@DaveKnowsAll I don’t come around these parts too often but is this just Dave’s second account he uses to ask questions that weren’t addressed in the writeup so he can edit them later with his @dave user name thus bolstering the argument that Dave in fact really knows all?
@cengland0. Honey is processed in a bee’s stomach with enzymes, so it’s nothing like a horse pulling a cart. It’s more like that fancy coffee made from beans that had been eaten by monkeys and retrieved from the poop. I’m gonna guess that’s not vegan either.
@sammydog01 My favorite is good cheese from France is not vegetarian because they use real Rennet from cow’s stomachs. Spent a week in the French Alps with my wife not eating the good cheese, fortunately I have been there by myself before and since for the fondue, raclette and tartiflette
@oldmantick Gross. I went to a cheese making thing and the guy showed us cheese he was aging with cheese mites. Yes, tiny bugs you put in the rind to do something or other. I call your cow stomach juice and raise you insects.
@ConAndLibrarian Simba used to love the stuff, especially the caramel apple flavor. I’m sure Tempest will like it, she likes watermelon and other fruit. But I can buy it on Nov 1 for .50 a lb at Walgreens. And at one piece per day a lb will last her a long time.
@djslack Received my order today: 5 bags of candy corn niblets and one bag of Brick-o-Brach – don’t know why it would have been any hotter than the other 5; it seemed to be in the middle of the others…
I guess that’s the bag I keep (“Would you like me to break you off a piece, dear?”)…
THANK YOU for listing the ingredients!! Some candy corn contains eggs, and my boyfriend is deathly allergic to eggs. This, thankfully, does not, and he ADORES candy corn. Guess what he’s getting?
/giphy hallowed ruby tarzan
@KDemo Nope. I just find it ridiculous and annoying that a significant number of vegans, vegetarians, gluten-intolerant, etc. people feel the need to constantly remind the rest of the world that they’re special little snowflakes. No one cares if you shit your pants when you eat bread. No one cares if you think chickens are mistreated. The self-righteous nonsense is unnecessary and isn’t going to make people suddenly become vegans. Save it.
@warpedrotors - I don’t see anyone trying to take away your bacon, why is a healthy or medically necessary diet such a threat to you?
Everyone here talks about their likes and dislikes, sharing personal preferences is a huge part of this forum. There are friendly ways to tease someone; you don’t have to be mean. Just move on if you don’t like it.
@warpedrotors You are being a dick. I’ve been a vegetarian and celiac for such a long time that I’ve become an expert at it. I help others that are celiac with the experience that I’ve gained. Gluten is hidden in many things such as vinegar so it’s not always obvious to them.
Also some things that claim to be gluten-free are still off limits to many celiacs such as the quinoa mentioned by someone below or products containing oats. Both are usually contaminated with gluten because of crop rotations and the avenin in oats is so close to gluten that it can make a small portion of celiacs sick too.
If you have a problem with either vegetarians or celiac people, you can choose to ignore their messages. I have not, in any way, suggested that meat eaters change their diet.
@MrMark I’m going to guess you make idiotic statements about people you don’t know after reading a few posts on the internet. Wait, that’s not a guess. You actually did exactly that. I don’t watch the news. Sorry to disappoint you.
@cengland0 I couldn’t possibly care less about your diet or diseases. I thought I had made that pretty clear already. Yet you still feel the need to share your pants-shitting diagnosis with me. If you think I’m a dick, maybe you should ignore my posts. I’m not sensitive enough to need to ignore yours. Good luck with your inferior genetics, and I hope meh has a deal on adult diapers for you in the near future. You’re kinda like an adult. You just whine like a child.
@MrMark Yes. The definition of a badass is someone who doesn’t care when other people shit their pants. Are you really that sensitive? Do you need a hug and a tissue?
@huja So far, my i-p organs have been keeping up with my sweet tooth (with no complaints that I’ve heard – of course my hearing’s not so good anymore).
So most of those cute things to make with candy corn are not made of candy corn. They are sweets like cakes, cookies, and other treats made to look like candy corn, but most don’t use any actual candy corns.
You remember when you were little, and you did something so blatantly bad that your parents didn’t even bother breaking out the paddle?
Remember when they said “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.” and it cut to the bone so hard and you felt so bad that you ruined your mom’s best tablecloth?
Well I hope you feel that way, Meh.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed in candy corn. (EDIT A WORD) I wish it were 7 pounds of cotton candy. I’m tired and it’s late.
Brach’s is definitely the only candy corn I’ll eat. Most of the off-brand stuff is too grainy. If these were the kind that are brown where these are yellow (I’ve heard them called “Indian Corn”) it would be an auto-buy. As it is I’ll have to sleep on it. I don’t want to bring them to work. Too many of my co-workers are already on the diabetes fast-track.
