Candycorn - did it use to taste better?

[hedgehog]

I swear - it used to have more honey flavor. Also, whatever happened to the candy corn mixes (corn, pumpkins, cats, etc) that used to have a certain number of maple flavored pieces? And does anyone recall what all the different shapes were?

[valerief]

1. Oh, honey, stop eating shit. nt

[cwydro]

2. Lol!

That made me crack up.

I never could stand that stuff.

[valerief]

3. I've been fighting the temptation to buy candy (not the crap stuff) all day.

I tell myself to stop eating shit, too, and I'm usually good about it, but Halloween won't let you NOT see the damn candy!

[progressoid]

5. Always wait until the day after.

You won't feel a guilty knowing you bought them on sale!

[valerief]

8. Yes I will!!! I'll eat twice as much and feel twice as guilty!

[OakCliffDem]

4. When they took the trans-fats out of food, it just ruined the taste

Pringles now taste like potato paste.

[progressoid]

6. Maybe it depends on the maker?

[femmocrat]

7. I always liked the maple leaves, too!

You are right-- It used to be made with honey! From RetroCandy:

[betsuni]

9. Obligatory: Lewis Black on Candy Corn

[magical thyme]

10. Sigh. Everything used to taste better. They've pretty much ruined everything.

Tastykakes used to taste better too. Made them with real cream in the good old days, way back when...

[Art_from_Ark]

11. I had to sell Halloween candycorn for my school band back in the '70s

and it tasted like crap back then, too.

[oldandhappy]

12. now they use that corn oil stuff --bad taste

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. High fructose corn syrup

That's what I was thinking too.

[Lyric]

14. The stuff we used to get had this wonderful buttery,

almost slightly salty sweetness to it. Now it just tastes sickly sweet and weird. Yuck.

[Laffy Kat]

15. Yes! It WAS buttery. That's what I remember, too.

What the hell happened to candy corn? I want answers, dammit.