I see them in most convenience stores I go to.
Oddly, corn nuts and raisins mixed together make a decent breakfast cereal.
Apparently, it is, and dates back to 1999. Obviously, that wasn’t the last time Corn Nuts dabbled in double entendres- I recall in the mid-'90s, the snack was represented by a bird named Winky, and the slogan was “What is your Winky up to?”
Corn Nuts are made by The Planters division of Kraft.
A-fucking-men. I refuse to try one simply because of the smell. It makes the world a worse place for me.
Naturally, the coworker I have been spending the last two months silently willing to quit, and who sits right next to me, simply loves them.
I like the ‘con limon’ flavor or whatever it is. Haven’t bought any in over a year but I’m pretty sure 7/11 carries them. I usually buy them when I’m taking a long road trip.
A joke among my friends is whenever someone takes their shoes off someone will ask, “is someone eating corn nuts? Oh, you just took your shoes off.”
I heard the writers of the jingle being interviewed on the radio about a month ago. It was definitely real, as someone else pointed out. Also, I believe that the guys who wrote the Corn Nuts jingle were also responsible for Slim Jim’s “Eat Me” commercial in the late 90s.
We buy off brand corn nuts in bulk at our local grocery. They taste better than the original (which is hard, as i LOVE me some cornnuts) and they don’t have the smell.
Hmm… I’ve looked there, and at CVS and Rite Aid, and a selection of supermarkets, without any luck. Maybe I need to do more of my grocery shopping at gas stations.
There’s a whole box in my office break room.
Glad Corn is amazing. It’s like slightly less crunchy Corn Nuts. I love both, though. But not flavored Corn Nuts. They ruin the food’s biggest selling point for me: a three-ingredient processed snack.
They sell them in variety packs at my local Food 4 Less, I also bought some recently off the neighborhood icecream truck.
I don’t know where they were purchased, but I thought of all of you tonight when I noticed that one of the students I was teaching was munching a bag of corn nuts.
“Chile con limon,” I think, and they were my favorite, too. I say “were” because I haven’t seen that flavor in years now.
I loves me some CornNuts.
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Maybe I’ll head down to the store at lunch and bust a nut. It’s been a while since I’ve had any.
Holy shit these are the nastiest fucking things on the face of the planet. They smell SO bad just thinking about them makes me want to vomit. I don’t see how people can eat those things.
BLECH!!!
(Green Apple flavored candy runs a close second as the worst smelling food product ever)
There was ONE bag of Corn Nuts at the 7-11 nearest to my house. It was Ranch. I did not buy them.
I puke at the smell of Grape Bubble Yum.
There were girls in my high school in the late 80’s that ate these abominations all day long. The smell and crunching was horrible. They weren’t the most popular girls, oddly! 
I knew it! I totally remembered that jingle.
My art teacher in high school was so repulsed by the smell of them that if anyone opened a bag in the room, he’d make the kid sit outside the door, and we’d have to air out the whole room.
Corn nuts! Oh, how could I have forgotten them! Now I must look for them the next time I’m downtown.
I fucking love those things-thanks for the reminder!
There are CornNuts in the vending machine in the break room here. I bought a bag (Chili con Limon) today in honor of this thread. They weren’t as hard as I remember them being, but damn they were good!
I’m going to have to pick up some more. I remember, back when I used to eat them regularly (years ago), that I liked the BBQ ones best.
Thanks, ** Sal Ammoniac**!