@PocketBrain I’m not so sure about that. Ingredients for heart-shaped chalk: sugar, corn syrup, gelatin, gums, coloring, and flavoring. It doesn’t quite qualify as “food” but probably won’t kill you.
Candy corn ingredients: sugar, corn syrup, salt, dextrose, gelatin, sesame oil, artificial flavor, honey, yellow 6, yellow 5, and red 3, with a covering of “confectioner’s glaze” - otherwise known as shellac. Red #3 is a known carcinogen and Yellow #6 is known to cause hyperactivity in children. This is what you give out at Halloween if you hate kids.
@PocketBrain@rockblossom
Red 3 is banned in the UK, to one baker’s horror; he was using sprinkles imported from the US, and the red ones got noticed. He says that the English and EU sprinkles are just not good enough, so he’s doing without.
@rockblossom “coloring” meaning…?
I’m not sure I like that ambiguity, considering the listed side-effects of specific colorings.
Also, hyperactivity in children can have the hilarious side-effect of causing fatigue in their corresponding adults. If that’s the sort of thing you’re going for.
@PocketBrain Yeah. I was thinking about the lightly colored (veg dyed) hearts. I just looked up the ingredients list for the Brach’s, and it’s a cancer/hyperactive chemical stew. So those probably are the worst.
So maybe “good” candy to the polite kids accompanied by a responsible adult and Yellow#6 candies to the others?
My answer.
@growyoungagain
Good answer!!
Only if they’re thanksgiving turkey flavored.
/image turkey candy corn
@mike808 Please tell me you wash this down with the Jones Soda Turkey Dinner sodas.
@yakkoTDI If I had some of that 15+ year old Vintage 2006 Jones Soda Holiday Pack, I abso-fucking-lutely would!
@mike808 @yakkoTDI Well, get ready - soon you can!! It’s coming back for 2021:
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/jones-turkey-gravy-soda
Candy corn solo or those nasty pumpkins… no
But throw a fistful of salted peanuts in there and I’m all about it.
@show_the_maw brach’s has a candy corn chocolate covered peanut mix that is damn tasty
I never buy candy corn.
@yakkoTDI I would add that I also never consume wax + corn syrup (i.e., candy corn) regardless of who purchased it.
@macromeh Add it all you want. I do occasionally eat candy corn as well as the pumpkins.
Only if I really hate the kids in my neighborhood. It’s been a long time because I’M NOT A MONSTER.
I buy those pumpkins. They just hit different y’know?
@kjady The regular ones are good but the chocolate ones are strange.
Not even from 1 deal a day sites
@rtjhnstn How about from 2 or more?
there’s a reason it’s the only thing in the clearance Halloween candy.
No, why, what would I do with it?
Bought 3 bags yesterday, ok so they were for a Halloween party game. FYI there were 505 not broken pieces! (I ate the broken ones!)
Candy Corn is for Halloween? Next you will be telling me cream corn is only for babies and elderly.
No.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/candy-corn-recipe-1922150#reviewsTop
Someone tried to stop it being produced:
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/ferrara-brachs-candy-corn-hacked-ransomware-attack
Still an order of magnitude better than the Valentine’s Day Chalk Hearts.
@PocketBrain I’m not so sure about that. Ingredients for heart-shaped chalk: sugar, corn syrup, gelatin, gums, coloring, and flavoring. It doesn’t quite qualify as “food” but probably won’t kill you.
Candy corn ingredients: sugar, corn syrup, salt, dextrose, gelatin, sesame oil, artificial flavor, honey, yellow 6, yellow 5, and red 3, with a covering of “confectioner’s glaze” - otherwise known as shellac. Red #3 is a known carcinogen and Yellow #6 is known to cause hyperactivity in children. This is what you give out at Halloween if you hate kids.
https://cspinet.org/new/201006291.html
@PocketBrain @rockblossom
Red 3 is banned in the UK, to one baker’s horror; he was using sprinkles imported from the US, and the red ones got noticed. He says that the English and EU sprinkles are just not good enough, so he’s doing without.
Leeds baker throws tantrum over sprinkles ban
@rockblossom “coloring” meaning…?
I’m not sure I like that ambiguity, considering the listed side-effects of specific colorings.
Also, hyperactivity in children can have the hilarious side-effect of causing fatigue in their corresponding adults. If that’s the sort of thing you’re going for.
@PocketBrain Yeah. I was thinking about the lightly colored (veg dyed) hearts. I just looked up the ingredients list for the Brach’s, and it’s a cancer/hyperactive chemical stew. So those probably are the worst.
So maybe “good” candy to the polite kids accompanied by a responsible adult and Yellow#6 candies to the others?
Every year, hell yes!!
If you wait until November they go on sale.
Worse than peeps.
@kittykat9180 I, like most people, do not like candy corn, but this is too far.
@kittykat9180 @zinimusprime Candy corn is just leftover Peeps sent through a compactor and coated with floor wax.
@kittykat9180 Nothing is worse than Peeps. Except maybe black llcorice.
If you split the ears of green or purple bunny peeps, they become Cthulhu peeps. This makes them acceptable.
@dyounghbic, and candy corn.
@dyounghbic @kittykat9180 Circus Peanuts are worse. So are chalk…errr…I mean Necco Wafers.
@yakkoTDI, circus peanuts are pretty terrible.
I use them to decorate cookies. Just remembered I need to bake cookies.
I’ve eaten way too much Nerds candy corn.