# Trying out a candy cane- Can you guess the flavor?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 12, 2024, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-out-a-candy-cane-can-you-guess-the-flavor/1011544 "2024-12-12T08:10:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-out-a-candy-cane-can-you-guess-the-flavor/1011544/41 "2024-12-14T06:55:45Z")

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Does possum taste anything like pork chops? A guy I used to work with told me that’s how woodchucks taste. (I realize, of course, that one is a marsupial and the other is a rodent, but I wonder if it makes a difference.)

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-out-a-candy-cane-can-you-guess-the-flavor/1011544/42 "2024-12-14T07:26:58Z")

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Depends on what they’ve been eating. Possums can be caged and fed persimmons for a month to give them that lip smacking flavor they’re so well known for.

Groundhogs, despite their name don’t taste much like pork chops. Their meat is tough. Highly seasoned slow cooked stew is typical preparation.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-out-a-candy-cane-can-you-guess-the-flavor/1011544/43 "2024-12-14T08:36:33Z")

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I’m dying to know how you know this. 😉

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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-out-a-candy-cane-can-you-guess-the-flavor/1011544/44 "2024-12-14T19:53:24Z")

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Once we past all known candy flavours, I reckoned it would be likely to be one of the flavours Dorito’s have crafted: shrinp, lobster.

They should come in one of those cans you need to crank a key to open.

My Norwegian father liked Lutefisk and my wife’s father in St. Petersburg also liked small smelly fish.

Are you going to have another?

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**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:** [December 14, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-out-a-candy-cane-can-you-guess-the-flavor/1011544/45 "2024-12-14T20:20:36Z")

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I asked Kim to send me a possum flavored candy cane, so we’ll see.

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