I hate candy corn, but those little pumpkins made from the same earwax and termite honey are kind of okay sometimes. I think because the shape leaves the inside a little less dry.
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That is the best description of that horrid mass. ๐คฃ๐คข๐ค๐ผ
People don't like candy corn??
Yes. Are you not people?
I'm like the only person I know IRL who likes it. The most common complaint is the texture but that's my favorite part
My favorite part is using them as monster teeth! I like to nibble them from pointy tip to fat ass one at a time when eating them, the texture is perfect!
I only know of one other person in real life that actually likes them, most people dislike or are indifferent.
I love that tasty compacted sand
They shouldn't have that texture unless they are old and stale or really cheap. Like chocolate, they vary from brand to brand.
I like Brach's the best.
But stale is when they're the best lol
Agreed. I'm biased because of nostalgia, but my mom would get us the little candy corn pumpkins around Halloween time!
Uh. Fuck yeah?? Who likes fondant ๐คข
Candy corn is not fondant.
What if corn syrup was somehow both chalky and waxy? I bet people would pay us to put that in their mouths.
I would. I'm eating the pumpkins right now
God is dead and you have killed him
Winner!! ๐ฅฐ๐ค๐ผ
Take his quickening.
I like candy corn, but only enough that I am fine with just a single handful, once a year.
I can barely make it through a single piece, but at least it's better than a communion wafer? ๐ ๐คข๐คช
Actually, I could probably eat way more ~~styrofoam discs~~ communion wafers. They're not sickly-sweet. ๐คฃ
I wonder if there's a market for a "joke" snack food like white cheddar popcorn in a shape ironically similar to communion wafers... I hear they go great with shitty red wine, so that's a huuuge market just waiting for a new product. ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
I unironically like white cheddar rice cakes becsuse they make me think of popcorn condensed into a communion wafer. Similar texture, and they taste super good.
See? There's a market for sure!
What's candy corn?
Candy corn is a small, pyramid-shaped candy, typically divided into three sections of different colors, with a waxy texture and a flavor based on honey, sugar, strawberry, and vanilla.It is a staple candy of the fall season and Halloween in North America.
Candy corn's traditional colors of yellow, orange, and white represent the colors of the fall harvest, or of corn on the cob with the wide yellow end resembling a corn kernel.
Candy corn has a reputation for generating polarizing responses, with articles referring to it as "Halloween's most contentious sweet" which people either "love" or "hate".
Candy corn's traditional colors of yellow, orange, and white represent [...] corn on the cob with the wide yellow end resembling a corn kernel.
This is why it's called candy corn. Because, when stacked, it starts to look like corn on the cob.
Holy. Shit. TIL ๐ฑ๐คฏ
It's supposed to look like feed corn =D
Feed corn tastes better.
... with a waxy texture and a flavor based on honey, sugar, strawberry, and vanilla.
Wait, wut? There's supposed to be different flavors? I just tasted sugar, sugar, and sugar (... and I love 'em).
Maybe it's saying that it's a single flavor, which is a combination of honey+sugar+strawberry+vanilla?
I've never even seen candy corn, so I am just guessing wildly...
I could see honey, sugar and vanilla.
There is no strawberry flavor what so ever that comes through at all.
I agree, but I haven't tried eating any while thinking, "do I taste any strawberry?"
The three sections have always tasted different to me.
Yeah, there are supposed to be different flavors... And the same people make both the nice 3 flavor kinds, and the ones that are just colored corn syrup
Huh, for some reason I had assumed candy corn was that popcorn spayed with that colourful sweet crap. Now I need to seek out some of this so I can have a new hatred.
Everyone is somebody's marmite.
I would like that on a t-shirt with a lone pika on a rock howling into the wild, open sky as the background image. ๐คช
OMG you need to search "pika yawning" because I can't choose one for you!
๐ฑ I... I need them all... ๐ญ๐ฅฐ
The key with candy corn is mixing it up with peanuts or any kind of nut really. Then it's just a payday.
Well that is something new to try this year, I've never mixed them with anything before.
Ah thanks, you are too! :-P
Candy corn is one of the only sugar based candies I like. But only fresh, if it's stale it's as bad as Skittles or smarties
But is that smarties (derogatory) or smarties (affectionate)?
Candy corn rules
I like candy corn but unfortunately I can only eat it in squared fashion. Like, one piece, then two pieces, then four pieces, then eight etc. until the juices are literally running out of my mouth and I have Type XII diabetes.
All I know about candy corn is what it looks like and that it apparently tastes bad.
Considering that the people who dislike candy corn are the same people who think that Hershey is anywhere close to being chocolate and that Reese's peanut butter cups tastes of anything other than pure sugar with a hint of peanut, I am terrified what candy corn tastes like.
Hershey is anywhere close to being chocolate
If it has a vomit taste, that may be due to butyric acid: https://www.thetakeout.com/why-hershey-s-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit-to-some-peopl-1846527404/
So yes, that's intentional.