Candy Corn
 

Fistfulls. In my mouth. Now.

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where's my vomit smiley when i need it? :eek::eek:

nasty stuff..should be banned.

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Lovely jubbly! It's not Halloween without Candy Corn!!!! :-)

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You've got to be kidding!:eek::eek:

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I don't "get" candy corn.

Would a "WTF" be appropriate here?!

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It's candy that looks like corn. You can only get it around Halloween. Or sometimes around May/June when you move all the Winter coats and find a few kernels in a pocket.

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I shudder in disgust every time I see it. I must have over-dosed on it as a child, because as an adult, I would cry no tears of sadness if it disappeared from store shelves.

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It tastes horrid, blech. My kids love it though :huh:
Can't beat a creme egg though, it's the best seasonal candy....

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Yuck, hate it.

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Very interesting...



http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/candy-corn.htm

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Why would you eat candy that looks like a vegetable? :confused:

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Because it doesn't taste like a vegetable. Why would you eat candy that looks like an egg? Or a rabbit?


Actually, with corn being one of the staple crops here since the first colonization, I think it kind of goes with the whole Fall "harvest" theme.

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what is it ?

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Post #10^^^^^

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My favorite Halloween treat. I love the ones with the brown bottoms the best. Next to that I love Mary Janes.

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When I was first dating my wife she had just arrived from China and knew nothing about Halloween or any other Western holiday. That year I grabbed a bag of candy corn as sort of an impulse buy and gave her some saying 'we used to love this stuff as kids' and then kind of forget about it.

Few months later, come Easter my mom made an aside 'are you going to buy an Easter basket full of candy for my son--it is Easter'. Unclear on the whole candy convention of what goes with what holiday, she did get me an Easter basket, but she had it filled with Halloween candy corn.

It was sweet.

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No, it tastes like wax. Blech.

:blink:

I ate about ten mini boxes of Milk Duds today and now I have a headache. :(

~SecretGarden

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Umm... because... because... because Cadbury's Creme Eggs are one of God's generous gifts to this world and not eating them is a sin.

It says so in the Bible.

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One of DH's favorite American crap snacks. He can't get enough, so I bought him bags for the office and home.

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Comparing a Cadbury creme egg to any US shit candy is like comparing a Rolls Royce to a Reliant Robin :rofl::rofl:

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Candy corn is an only if I'm desperate thing, even then I regret it. I purchased my candy to give out at Halloween today...............trying so hard not to open the bags.

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They're calling to you............ :eek:

~SG

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so - forgive my ignorance but what is the general quota of candy that any one child knocking at your door gets ?

On tv you see kids with pumpkin style handbags full of stuff. How many sweeties and goodies does the average household have to stock ?

And what do you do if you run out ?

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We don't give out any. I tell them I'm British and we don't engage in such blatent blackmail with people smaller and less intelligent than us.

They usually bog off and I save some money!

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That can't be true ..... even in England we used to trick or treat. The treats maybe were not always brilliant but we had some good tricks.

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I've never been trick or treating, even in the UK. Mind you, we lived in north London, so any kids who knocked on our door were rough as hell and met with stony stares and absolutely f-all for treats.

Plus, my parents were teachers and hated kids at their schools knowing where they lived, so sometimes we didn't even open the door.

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A) You don't run out. You make sure you buy something that you like so when you have extra you have something to eat. How much, it depends a lot on your area. Where I live we get zero (0) kids, but the subdivision down the way is utter chaos--hundreds. Best to ask the neighbors.

B) Buy a bag that is pre-divided. Something with two small candy bars or something. Never give out candy loose as that sets off alarm bells that you are trying to poison the kids. Two or three small candy bars or lollys or whatever is fine.

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so - if you have kids then on average what you spend comes back in your own kids' pumpkins.

People who don't have kids are either generous or just generally lose out ?

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Depends how fast they can run from door to door.

Some smart parents send the kids out the night before to some other subdivision/town that allows early trick or treating. They load up on stuff, and the crap they don't like they give to the parents who distribute the next day to visiting kids. Then you get a rep as the 'house with the candy that sucks' which leads to fewer visitors next year.

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well that's a bit cheeky !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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No, we get to eat our own stash. :)

My 'hood has become very popular as a destination-T-or-T stop; the parents drive them over here from parts elsewhere. I get one Costco size bag and that does me.. I don't like it when the older kids come late on so I turn out the light (the universal 'go away' signal for Halloween).

Over at the beach, we get a day time crowd going around downtown on a sort of sanctioned thing but that's because so many homes there are 2nd/vacations and it would take you 20 hours to make the rounds of town. We go through at least 3 of the Costco size bags there.

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Can't be worse than those horrible "circus peanuts" candy....big fluffy things shaped like a peanut that just tastes like mushy cardboard. Bleh!

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eww, agree, those are awful.

How about Smarties? I've eaten myself sick on those more than once, and it's always a Halloweenie problem...

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I'm kind of surprised with the disgust toward Candy Corn. I gather most of the people here have never tried a Pixy Stick.

Talk about a 'gateway substance' to cocaine abuse.

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No kidding.....urgh!!

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Hi M.....love your avatar! :D

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Smarties = solidified Pixie Stix. :D

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Thanks. I like yours, too. What are they saying about us? :rofl: (I'm actually shorter than Himself)

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Two words: Black, Lewis.

Very appropriate for election season.

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Well, I will always think of your sweet story when I see Candy Corn now, but still can't eat it. :unsure:

Do you remember the giant size Pixy Stix (and I do think it was spelled with an "x") in the plastic tube that was about four feet tall? Or at least they seemed that tall when I was 10.

:)

~SG