• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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      Candy corn is a small, pyramid-shaped candy, typically divided into three sections of different colors, with a waxy texture and a flavor based on honey, sugar, strawberry, and vanilla.It is a staple candy of the fall season and Halloween in North America.

      Candy corn’s traditional colors of yellow, orange, and white represent the colors of the fall harvest, or of corn on the cob with the wide yellow end resembling a corn kernel.

      Candy corn has a reputation for generating polarizing responses, with articles referring to it as “Halloween’s most contentious sweet” which people either “love” or “hate”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_corn

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        Candy corn’s traditional colors of yellow, orange, and white represent […] corn on the cob with the wide yellow end resembling a corn kernel.

        This is why it’s called candy corn. Because, when stacked, it starts to look like corn on the cob.

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        … with a waxy texture and a flavor based on honey, sugar, strawberry, and vanilla.

        Wait, wut? There’s supposed to be different flavors? I just tasted sugar, sugar, and sugar (… and I love 'em).

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        Huh, for some reason I had assumed candy corn was that popcorn spayed with that colourful sweet crap. Now I need to seek out some of this so I can have a new hatred.