# I know, I know, I'm ungrateful. But c'mon! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547 "2012-03-02T14:03:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/21 "2012-03-02T21:41:49Z")
Gross, I hate that crap. I wouldn’t have said anything, but I would have been thinking daggers at them. I would rather get nothing than old-people candy, even as a free gift. The $5 that bag cost would have been much better spent on one mini-snickers for everybody. They’re just paying for 10 pounds of shit almost nobody likes, and it’s going to go straight to the landfill. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/22 "2012-03-02T21:42:13Z")
So _that’s_ what happened to the Christmas candy that used to be in the storage room. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/23 "2012-03-02T22:43:34Z")
hey, could have been worse. Could have been _candy corn._ ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/24 "2012-03-02T22:49:11Z")
Or Circus Peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/25 "2012-03-02T23:48:30Z")
Or okra. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/26 "2012-03-03T00:16:10Z")
Coulda been black licorice. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/27 "2012-03-03T00:50:32Z")
or that awful root beer flavor. ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/28 "2012-03-03T00:54:28Z")
Ewwww. That stuff is just begging to be made into a sculpture of some kind. You’ve got enough of it. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/29 "2012-03-03T00:59:28Z")
I think the intended message was “ **SUCKERS!!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/30 "2012-03-03T01:16:46Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Well, maybe they wanted to get the most candy they could for their money, so they could show the **enormity** of their appreciation. Oh, they [did](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enormity). ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/31 "2012-03-03T01:31:04Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Upon seeing it, I made a dismissive comment like, ‘gee, thanks for the candy Grandma’, and promptly received the stinkeye from some peers. “Boys _love_ candy.” … “BOYS **LOVE** CANDY!” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/32 "2012-03-03T02:58:40Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > I think the intended message was > > “ **SUCKERS!!** ” Ya know, I hadn’t though of that. Bastards. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/33 "2012-03-03T21:20:02Z")
That is totally Grandma candy! Did you say your comment to the people who gave it to you, or just to your co-workers? I have to say, if I had been one of your co-workers, I would have laughed. Get a nice fancy Grandma candy dish to keep it in. It’s more of a decoration than actual foodstuff (although my sister and I did sneak a piece every now and again.) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/34 "2012-03-03T21:34:49Z")
I lol’d. Hey look at it this way: Should your office ever be subject to a nuclear attack, at least you’ll have that to eat. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/35 "2012-03-03T22:23:05Z")
I’ll sheepishly admit to liking that sort of candy; I didn’t realize it was so reviled. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547/36 "2012-03-03T22:27:43Z")
With ya. The only thing worse would have been that green and pink ribbony shit… or Circus Peanuts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-i-know-im-ungrateful-but-cmon/614547.md?page=1)