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It’s Candy Corn Day: how will <i>you</i> celebrate? — 16 Comments

  1. Maybe you should reconsider and eat it while you can, neo. It may soon be a removed item by the unofficial food czar-AKA Michelle Obama. I always found it too sweet myself but my spouse likes it.

  2. My first memory of candy corn is when I was five years old, of eating candy corn from a treat bag my grandmother prepared for our car trip back home.

    I liked it as a kid, but cannot remember the last time I had it. It is too sweet for me now. I prefer dairy, nuts or fruit with my sugar fix. Cheese with apricot preserves is my weakness.

  3. Never have liked candy corn (at least there’s SOMETHING you and I don’t agree on, Neo!).

    Thinking about this, I guess there’s almost no candy I like that doesn’t have chocolate involved. I do like peanut brittle and pralines with pecans in ’em.

  4. neo, I followed your scientific argument on the proper orientation of candy corn with interest.

    My wife normally buys bags of Snickers, Reese’s PB Cups, etc, for “the kids,” though I usually find a couple of candy corns in there, too. All things I like too much.

    But this year, out of a sense of self-preservation, I talked her into buying those sour little things I can’t stand. The kids are going to have to suck it up.

  5. I’ve been on a quest in our little town for the ones with a chocolate top/bottom and have not been able to find any at all. I love it. I’m diabetic, I shouldn’t have it. But once a year….?

  6. As an avid Trick-or-treater when my kids were young (I was the Mom saying, “Just one more street, kids, just one more street!” when they started dragging their feet and getting all whiny) I can vouch for the fact that kids don’t get candy corn in their goody bags.
    And personally, I stole all the chocolate bars.
    So I will have to disagree with Fox News.
    Does that make me a racist?

  7. I am thinking that anyone who has ever shelled uncooked, dry corn from a cob would see the skinny part as the bottom- since that part faces the cob.

  8. I read you daily and this is my first comment. Naturally it is about candy. Candy corn is my very favorite candy. The white is the top and I eat it in sections, top down. This way you save the best (biggest piece) for last. I need to be restrained during Halloween or I will inhale the stuff. And a little tip: Sephora is now selling candy corn body wash. it’s heaven!

  9. Yes, it is one if my great joys! To eat candy corn until my teeth feel like they are rotting, my tummy is filled to the brim, and my brain is saying yes, yews, yes! It is evil, and I love it so!

  10. You do this to me every year. It’s my favorite candy and you will NOT let me forget it. However, this year, I immunized myself by buying one of those 50-cent bags with the red top and a few overly large, definitely stale candy kernels inside. They weren’t good and it was easy not to eat them. I am pretending that’s how it all tastes. Don’t tell me any different!

  11. You can have my share. Candy Corn has never been one of my top 100 treats. Even if you wrapped it in bacon, I wouldn’t care for it.

  12. Adore it. Always nibbled the white part first. Hated the stuff with the “chocolate” top: don’t know why, I love chocolate otherwise. I haven’t had any this year yet, but now that you’ve brought it up, it seems like a good time to do some ‘food’ shopping…

  13. I regret to inform you that I rank candy corn, along with Circus Peanuts and Wax Lips, as among the worst forms of “candy.”

    You may have any candy corns that happen to come my way.

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