• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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

  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

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

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

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

  • Case@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    I grew up trick or treating in Texas. Never once did I get Fererro Rocher shit in my pillow sack.

    I did get home made beef jerky on occasion. Spicy was always a disappointment, because my stomach can’t handle much capsacin. I don’t mean I don’t like spicy stuff, I mean too much capsacin leads to ulceration and vomiting blood.

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      1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

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

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          1 year 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.

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            1 year ago

            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.