How is it that Easter seems to have the highest concentration of bad candy? Weird! In honor of Easters past and future, here is my homage to all the bad candy out there: MARSHMALLOW PEEPS – some people love these things, I just can’t stand them. I’ve never been a marshmallow fan to begin with, but even plain marshmallows are better than these! They’re cute but, it’s just too much sugar for me. I do have a Peep bunny beanbag, tho – in yellow. CANDY CORN – this perennial Halloween candy has its followers, but I am not one of them. I could never figure out why they called it candy CORN; it doesn’t taste like corn at all. If it’s fresh it’s not bad because it’s still kinda soft, but most of the time when I grabbed a piece or two it had been sitting in a dish for who knows how long. Blech. CANDY EGGS (?) – What ARE these things, anyway? They had a hard candy shell surrounding something like a marshmallow, and they were in every single Easter basket I got as a kid. I never knew what these things were called, other than disappointing. CANDY HEARTS – I used to chow down on these Valentine candies, but I seem to have become intolerant to chalk-flavored sugar in my old age. CANDY NECKLACES – Any kind of clothing or accessories in sugar form doesn’t appeal to me at all. Bracelets, necklaces, fruit roll-up underwear…yeesh. HARD TACK CANDIES – You know, the kind grandma always had sitting in a glass dish. If the bag they’d come from was just opened, then you were safe. Straight-out-of-the-bag weren’t bad for a quick sugar rush, but their tendency to clump together (especially after sitting for a long time) made these things more decorative than edible. JELLY BEANS – I actually like Jelly Belly brand jellybeans, but the original sugary ones we’d see at Easter never really appealed to me much. I don’t know how Jelly Belly gets those specific flavors, but the "recipe" booklet they come with is friggin brilliant. It makes perfect sense that they’d be the company to produce the Harry Potter version of the jellybean: Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. They don’t make the vomit-flavored bean anymore (thankfully?), but just how DO they make grass and earwax-flavored beans? Amazing. PEANUT BUTTER KISSES – These are some of the most disgusting things ever! Like globs of wax that smell a little like bad peanut butter. Eeewwww. BIT O HONEY – put these into the same category as the Peanut Butter Kisses. Yuck. CIRCUS PEANUTS – Another disgusting abomination of the humble marshmallow! They don’t really look like peanuts, they certainly don’t taste like peanuts, and they sure as heck don’t smell like peanuts. In fact, the smell alone is criminal. RIBBON CANDY – I never understood why these things were made in the first place. I guess candy makers of old had to start somewhere, but I’m surprised these have lasted as long as they have. Ribbon candy has the same problem of clumping that the Hard Tack candies have, and as such is generally avoided. :p
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Barbara
4/25/2011 09:15:11 am
I agree with you on some of the candy,but not all.Ask Kevin about candy corn. love the pictures. Keep up the great blogs.
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