This is the most glorious thing I have seen for sale on Meh in ages. I revel in it. Thank you for the power of 7lbs of candy corn in August.
Literally the only thing stopping me from ordering this is that it is a billion degrees out and I don’t want $100 of candy corn in the form of six bags containing a single melted candy corn each.
@sammydog01 Now if there were mellowcreme pumpkins in there too, I don’t think my willpower would survive at all and I’d be in for three faster than you could say Wilford Brimley.
While I appreciate an ingredient list being posted, it is equally important to many of us that you list allergen warnings. In this case, according to Brach’s site, “This product was manufactured in a facility where milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soy are used in the production of other products.” Can someone at meh check a package and confirm this information?
@therealjrn The packaging here is different from that shown on Brach’s site, which could mean it was produced in another plant with different, more, or fewer possible allergens. Families with food allergy concerns learn to read every package, because those warnings can vary by where or when it was packaged.
@gio If I had such a bad allergy, I would not take the chance on mail-order food. But I didn’t order it because I have a sugar allergy. I’d eat up all 7 pounds in one week.
@warpedrotors Nope. We don’t buy plenty of things because we can’t be sure about ingredients or manufacturing processes. However, not everyone stops to think about it during the heated pursuit of a deal so it would be nice to have allergen information front and center. Meh was considerate enough to list ingredients, so I’m suggesting it wouldn’t take much extra effort to also add the possible allergen cross-contamination warning. I’m not surprised when it doesn’t happen, but I am always gratified when someone considers those of us trying to shop carefully for our allergy-challenged families.
@therealjrn We always double-check anything we buy online after we receive it. Many sites are getting better about listing ingredients, nutrition and allergens, but you have to be careful when dealing with a life-threatening allergy to make sure that the information is current.
I was about to get down on this, read the ingredients just to check, and there it was: GELATIN, like a slap in every face of my past 10 Halloween costumes. Now I know. Thanks, Meh, for enlightening me, saving me money on candy corn that I’ll never again buy, and showing me just how easy it is to not look something up when you never buy, instead opting for candycorn handouts at every turn.
Hey Meh - You forgot to put the serving size in your “nutrition” facts. I’m guessing that it isn’t an ounce, given that an ounce is about 28.35 grams and you’re showing 36 grams of carbs in there. OR, it’s a miracle of food science.
7 lbs of candy corn (almost)…? You’d have to constantly be giving this stuff away to down it all in five months else make it your main course, snacks and late night raids instead of real food… Think my hens would develope a sweet taste if I fed them these instead of real corn? Oh, hell, I’ll give it a shot.
Let us have a holiday that is based on a huge, barely edible squash and an obscene amount of sugar consumption. Now let’s put this horrible squash in everything. Lifesavers. KoolAid. Breakfast cereal. Hand Soap. Pasta. Scented candles. Deli meats. Anti-perspirant. Oh, donuts you say?
A donut filled with pumpkin mush looks like the contents of a full diaper. Admit it. If you’re a parent, you’re NODDING. Yeah you are…
Now, during the middle of the summer, in fucking AUGUST let us fill the seasonal aisles of supermarkets with mammoth displays of turkeys, grinning skulls and bags of “realistic!” eyeballs that are somehow related to the diabeetus/squash holiday.
Pro candy corn here. But even more so, pro buying it at 75% off after Halloween. Candy corn is the one item you can guarantee they’ll have plenty of after the holiday.
@dave So at $5/shipping does that cover a half a ton of postage? LOL. Oh wait. I forgot. Meh adjusts the price to account for actual postage costs. Bleh on candy corn though. Way, way too sweet.
How the fuck is noone commenting on the insane notion that 7 lbs of candy corn for $102!!! is supposedly an accurate price merely because some third rate vendor on Amazon sold it at that price???
It should be noted that the expensive Amazon candy corn is not the same kind - it is Classic Candy Corn. Classic Candy Corn is made in small batches and aged over fifty years in dirty plastic bags.
@Melodius I’ve been told that these Amazon items with ridiculous prices are just placeholders for items that sold out or need to be placed on hold for some reason. I’ve also seen speculation that some are money laundering schemes.
I think the candy corn in my Halloween jar from a few years ago would be sad if I bought new candy corn that also won’t get eaten.
But maybe I should get it and give it to the teenagers who show up without a costume and with nary a word, shove their backback at us for candy…
Is anyone else concerned they’ve sold 2 tons of this stuff and still haven’t sold out yet? Someone in purchasing had high expectations of American sweettooths
The last bags of candy corn I bought cost around 7 cents for a small bag after Halloween one year. They were the more interesting flavors like apple pie, caramel macchiato, and pumpkin spice(maybe?). It took my brother roughly a year and a half of visiting to finally eat them all. Whenever he’d open a bag, I might eat two and that was too much. I love sweets, but candy corn just makes me feel sick.
