Definitely an acquired taste. I couldn't stand it as a child, and now as an adult, I love it. I've eaten a bagful of the Brach's autumn mix (candy corn, Indian corn, mellocreme pumpkins) in the past few days. I love Brach's candy corn, nothing else will do. Anyone else with me, or am I alone in my love for this much-reviled candy?

Hi Reiha. This a favorite topic that pops up every year on POL. I always look forward to this discussion! :)
Here's last year's: http://perfumeoflife.org/index.php?s=&...st&p=146573

Yes, I love it. Yes, Brachs is the best, in all it's forms. Mmmmmmm....caaaandy corn. You're definitely not alone!

Yum. I'm definitely in your corner with you, Reiha, when you're chompin' away on that candy corn! I love it mixed with salted peanuts. :-)

I believe last year was when we finally corrupted Dorthea with this confection. Mwa ha ha ha ...

I succumbed this temptation last year too.

Yes, indeed! I made Dorthea one of the Children of the Corn.

I love the stuff!

Ah, yes, the annual Candy Corn Debate!

Last year I held firm on the "pro-corn" side. Last year was also remarkable, however, in that I did not succumb to a candy corn purchase.

I've slid over to Licorice Allsorts (Bassett) as my drug of choice.

I believe candy corn is best alone, I've never had it with peanuts...the taste must be strange, salty and too sweet.

Love it and I, too, am in the camp of adding salted Spanish peanuts to the candy corn. Yum.

Candy corn is so great... does anyone else bite the pale tips off? That's my favorite part. I have to enjoy them in sections.

I'm also a huge fan of maple candies, Brach's "Goodies" are one tasty example. Candy makes me very tired, unfortunately. I tend toward a high protein diet, so it's probably my pancreas shouting "Why?!"

LOL, Lauren I do that. Three nibbles, tip, middle, bottom. Sometimes when I'm feeling contrary I'll do it the other way, from the bottom up.

Those Maple Nut Goody things are some other serious candy crack.

I have enough bad sugary habits thank you!

Oh, yes! Last autumn I lost my candy-corn-virginity due to Fulltilt's generosity. :-)

In Denmark we are slowly importing Halloween, so I hope that some day candy corn will be available here too.

Yes indeedy. We loves our maple treatsies. And I eat my candy corn in sections as well.

Haven't tried mixing them with peanuts; that sounds delish.

Eh.

I wish they made special jelly beans for fall. That would be my seasonal candy.

Actually, I just looked at the jelly belly website. The 40-flavor box is not special to the season (unless you count the packaging), but they do have got pomegranate jelly beans available right now, which sound fantastic. And-- whoa-- they're vitamin C and antioxidant fortified? That's kind of wrong.

Anita, that sounds divine, with the salted peanuts, to cut the sweet. But alas being diabetic and teeth not as strong or healthy won't allow me to enjoy this....

Is that code for "we had to put an acid in for tartness anyway"?

Just got a bag of caramel candy corn tonight. Less sweet than the normal ones, smelled kinda odd, too. Didn't stop me from eating half the bag for dinner though. Halloween season will end in me wearing dentures.

I love it with a passion! I've already enjoyed two bags of it last month. I will have to keep my eyes open for it at the grocery store.

LOL. That did occur to me.

It's an abomination! I loathed it as a child and can only agree with that assessment in my dotage.

Gasp!

I'm shocked, shocked that you can say such things.

Mods!

*whines* Please, I'll do anything! Don't sic the mods on me! I'm a good girl, I am!



...but candy corn is still gorge-inducing swill.

Revolting stuff, but not surprisingly so. I hear they are a favorite among Republicans.












Gotcha! Just joking. (But they are revolting).

There are only two kinds of people in the world:

Persons of class, taste, and refinement,

And

Nimrods who hate candy corn.

I rest my case.

Speaking of candy corn in September is like wearing white after Labor Day. It just shouldn't be done. One shouldn't buy it until October 1st, at the earliest. It should never be consumed before October 28 or after November 4.

The candy corn season is VERY short. You people obviously have no breeding.

