Candy Corn

[Xodlirv]

With Halloween right around the corner, I wanted to share my theory about candy corn, this Halloween candy staple that looks and tastes like chopped-up bits of candle.

My theory: they haven't made any new candy corn since 1943.

Every November 1 they send a fleet of trucks out across the USA to pick up the discarded candy corn from trash cans everywhere. Then they wash it off, bag it, and store it away until next October. This could go on indefinitely.

I have no proof for or against this theory. You be the judge.

 

[AffectionateDan]

Sounds like a Lewis Black fan...

 

[Xodlirv]

Sounds like a Lewis Black fan...

Who?

 

[BlackmoonDoll]

Trick or Treat smell my feet give me something good to eat 😛

 

[Mimi]

You could be on to something there, Xod. I suspect the same is true for those nasty peanut butter taffy globs in the orange and black wrappers. Every year people buy tons of that crap assuming kids love it, and every year kids go home, empty out their treat sacks, and immediatly surf through it, removing every last piece of that horrid candy (or give it to the dog, or try to con their younger siblings into trading them they candy bars in exchange for the nasty nuggets - however, that only works if the younger sibling has never tasted one of them before).

Mimi

 

[GonnaGetcha!]

Lewis Black is a comedian, and he has a bit he does about candy corn. It's hysterical!

 

[giggleygirl25]

isn't that the same theory as it's not several fruitcakes sent around the world just one big giant awful one that nobody will eat and they keep sending it on and on and on and on......😀

 

[Limeoutsider]

I hate those things Mimi
I love the things that are the same substance as candy corn but are pumkpin shaped

 

[naveltkltr1350]

i usually eat whatever we have in the candy dish, i like the candy dish..its always filled with goodies! 😀

 

[steph]

Candy corns...eh

Lewis Black...
He plays at Punchline regularly Mister Man. I've seen him twice!

XOXO

Sounds like a Lewis Black fan...

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

The same could be said about midget Tootsie Rolls. Those things have been recycled so many times, you can probably wrap up plumber's putty in Tootsie Roll wrappers and no one would know the difference.


Drew

 

[giggleygirl25]

maybe if its the fruit flavored tootsie rolls they wouldn't...but i'd definitely want the chocolate ones (mmmmm...chocolate)....the other gross thing they sometimes gets passed out around here is called cowtails...they are just gross

 

[kis123]

maybe if its the fruit flavored tootsie rolls they wouldn't...but i'd definitely want the chocolate ones (mmmmm...chocolate)....the other gross thing they sometimes gets passed out around here is called cowtails...they are just gross

I find anything edible named after something hanging from a cow's behind virtually vile and disgusting! 😱 😱 No cowtails for me!!!!!!!!!

 

[Limeoutsider]

I like the lime and the vanilla tootsie rools but theyre a bitch to find here

 

[naveltkltr1350]

I like the lime and the vanilla tootsie rools but theyre a bitch to find here

my store carries them i believe.

 

[the_Baron]

i have purchased some very fresh and soft candy corn from wegmans. so i'll have to dispute that myth.

i'm pretty sure giggley's correct about the dreaded fruitcake.

and how about those sesame candies. they ahave a nuclear half-life of a million years. but i love em.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I have never met anyone who had the intestinal fortitude to even try to eat a Christmas fruitcake. I would just as well use it for drywall. Or even better, to mold cinderblocks.

I'd better stop while I'm ahead. Some food service specialist from the New York City school system might get some enlightening ideas here.

 

[GonnaGetcha!]

I beg to differ

I have never met anyone who had the intestinal fortitude to even try to eat a Christmas fruitcake. I would just as well use it for drywall. Or even better, to mold cinderblocks.COLOR]

Well, now ya have. My Mom's fruitcake is so good, it stays moist all year if you preserve it right (the booze in it helps with this, LOL), and you WANT it to last all year until you get the NEXT one!