One bag somewhat beat up, three bags partially melted, two bags bricked. I can’t imagine what could have happened on the trail from Texas to Virginia in August that could have caused this.
/giphy outrage
I don’t wanna know what happened to these during shipping. The white plastic bag they were shipped in was almost black from shipping dirt! 2 bags appear normal, 1 is okish, 2 are bricks and 1 looks like it was bricked and then pulverized.
@Barney It could be a tale worthy of becoming a comic book hero’s origin story…however, I would prefer to discover the other worldly cosmic powers that I will be instilled with upon consumption of said bags for myself rather then have the discovery of my life altering abilities be spoiled by a overly chatty piece of candy.
Mine are still on the road…well…figuratively speaking. I hope they aren’t actually out on the road. If FedEX tracking is to be believed they are supposed to be in a 12x9x5 in. package. I hope that means a box, and I hope they’re relatively in good shape.
Good enough to scoop out for those bratty teenagers who show up without a costume or anything.
@sammydog01 Yay! Mine came boxed! One was a little smushed on the bottom but was ok. So I’m all set. I can use my cat food scoop and a little bucket or something to serve.
I figure if any of the “too cool for a costume” teens complain, I’ll have to explain that unwrapped candy corn is for unwrapped (no costume) goblins. Hopefully there won’t be a sale on raw eggs and TP that week.
@Thumperchick@sammydog01 I did order very late in the day. I wasn’t going to get any but thanks to tHumperchick’s idea of filling those little stinker’s backbacks with scoops of candy corn was too hard to resist.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
6x 18.5oz Bags of Candy Corn
Pictures
Bags of candy corn
Bag of candy corn
Candy corns
Use them for decoration
Because you sure as hell shouldn’t eat them
Price Comparison
$101.94 (for 6) at Amazon
Warranty
None, sorry
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Nov 17 - Monday, Nov 21
Holy shit!!
@jsh139 that’s what you’ll have if you eat all of this at once…
@eeterrific haha, indeed
/giphy puke!
@medz The rare double reversal! That’s a real pro move right there.
@djslack Don’t miss the no-look transfer!
Happy Halloween Fool’s Day!
@KDemo Yeah it is probably that old - like a year old. Wonder if this stuff gets stale or if in 1000 years they could eat it like it was new.
and when did these expire?
[edit by @dave: These are “Best If Sold By January 2018”]
@DaveKnowsAll Anyone had stale candy corn before? It’s horrible!
@DaveKnowsAll agreed, I’d be tempted if I knew I wasn’t buying 7 lbs of rock hard sugar
@DaveKnowsAll Right around the time they stopped calling World War I “The Great War.”
@DaveKnowsAll @smigit2002 These are “Best If Sold By January 2018”
@Kerig3 Candy Corn is horrible even if it’s not stale.
What’s next week’s two for Tuesday. Candy styrofoam circus peanuts.
@OnionSoup Damn I like those.
@OnionSoup Probably one of the only candies worse than candy corn: circus peanuts.
@DaveKnowsAll I don’t come around these parts too often but is this just Dave’s second account he uses to ask questions that weren’t addressed in the writeup so he can edit them later with his @dave user name thus bolstering the argument that Dave in fact really knows all?
If so, great scam dude.
Rot your teeth!
@mcemanuel Oh, this isn’t the healthy kind of candy?
Gelatin makes it non vegetarian. Pass.
@cengland0 Meat based candy tastes best with a little ketchup on it.
@cengland0 Your diet is a comment??
@cengland0 This is how you know someone is a vegetarian just so they can tell people they’re a vegetarian.
@cengland0 The honey makes it non vegan.
@therealjrn Really? Isnt honey made from nectar that is gathered by bees.
@cengland0 Exploiting the labor of bees is non-vegan.
@cengland0 Yes, and my vegan BFF will not eat it. She says it is bee snot.
@SSteve Im only vegetarian, not vegan so I have questions. If the farm was plowed by horses, does that mean the carrots are not vegan?
@cengland0 The no honey rule for vegans is fairly common but not as universal as say, no bacon for vegetarians.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@cengland0 Of course, if the honey and gelatin were left out to make veg(etari)an candy corn, then the 5 five artificial colors would be just fine.
@therealjrn What?! No bacon for vegetarians? That’s just mean.
@mehcuda67 Tortured baby cows taste better than bacon-- the shorter the chain the better.
@cengland0. Honey is processed in a bee’s stomach with enzymes, so it’s nothing like a horse pulling a cart. It’s more like that fancy coffee made from beans that had been eaten by monkeys and retrieved from the poop. I’m gonna guess that’s not vegan either.
