Yeah, the title says it all folks. Today is of course October 1st, and while most people in this line of work sit in front of black and white films tonight with a tube sock, I sit here thinking of one thing and one thing only. I HATE Candy corn..I really really hate it.
You see it being the month of Halloween, I guess you could say it’s a magical time around these parts. Never mind the fact I pretty much watch horror movies every single day of the year anyway, I’ll just play along and go with it damn it! But above the movies (which I watch year around anyway) the candy tends to stand out. Me personally, I like the little boxes of NERDS, and the gummy eyeballs, all that type of stuff. I recall many a Halloween nights when I’d go trick or treating and load up on all sorts of goods, but the one thing that would knock some cool points off my night faster than anything is when someone would drop Candy corn in my bag.
In an attempted to look smart and researched, I looked up some info on Candy corn for this post. Candy corn was created in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Wunderlee Candy Company, the three colors of the candy mimic the appearance of kernels of corn. Each piece is approximately the size of a whole kernel from a ripe or dried ear. And for all you health nuts out there, Candy corn is made primarily from sugar, corn syrup, artificial coloring and binders.A serving size of 22 pieces contains 140 calories and no fat..And it still taste like the dullest of flavor one could ever imagine. Like trying to chew a slightly flavored small soft ball of rubber..I just find the stuff to be horrible! Nightmare-ish even!
I mean I don’t even like the alternate flavors of it that you can find around these days. I just have to wounder why many of you will spend assorted nights this month watching a boring black and white movie (I give a pass to Night of the Living Dead), a movie edited for TV, or a movie that’s been on a zillion times over, with smiles while you stuff your faces with this boring…candy? I just don’t get the appeal. But it’s different strokes for different folks I guess. But I have you all know I’ll be eating this good stuff this month! The stuff that’s so sour it makes your mouth pucker! So please please please, keep this tired old boring stuff you call candy away from me.
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