for years. This one covers Ketchup, which is still on sale, plus Pho and Mushroom, which aren’t:

Who is Archie McPhee?

A novelty company in the Seattle area that’s been selling weird stuff for more than 40 years. Mark Pahlow started it around 1983, selling odd items through mail-order catalogs, Atlas Obscura reported. Pahlow wrote on the company’s website that he named it after “a great uncle from Bismarck, North Dakota.”

It’s known for rubber chickens, Handerpants and a punching nun puppet. Its old mail-order catalogs from 1985 to 2008 are in the Smithsonian’s archives, according to The Herald.

The company has a store in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood and sells online and through other retailers.

How do Archie McPhee candy canes compare to Snickers candy canes?

They’re very different boxes. The Snickers candy canes we reported on Oct. 7 are made by Spangler Candy, the company behind Dum-Dums, and come 12 to a 5.3-ounce box.

Archie McPhee’s come six to a 3.8-ounce box. And nobody at Mars is making possum.

What are some fun facts about Archie McPhee candy canes?

Three new flavors a year is the plan. That’s exactly how many showed up for 2026.

Bigfoot gets a flavor. Archie McPhee says Bigfoot’s favorite snack is “sap-covered pinecones,” so his candy canes taste like pine.

Pickle has a mascot. The Pickle Candy Canes box features “Santa Pickle,” who delivers pickled vegetables on Christmas Eve, according to Archie McPhee.

Some are built for pranks. Archie McPhee notes that its red Dante’s Inferno and Bacon canes blend right in with regular peppermint ones.

So check your stocking before you take a bite this year.

Article compiled and written by Kambrea Pratt (editor-in-chief), Derek Gibbs (beat editor) and the Pirates & Princesses newsroom. Pirates & Princesses is part of WebReef Media.

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Hat Tips:

• Archie McPhee: candy cane collection and product pages, checked Oct. 12, 2026 (flavors, prices, descriptions, dates added, package weight)

• The (Everett) Herald, Dec. 20, 2022: Brisket, sardine, Caesar salad: Dare to eat Archie McPhee candy canes?

• Archie McPhee: Why does Archie McPhee exist? (Mark Pahlow)

• Atlas Obscura, July 1, 2016: The strange perils of running a novelty item empire

• The Impulsive Buy, Oct. 15, 2018: Archie McPhee Clamdy Canes and Mac & Cheese Candy Canes review

• The Takeout, Oct. 25, 2018: Clam candy canes

• Nerdist, Oct. 5, 2018: Mac and cheese candy canes

• Food Network, 2019: Kale candy canes

• TODAY: Hot dog candy canes

• Elite Daily, Nov. 23, 2016: Gravy candy canes

• Pirates & Princesses, Oct. 7, 2026: Snickers candy canes are real, and they’re already in stores

• Our math: price per cane and the price change since 2022

• Archie McPhee on YouTube: Candy Cane Taste Test, Ketchup, Pho and Mushroom!

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