@sammydog01 My favorite is good cheese from France is not vegetarian because they use real Rennet from cow’s stomachs. Spent a week in the French Alps with my wife not eating the good cheese, fortunately I have been there by myself before and since for the fondue, raclette and tartiflette
@oldmantick Gross. I went to a cheese making thing and the guy showed us cheese he was aging with cheese mites. Yes, tiny bugs you put in the rind to do something or other. I call your cow stomach juice and raise you insects.
@sammydog01 mmmm cheese mites…now that I think about it, my vegan friend called honey bee vomit.
@therealjrn
/giphy honey bee vomit
@sammydog01 I should of said: “honey, bee vomit.”
/giphy "honey, bee vomit."
@sammydog01 and here I thought you were going to raise him mold or something. Oh wait. That is penicillin isn’t it?
@cengland0 eventually, yes.
I LOVE candy corn!!! Please, if you have any left, send it all to me!!!
/giphy candy corn rocks
@ConAndLibrarian Was that the Meh goat testing team?
@ConAndLibrarian This candy corn rocks after January 2018. Until then, you can eat it.
@ConAndLibrarian Simba used to love the stuff, especially the caramel apple flavor. I’m sure Tempest will like it, she likes watermelon and other fruit. But I can buy it on Nov 1 for .50 a lb at Walgreens. And at one piece per day a lb will last her a long time.
@moondrake I was about to go for some of this when I realized that it is way more than the 49 to 99 cents a pound that I usually pay for candy corn.
Sorry I only eat their pumpkin ones.
/giphy pumpkin candy corn
Had me at candy. Lost me at corn.
Lost me at corn. Had me at hole.
/giphy whaaaa?
7 pounds of candy corn sitting in a FedEx truck in August… I’m likely to get 6 bricks of candy corn.
Brick-o-Brach’s, anyone?
@djslack Received my order today: 5 bags of candy corn niblets and one bag of Brick-o-Brach – don’t know why it would have been any hotter than the other 5; it seemed to be in the middle of the others…
I guess that’s the bag I keep (“Would you like me to break you off a piece, dear?”)…
@phendrick Time for a batch of candy corn butterfingers.
My teeth hurt just thinking about this. I’m sure my dentist would be ecstatic if I bought it.
@heartny Be sure to get a few bags for your dentist, for the waiting room.
@heartny Go in like this:
Doc, my teeth have some discoloration on them, anything to be worried about?
@heartny
@awk
At least it’s better than having bluetooth.
@mehcuda67 Bluetooth candy corn
https://www.zazzle.com/candy_corn_bluetooth_speaker-256907903916943613
Meh needs to sell these. Much better than Bluetooth Fidget Spinners. Just sayin’
@awk
Definitely not what I expected to see tonight. This is hilarious! Lol!
THANK YOU for listing the ingredients!! Some candy corn contains eggs, and my boyfriend is deathly allergic to eggs. This, thankfully, does not, and he ADORES candy corn. Guess what he’s getting?
/giphy hallowed ruby tarzan
@Jamileigh17 Looks to be gluten free though. I’m celiac and it should be okay but it does contain gelatin which is usually made from animal parts.
@cengland0 Are there any other special dietary needs or restrictions you’d like to share tonight?
@warpedrotors - Do you hate vegetarians? Does it make you feel better to taunt them?
@KDemo I for one, LOVE vegetarians. Especially with a little béarnaise.
@mehcuda67
@KDemo Nope. I just find it ridiculous and annoying that a significant number of vegans, vegetarians, gluten-intolerant, etc. people feel the need to constantly remind the rest of the world that they’re special little snowflakes. No one cares if you shit your pants when you eat bread. No one cares if you think chickens are mistreated. The self-righteous nonsense is unnecessary and isn’t going to make people suddenly become vegans. Save it.
@warpedrotors - I don’t see anyone trying to take away your bacon, why is a healthy or medically necessary diet such a threat to you?
Everyone here talks about their likes and dislikes, sharing personal preferences is a huge part of this forum. There are friendly ways to tease someone; you don’t have to be mean. Just move on if you don’t like it.
@Jamileigh17 That isn’t Tarzan, it’s The Goddamn George of the Jungle.
@warpedrotors This. Exactly this.
@warpedrotors I’m going to guess you are a big fan of foxnews.
@warpedrotors You are being a dick. I’ve been a vegetarian and celiac for such a long time that I’ve become an expert at it. I help others that are celiac with the experience that I’ve gained. Gluten is hidden in many things such as vinegar so it’s not always obvious to them.
Also some things that claim to be gluten-free are still off limits to many celiacs such as the quinoa mentioned by someone below or products containing oats. Both are usually contaminated with gluten because of crop rotations and the avenin in oats is so close to gluten that it can make a small portion of celiacs sick too.
If you have a problem with either vegetarians or celiac people, you can choose to ignore their messages. I have not, in any way, suggested that meat eaters change their diet.
@cengland0 Thank you for sharing valuable information.
