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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI HATE CANDY CORN.
I really hate candy corn. It is the nastiest third way candy in the world. Anybody who like candy corn likes a gross treat that has been repackaged over and over since the beginning of time.
Moses hated candy corn. Jesus hated candy corn. Santa hates candy corn. Who are they making this stuff for????
I noticed they done tried to get cute and color the nasty things in different ways, but I am not stupid. There is no fixing this candy, just give it up, and stop repackaging the same candy every year and selling it the next year. Oh, and get rid of Circus Peanuts and Boston Baked Beans too. Yuck!
Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)sheshe2
(83,754 posts)I must disagree with you.
Ha! I love candy corn and I am not much into sweets. Lol~ my mom still gives me a bag every dayum year.
Happy Halloween!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)You can have mine!!!
sheshe2
(83,754 posts)Hugs back~
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)irisblue
(32,973 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)All kinds but not valentines candy with like cream centers. Omg, yuck! I used to work at the Original See's Candy Factory so I am an expert. They forced me to try ALL of them. Oh god. I can smell it in my memory.
Teagan
(62 posts)I love them, and still find them sometimes stowed away.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Warpy
(111,255 posts)One piece of candy corn reminds me of some of the better parts of my childhood. Any more than one piece gags me.
The same goes for those orange marshmallow peanuts.
Kids who trick or treat at my house get the good stuff. This is a really poor part of town and it's likely all they get all year unless somebody tucks a candy bar into their Xmas stockings.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Kids need stuff like that. Makes kife bearable.
villager
(26,001 posts)In which case: Watch out, GOP!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I love brittle. And turtles. And toffee. I hated working at See's but I liked feeling like Lucy and Ethel.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Swag had the cashew I believe. I make it with some butter and a bit of whiskey or rum, which makes it a bit toffee-ish. Unfortunately, the booze burns off, but I think it's more subtle than vanilla.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I am so ready. I accidentally bit into a candy corn and it was Vattels fault. Gross. Ruined my lil candy session today. I cannot wait to try it!
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)it burns, LOL. I love it with slightly dark streaks in it, and some flakes of salt. Good stuff!
I'll pick up some peanuts next week and PM you when it's done.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Dark streaks, flakes of salt. Peanuts. I will be waiting when you are ready, this is why I love you. My people are the best people here. They make stuff happen.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Totally worth it. I'd do it this weekend but have two parties. ;-D
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I'm glad SOME PEOPLE are happy to see me!
I was about to get a complex!
2 parties? Yay!!!!
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)I think we will end up being a pack of animals in the woods! I have a great tiger dress.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I can eat it.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)THAT Is what I should bring to my friends place for the weekend. My awesome granola.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)on something either in early February (first week) and or later in the Spring (tulip season in Amsterdam)
so will be needing to open my home to another DUer. You could be my house sitting DUer #3.
And I will save some granola to send with the brittle. It is amazing!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)something to bring Saturday for the sleep over and granola will do it. And it will be there when I wake up, LOL!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)cannot eat commercial stuff, it tastes dull and old. You're not a fan? I will make you one.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I just put it on my yougurt or eat bars from the store.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)and she brought in some and soon we were all addicted like it was crack! It was not cheap, and I was doing 2 bags a week.... and them low and behold, she did an episode of Martha Stewart and gave up the recipe. It was 8$ for a not very big bag, and the recipe is exactly like hers. I do the pecan but her sour cherry and pistachio was very popular.
Early Bird Granola. She uses olive oil, brown sugar and maple syrup ( I use maple flavored agave) and sprinkles with sea salt. It's very light and not heavy clusters. Lots of seeds, and not super sweet. So good.
Oh shit, Kansas might take this- bottom of the damn 14th inning!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I am so glad my hubby is not into baseball. It never ends.
That granola sounds good. I might have to handle that this weekend. One time bonobo told me how to cook eggs and now I eat eggs like that all the time. Learn so much stuff. I'm hungry now. Gonna go make something, get out of bed.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Always! Don't even know what's going on sometimes, but I still cheer!
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)it'll be over soon! Awesome.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)There is a Kansas City, Kansas next door, but it doesn't have a big-league team.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)A Kansan coworker was rooting for them. Go figure.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)One of the many things that's the matter with Kansas is that they have no big-league team of their own. So naturally, they've adopted the Royals as their own, much like the New England states that are not Massachusetts have the Red Sox (with the exception of southern Connecticut, which leans toward the Yankees or Mets).
