Okay, readers. It is time for a “talking to.”
I am spending some time in the “old country,” the area where I was born. It is actually still part of the New World, it is just that the ways in this part of the United States might seem a little peculiar to people in other parts of the United States. In fact, when I go to the east coast, they tell me *I* am the one with the accent. Wait a minute, I sound just like the newscasters, don’t I?
I digress.
At any rate, the “new thing” that is actually only a new thing to ME apparently is selling candy corn and peanuts together, all mixed up in one box or bag and calling it a snack. This is not an excuse, apparently, to get rid of candy corn. I have only met a few people in my whole lifetime who actually liked and SOUGHT out candy corn. The other few people that ate candy corn did so when it was in a meddly of halloween candy and didn’t want to leave it out, or ate it “because it was there,” but wouldn’t normally. It is kind of like having beer goggles. You wouldn’t normally “do it” unless the circumstances were right…I should rather say when circumstances are very “wrong,” but a scientist or meteorologist would say “right” like how conditions were “right” for the Perfect Storm, even though it was really “not a really great thing to have happened.” Just ask Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
How did I find this out? I went to a Cider Mill and they had the plastic snap tight boxes filled with the stuff. It was only $4.50 but they had marked it down to half off, as they weren’t sure if it was Thanksgiving-y enough. Well, at that price, I guess it is time to start a holiday tradition. Just recycle the halloween candy at Thanksgiving. They certainly would have had minu 1″ pumpkins and corn at the first feast, wouldn’t they? This is merely just a candy interpretation.
A side note: I always wonder why they show pumpkins on the table when people recreate the first Thanksgiving in artistic form. They are either on the table or somewhere else for decoration. Did the Pilgrims slice them like giant apples and serve them? I would have assumed that the pumpkin would have been made into different things already and wouldn’t have appeared as full pumpkins. Maybe the artist or director thought that we would want to know what the pie or the bowl of stuff was made out of and the pumpkin was there to make us remember that there were pumpkin ingredients. Not sure about that one.
Anyways, back to the candy corn/peanut thing. I thought that they invented at the Cider Mill, but then my mom and a few other people said, “Mmmmm….those are good together” when the subject was brought up, like some kind of convergence was happening where a roomful of people mysteriously agreed about something and knew about it for a long time at the very bottom of their soul. Yikes. I just can’t fathom it. And then someone offered,” SPANISH peanuts and candy corn taste even better!” It is understood that there is sometimes a desire to have something both salty and sweet, but are candy corns really sweet? I always thought they were kind of blah. I mean, they technically have sugar in them, but that is their only claim.
So, there may be some of you who think that the sensation of flavors is just great. I admit that it is a good way to recycle, but I am not jumping on the bandwagon with you. My least favorite candy doesn’t get better by adding something to it.
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