# Do you suck on candy canes or bite them? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 26, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233 "2012-12-26T23:21:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/1 "2012-12-26T23:21:20Z")
How do you eat candy canes - by sucking/licking them, or biting them? I tend to be lazy/impatient and bite on them after a bit of sucking. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/2 "2012-12-26T23:39:07Z")
Candy canes yuck! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/3 "2012-12-26T23:40:22Z")
I generally think I prefer to suck them, but around the point I get it to a nice pencil point, I generally start getting impatient, and just bite it the rest of the way. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/4 "2012-12-26T23:50:46Z")
I voted Lick/suck, but in reality I very rarely eat a candy cane. Probably none in the past 5 years or so. But if I did, I’d suck it. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/5 "2012-12-27T02:46:31Z")
Candy canes, or any other hard candies - suck a bit, crunch, suck a bit more, crunch again… ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/6 "2012-12-27T03:08:31Z")
I’m a biter. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/7 "2012-12-27T03:10:46Z")
Biter here too. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/8 "2012-12-27T03:34:33Z")
I prefer the miniature candy canes–you don’t have to fight with the skin-tight wrapper, and you can chomp them nearly by the handful. ---
**Author:** ![cougar58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@cougar58](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cougar58)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/9 "2012-12-27T03:38:47Z")
I had a molar tooth chip by biting hard candy…never again ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/10 "2012-12-27T03:44:24Z")
A good candy cane is not too hard but rather a little bit soft. Still makes a crunch but with a lot of give. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/11 "2012-12-27T04:19:31Z")
I haven’t really had candy much in the past 20 years, but I liked candy canes when growing up, and usually would suck on them til they got really thin and pointy then would snap off the tips and chew on them, then suck a bit more. I have to admit, I much preferred [buttercreams](http://mollybee-tidbits.blogspot.com/2010/11/butter-cream-candiesmints.html) to candy canes, though candy canes are great crushed and sprinkled on top of chocolate/almond bark. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/12 "2012-12-27T05:50:28Z")
I suck on them to make a very sharp point i can poke my siblings with. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/13 "2012-12-27T05:59:02Z")
I thought they already sucked? ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/14 "2012-12-27T19:14:58Z")
Both-Bite off a chunk and suck on that. I don’t like sticky foodstuffs waving around in the air. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/15 "2012-12-28T15:52:42Z")
Any kind of hard candy I wind up biting sooner rather than later. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/16 "2012-12-28T16:01:42Z")
Both. Suck until bored, then bite and chew. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/17 "2012-12-30T04:35:22Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I generally think I prefer to suck them, but around the point I get it to a nice pencil point, I generally start getting impatient, and just bite it the rest of the way. Same here. I work up a super sharp point then invariably poke myself on accident and throw the damn thing away in frustration. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suck-on-candy-canes-or-bite-them/645233/18 "2012-12-30T05:58:20Z")
I grew up poor. I let **M&Ms** dissolve on my tongue.