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)so I just basically get roasted sometimes and throw them in after it;s baked. Same difference for the pepitas or whatever I use. I add an extra 3/4 cup or so of oatmeal than her recipe so it's a lighter coating, and then play a bit with the added fruit or nuts. Yeah, Mike and Nicole will love it. Going to get ingredients and do it Thursday.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)crave. I'm going to make a big batch this week now. Yay Fall. Have not had the oven on yet.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I got me a zebra dress this summer and my hubby said why do I dress up like prey. Why not be a cheetah or a tiger. He is weird.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)and animals are always fun to be. Maybe I'll get some claws too. Heh heh.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I love being animals.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)#2 See #1
bravenak
(34,648 posts)luvspeas
(1,883 posts)Especially the ones with the chocolate bottoms. Circus peanuts are gross and I have never eaten one of those baked bean things.
I used to think that chick o sticks were really made of chicken.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)You can have ALLLLLL of my candy corn for one chico stick.
luvspeas
(1,883 posts)Even though I now know they're not chicken I still can't eat them. Blech.
That's the awesome thing about candy if one person hates something they can share with someone who likes it and everybody wins. I wish everything worked that way.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)But it it got too nice then more bad stuff happens.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)They cost a nickle when I was kid. I haven't seen them since. I liked them, and Butterfinger candy bars, which cost a dime.
Though I do like Boston Baked Beans and Candy Corn is OK.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)A dollar now.
Thav
(946 posts)That combination is pretty good for some reason.
malaise
(268,993 posts)LOL
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Ok. Maybe. But better rush to the store if it gets that bad. No candy in the home? Lord! Tragic. Happens to me and I get miserable.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)You can have my smarties.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Takket
(21,565 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)always do.
Takket
(21,565 posts)the wife and I eat about 10 pieces, then they sit in a ziplock bag in the cabinet for 6 months before I finally just announce I'm throwing them out lol
cwydro
(51,308 posts)But here is the mystery. This stuff has been around since I was a kid way back in the 60s.
So WHO likes it?
Gah.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Do they need that much for three people? No! But they make it anyway. It feels like they are trying to shove it down my throat.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)My mom laughs at me just like that! But like seriously laughing AT me.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)[link:?fb|
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)emulatorloo
(44,121 posts)MuseRider
(34,109 posts)They are better than Peeps! Those things give me the queezies.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Now THAT is the nastiest candy ever. The taste, the texture, the nasty sugar on the crust. I hate peeps!
MuseRider
(34,109 posts)and as long as we are here, I do like candy corn but you know what I absolutely hate more than anything people shove in their mouths? S'mores. Too many in Girl Scouts I think.
Toffee, now there is a candy. Mmmmm.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Whoa!!!
The chocolate never melts enough, i hate marshmellow on most things, and i think they suck.
I don't even get the s'mores thing. I'm like, just give me a hot dog and I'll roast that over the fire.
MuseRider
(34,109 posts)Marshmallow is disgusting. AND they are messy as hell. I never put marshmallows in hot chocolate either.
Necco wafers? I like them, they last a long time and you can separate out your favorite colors/flavors
bravenak
(34,648 posts)They gave out a bunch of them. Tropical. No.
MuseRider
(34,109 posts)Ewwwwww.
I rarely eat candy so most of my favorites are old as me, lol.
Salt Water Taffy? Fun to make and fun to eat until you end up with crowns.
This is SO much more fun that it has been around here in a while. Today did me in. Thanks for this. I am so glad I saw it.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I knew we needed a break. We used to do this kinda stuff all the time.
MuseRider
(34,109 posts)today and I have never done that before. It just felt so unhealthy here and all I wanted to do was discuss things.
Yes indeed we did need a break.
Real, honest to goodness licorice. NOT Twizzlers.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Today was bad. It will have to end. Eventually.
MuseRider
(34,109 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)MuseRider
(34,109 posts)I did not know you were sick! I am so sorry. That sucks. I hope it is all over tomorrow. Feel better and get a good sleep tonight.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I will go to bed soon. I just had to put up a cheerful thread.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)When Halloween arrives, the War on Easter is not far behind.
Oh, the Peepmanity!
As MrScorpio would say, Easter is coming...
