• @tjarod11@lemmy.world
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      82 years ago

      Ah, the old folks home of America is finally getting hip for the youngsters by putting their hard candy on sticks.

  • Jay
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    272 years ago

    Why Florida gotta do themselves like that?

  • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    242 years ago

    Now, I do like candy corn, but if that’s the favorite candy in your whole state, there’s something wrong with your state

    • Purple
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      132 years ago

      This survey is based on candy bought, not favorite candy. MatPat made a video on why the reason candy corn is a favorite is because it is cheap in terms of per pound basis. If the task for people is buy 1 pound of candy, the answer is hot tamales and candy corn. Cheap candy.

      • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Just supports the idea that something’s wrong down there. Candy’s not free, but it ain’t expensive, either. If all your entire state can afford is candy corn…?

        • Purple
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          32 years ago

          Be honest, if you are at the store and see 1lb for $10 and another box of 1lb for $5 more, you save $5 and buy the cheap one

            • Purple
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              12 years ago

              Parents can be out of touch. I had someone buy sour punch straws thinking kids liked them

              • Flying Squid
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                22 years ago

                My parents bought and gave out those red and orange peanut butter chew candies that are horrible and disgusting and that no kid likes. Worse, they bought a huge amount at once and kept giving out what remained year after year.

  • @Daqu@feddit.de
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    172 years ago

    I once found Twizzlers in a german supermarket for a lot of money. I bought it out of curiosity.

    Do you really like that stuff? I found it disgusting and threw it away.

    • BruceTwarzen
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      102 years ago

      Never buy stuff from the american section. Shit is expensive as hell and not for human consumption.

    • @ShortFuse@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Densely populated areas buy the cheapest candy.

      The size/price ratio probably beats most other candies.

      • @garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        Are Twizzlers and Red Vines not the same thing?? They look exactly the same but they don’t sell Red Vines in my part of the world so I legit always thought they were the same.

        • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          Red vines are a single stick, hollow, delicious and the way red licorice is meant to taste. Using them as a straw is pretty much peak life.

          Twizzlers are smooth, rubbery, taste like plastic, likely are made of it, and instead of one stick, are small whips wrapped together to form a long one. No straw functionality, but the individual whips are a good size for strangling a mouse.

    • Flying Squid
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      Whereas I’m in the U.S. and I love European salty licorice (especially Dutch dubbel zout licorice). Almost no one here can stand licorice. When I tell them I like the salty kind, they stare at me in horror. When I tell them it’s salted with ammonia salts, they look like they want to scream.

    • @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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      72 years ago

      I’ve lived in GA my entire life and literally nobody has ever handed out trolli gummies.

      They all just go for those mixed bags that Hershey’s puts out that end up in the Halloween sections of every grocery store.

    • @ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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      I mean this very sincerely and not as a joke. Just a friendly suggestion. You may want to get your eyes checked.

        • @ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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          32 years ago

          Good for you! I totally used to confuse “i” with “l” before getting my glasses. I was also shocked by how you can see individual leaves in a tree’s foliage with glasses. Before that they just looked like one uniform green thing to me.

          • magnetosphere
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            I found out that I needed glasses while I was looking for a street.

            Me: “Everyone keep an eye out for Willow Ave.”

            Friend: “It’s right there. Next left.”

            Me: “You can read that sign already?”

            Friend 2: “You can’t? Why the fuck are you the one driving?”

            I got glasses the next week.

  • @Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    92 years ago

    God dammit oklahoma, why you always gotta make me ashamed to live here? We really are just the worst at everything.

  • cheer
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    82 years ago

    I’m surprised people actually like candy corn

    • Flying Squid
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      22 years ago

      I like candy corn. I wouldn’t want to eat a bowlful of it, but a handful is fine.

  • °˖✧ ipha ✧˖°
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    72 years ago

    Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi: are you ok?

    (it’s a rhetorical question, I know you’re not)

    • @Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      52 years ago

      To be fair, candy corn gets a bad rap. If you try more brands you’ll find some are actually quite good.

      The worst brands? Popular ones like Jelly Belly. Jelly Belly candy corns taste like flavorless wax.

    • @vivavideri@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      As a north carolinian native, I feel obligated to say that I left the state and only after I left did I get the bright idea to buy a heat gun and make a candy corn cob.

      I don’t even particularly like candy corn.