The Most Divisive Halloween Candy In America

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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. We have made it to Halloween. Yes, today is Saturday, October 31st. And these are two of the most divisive, provocative, and incendiary words you will hear all of the Halloween season. What are those two words? Candy corn. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Say it, and there's only one response you're going to get. Love it or hate it, what is your response?

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Speaker 2: Love it.

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 2: I loved it as a kid. I don't know as an adult that my, my palate has changed, but I know as a kid, look, we didn't, well, that's not true. My mom loved candy. In fact, people called our home Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Nice. But in Halloween, like the month of October, I always felt like there were little bowls around our house with candy corn in it, and I would just nibble on it throughout the day.

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Speaker 1: You don't remember as an adult nibbling on this stuff?

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Speaker 2: Maybe as a young adult, not recently.

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Speaker 1: You make you sound as if you're suggesting that maybe you've grown out of it. So today, as you sit here, you don't know if you hate it or love it. You don't know if I had a bowl of candy corn sitting right here, you wouldn't start snacking.

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Speaker 2: I'd have a couple.

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Speaker 1: You would.

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Speaker 2: I would. I'd have a couple just for old time's sake. And look, it's one of those candies that, yeah, it's kind of disgusting, and yet it takes you back to wonderful childhood memories.

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Speaker 1: You make a very good point, and that is one of the things people love about it, and it's one of the top things, nostalgia.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Before they even get into what it tastes like and what it feels like, nostalgia, it takes them back.

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Speaker 2: It takes me back to my childhood. Here's the deal. If I imagine a glass bowl filled with candy corn, it makes me smile. It just does.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't make me feel that way.

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Speaker 2: So your take on candy corn?

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Speaker 1: Hate it. Get it away.

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Speaker 2: Always hated it.

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Speaker 1: Always. Every time.

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Speaker 2: I hate it. I love the texture of it too.

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's a wax. It's wax. I like it. It's hard, caramelized. It's a wax. I like it. And it's not firm enough to be what candy should be, but it's not soft enough to be what something else.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 1: It's perfect.

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Speaker 2: It's just right.

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Speaker 1: It is just awful stuff. How do you eat it? Because there are even surveys about how you're supposed to eat it. Each stripe.

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Speaker 2: Oh. Yes, I like to nibble. Little stripe, little stripe. And I always wanted to see if one tasted different than the other, but they didn't.

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Speaker 1: They didn't. Okay, I have another question here then. You were never a person to, is that crazy, to pop the whole thing in your mouth to eat it?

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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Every now and then I would, but it would be fun. I'd like to just sit there. I remember just like having it because I wanted to savor it. I wanted it to last. You can't eat many of them. You'll get sick as all get out if you eat too many. So if you eat them slowly, stripe by stripe, you can pace yourself.

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Speaker 1: And I know you don't know for sure, but just spitball here. How many would you say is too much? How many pieces of candy corn before... More than 10. Damn, how do you get to 10? I have a hard time consuming one of those things.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I could eat a lot more than 10.

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Speaker 1: They're almost in the avocado section for me.

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Speaker 2: See, I love avocados.

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Speaker 1: See, and you know.

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Speaker 2: That reads.

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Speaker 1: So here we go. Now, I didn't realize there was a National Candy Corn Day. It was October 30th. Did you know? I did not know. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: It was a day for everything, though, I've come to learn.

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Speaker 1: If I was on the outs, I didn't know. But yes, they'd have their own day. Now, let's give you this. I was surprised. I shouldn't have said that. I'm giving it away. But the breakdown is 56 to 44% when it comes to people loving and hating.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: I was surprised to see which one was the love it.

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Speaker 2: 56.

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Speaker 1: And which ones was that?

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Speaker 2: Hate it. See, I'm not surprised.

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Speaker 1: There are more people that say they love a candy corn than hate it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because it takes them back to their childhood.

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Speaker 1: A nasty ass childhood of nasty candy. That is, okay, is that the number one thing for you or the taste is up there for you?

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Speaker 2: What do you mean, the nostalgia?

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Speaker 1: Nostalgia part.

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Speaker 2: I think it's currently, it's the number one reason why I like it. Yes. But I also like the texture. Okay. And I also, like, I could have three and be like, that was good. And I don't need any more.

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Speaker 1: Okay. There's a thing, and I kind of get what you're saying. Candy canes. I can't remember the last time I ate a candy cane, but I love seeing them around the holidays.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: I love seeing them.

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Speaker 2: That's a very good. Yes.

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Speaker 1: I got you. You just have to buy it. It has to be there. It has to be in the house.

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Speaker 2: I like seeing them in little bowls. I'm sad we don't have any.

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Speaker 1: I got you. Did you know they make all kinds, like a Christmas version?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like that. Blueberry, caramel. No, that annoys me. I don't like the other colors.

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 2: Because it's, you know, you're messing.

