Candy Corn

[Flyingcursor]

Are you sure we're not related? I have a cousin somewhere I've never seen.

I'm fairly certain that you and Slude are cousins on my dad's side, and Nano is closely related on my mom's side.

I knew it!

[Flyingcursor]

Are you sure we're not related? I have a cousin somewhere I've never seen.

I'm fairly certain that you and Slude are cousins on my dad's side, and Nano is closely related on my mom's side.

I knew it! What are you getting me for Christmas, Cousin?

[izzarina]

I detest candy corn, and always have. But I'll admit that when I was little, I thought eating it was kind of part of Halloween, so I would have some despite my general dislike of it. And I ate them emm style...one layer at a time, which is really stupid of me because it only prolonged the disgusting taste in my mouth

[mcurtiss]

I love candy corn, but only the farley brand. Brachs is too chewy for me.

[Roderick [Rod] Sprague IV]

There is something about candy corn that nauseates me. There is just something wrong for me about candies made from that odd chewy stuff. It is a subtle flavor-odor and texture thing for me. I, too would eat them a different color segment at a time before I started finding them nauseating. The strangest food aversion I have, though, are for hard, dry pretzels. The dark brown glaze on them has an odor that makes me very sick to my stomach.

[hyldemoer]

While Spawn of Satan is a little strongly worded, I do greatly dislike candy corn. I have never liked it, even when I was a kid. I've never liked cotton candy, either. I even remember getting my polio vaccination on a sugar cube - it was about 4th grade - and objecting because I didn't want to eat the sugar cube. I asked if I could get the medicine without the sugar, and they said no. So I guess I'm weird about sugar.

When my children were young one year we were able to raise sweetcorn in the back yard without the squirrels eating it.

At meal time I set a pot of water to boil, ran out to the garden & harvested the corn fresh, threw it in the boiling water for a few minutes then fished it out and served it.

My son and daughter, who normally gave me no problems about eating vegetables (and at the time were usually served mostly vegetables), each took one bite and refused to eat any more.

They said it was "too sweet".

I must have had candy corn in the long distant past. I must not have enjoyed it because I do recall throwing it away as soon as it was ever given me as a child.

Since then I've become a die hard label reader.
End of story.

[Wanderer]

when i was a kid I hated candy corn. As an adult, I like it.

[cowtime]

Does anyone else here eat each color individually? I like to start with the little white tips and then the orange body, finishing with the yellow....um...bottom part.

I used to like it, seasonally, but I think it was more that I liked nipping off the sections color by color. One of those neat convergences of sugar-eating and obsessive-compulsive behavior.

A bovine hoof slowly raises- while delicately munching just one color at a time.... me too

[cowtime]

While Spawn of Satan is a little strongly worded, I do greatly dislike candy corn. I have never liked it, even when I was a kid. I've never liked cotton candy, either. I even remember getting my polio vaccination on a sugar cube - it was about 4th grade - and objecting because I didn't want to eat the sugar cube. I asked if I could get the medicine without the sugar, and they said no. So I guess I'm weird about sugar.

When my children were young one year we were able to raise sweetcorn in the back yard without the squirrels eating it.

At meal time I set a pot of water to boil, ran out to the garden & harvested the corn fresh, threw it in the boiling water for a few minutes then fished it out and served it.

My son and daughter, who normally gave me no problems about eating vegetables (and at the time were usually served mostly vegetables), each took one bite and refused to eat any more.

They said it was "too sweet".

I must have had candy corn in the long distant past. I must not have enjoyed it because I do recall throwing it away as soon as it was ever given me as a child.

Since then I've become a die hard label reader.


End of story.

Kandy Korn Hybrid (se) Sweet Corn
Famous for Its Sweet Flavor

[Lambchop]

Does anyone else here eat each color individually? I like to start with the little white tips and then the orange body, finishing with the yellow....um...bottom part.

I used to like it, seasonally, but I think it was more that I liked nipping off the sections color by color. One of those neat convergences of sugar-eating and obsessive-compulsive behavior.

That's exactly what I do! Only, it's very important not to let any of the middle get bitten off with the tip and none of the bottom to get bitten off with the middle.

[emmline]

Does anyone else here eat each color individually? I like to start with the little white tips and then the orange body, finishing with the yellow....um...bottom part.

I used to like it, seasonally, but I think it was more that I liked nipping off the sections color by color. One of those neat convergences of sugar-eating and obsessive-compulsive behavior.

That's exactly what I do! Only, it's very important not to let any of the middle get bitten off with the tip and none of the bottom to get bitten off with the middle.

You got it.

[Dale]

Not only do I not eat the individual colors, I'm not sure I've ever had less than five or six pieces in my mouth at one time.

But, seriously, I've been craving pecan pie all weekend. I may need to go get some tonight.

[Lambchop]

Not only do I not eat the individual colors, I'm not sure I've ever had less than five or six pieces in my mouth at one time.

You said that just to upset us.

[djm]

While I enjoy eating roast pecans, the butter&sugar filling of pecan pie is just too sweet for me. Something I do get a hankering for at this time of year, when the wind is chill and the air is bright and crunchy, is a still-warm pumpkin pie.

djm

[peeplj]

Does anyone else here eat each color individually? I like to start with the little white tips and then the orange body, finishing with the yellow....um...bottom part.

I used to like it, seasonally, but I think it was more that I liked nipping off the sections color by color. One of those neat convergences of sugar-eating and obsessive-compulsive behavior.

That's exactly what I do! Only, it's very important not to let any of the middle get bitten off with the tip and none of the bottom to get bitten off with the middle.

I used to do this as a kid, trying to figure out if the colors each have a slightly different taste from each other.

The texture is different; the white is a bit stiffer than the others.

As for the taste, the jury is still out. I'll just have to do the experiment some more.

--James