@KDemo Did I say I was threatened or that I don’t care?
@MrMark I’m going to guess you make idiotic statements about people you don’t know after reading a few posts on the internet. Wait, that’s not a guess. You actually did exactly that. I don’t watch the news. Sorry to disappoint you.
@cengland0 I couldn’t possibly care less about your diet or diseases. I thought I had made that pretty clear already. Yet you still feel the need to share your pants-shitting diagnosis with me. If you think I’m a dick, maybe you should ignore my posts. I’m not sensitive enough to need to ignore yours. Good luck with your inferior genetics, and I hope meh has a deal on adult diapers for you in the near future. You’re kinda like an adult. You just whine like a child.
@MrMark Yes. The definition of a badass is someone who doesn’t care when other people shit their pants. Are you really that sensitive? Do you need a hug and a tissue?
Stop TEMPTING me!!!
No. How about seven pounds of quinoa instead?
@huja My sweet tooth says NO to the quinoa.
@phendrick Your insulin-producing organs would like to have a word with your sweet tooth.
@huja I would buy seven pounds of quinoa, but not from Meh. Sorry Meh.
/image weevils
@phendrick Don’t worry, you won’t have it for long.
@awk ? Is there any reason you’d think meh would include weevil docks with quinoa?
@huja So far, my i-p organs have been keeping up with my sweet tooth (with no complaints that I’ve heard – of course my hearing’s not so good anymore).
@huja I’ve never seen Candy Quinoa, but I’d give it a try.
@mehcuda67 They’re called Nerds.
@huja gross
What the flying fuck.
@ShotgunX
/image flying fuck
@narfcake This is an actual product, though sadly not available… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002P4J2P8/
Thisiswhyimbroke lists it as under $26. I so would have bought one.
“HATE CANDY CORN!”
@awk
/image don’t be a hater
No, but if you do brachs royal carmels i’m in.
Ooooh, or Bulls Eyes!!! I’d likely kill for seven pounds of Bulls Eyes!
@ThatsHeadly
Oh, the caramels would already be gone!
@ThatsHeadly I was thinking the same thing! Mmmm, royals.
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/other-uses-for-candy-corn?ref=meh_com
@narfcake
Can I order now and save delivery for about Oct. 30?
(or will you be selling leftovers about then, anyway?)
I actually love the pumpkins more than the candy corn. I don’t hate any candy that is in the poll. I chose peeps because that is not candy.
This may be the worst thing Meh has ever offered for sale. For shame!
You… haven’t been here that long then, have you?
lol… love ya meh.
@thismyusername I love candy corn. Non-ironically.
What the Meh? I’ll wait until after Halloween and get it for fifty cents a bag. I like the pumpkins and mellowcremes much better anyway.
@ponagathos I get a bag every year for 75% off. I like candy corn, but one small bag is enough for the year.
Beyond mindless. Not even funny.
It’s not refurbished, is it? (The products the last several days have been.)
@phendrick The BioRepublic SkinCare On the Glow Kits were brand new.
This site is going down!!! Candy corn? Really Meh.com?
Why all the hate for candy corn? I love almost all the pure sugar candies. Mellowcremes I like more than chocolate. Especially the Jelly Belly ones.
So most of those cute things to make with candy corn are not made of candy corn. They are sweets like cakes, cookies, and other treats made to look like candy corn, but most don’t use any actual candy corns.
Now I can finally make my record breaking Butterfinger bar out of candy corn!
http://chocolatechocolateandmore.com/candy-corn-butterfingers/
@scilynt I’ve never seen that site before. Wow. You’re the wind beneath my wings.
I would have to know if this is fresh, or left over…
@D_a_v_e and ruin the mehstery?
Could I get 3.5 pounds for $6?
@DrSayre no, but you can get 14lbs for $24
Let’s talk when it’s the pumpkin shaped kind
/giphy diabetes
@somf69 Is that move the Mooch-preferred “front-stabbing” or “back-stabbing”?
I’ve had those, @duodec. They’re nasty.
Wilford Brimley would be proud.
Easily the corniest writeup I’ve seen on meh so far.
You remember when you were little, and you did something so blatantly bad that your parents didn’t even bother breaking out the paddle?
Remember when they said “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.” and it cut to the bone so hard and you felt so bad that you ruined your mom’s best tablecloth?
Well I hope you feel that way, Meh.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed in candy corn. (EDIT A WORD) I wish it were 7 pounds of cotton candy. I’m tired and it’s late.
SEVEN POUNDS OF COTTON CANDY?!?!??
/giphy YES!!!
@revloki With how little cotton candy weighs, I feel like 7 pounds would be something like the size of the Earth.
@dave, can’t they just package it like the mattresses that get delivered in the mail?
@haydesigner then it would go back to it’s original state of 7 lbs of sugar.
