10.26.2023

Controversy equalizes the foolish and the wise

Love it or hate it, feelings run high over candy corn come Halloween

In the pantheon of high-emotion candy, the classic shiny tricolor kernels in autumn’s white, orange and yellow are way up there. Fans and foes alike point to the same attributes: its plastic or candle-like texture (depending on who you ask) and the mega-sugar hit it packs.
As any right-thinking person will agree, candy corn is the one true purpose of celebrating Halloween, never mind all the witches and the goblins. Stores should be stocked with it year-round but since they're often not, buy plenty of it now. It's got to last at least until those squishy chickens show up at Easter. (They're chickens aren't they? Or ducks?)

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