Sans doubt, dahling. But it comes in earlier in some parts of the country, especially here in the Midwest. In Detroit, always a beacon of taste, one simply wouldn't be caught dead without the stuff from, oh, now until after Thanksgiving. This may have a teensy bit to do with our celebrated lack of willpower; no one here could imagine buying candy corn on October 1st and actually being able to wait until the 28th to eat it. Well, I couldn't imagine it, anyway.

I understand the stunted, pallid stuff they have on hand out East isn't really worth looking at, but they apparently make do during their more abbreviated season. All that stoic Puritan stock comes in handy sometimes.

Twitch, I'm a nimrod Republican, it seems: Ay-ay-ay! You've seen Dracula react to garlic? That's me when presented with mellocreme pumpkins, candy corn and maple-nut goodies.


They're just one slim notch above actually consuming those wax lips.


)-;

Ummm...excuse me? I like those wax lips.

:)

Wax lips are wonderful! Go take some more of your new medicine.

I don't love them for the taste, but I love that they lead to uncontrollable laughter and drooling. It is impossible to take yourself too seriously when you are rocking a pair of wax lips.

No no no no no nono! Candy corn is vile! It's one of my two all-time least favorite candies along with circus peanuts.

You left out the loathsome peeps.

bella, how dare you put candy corn in the same category as peeps!!!

Mmmm.....caaaandy cooooorn :)

Ay-ay-ay... peeps are nasty... right there with Mallomars... Might as well just chew the sugar from the sugar bowl..

I don't eat sugar straight from the sugar bowl-- though mix it with some lemon juice, smear it on a crepe, and we'll talk. But if I did, at least it would be vegetarian, unlike Peeps.

OH , I eat my crepes and pancakes with nothing but lemon juice and sugar and everyone thinks I am nuts for not bothering with table syrop (gak) or maple (spendy!) , but I just adore them this way/

Haha, Peeps are a candy I have yet to try on a grown-up palate. I've only had it and loathed it as a child.

We don't have candy corn in Australia but I well remember it from my childhood. I hated it then and it makes me sick just thinking about it now..

I love candy corn! Let's have a party with wax lips, fire ######, jujy fruits, and strawberry twizzlers!

That's how I make scone icing-- sugar and lemon juice.

If you tar the delicious corn with the "all sugar" brush, then you are never allowed to eat hard candy, mints or tictacs, ever. They're... wait for it... all sugar!! ;p I can't eat it all the time, but candy corn is great.

Which reminds me...
DINNER MINTS! *nom nom nom*

Are you referring to those pastel, pillowy, square, BUTTER MINTS ?

Even as a child I thought those the height of sophistication. Still love them. What is it about them?

Of course, because they are so refined, it would seem indecent to go through an entire bag of them. But I bet I could. Aw, heck, I guess I'm not refined.

Analysis of Types of Candy

Ha! I went straight for the good and plentys (optimistic) and Reese's peanut butter cups (able to appreciate the dual, sweet/salty, nature of life).

And I agree with the Twizzlers analysis -- a walking, plastic horror!

Thanks, that was fun!

I went for candy corn and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and I got totally different results. So, I'm a deluded but generous person.

Reese's all the way, baby! I have a chocolate and peanut butter problem. :-)

I was buying candy at Tar-zhay last night when I saw a bag of caramel apple candy corn. Brown and red and white, and I had to get a bag. Oh, holy cow, they are mighty fine eatin's. I dumped the bag into a dish and they are half-gone now. People sit in front of my desk and keep reaching for them.

I don't mind because at home I have two more bags of candy - my favorites. I understand we might have at most a handful of trick-or-treaters tonight, and I figured that if I'll have excess stock, it might as well be something I like.

If I'm going to eat sugar, chocolate better be involved somewhere... I'm a Reese's fan, would only eat candy corn if I was desperately craving sugar and nothing else was available...

Well guys, candy corn season is officially over in 3 hours. Stuff it in while you can.

I'm going to spend the rest of the evening sulking because DH bought Baby Ruth (a childhood favorite of his) for trick or treaters. The minis look like cat poop. ;(

I'd probably assault a child for a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup tonight.

Yes, POLers. It is time to resurrect the candy corn topic!

I have three bags, hidden underneath my bed: classic yellow candy corn; "autumn mix"; caramel flavored.

All Brachs of course.


WHO ELSE IS BUYING CANDY CORN? Enquiring minds want to know.