We make cute turkey cookies with candy corn. Then I eat the rest. Looks like we’ll be making a lot of cookies this year.
/giphy wilted icy Templar
Give be the name of the buyer for these and I’ll send them some cookies along with a thank you note. Best deal ever!
At least it’s a good brand of horrible candy.
I don’t care what anyone says, this stuff is great for a gag gift… Plus I kinda actually like candy corn.
/giphy disgusting-universal-shade
@dtl_dvl Okay that’s the coolest-looking giphy I’ve ever gotten from an order.
Brach’s is definitely the only candy corn I’ll eat. Most of the off-brand stuff is too grainy. If these were the kind that are brown where these are yellow (I’ve heard them called “Indian Corn”) it would be an auto-buy. As it is I’ll have to sleep on it. I don’t want to bring them to work. Too many of my co-workers are already on the diabetes fast-track.
Slept on it.
Nope.
This is the most glorious thing I have seen for sale on Meh in ages. I revel in it. Thank you for the power of 7lbs of candy corn in August.
Literally the only thing stopping me from ordering this is that it is a billion degrees out and I don’t want $100 of candy corn in the form of six bags containing a single melted candy corn each.
@jiltant Come on, take a chance. You know you want too.
@sammydog01 Now if there were mellowcreme pumpkins in there too, I don’t think my willpower would survive at all and I’d be in for three faster than you could say Wilford Brimley.
/image wilford brimley
@jiltant I like the mellowcreme pumpkins too but they don’t have that tasty white part at the top the eat first.
Candy corn? Oy Meh! You would have had me at Gummies- bears and/or worms.
No gummies.
this is perfect to pour into a pillowcase and beat your in-laws with when the “weekend visit” turns into 2 weeks.
Just sayin’
@alacrity Don’t forget to eat the candy corn to hide the evidence.
@alacrity and they make REAL shitty margaritas!!
Serious???Meh top 10 ever
I can’t tell if you think it is a good thing, or a bad thing…
While I appreciate an ingredient list being posted, it is equally important to many of us that you list allergen warnings. In this case, according to Brach’s site, “This product was manufactured in a facility where milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soy are used in the production of other products.” Can someone at meh check a package and confirm this information?
@gio You already checked. If Brach’s says it was, then it was. Right?
Or are you just trying to make a point?
@therealjrn The packaging here is different from that shown on Brach’s site, which could mean it was produced in another plant with different, more, or fewer possible allergens. Families with food allergy concerns learn to read every package, because those warnings can vary by where or when it was packaged.
@gio If you’re unsure, just don’t buy it. Is candy corn worth the risk?
@gio If I had such a bad allergy, I would not take the chance on mail-order food. But I didn’t order it because I have a sugar allergy. I’d eat up all 7 pounds in one week.
@gio Don’t even get me started on those half-price TWO POUND boxes of Sie’s candy the day after Christmas at the mall!
@warpedrotors Nope. We don’t buy plenty of things because we can’t be sure about ingredients or manufacturing processes. However, not everyone stops to think about it during the heated pursuit of a deal so it would be nice to have allergen information front and center. Meh was considerate enough to list ingredients, so I’m suggesting it wouldn’t take much extra effort to also add the possible allergen cross-contamination warning. I’m not surprised when it doesn’t happen, but I am always gratified when someone considers those of us trying to shop carefully for our allergy-challenged families.
@therealjrn We always double-check anything we buy online after we receive it. Many sites are getting better about listing ingredients, nutrition and allergens, but you have to be careful when dealing with a life-threatening allergy to make sure that the information is current.
I was about to get down on this, read the ingredients just to check, and there it was: GELATIN, like a slap in every face of my past 10 Halloween costumes. Now I know. Thanks, Meh, for enlightening me, saving me money on candy corn that I’ll never again buy, and showing me just how easy it is to not look something up when you never buy, instead opting for candycorn handouts at every turn.
Hey Meh - You forgot to put the serving size in your “nutrition” facts. I’m guessing that it isn’t an ounce, given that an ounce is about 28.35 grams and you’re showing 36 grams of carbs in there. OR, it’s a miracle of food science.
Seven pounds of crack? Sign me up. Candy corn is my weakness despite what Lewis Black says about it.
@Magna Came for the Lewis Black reference, leaving satisfied.
@kensey I’m glad someone got the reference.
Gross me out the door
With a spoon.
The white tip is the only good part of it. Why not make the whole thing out of the white part?
@medz
/giphy just the tip
@therealjrn
/giphy white tips
@medz Nice!
7 lbs of candy corn (almost)…? You’d have to constantly be giving this stuff away to down it all in five months else make it your main course, snacks and late night raids instead of real food… Think my hens would develope a sweet taste if I fed them these instead of real corn? Oh, hell, I’ll give it a shot.
