• @tjarod11@lemmy.world
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      98 months ago

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

      • @DragonTypeWyvern
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        28 months ago

        That’s actually a pretty cheap brand if you don’t buy them in convenience aisles, but there’s also no way it’s accurate.

  • Jay
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    318 months ago

    Why Florida gotta do themselves like that?

  • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    228 months 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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      158 months 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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        18 months 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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          38 months 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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              18 months ago

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

              • Flying Squid
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                28 months 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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    208 months 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.

    • @ShortFuse@lemmy.world
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      Densely populated areas buy the cheapest candy.

      The size/price ratio probably beats most other candies.

      • @garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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        38 months 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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          28 months 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.

    • Echo Dot
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      When I was in California I had some Reese’s pieces. They’re were bloody awful.

      Even if American chocolate actually tasted any good they would still be awful because the idea of peanut butter plus chocolate just doesn’t work. It’s not a peanut bar it’s salty peanut butter in, theoretically, milky chocolate.

        • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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          28 months ago

          You’re right; reses pieces is just the hatred version of both. So many other great options that don’t taste stale and weak: peanut m&M’s, reses peanut butter cups, etc.

      • @plantedworld@lemmy.world
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        98 months ago

        Most of the mass produced big name candy in America sucks. But man, peanut butter and chocolate is the bee’s knees

      • themeatbridge
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        78 months ago

        I mean, everyone has their own preferences, and some people don’t like peanut butter. If you’re one of those people, you’re not going to enjoy peanut butter and chocolate and that’s OK because everyone is entitled to an opinion, even very stupid opinions.

  • @tal@lemmy.today
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    A while back, I looked at a list of the most-widely-sold candy bars in the US, and it blew my mind how old they were.

    Like, yes, they’ve seen formulas revised, and they aren’t quite the same thing, but I’d have thought that the advent of technology would let people come up with new and interesting bars. Very few consumer products are as elderly as a lot of these and still selling widely.

    I did a table with a list a while back – the majority of popular bars are at least 70 years old. I don’t want to do up a whole table right now, but let me pick a random one: Snickers.

    Now, I’ve got nothing against Snickers. I like it. But Snickers hit the market in 1930. It’s 93 years old. That means that in 93 years, we haven’t been able to come up with anything sufficiently-better to displace it. That amazes me. In that period, we’ve seen radical changes to our diet and to technology. The refrigerator became widely deployed in the US, the freezer, the microwave. Automats came and went. Vending machines showed up. Year-round availability of many foods became the norm in grocery stores as transportation and storage capability improved. But the candy bar has remained surprisingly unchanging.

    • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      That’s kind of how evolution works. Once you get something dialed in, it just kind of sticks around forever. Happens in other instances as well, like the fashion industry and Blue Jeans. Or Radio. When something works well, we just keep it as is.

    • magnetosphere
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      Also amazed, also content if Snickers survived for as long as possible.

    • kase
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      18 months ago

      I wonder how much Snickers have changed since 1930, if at all

  • @moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    108 months ago

    Ferrero Rocher are candies? These are chocolate. It’s a weird definition of candy to include them.

    Anyway, the best candies for Halloween are Brussels sprouts.

    • @Globulart@lemmy.world
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      88 months ago

      Surely the same is true for m&ms or Reeses cups?

      I thought candy was just generic term for all sweets/chocolatey items in the US to be honest. Is it not?

      • @DragonTypeWyvern
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        It is. Especially in the context of Halloween candy.

    • @Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      28 months ago

      Pretty soon, the kids won’t have to worry about eating Brussels sprouts, because the Brussels sprouts will be eating them!

  • @Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    108 months ago

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

    • @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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          38 months 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.

  • cheer
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    88 months ago

    I’m surprised people actually like candy corn

    • @tal@lemmy.today
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      28 months ago

      I’d prefer it to licorice, which is on there in the form of Twizzlers and Red Vines.

      • @DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
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        38 months ago

        Red Twizzlers isn’t licorice. It’s just licorice like. The black is supposedly real licorice, but I’ve only seen it a couple times. And I never had a chance to try it.

    • Flying Squid
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      28 months ago

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