Circus peanuts, like Kandy Korn, are what you find covered in lint in a purse last used in 1967, glued firmly to the nylon lining.
gags mightily Circus Peanuts, Kandy Korn, and those little Halloween pumpkins that are another form of Kandy Korn can disappear forever as far as I am concerned. Bleargh.
Here in Vic.Aus, the equivilant product is a “Banana”. Sweet ‘banana’ flavoured building foam, yellow in color, banana in shape.
There is also sometimes a pink product made from the same material, but the flavour associated with that is called ‘musk’, as in ‘musk sticks’. Personally, I find ‘musk’ even less appealing than ‘banana’.
I eat them if I was bored and hungry, but I’d hate myself for doing it.
No change of heart in the past few years, huh?
Those are edible? I thought they were some kind of holiday-themed packing material.
Circus Peanuts were an ingredient on *Chopped *recently. One contestant melted them down and added them as flavor to ice cream. The judges loved it.
light bulb goes off
How about making Rice Krispies Treats with Circus Peanuts???
The inedible nature of circus peanuts is an immutable law of nature. It is no more possible for them to be tasty than it would be for the oceans to flow upward or trees grow upside down.
Yes, but I was assuming people nowadays who didn’t know what Circus Peanuts are might have more familiarity with the breakfast cereal.
Heavens ! This is the first time in 55-plus years, that I’ve come across any mention of Circus Peanuts. I’m a lifelong UK citizen and resident. In the late 1950s, when I was aged nine, my primary school in England hosted, under some exchange-type arrangement, a visit by a charming young lady teacher from the US, who took us for some classes. She gave us some samples of American candy, including Circus Peanuts – which I thought strange, but nice.
And that has been my entire experience of Circus Peanuts, from that day to this. Having spent a good deal of time on various mostly-US-based message boards in the past few years, and seen nothing whatever about Circus Peanuts, I had imagined that this particular form of confectionery must have died out decades ago. Pleased to discover that I was wrong, and they’re still around.
I don’t see them carried on Amazon.uk, but if you’re willing to pay some extra postage from the U.S., you could be munching them within days.
Love them all. I will gorge on them, reach a point of wanting to die (takes about five Circus Peanuts, but more candy corn) and then not eat them for a long time.
I haven’t had Circus Peanuts in a couple of years, and now I think I will get some tomorrow. I am not getting the Easter candy corn I’ve seen around; I’m still full of them from Halloween.
Thanks for the thought – however, I liked them, but not enough to go to any lengths to get more. It’s principally the nostalgia factor, which makes me feel pleased to learn they’re still going strong !
Necco wafers would have the nostalgia factor for me. My father would buy them from the old-timey candy machine (with pull handles) at the old-timey movie theater and pass them out to us during the show.
Then there’s the time my father found a Conversation Heart (also by Necco) that represented how he felt about my mom; he presented it to her, she tried to eat it and she broke a crown. Love hurts.
I love Circus Peanuts, but they’re usually sold in huge bags that tempt one to overeat them. I just put about put myself into a diabetic coma yesterday figuring that now the bag was open it was use them or lose them.
We keep a supply of rubber bands and clothespins in our kitchen to close bags of food, chips, candy etc. we don’t want to finish just then.
And those wax lips!
I liked Kandy Korn too. But what was up with those wax lips? They seriously were not even food. Seemed to have some sort of liquid inside them. were you supposed to drink that?
Haribu, the makers of gummy bears, are hawking cola bottles which I think have a tiny bit of cola in them.
http://www.cuisineaddict.com/ori-bouteilles-happy-cola-x-210-haribo-691.jpg
Seems better that those hideous wax lip liquids.
The wax harmonica was bad too – I remember chewing at it and spitting the whole thing into the gutter. I think I got seduced by the sheer size of the wax lips or wax harmonica, and that my pennies would get me so much, and always regretted it.
The little pumpkins also come in orange flavor. Apparently, in California the difference between little orange-flavored candy pumpkins and little candy-corn-flavored candy pumpkins is a religious issue. (But I have this only at second hand.)