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Godhumor
(6,437 posts)They were wonderful.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Are you a wizard?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Gimme candy corn over that mess any day
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Okay. Candy corn. THOSE DAMN THINGS. PEEPS. I could vomit right now.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I once bought up a store's entire after-easter peep supply. Completely filled the roomie's share of the apartment with hte things.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Make good tinder to start a fire, too!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I like to lord knowledge like this over him. He'll go buy some and test it, bet!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)What will animal cracker cows eat?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)I prefer Dark LINDOR Truffles
Perfectly balanced dark chocolate offers a deeply indulgent premium chocolate experience. A delicate dark chocolate shell enrobes an irresistibly smooth dark chocolate center.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)but now if it doesn't have chocolate its just not worth the calories to me.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Keep re handing out the same bags, year after year, since 1986.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)fortunately, i haven't had any cc in my stomach for a long time
bravenak
(34,648 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)But candy corn, tootsie rolls, circus peanuts, and those nasty chalk heart candies at valentine's are all repulsive.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I get the costco bags. BBB are just not CANDY. Valentine hearts either. Not candy.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)Kitty Litter Cake!
Here's the recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/kitty-litter-cake-3091
bravenak
(34,648 posts)You ruined them! I will always see this in my head now. I cannot believe somebody thought that up. That is funny.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)Take hurricane glass shades and partially fill with candy corn. Place candle, light.
Trash the candy corn after use.
I sometimes do that for Halloween parties.
Just my 2 cents.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)Use different sized glass - small, medium, large - and arrange them with the shorter ones side by side, but in front of the large one. Maybe slightly off center. Add a couple of tiny pumpkins - and place it all on a wooden tray, or a tray or plate of some kind - makes a nice center piece.
I sometimes tie a burlap ribbon around the shades.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I hate drawing. Maybe it will give me incentive to draw what I see. I hate drawing.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)Get a small table, find a corner to create a nook, place a few of your favorite things. Make it things that only seem disparate but actually do connect in some way. The more subtle the better. Then draw your own private joke. Whether or not everyone likes your drawing, you will all the more because you'll know what it means. Gives it added pleasure.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Music makes my drawings look like an actual artist drew them. But if it's quiet, I cannot draw things that look 'real', just like fuzzy koalas and baby elephants.
I think it's because it is 'forced' drawing. I love painting and I can draw with my brush. Why do I need drawing. So boring. No color, just that stupid chiaroscuro word that nobody knows how to say.
I'd rather just draw something funny, like a cartoon. But it's skeletons and artifacts from the backroom.
Ugly.
Maybe I like it, just not that class. Cannot wait for painting. Much better, imo.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)My way of saying good luck with your final.
Music should accompany most activities.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Thanks.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Though you probably won't need it. Somehow I think you'll do just fine on your own.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)It's a hard class! The guy draws so good. And he's like a city legend so he has so much stuff he's done and it's in the museum.... I can't do it. Really. It won't work.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Just think positive and remember what you've learned from the course. Don't be overawed by the prof. Don't let the talent of the prof intimidate you. In your final, picture the prof naked if you have to (you know, the public speaking trick). JUST REMEMBER, DON'T DRAW THAT!!!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)It kind of disturbs how you see things, and you see the shapes better.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I have to squint to see what I'm supposed to see. Or take a picture, pump up the contrast and highlights and then use that and the item at the same time. It's so hard! I have a b in the clas. It might go down cause I just missed class. Maybe not though since we work on things for several days. I'm not bad, exactly. Just never drew anything except trees before this summer. And like, elephants or koalas. I have no idea why elephants and koalas. Only thing I can draw. Trees too. Kinda.
BootinUp
(47,144 posts)I LOVE IT. I'm having candy corn, candy corn, candy corn, candy corn, candy corn, candy corn, milky way, candy corn, and candy corn.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Yiu are too funny!
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)My kids like smarties though
bravenak
(34,648 posts)My one daughter. She hates chocolate. Loves smarties. Weird kid.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)most candy corn sucks because it is Honey that when exposed to dry air, gets hard...The sort you would get in the better candy stores is a lot better, but then again the better stores actually THROW OUT their stale product.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Maybe I'll try the real stuff one day. Idk. It's just gross.
