# I hate it!!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 24, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712 "2005-10-24T19:43:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/1 "2005-10-24T19:43:15Z")
Tis the season and I know I’ll be offered some of this yucky stuff. I hate candy corn! Tricolored candy with one bland flavor doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t even look like corn!!!
Thnks for listening. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/2 "2005-10-24T19:46:41Z")
What about those little candy pumpkins that taste like candy corn? How do you feel about those?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/3 "2005-10-24T19:47:33Z")
More for me. Would you like some carnuba wax with your corn syrup?
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/4 "2005-10-24T19:48:33Z")
Send it to me! I love it. I like to eat some of the white/orange/yellow and the white/orange/black together.
> [@Thudlow Boink](#):
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> What about those little candy pumpkins that taste like candy corn? How do you feel about those?
If there’s anything better than candy corn, that’s it.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/5 "2005-10-24T19:48:48Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> More for me. Would you like some carnuba wax with your corn syrup?
I prefer corn syrup with my Carnuba and food coloring, but I guess I’ll try a few. 😉
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/6 "2005-10-24T19:50:08Z")
I bites me off the little white tip, then I eats the rest.
And them punkins? Well, wheeee-doggy! Love them boys. You know they also make a white ghost one too?
😃
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/7 "2005-10-24T19:52:28Z")
Candy corn is good in small doses. Whoever put together those mini-packs with about seven kernels each knew what they were doing. Much more than that and the taste is just overwhelming. Also, not many candy corns are vegetarian so if I get offered any I turn it down just in case. The pumpkins are just too big and a ehole ball of that mushy candy corn texture? Ugh.
Now the Mary Janes peanut butter kisses in the orange and the black wrappers? _Those_ are the bestest non-chocolate Halloween candy ever.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/8 "2005-10-24T19:55:42Z")
I’ll trade you all the popcorn balls I get for all the candy corn you get.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/9 "2005-10-24T19:56:52Z")
Yeah, not real big on the stuff, myself. However, it is once again time for the [return of the pixie stix](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=284138) addict.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/10 "2005-10-24T20:00:43Z")
> [@Otto](#):
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> Now the Mary Janes peanut butter kisses in the orange and the black wrappers? _Those_ are the bestest non-chocolate Halloween candy ever.
Yup! My mom was trying to be nice and bought a bag of Brach’s Peanut Butter Kisses. Nope. Ickickick. They have to be Mary Jane’s. Sadly, only available during Halloween at Walgreens.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/11 "2005-10-24T20:02:06Z")
> [@Maureen](#):
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> Yeah, not real big on the stuff, myself. However, it is once again time for the [return of the pixie stix](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=284138) addict.
And thanks to that thread, the MissTake family is now addicted to Pocky. Evil, delicious Pocky.
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/12 "2005-10-24T20:10:33Z")
Thanks a lot Maureen. I just \*had \* to check out the Pocky site and they remind me of my addiction CADBURY FINGERS!!!
Oh - the almost bland biscuit, the chocolate…I’m gonna order online NOW!!!
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/13 "2005-10-24T20:10:59Z")
Was gonna ask…
But you _are_ still de-Pixie-ing Lil’ Miss this Hallowe’en, right? (and no falling for that “I love you, mommy!” stuff, either :p)
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### Author:  [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/14 "2005-10-24T20:20:25Z")
> [@mr bus guy](#):
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> I bites me off the little white tip, then I eats the rest.
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> And them punkins? Well, wheeee-doggy! Love them boys. You know they also make a white ghost one too?
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> 😃
Well duh! That’s how you apposed to eat 'em
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### Author:  [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/15 "2005-10-24T20:20:28Z")
But how else will you make the comedy vampire fangs, than with candy corn?
And is there an analogous candy in the USA to the inedible, watered-down road tar-tasting so-called “caramels” that cheapjack householders give out in Canada? They were ultra-cheap, and of exceptional hardness. I don’t think any kid I knew ever ate them. They came in a waxy orange paper with black bats (the flying kind), IIRC. Foul.
The Holy Grail for us late-1960s trick or treaters was the mini O Henry. It may have been the only mini-chocoate bar available at the time, and to get one in the mishmash of homemade popcorn balls, rolls of coloured candy discs, and apples was a real score.
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/16 "2005-10-24T20:23:14Z")
[QUOTE=Rodd Hill]
I don’t think any kid I knew ever ate them. QUOTE]
This is what my kids said when I attempted one year to give out "healthy snacks. I made another trip to the store - we know who ruled MY house.
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/17 "2005-10-24T20:50:21Z")
I’d like to be the first in the thread to mention Lewis Black.
I won’t repeat his tirade, because I’m lazy. I’ll just repeat his name.
Lewis Black.
And I _love_ candy corn. And I shall fight you to the end of the Earth.
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### Author:  [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/18 "2005-10-24T22:50:10Z")
> [@Rodd Hill](#):
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> And is there an analogous candy in the USA to the inedible, watered-down road tar-tasting so-called “caramels” that cheapjack householders give out in Canada? They were ultra-cheap, and of exceptional hardness. I don’t think any kid I knew ever ate them. They came in a waxy orange paper with black bats (the flying kind), IIRC. Foul.
I remember those! I was a kid in the 80s, and nobody liked them then either! They were so hard to chew, and had a horrible molasses flavour. I wish I could remember what they were called.
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### Author:  [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/19 "2005-10-25T01:03:53Z")
If it’s what I’m thinking of, they weren’t caramels, but “molasses candy”. A darker brown than a caramel, without the distinctive caramel taste. Definitely chewier. Not a square like a Kraft caramel, but like a shorter Tootsie Roll, but rounded. That stuff?
I kinda like them, and have been keeping my eye open for them.
They are/were cheaper than caramels, I think.
Kraft caramels are/were the best caramels.
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### Author:  [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it/327712/20 "2005-10-25T01:10:38Z")
Was it Bit O Honey? That stuff was nasty.
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