# Goddamn designer candy canes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193 "2007-12-16T14:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/41 "2007-12-17T00:34:56Z")
Slightly twisted peppermint extrusions? ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/42 "2007-12-17T00:53:54Z")
Didn’t they have candy canes of assorted flavors back in the pioneer days? I seem to recall the Little House on the Prairie books making reference to getting candy sticks of many different types. Perhaps these weren’t curved over and so don’t count? Surely though, this isn’t a recent thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/43 "2007-12-17T00:58:12Z")
They were probably oak and hickory flavor, it builds character. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/44 "2007-12-17T00:59:52Z")
They also had to walk twenty miles in the snow to get them. And _they liked it_. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/45 "2007-12-17T01:10:06Z")
Snow? They had snow? We just frozen piles of Schlitz pull tabs stacked twenty feet high that could eviscerate you in a wink. Now, you try and tell kids that these days, they won’t believe you. ---
**Author:** ![Labelless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Labelless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labelless)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/46 "2007-12-17T02:04:23Z")
Well, tonight at the kid’s program at church we got little Jelly Belly candy canes that were cotton candy flavored and butter popcorn flavored. And you know what? I LIKED them! So you can have your red and white canes, go ahead and enjoy them. Thats all the more for the rest of us! Put your burning sticks away, I’ll gladly offer you a red and white cane, and you can go home. Peace? Goodwill 'tward men? Oh, and I like a good canadian bacon and pineapple pizza too. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/47 "2007-12-17T02:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] Snow? They had snow? We just frozen piles of Schlitz pull tabs stacked twenty feet high that could eviscerate you in a wink. Now, you try and tell kids that these days, they won’t believe you. [/QUOTE] And when you’d try to lick them, ahhhhhh! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/48 "2007-12-17T02:47:23Z")
Has anyone ever made chocolate covered candy canes? Hmm … mmm. Nothing wrong with a little non-traditional candy cane flavors, but pineapple on pizza? That’s all kinds of wrong. And yes, I have tasted it. I am so disappointed in Qadgop. _sniff_ I guess he isn’t perfect after all. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/49 "2007-12-17T02:53:21Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] And when you’d try to lick them, ahhhhhh! [/QUOTE] I never tried to lick the kids these days, sheesh, what’s wrong with you? ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/50 "2007-12-17T02:56:22Z")
[QUOTE=Labelless] So you can have your red and white canes, go ahead and enjoy them. Thats all the more for the rest of us! Put your burning sticks away, I’ll gladly offer you a red and white cane, and you can go home. Peace? Goodwill 'tward men? Oh, and I like a good canadian bacon and pineapple pizza too. [/QUOTE] You wouldn’t happen to be an Allosaurus, would you? Do you need a leather jacket? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/51 "2007-12-17T03:03:33Z")
This is why I love this place so. Only at the Dope Pit can you have an entertaining read worthy of “candy cane” and “fuck” in the same thread. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/52 "2007-12-17T03:12:02Z")
It’s one of those “it’s not what you think” moments. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/53 "2007-12-17T03:45:33Z")
I love the different colors of candy canes. I enjoy decorating with them. Sometimes I’ll even eat them. I vastly prefer spearmint to peppermint. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/54 "2007-12-17T03:45:35Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] It’s one of those “it’s not what you think” moments. [/QUOTE] The concatenation of ‘candy cane’ and ‘fuck’ or that of ‘kids’ and ‘lick’? Or of all four? ---
**Author:** ![Labelless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Labelless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labelless)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/55 "2007-12-17T04:06:25Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] You wouldn’t happen to be an Allosaurus, would you? Do you need a leather jacket? [/QUOTE] You’ll have to pardon me, but- I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/56 "2007-12-17T05:17:08Z")
That makes two of us… [Little House on the Prairie Old Fashioned Candy Sticks.](http://www.candywarehouse.com/candysticks.html) As featured at museum Ye Olde Gifte Shoppes nationwide. > [@](#): > > Select among 38 tasty flavors: Banana, Blackberry, Blueberry, Boysenberry, Bubblegum, Butterscotch, Cherry, Cherry-Cola, Chocolate, Cinnamon, Clove, Cotton-Candy, Grape, Horehound, Huckleberry, Island-Punch, Lemon, Lemon-Lime, Licorice, Lime, Orange, Orange-Pineapple, Passion-Fruit, Peaches & Cream, Peppermint, Pina-Colada, Pineapple, Raspberry, Rootbeer, Rum & Butter, Sassafras, Sour-Apple, Spearmint, Strawberry, Tangerine, Tutti-Fruitti, Watermelon, and Wintergreen. Now curve it around, and you’ve got a designer candy cane. Not the Antichrist. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/57 "2007-12-17T05:22:45Z")
[QUOTE=Ludy] Even better than Canadian bacon (or just plain old bacon to me) is a nice spicy pepperoni, or sausage. The spice and the sweet together is a thing of beauty. [/QUOTE] I love pepperoni with pineapple on a pizza but onion slices and pineapple work really well together too. Try it! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/58 "2007-12-17T07:37:56Z")
[QUOTE=Labelless] You’ll have to pardon me, but- I don’t get it. [/QUOTE] A recent [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=447133) in MPSIMS was about a “personality test” hosted at National Geographic’s web page, purporting to determine what sort of dinosaur one’s personality might most closely match. There are a lot of bloody damned allosaurs on the Dope. And they’re talking about starting a gang. (Odd, I’d have thought that was a velociraptor trait, myself.) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/59 "2007-12-17T08:06:53Z")
People! People! Peppermint is all very good for adults. Adult taste buds can experience a traditional candy cane as minty fresh. But children have tenderer taste buds. As a child, I always wanted to eat candy canes. They looked so festive. But I couldn’t because I knew that peppermint bit and burned. They looked so lovely and I couldn’t have them. How I longed for a candy cane that I could eat. It’s to late for me to eat a candy cane as a child. (In fact, now I can eat peppermint - now, when it’s too late.) But it’s not too late for others. Non-peppermint candy canes welcome children into the entire experience of the holidays. WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Oh, and yes, it is odd having Canadian bacon on Hawaiian pizza. But that’s to hide the fact that if it were a true Hawaiian pizza, it would be pineapple and spam. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193/60 "2007-12-17T08:27:13Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] But that’s to hide the fact that if it were a true Hawaiian pizza, it would be pineapple and spam. [/QUOTE] And poi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-designer-candy-canes/430193.md?page=4)