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thiccabod posted:Just an all around unpleasant woman, right to the end. Died literally during the Super Bowl one year. Mid-game. Chargers vs 49ers, whenever that was
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i like circus peanuts but then it seems i like all the bad candy, unless it's green apple flavored
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candy corn gets an unfair rap. It's by far one of the better options among the canonically "bad" candies; there's a huge gulf between it and circus peanuts. bad candy tier list: S tier: tootsie rolls, milk duds, raisinets A tier: candy corn B tier: C tier: dots D tier: F tier: circus peanuts, sweethearts, smarties (USA), black licorice spawn of satan tier: necco wafers
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Dots are great, especially when eaten alongside their largely ignored licorice counterparts. I am prepared to stake my life on this opinion
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DontMockMySmock posted:candy corn gets an unfair rap. It's by far one of the better options among the canonically "bad" candies; there's a huge gulf between it and circus peanuts. Sweethearts and smarties are great, F candy corn and raisinets. I've never had NECCO wafers, but they're from Boston and are likely part of the black mass.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:This actually whips rear end, I've done it before. You can also vacuum seal cut watermelon with flavored syrups (like jalapeño) and it forces it into the melon and makes it taste incredible. Oh yeah, no arguments there, it's very effective. Sorry to the other goon who I inadvertently triggered their PTSD.
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Sep 15, 2022 08:49
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Ninurta posted:Sweethearts and smarties are great, F candy corn and raisinets. I've never had NECCO wafers, but they're from Boston and are likely part of the black mass. if you like the chalkiness of sweethearts and smarties, you'll LOVE the rock-hard limestone of necco wafers
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DontMockMySmock posted:if you like the chalkiness of sweethearts and smarties, you'll LOVE the rock-hard limestone of necco wafers There's two tiers of sweehearts: the chalky Valentine ones, and the ones that have actual flavor, crunch, and embossed lettering. Edit: The latter are probably Sweet Tarts, in hindsight. Point taken.
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Yeah I used to hoard SweetTarts against the coming of the kid apocalypse. They were the center of my universe. Hell I want some now. If they're not all 120% blue raspberry now. Reading that I was like, Sweethearts? wtf are those? Oh you mean those heart things with the messages from Valentine's day boxes? Who even counts those
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Sep 15, 2022 09:59
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First of May posted:I think we can all agree that Necco wafers are the worst candy. I have a roll of Necco wafers in my cabinet right now. Name another widely-distributed candy that has the following flavors: Lemon Lime Wintergreen Cinnamon Orange Licorice Chocolate Clove There's nothing like it.
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I accidentally figured out sweet tarts and coke before mentos and diet coke started making the rounds drat I kinda miss sweet tarts they must just be sugar and citric acid and "flavors" but such is candy
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Yeah eventually I realized I could just keep a thing of citric acid in the pantry
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I can eat about 3 candy corns a year before it becomes Too Much. Those three are actually pretty good. But anything more is awful, awful.
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OwlFancier posted:Yes they're literally called foam bananas and I love the little bastards. They are sometimes hard to find but yeah store brand sweets often have them and barratt still make them I think (as they do lots of childhood sweets) I think it was from one of the previous iterations of this thread that I learned that "circus peanuts" are not, in fact peanuts (in the style of those sold at the circus, I guess?). And yeah, bananas are pretty good as far as lollies go. Definitely better than most of the other stuff you'd get in those generic mixed lolly bags (strawberries and cream, milk bottles, jubes, freckles, etc.) Although freckles aren't bad either, and jubes are fine except that the ones you get in mixed lollies are always weirdly hard like they've been stored too long. Or, at least, such was my experience 25-30 years ago.
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rydiafan posted:People attack perfectly mediocre Candy Corn while vile poo poo like Circus Peanuts flies under the radar. They gotta get a holiday deal, is why. Candy corn gets resurrected continually by Halloween.
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Sep 15, 2022 12:33
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Circus peanuts? Gross. I'll just keep eating my Shrimp and Bananas like a normal person.
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Sep 15, 2022 13:33
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empty sea posted:I can eat about 3 candy corns a year before it becomes Too Much. Those three are actually pretty good. But anything more is awful, awful.  I do like the candy apple flavored ones, and I spotted some blackberry flavor ones a week or so ago.