At least it’s not circus peanuts…
@KitSkyfire WORD!!1!
The favorite of grammas everywhere, @KitSkyfire.
@KitSkyfire I fucking love circus peanuts.
@KitSkyfire that’s funny. I made a similar comment replying to someone above scrolled down and saw you have said something similar.
The two worst candies in the world. Circus Peanuts and Candy Corn.
Let us have a holiday that is based on a huge, barely edible squash and an obscene amount of sugar consumption. Now let’s put this horrible squash in everything. Lifesavers. KoolAid. Breakfast cereal. Hand Soap. Pasta. Scented candles. Deli meats. Anti-perspirant. Oh, donuts you say?
A donut filled with pumpkin mush looks like the contents of a full diaper. Admit it. If you’re a parent, you’re NODDING. Yeah you are…
Now, during the middle of the summer, in fucking AUGUST let us fill the seasonal aisles of supermarkets with mammoth displays of turkeys, grinning skulls and bags of “realistic!” eyeballs that are somehow related to the diabeetus/squash holiday.
We do some weird stuff.
@droopus Pumpkin pie destroys whatever point you were trying to make. Pumpkin cheesecake is even better.
@droopus pumpkin is awesome. (Mainly because of the pumpkin pie spices often added to it)
@droopus Pumpkin Spice ≠ Pumpkin. Pumpkin spice is the spices that go in pumpkin pie.
@warpedrotors To each his/her own, respectfully. Not a fan, personally.
@OnionSoup Pumpkin is an awesome PROJECTILE, I will agree. But I’m not a fan of the taste, though I know others are.
Hey, my wife loves liver and haggis. To each his own.
@SSteve Indeed so! SImilar to Kosher salt. It itself is not Kosher, but is salt used for koshering meat.
Mmmmmm, taste the Diabetes!
(Meh Candy Corn, brought to you by the makers of Metformin)
So sorry but I cannot eat candy corn in any month but October. All my senses say it is wrong.
Besides it is just too sweet, one or two will do ya!
I would do three bags for $7. Almost 7 pounds is…
/giphy too damn much.
Pro candy corn here. But even more so, pro buying it at 75% off after Halloween. Candy corn is the one item you can guarantee they’ll have plenty of after the holiday.
Well, I still have some from last year. Trapped in the folds of my scrotum…
It is probably cheaper in November.
Gag (!) gift for my daughter
/giphy jittery long caterpillar
Good thing it’s Brach’s! Because according to the Brach’s CEO, generic candy corn will give you AIDS! (theonion article).
How is this a deal when I can buy candy corn for less than $1.00 a bag? Nothing like paying the Apple surcharge for last October’s candy corn!
I guess you could say that this is one corny deal.
How many orders would it take to, say, fill a bath tub? Asking for a friend.
This is one (candy) corny deal.
O good god im a dentist the kids will love me and the parents will hate me. Haha ha
My reaction to this sale by word:
$12
About
7
Pounds
Of
Candy
Corn
The UPC would seem a worthwhile substitute when there is no model number. Just sayin’.
I’m going to eat all of this in about a week and hate myself.
Worth it.
"$0.07 per ounce of candy corn!"
6 x 18.5 = 111 ounces
$12/111 ounces = $0.108 Per ounce for VMPs
$17/111 ounces = $0.153 per ounce for non-VMPs
Or am I missing something here. Not that I would buy it anyways.
Made with real Spider Sugar. Doesn’t hurt the Spiders!™
no
@dave So at $5/shipping does that cover a half a ton of postage? LOL. Oh wait. I forgot. Meh adjusts the price to account for actual postage costs. Bleh on candy corn though. Way, way too sweet.
How the fuck is noone commenting on the insane notion that 7 lbs of candy corn for $102!!! is supposedly an accurate price merely because some third rate vendor on Amazon sold it at that price???
@Melodius and how the fuck is someone selling 11oz of the stuff for $70 on amazon?
http://amzn.to/2wLLSPH
It should be noted that the expensive Amazon candy corn is not the same kind - it is Classic Candy Corn. Classic Candy Corn is made in small batches and aged over fifty years in dirty plastic bags.
@Melodius I’ve been told that these Amazon items with ridiculous prices are just placeholders for items that sold out or need to be placed on hold for some reason. I’ve also seen speculation that some are money laundering schemes.
@Melodius that is INSANE and I’m mentioning it.
@moondrake There is also some pretty compelling evidence that bots sometimes get into “price wars” with each other on Amazon – e.g. https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384102,00.asp
I’m just here to express my rage that candy corn exists.
LOL $102 on Amazon. What idiot would buy it for that amount.
@johnwilson4 don’t judge me on the way i like to blow my money Mr Judgey McJudgeFace.
@johnwilson4 If you’ve never tried $14.69 per pound candy corn, you’re missing out. I highly recommend you do.
