I have to ask, Anne Neville, do you drive a Saturn?
Anything with coconut or licorice. Blech. And the sesame wafer things.
But to all you candy corn haters, what is the deal? It’s candy, it tastes like sugar. It doesn’t have an odd flavor like licorice or root beer or butterscotch or peanut butter, etc. It just tastes like sugar. Yum!
Now the pumkin ones aren’t as good.
I also like circus peanuts.
It tastes like wax is what it tastes like. Oily paraffin.
I’m eating candy corn right now. NOM NOM NOM
I just got a recipe for candy corn trifle. Looks yummy. Do they keep selling candy corn after Halloween? Because I want to make them, just not this week.
On Monday there will be piles of candy of all kinds on the discount tables at your local supermarket. The after-Halloween candy sales are almost as good as the after-Easter ones.
I don’t follow the candy corn hate.
I once ate nearly an entire bag during a D&D session before work.
… Ok, so I Was pacing the main walkway between the two sections of the restaurant* for my entire shift. Not quite bouncing off the walls, but yeah, I could tell I was wired - not an easy feat for someone with ADHD.
*IHOP, I was the Greeter and Cashier.
Here in San Antonio, I drove past a florist store the other day in a very Mexican part of town and one of the piñatas hanging up out front was one in the shape of a candy corn (true to life with a very understated smiley face). I laughed out loud and my first thought was that I hope for the kids’ who end up with it sake it wasn’t all candy corn inside.
No, Honda Civic. I wanted a boring, reliable car that got me from one place to another with a minimum of drama. I had soured on GM cars, after my experience with my Pontiac Sunfire, when it was time to buy my current car.
pancakes3, I’d have gladly taken your Atomic Fireballs. I was addicted to those things when I was a kid. I’ll also gladly accept anyone’s unwanted Smarties, Sweet Tarts, Sprees and other sour candies.
I wasn’t aware of all the hatred towards candy corn. People here seem to treat it like it’s the Halloween equivalent of fruitcake. I like it (candy corn, that is). As for the circus peanuts, I’m on board with all of you, along with any liquid-filled wax “candy”. Were any of these things test-marketed?
For those of you who do like candy corn, do you ever sometimes nibble at them in sections (yellow, orange, white)? I look at this as being akin to twisting an Oreo cookie open and licking the cream filling.
You LIKED getting raisins?! I hate raisins! Even in cookies. At college in the dining hall they would put out raisin cookies and sometimes I’d think, “Ooh, chocolate.” And then I’d realize someone ruined a perfectly good cookie with raisins.
I guess this is just one of those things that people taste differently, because it just tastes like smooth, creamy sugar to me.
I used to as a kid. That was the way to eat them. Bite off the white. Bite off the yellow. Then eat the orange. Move to next kernal.
I have to add one more to the list: gummi anything. Bears, worms, whatever. I don’t get it. They’re not that sweet, which is the point of candy, the flavor is blah, and the texture is icky. It’s not good chewy, it’s gunk in the teeth. Sticky gunk.