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Tiggum posted:I think it was from one of the previous iterations of this thread that I learned that "circus peanuts" are not, in fact peanuts (in the style of those sold at the circus, I guess?).
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Sep 15, 2022 13:55
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Crust First posted:Circus peanuts? Gross. I'll just keep eating my Shrimp and Bananas like a normal person. God I can eat an entire loving bag of those in one sitting.
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Sep 15, 2022 13:58
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I’ve never had Circus Peanuts and now I feel like I need to try some. Where am I gonna get them? Like can I roll up into a 7 - 11 and get some?
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Sep 15, 2022 14:09
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Are there any other inversions of the British folksy principle where an American English term is terse and literal and the British English is flowery or cutesy? My mind is blown that circus peanuts are literally just foam bananas.
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Sep 15, 2022 14:11
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I love circus peanuts. I will not hide this shame
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Cartoon Man posted:I’ve never had Circus Peanuts and now I feel like I need to try some. Where am I gonna get them? Like can I roll up into a 7 - 11 and get some? Yes, look for the cheap bags of bulk candy and they are always there
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Sep 15, 2022 14:11
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Is there an official circus peanuts brand? I don’t want no fake rear end imitation circus peanuts, if that exists.
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Sep 15, 2022 14:13
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Cartoon Man posted:Is there an official circus peanuts brand? I don’t want no fake rear end imitation circus peanuts, if that exists. They are all bad but Brach's makes a branded version
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Crust First posted:Circus peanuts? Gross. I'll just keep eating my Shrimp and Bananas like a normal person. Gotta add some edible false teeth into the mix 
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Whooping Crabs posted:They are all bad but Brach's makes a branded version Brachs it is then. Pretty sure my grocery store has a bunch of Brachs down the candy isle, gonna try and get me some circus peanuts on the way home from work, gently caress I can’t wait!
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It's genuinely baffling that people wouldn't like them, I think they're literally just sugar and isoamyl acetate.
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they should be marketed under a more accurate name: lovely marshmallows
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OwlFancier posted:It's genuinely baffling that people wouldn't like them, I think they're literally just sugar and isoamyl acetate. I throw up at the smell of bananas so i assume id do the same to circus peanuts
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I read that Lucky Charms were invented because some dude at the cereal company used to cut up circus peanuts into cheerios. So there, without circus peanuts you never get to marshmallows in cereals.
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The standard bananas we currently get are Cavendish bananas, Circus Peanuts, and most other banana flavored things, are based on the extinct Gros Michel cultivar
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I went google image searching for circus peanuts and came across this 5 star rated work of art.
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empty sea posted:I can eat about 3 candy corns a year before it becomes Too Much. Those three are actually pretty good. But anything more is awful, awful. Oh, but have you seen this?  So Vanilla (ice cream) - OK Fruit Punch - Sure Popcorn - OK, maybe if you like Popcorn Jelly Belly or Mike & Ike, sure Hotdog & Hamburger - No loving way. This is like those Taco Truck jelly beans that came out around Easter, with flavors like taco and horchata
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Iron Crowned posted:The standard bananas we currently get are Cavendish bananas, Circus Peanuts, and most other banana flavored things, are based on the extinct Gros Michel cultivar People say this a lot but I am pretty sure it's actually just because isoamyl acetate is a very easy to synthesise chemical and forms the overwhelming majority of the flavour component of bananas, and also apparently pears. It is easily produced as an oily liquid and smells overpoweringly of synthetic banana flavour because that's just what it is. So if you want to make something lovely fake banana flavoured you just dump a bunch of that into it and you get something that makes people think banana very quickly but doesn't actually taste like a banana because bananas are natural things and thus have lots of other elements to them that lovely sweet companies don't care about. It doesn't taste like any actual banana that has ever existed, it just tastes more like a banana than it does anything else.
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Iron Crowned posted:The standard bananas we currently get are Cavendish bananas, Circus Peanuts, and most other banana flavored things, are based on the extinct Gros Michel cultivar Not extinct! Just not commercially viable. And modern tasters have put this candy flavor and haven't found it to hold up. Gros Michel is maybe sweeter with a softer texture, but still doesn't taste like the candy flavor.
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CzarChasm posted:Oh, but have you seen this? They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn’t ask whether they should.
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they didnt have the capability or inclination to do huge ensembles of flavorants in the late 19th century where they invented all this stuff
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