Seems expensive.
I prefer refurbished candy corn.
@jaimz which you will then recycle at halloween? Do you prefer refurbished before or after it has been chewed?
Comparing to Amazon prices is weird sometimes. You would never pay that high of a price for a pound of candy corn in a store.
I think the candy corn in my Halloween jar from a few years ago would be sad if I bought new candy corn that also won’t get eaten.
But maybe I should get it and give it to the teenagers who show up without a costume and with nary a word, shove their backback at us for candy…
@Thumperchick what’s a backback?
@therealjrn the opposite of a frontfront.
@Thumperchick I don’t want to see their frontfronts. I think the loose largelarge handful of thrown into their backbacks is a great idea!
Can I come to the party in Carrolton where you guys have to dispose of the excess, non-purchased candy corn? it will be epic, i’m sure…
My blood sugar is going to hate me for this.
How much moonshine can I ferment these into?
Is anyone else concerned they’ve sold 2 tons of this stuff and still haven’t sold out yet? Someone in purchasing had high expectations of American sweettooths
Louis Black says it best
As for me, In terms of things that could be sold on meh, I can’t think of a single thing I want less than 7 lbs of candy corn.
these might be ideal for slingshot ammo.
or pushing up my urethra one after another.
either would be better than eating them
/image candy corn cob
Made in 1911.
The last bags of candy corn I bought cost around 7 cents for a small bag after Halloween one year. They were the more interesting flavors like apple pie, caramel macchiato, and pumpkin spice(maybe?). It took my brother roughly a year and a half of visiting to finally eat them all. Whenever he’d open a bag, I might eat two and that was too much. I love sweets, but candy corn just makes me feel sick.
/giphy lean-microscopic-whale
Candy corn…awww “shucks”
/giphy outgoing-docile-industry
How about a fitness tracker for tomorrow to counter all the candy?
@KDemo Nope they are giving audio books so you can lie on the couch and listen with your eye’s shut.
@Kidsandliz
While eating candy corn.
@KDemo Better late than never.
One bag somewhat beat up, three bags partially melted, two bags bricked. I can’t imagine what could have happened on the trail from Texas to Virginia in August that could have caused this.
/giphy outrage
@sammydog01 Perhaps nothing happened. That would be an outrage.
Just add a string and hang the bricked ones out for the squirrels.
@mfladd The little bastards drink my hummingbird food so they would probably be all over candy corn.
@sammydog01
@KDemo I remember that book!
@sammydog01 Same. Looking for recipes that don’t actually require individual candy corns.
@ebrassell Someone recommended candy corn butterfingers.
Melted together in the Nevada desert. Or maybe it was the “PRODUCED WITH GENETIC ENGINEERING PRODUCT OF MEXICO”
Going to attempt hard freeze and then breaking them. Will report back on results.
I would say results were good to great - but aggressive pounding damaged the bag - so you may want to wait until you’re ready to open them
I don’t wanna know what happened to these during shipping. The white plastic bag they were shipped in was almost black from shipping dirt! 2 bags appear normal, 1 is okish, 2 are bricks and 1 looks like it was bricked and then pulverized.
@Raider Aw, come on, aren’t you just a tiny bit curious?
@Barney It could be a tale worthy of becoming a comic book hero’s origin story…however, I would prefer to discover the other worldly cosmic powers that I will be instilled with upon consumption of said bags for myself rather then have the discovery of my life altering abilities be spoiled by a overly chatty piece of candy.
Mine are still on the road…well…figuratively speaking. I hope they aren’t actually out on the road. If FedEX tracking is to be believed they are supposed to be in a 12x9x5 in. package. I hope that means a box, and I hope they’re relatively in good shape.
Good enough to scoop out for those bratty teenagers who show up without a costume or anything.
@therealjrn Mine came in a shipping envelope.
@sammydog01 Well, we’ll always have candy corn butterfingers…I could live with that.
A shipping envelope that made much less noise then you’d expect when shaking it.
@sammydog01 Yay! Mine came boxed! One was a little smushed on the bottom but was ok. So I’m all set. I can use my cat food scoop and a little bucket or something to serve.
I figure if any of the “too cool for a costume” teens complain, I’ll have to explain that unwrapped candy corn is for unwrapped (no costume) goblins. Hopefully there won’t be a sale on raw eggs and TP that week.
Um, @Thumperchick, you need to explain why @therealjrn got a box and I got a crummy bag.
/giphy I deserve a box
@sammydog01
/giphy sammydog wants a box
@sammydog01
@sammydog01 You know they are now going to send you an empty box.
@sammydog01 We must’ve run out of crappy bags.
@Thumperchick @sammydog01 I did order very late in the day. I wasn’t going to get any but thanks to tHumperchick’s idea of filling those little stinker’s backbacks with scoops of candy corn was too hard to resist.
