It’s true. I like Circus peanuts. Always have. It’s my dirty little secret. My parents knew something was off with me, but I just told them I was a heroin addict. It was best they not know the real truth.
Who’s with me out there?
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I like circus peanuts and I’m glad, do you hear, glad!!!
Sickos.
Nine out of ten people I know have had a childhood episode of eating too many circus peanuts and heavin’ up an orange pool of circus peanut butter. It usually ended the circus peanut chapter of their lives.
Leave that sort of filth in the gutter where it belongs.
I get a craving for circus peanuts every now and again. Something about the firm marshmallow texture that just dissolves in your mouth. There is almost a flavor, but I can’t identify it. Not banana as claimed.
i can’t wait for Easter so I can freeze the moisture out of baby chicks. What a great crunchy treat!
Or it could be just the sugar rush I crave.
I wasn’t gagging while reading the article until the mention of ‘banana flavor.’
I like them too (or at least, their local equivalent here - foam bananas and pink shrimps)
Circus Peanuts are awesome.
I occasionally like ONE circus peanut. I never go back for a second one.
Ha! Next thing you’ll be saying you can quit anytime.
I found that if you knead them for a bit they make a great insulation for those odd shaped cracks around old drafty windows.
Hi. I am BrotherCadfael, and I… love Circus Peanuts.
Hi Brother Cad
I’ve been enlightened today. Until today, I thought circus peanuts were real peanuts sold at a circus. Now I’m more knowledgeable.
Maybe Circus Peanuts aren’t available in Canada.
I like 'em, too. And fruitcake!
Not both at the same time, though.
Another vote for “I like one.” After that, just the idea of them makes me gag. But that first one is really good!
So how does everyone feel about Mary Janes? Admittedly its a poor man’s Bit-o-Honey, but I could suck down a dozen of 'em at a sitting if they were available. Don’t think I ever bought any though (maybe in penny candy stores). It’s usually the thing I raid a kid’s Trick or Treat bag for. Curiously, they don’t seem to mind.
I thought Mary Jane was something you smoked? 
One of the primary reasons I have so many fillings in my back teeth.
The other kids in the old neighborhood hated getting them in their trick-or-treat bags, and since many of our neighbors were cheapskates, we got a lot of them. I was completely hooked on that peanut butter/molasses taste, and found out early on that I could trade a small amount of more esteemed candy (including, for some reason, those wax soda bottles with a tiny amount of sickly sweet liquid in the middle) for a huge heap of Mary Janes. Delicious! But they stick to your teeth for weeks, no matter how much you brush.