I think the good stores throw away the old product and then the other companies come in, rummage through the garbage, and boom! They take they candy and present it as 'new'.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)OK, former Coffee Vendor here. Back when Starbucks was new, people would ask me why people paid so much for coffee. Being that I worked for someone who pretty much was a Willy Wonka of Coffee, I had ammo.
Two things that make bad Coffee: over-roasting and rot.
Most companies do not know how to roast, and they think roasting more will cover for the fact they use cheap beans. It does not.
Rot is easier to explain, simply put, even the freshest coffee will literally ROT within hours, thanks to it's oils. When someone keeps coffee in a big old urn, they are ensuring nasty coffee in an hour.
Starbucks used to be considered good coffee not because they were good roasters (they were not) but because they kept making their coffee fresh, so people used to skunky joe tasted it and went "wow, this is really good coffee!" Ah, but Captialism came in, with poorer trained workers and urns. Now, you want to know what cofee upstart started beating them..MCdonalds.
Now now, MickeyD's did not start becoming baristas, but what happens is that during breakfast rush, they cannot keep their coffee, so they HAVE to make it fresh. Of course, come marketing geniuses noticed this, and lo and behold, Mickey D's started talking about how it got fresh beans and was installing "MCafes" at it's locations where you could get lattes. People bought it, hook, line and sinker. Then Burger King noticed this, and decided to buy a chain called Tim Hortons, aka the Canuck Starbucks, and soon, at your BK, you will start buying maple donuts. The sounds you hear are the groaning of Canadian Duers who are scared to death BK will ruin their beloved donuts
The Moral is that with just a little bit of care and common sense, bad food can become good food, and vice versa
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I did remember micky dees beating them. You know what? I do not drink coffe because when starbucks came out, my silly friends all git addicted to theur sweet coffee and I was trying not to be a lemming and be all 'different'. Started drinking kerns nectar and thise mexican guavas and got addicted. Still am.
It's crazy how things happen. You made me want donuts.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I've always liked McD's coffee, despite the snobs that always dis everything McD. And in SoCal their senior coffee is around 90 cents and includes free refills. I skip the McCafe menu, though. Unless they have a coupon for iced coffee.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)When I was a kid, I would consume candy corn until I got a headache from sugar overload. I liked the texture o the kernels, and the way they felt when I bit into them. I would balance each piece between my front teeth and bite down in a particular way. I don't think I have eaten any candy corn for 20 years. Diabetic.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)She i
Used to suck on them and ew. Sorry you can't have it if you want it.
Waldorf
(654 posts)Like the peanuts though and I used to enjoy the Boston Bake Beans until I was worried about breaking a tooth.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)It made me hate the occupant of the house a little too.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)I always liked getting Mounds or Almond Joy.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Is that a Mars bar I see you hiding behind your back! BUSTED!
Chocosanto pays good money! It get's the job done!
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)so I always traded it with her for something I liked.
Halloween memories, by lovemydog.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)My sister likes twizzlers. Ew. I gave her mine and got the tootsie rolls.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)No one would know if I just opened up a corner and eased out a few mini-chocolate bars, now would they?
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)I wouldn't want to eat the damned stuff but I don't mind gluing them to things.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)hunter
(38,311 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)immediately.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Candy corn is the best
bravenak
(34,648 posts)You can if you want. Time consuming though.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Ingredients
2 oz. Pineapple Infused Vodka
1.5 oz. Orange Sherbet, softened
1 oz. Pineapple Juice
1 oz. Milk
1 oz. Simple Syrup
bravenak
(34,648 posts)BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Did you see that they are trying to pull a fast one by making candy corn flavored m & ms? The oligarchy is relentless.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Yeah. I see them tryina slip new flavors in, mix it with the good stuff. No! No amount of weed can make me that hungry! No..
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)First way Snickers all the way!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Only first way candy!!
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Circus Peanut Salad
Circus Peanut Salad, from my Grandma
Ingredients:
30 Circus Peanuts, cut up into small pieces
1-6oz package of orange jello
2-8oz cans of crushed pineapple
2 cups boiling water
2 cups cold water
1 container whipped topping, thawed
https://cookinginkentucky.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/happy-fathers-day-circus-peanut-salad/
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)betsuni
(25,515 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I get only the best stuff for my trick-or-treaters. Because I I want to be good to kids. And because I get the leftovers.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)betsuni
(25,515 posts)Playing the candy corn card again I see. Typical. You probably haven't even TASTED candy corn, you don't know what you're talking about. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THIRD WAY CANDY. You candy naggers are so divisive. You people make DU suck. What kind of candy do you like, is it ... STATUS QUO CORPORATIST WALL STREET CANDY BAR?????
