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On Candy Corn

I wandered into Marc's Discount Store in Lakewood. I don't recall what I was supposed to buy, but the way the store is arranged (and perhaps the way I am arranged) leads one close to the Halloween candy. Oh, yeah, I remember. I was supposed to pick up little Milky Way bars for grand experimentation -- something about won-ton wrappers and little Milky Way bars and deep frying and dusting with powdered sugar and eating. But that's another story.

I was disoriented by the paucity of Halloween candy. There was no Brach's candy corn! Horrors! What was I going to do. For the last couple weeks, candy corn has been one of vegetables the Food Pyramid requires me to eat several times a day.

And don't ask me to prove that it's a vegetable. It's CORN. It's what those First Thanksgiving Pilgrims ate. CORN syrup is an ingredient. And isn't SOY a vegetable? SOY is an ingredient. There are those who think that SOY is a very good vegetable food. Vegans eat it with great gusto. I've heard women ordering SOY lattes in Starbucks.

I once ordered a SOY latte -- people stared at me and, zombie-like, started to surround me -- "It's not for me," I screamed; "It's for Suzanne." They backed off; several followed me, apparently to determine whether "Suzanne" really existed.

So, candy corn is technically a vegetable.

To continue before you so rudely interrupted me with the vegetable question, as I said, I saw no Brach's candy corn. In a moment of panic, I bought Blueberry Hill Foods candy corn. I realize that people have different tastes when it comes to corn. Some people like corn on the cob, some cream corn, some Niblets in butter sauce.

And there might be a couple people who like Blueberry Hill Foods candy corn, but I am not counted among them. "Made with Real Honey!" "A Fat Free Food!" Gimmicks, I say.

The Blueberry Hill Foods candy corn has a very slight cherry flavor. Maybe the Real Honey is cherry blossom honey, but the cherry flavor is definitely present. In my mind, there are only a few places for cherry flavor -- 1) cherry pies, of course, 2) Breyer's Cherry Vanilla ice cream, and 3) Smith Brothers or Luden's cherry cough drops.

Is candy corn on that list?

Posted by Bill at October 26, 2010 08:42 PM