# How does this candy fail happen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 31, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552 "2018-08-31T02:00:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/1 "2018-08-31T02:00:13Z")
My local surplus store had [these](https://www.candywarehouse.com/whoppers-robin-eggs-candy-42-ounce-bag/) bags of Robin Eggs for $2.99, so I stocked up a couple of months back. If you aren’t familiar with them, they are a hard candy shell surrounding a somewhat chocolate-like layer surrounding a malted milkish core. But I’ve found that every once in a while, a perfectly normal looking piece is hollow, missing the malty core. And I’m wondering what manufacturing process can lead to two perfectly formed outer layers surrounding nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/2 "2018-08-31T02:14:16Z")
This video on [Cadbury Creme Eggs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaKpx_rm1MU/) seems to show that the chocolate shell is made in halves, filled with creme, and then the halves are joined. If robins eggs are made by a similar process, if the malt center was not injected the result would be a hollow ball. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/3 "2018-08-31T02:29:10Z")
It formed around a bubble which had a malt shell. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/4 "2018-08-31T02:44:20Z")
Once in a while, the malty center is not crunchy, but gummy and hollow. I happen to like this, and they’re fairly common in Whoppers packages. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/5 "2018-08-31T04:55:52Z")
I always heard the hollowed malt centers were from moisture getting into them somehow. The moisture dissolves the solid foamy texture of the malt candy part. I rather liked finding one or two of them in a box when I was a kid, but it would be disappointing when they were too abundant. Those things are one of my favorite candies and I always have to get some the day after Easter for half price. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/6 "2018-08-31T07:32:06Z")
Those are the ones that are unfertilised and will never hatch inside of you. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/7 "2018-08-31T12:53:55Z")
I’m still wondering how occasional sugar packets in the bowl in the employee lounge are completely empty yet have no obvious holes or defects. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/8 "2018-08-31T13:26:38Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’m still wondering how occasional sugar packets in the bowl in the employee lounge are completely empty yet have no obvious holes or defects. :eek: Those are [a message from the Zeta Reticulians](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/ZetaTalk#History). ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-this-candy-fail-happen/820552/9 "2018-08-31T17:11:13Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Once in a while, the malty center is not crunchy, but gummy and hollow. I happen to like this, and they’re fairly common in Whoppers packages. So do I, and I’ve found that if you suck on them like a jawbreaker instead of biting into them it gets a similar texture as my mouth moistens it. If you haven’t eaten them that way try it.