# Road kill candy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923 "2005-02-25T19:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/41 "2005-02-26T22:36:40Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Oh for CRYING out loud. Kids are not precious little glass angels to be bubble-wrapped against even the slightest “bad thing”. Yeah the candy is kinda gross. Hello, do you HAVE kids? KIDS are gross. Currently Kids’WB is promoting the fact that Mucha Lucha Gigante is on weekday afternoons by calling kids who have entered a contest and asking them “Can you be like the Flea?” The kids respond by doing their best fart imitation. The Flea does not brush, floss, bathe, wash his hands, and he eats garbage. He seems to be far and away the most popular Luchador. Perhaps it’s because he is the only Mascarito who can defeat the Masked Toilet. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/42 "2005-02-27T02:32:47Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Currently Kids’WB is promoting the fact that Mucha Lucha Gigante is on weekday afternoons by calling kids who have entered a contest and asking them “Can you be like the Flea?” The kids respond by doing their best fart imitation. The Flea does not brush, floss, bathe, wash his hands, and he eats garbage. He seems to be far and away the most popular Luchador. Perhaps it’s because he is the only Mascarito who can defeat the Masked Toilet. I remember a pair of 3rd grade boys that I went to school with, WAY back in the day when our cartoons consisted mainly of Bugs Bunny, Quick Drew McGraw, Auggie Doggie and Daddy Doggie (and oh LORD am I dating myself here). Scott something and Doug Something IIRC. At any rate, they used to write and illustrate their own comic books at our grade school, generally the characters within would do something gross along with their heroics, and this, all without ANY benefit or “examples” of grossness from the media. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/43 "2005-02-27T02:37:25Z")
errrrr Quick Dr **a** w McGraw… hehe…hehehe…(wanders away sheepishly) ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/44 "2005-02-27T02:56:04Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > and Just out of interest, exactly where in that article does it mention PETA? It doesn’t and once again I have scanned and jumped to conclusions. I really need to just stop posting at all until this senility thing improves. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/45 "2005-02-27T03:02:53Z")
I have seen those llittle cows that small brown candies come out of their butts in stores! What is that teaching kids, to eat poop? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/46 "2005-02-27T03:03:53Z")
**CanvasShoes** I wasn’t trying to blame the Flea. It’s just that a surprising amount of adult seem to forget what kids are like. In retrospect, a better example would have been gummi boogers (complete with plastic nose dispensers) or syrup candy packaged as vomit (you pushed on the end of a clear accordion tube forcing the syrup from the mouth of a plastic head-OTTOMH old respectable guy, brown bulldog, and panicked loser). ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/47 "2005-03-01T01:53:41Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > **CanvasShoes** I wasn’t trying to blame the Flea. It’s just that a surprising amount of adult seem to forget what kids are like. In retrospect, a better example would have been gummi boogers (complete with plastic nose dispensers) or syrup candy packaged as vomit (you pushed on the end of a clear accordion tube forcing the syrup from the mouth of a plastic head-OTTOMH old respectable guy, brown bulldog, and panicked loser). Oh, I was in agreement with you!! I just don’t know who the flea is. Hehe. My post was meant to support yours, that it, the concept that yes, kids are gross, and for some reason, as you say, some people don’t seem to realize this, but instead, think they are little fragile glass beings that need to be packed in bubblewrap. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/48 "2005-03-01T01:59:14Z")
You do realize that the animal welfare people aren’t thinking of the children at all. They’re thinking about the animals. _Won’t someone think of the animals!_ ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/49 "2005-03-01T13:41:29Z")
Actually that’s exactly what I was thinking. I’m not worried that my children are too fragile to handle candy. I think they’re too dumb to recognize the difference between reality and a company’s desire to make money off of them. Adults joining children in tasteless jokes doesn’t make the jokes funny, it makes the adults morons. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/50 "2005-03-01T17:18:47Z")
UHG! So how did those of us who survived the Roadkill Cafe era do so without turning into animal crossing vigilantes? And I used to eat the individual paws off each Teddy Grahm, eat each ear off and then the stomach to the belly button before ending the Teddy torture by mercifully (if savagely) severing his head…what does that make me? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/51 "2005-03-01T23:28:21Z")
> [@fessie](#): > > Actually that’s exactly what I was thinking. > > I’m not worried that my children are too fragile to handle candy. I think they’re too dumb to recognize the difference between reality and a company’s desire to make money off of them. I’m confused. Are you saying that you think the candy will cause your kids to find actual roadkill funny? If so, have them help prepare a raw chicken for dinner. Odds are, they’ll find this disgusting. Explain that real roadkill is just as slimy, bloody etc, that roadkill is an animal that died for no reason. ---
**Author:** ![NotBob13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@NotBob13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotBob13)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923/52 "2005-03-02T06:35:33Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > How can you tell when they’re hit on purpose? I’m just curious, do you call CSI or something? > > Marc I’ve seen people swerve out of the lane they were driving in to hit animals. One time specifically a turtle my (now ex) wife had just convinced me to back up and save by taking to the side of the road. And any animal smashed, literaly, to pieces on the side of the road, was probably run down on purpose. The ones one the yellow line, maybe not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-kill-candy/291923.md?page=2)