# Does anyone make Caramel Apples or Popcorn balls anymore? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-make-caramel-apples-or-popcorn-balls-anymore/827946 "2019-01-17T20:59:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-make-caramel-apples-or-popcorn-balls-anymore/827946/21 "2019-01-19T05:22:04Z")
I used to make popcorn balls when my kids had friends around for movies and a sleepover. I used the recipe from [Cookin’ with Queen Ida](https://www.amazon.com/Cookin-Queen-Ida-Revised-2nd/dp/0761500065). One time I made them stupidly big, the size of a baseball. Naturally, it became the kid’s preferred size. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-make-caramel-apples-or-popcorn-balls-anymore/827946/22 "2019-01-19T18:24:06Z")
There’s a chocolate shop downtown in my city that sells caramel apples. There’s caramel coating, then they get rolled in a variety of other things, like nuts or mini candies, then are drizzled in chocolate. Absolutely divine. When the shop was newly open, and I hadn’t heard of it yet, I was walking downtown with my mother and passed it on the way to the bank. The apples were in a window display. I walked on by and did a classic double take, literally walking backwards to look at them. When I was done at the bank I went back to the shop. I’m so pleased the place has made it all this time, it’s hard for an independent shop to make a go in retail these days. ---
**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-make-caramel-apples-or-popcorn-balls-anymore/827946/23 "2019-01-19T20:36:59Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > As for caramel apples, it came down to peeling off the coating and eating that. Then throwing the apple away. Again, not much point. I had a similar problem. I liked to eat the caramel coating WITH the apple, but there was far too much apple left and that would get tossed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-make-caramel-apples-or-popcorn-balls-anymore/827946.md?page=1)