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)So there!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)I'm a filthy, disgusting, candy pervert. And I like it. In fact, I think I'll go grab some to munch on right now.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)~Chomp, chomp, slurrrrp~
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)They'll probably out out a hit on me for revealing this, but just wait until the final episode. You'll see!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)betsuni
(25,515 posts)When my husband saw it at the liquor store he went overboard and bought two cases without knowing what it tasted like. Suntory has been brewing up some delicious limited edition craft beers lately, so he assumed this one would be good too. It tastes EXACTLY like candy corn to me, and I hate candy corn. Two cases of liquid candy corn. Trick or treat. Because of Japanese liquor laws, it's classified as happoshu and not beer because of the added pumpkin. This is literally a Third Way beer. The can is pretty at least.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The upside is that you can always get rid of it by giving it to trick-or-treaters. The downside is that you'll probably get busted. But it may be worth it to get rid of it.
betsuni
(25,515 posts)He's pretending he likes it. It has to be really cold and the glass frozen for it to even be drinkable. I thought we should save it for emergencies, like stocks of bottled water and toilet paper for when there's an earthquake. It really would be an ideal children's beer.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)Boston Bean has banned people from the HOF group for less.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It's funny, but you really should self-delete.
Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)Boston bean deserves that one.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125558025#post37
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Yorktown
(2,884 posts)The story behind the century-old waxy treat that frightens half of America By Robert Klara
October 27, 2015, 7:48 PM EDTAdvertising & Branding
According to the National Confectioners Association, some 35 million pounds (about 9 billion kernels) of candy corn will be manufactured this year. Americans are expected to buy 20 million pounds of that batch15 million for this week alone. In fact, in case you haven't marked your calendar, Oct. 30 is National Candy Corn Day.
Americans will buy about 15 million pounds of candy corn Halloween week. Photo: Nick Ferrari
Great stuff, right? But not for everyone. There's probably no other confection in existence that is so polarizingthat coaxes such intense expressions of loving and loathingas candy corn. This year alone, product-review site Influenster ranked candy corn the No. 1 Halloween candy in five stateseven as Kidzworld left it out of its Top 10 list entirely. In 2012, Time magazine declared candy corn to be "this year's 'it flavor,'" only to have The Huffington Post proclaim it the "most hated" candy in America the following year.
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/love-it-or-hate-it-candy-corn-rules-trick-or-treat-bag-167722
Hugin
(33,140 posts)It is very hard to find and is made with honey instead of corn syrup. I think it was the original and all of the other stuff is a crude copy.
I'd make it, if I had the recipe.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)candy corn, candy pumpkins, circus peanuts, maple nut bites, necco wafers, red hots, Kraft caramels, fudgies, orange and black candy/peanut butter bites, cracker jacks......on and on.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)It's probably one of the few things in the universe currently polling lower than Chris Christie.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)unsure if he was being sarcastic. I've detested it since childhood.
ProfessorGAC
(65,020 posts)Didn't like any of the candies Bravenak mentioned even when a little kid. And that was a long ass time ago.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
ProfessorGAC
(65,020 posts)To all three. Didn't even like those when i was a little kid! Wouldn't get near them now.
Deadshot
(384 posts)I haven't touched candy corn in years and I never will again. I don't know anyone who actually likes it.
Why do they make it?
TygrBright
(20,759 posts)Yes.
I admit it.
I'm the one.
I eat all the white bits at the top and then throw the rest of it away.
You saw them in the wastebasket, didn't you?
So weird....
Now you know.
spectrally,
Bright
bravenak
(34,648 posts)You guys should meet.
randys1
(16,286 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)luvspeas
(1,883 posts)You are loved. Everybody wants to say they posted on your thread.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Feron
(2,063 posts)those peanut butter things that come in the orange and black wrappers (Mary Janes?). Bleh.
With candy corn, well it's just a flavorless sugar paste. It's related to those dried sugar decorations you put on cakes.
treestar
(82,383 posts)it is another corporatist plot.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)They have candy corn that's shaped like little pumpkins now. And you will NEVER experience it!