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Speaker 1: Wait, not the colors or the flavor?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what they taste like because I refuse to buy anything that isn't the original. I've never tried the other ones, but I've seen them in the stores, and it feels like an affront to a memory. Like, do not start messing with perfection.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. perfection is what you call these things. Okay. Robes, you said they all tasted the same. They do. But your nostalgia thing is getting to me now to where you are turned off by the idea of one being another color. Don't want them to be any other color. You actually got a little more pissed than I thought you should.

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Speaker 2: I actually felt my chest tighten.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is nostalgia for you.

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Speaker 2: Don't mess with something that I love that takes me back. We were just watching, because it's Halloween. Well, it doesn't matter that it's Halloween. We always have a horror movie playing. But you had, was it one of the Nightmare on Elm Street? I was trying to remember which one it was. Yes? But there was just 80s music playing. And you were like, do you know this song? I'm like, no, but obviously it sounds like Duran Duran-ish-esque. And just any time you have something, music, a flavor, a taste, whatever, that takes you back to a time where you were carefree and were looking forward to what was next in your life. I don't know, it just... There's a moment in time that candy corn encapsulates, as does some music.

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Speaker 1: And just to let you know, what did you say? That music, that movie that we happen to be watching. Yes, we are ridiculous horror movie folks. To point out, Robes, you don't even realize what movie we were watching.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: It was Friday the 13th, Part 8. Jason Takes Manhattan. And that's where the music was on, and that movie came out in 1989.

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Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. See, I knew it. I was like, you're like, do you know this song? I'm like, no, but it's clearly a classic 1980s sound with the synthetics, and I just love it. So, yes, much like Candy Corn. It makes me happy.

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Speaker 1: The funny part of Candy Corn is that people love it and hate it for the same reasons. People love it because of the nostalgia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And some of us get annoyed about it because of the nostalgia. Oh, God, Halloween's coming here. I got to see this stuff everywhere. So people have the exact, they quote the exact same things for loving it and hating it. Texture, you love it. I absolutely hate it. How it feels.

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Speaker 2: Waxy. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Biting into it. It'll make up your mind. And then the sweetness. People love that it's just... Hit. You only need a few. It's too much. This is for me. It's too much sweetness. We went back. Here we go. Doing a deep dive on candy corn. Road to 1880s. Who is this guy? George Renninger. He worked at a candy company in, where was this, Philadelphia? Wonderly Candy Company. But he is the guy that is credited with... just coming up with this, and they were the first to start selling it. Now, they didn't make it popular, the Wonderly Candy Company. There was another one called the Golitz or Galitz. Is it Galitz?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. If it's German, usually the E, it might be Galitz.

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Speaker 1: Galitz Candy Company. They're the jelly bean brand company. They have a new name now. But they popularized it, Rose, because in 1898, they took the recipe that Mr. Runninger put together and And they started packaging it and selling it with a different name. I had never heard this before. Would you buy chicken feed for your Halloween candy?

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Speaker 2: Sounds like some crap you'd feed to chickens who, yeah, that's not appetizing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but you have nailed exactly why it became popular. Because at the time, corn was a snack for your chickens. It wasn't something associated necessarily with Americans and eating, but we had a huge farming community. They were throwing chicken feed out. So they came up with agriculture-themed candies. To give to kids to make popular in these rural areas. That's cute. What the hell? Who knew?

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Speaker 2: It's funny because I grew up eating, when I think of eating candy corn, I think of where we lived right outside of St. Louis, Missouri. So we were right there in the middle. We had farmlands all around us. I'm eating candy corn. I mean, that reads.

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Speaker 1: But they marketed it initially just agriculture-themed stuff. That's funny. And they called it chicken feed.

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Speaker 2: Ew.

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Speaker 1: It's how it started.

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Speaker 2: Ew.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any idea what's in the stuff? Just sugar. Does it need anything else?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I would just think like sugar, like corn syrup, all the things that are terrible for you, red dye number whatever. I don't know. But everything that's probably banned or that I guess our Health and Human Services Secretary would completely take off the shelves if he could.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me what fondant is? F-O-N-D-A-N.

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Speaker 2: Fondant. I've heard of it.

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Speaker 1: Is that like a– Well, it's in there. I didn't know what it was. It's some kind of icing of some kind. Does that sound familiar?

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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah. That is what it is. Right.

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Speaker 1: Am I saying it right? I've never heard of it. Okay. Well, the original recipe, yes, had everything you talk about, sugar, corn syrup, and whatever else.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even look at that.

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Speaker 1: But they cooked it to a slush kind of a thing, and then they put in fondant and marshmallows. This is still all appetizing to you.

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Speaker 2: Yummy. Icing and marshmallows and corn syrup and sugar. What's bad about that? I mean, it's bad for you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there it is.

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Speaker 2: It tastes great, though.

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Speaker 1: But that's how it all came about. Are we going to get any of this stuff today? This is our last chance. I haven't had any this Halloween season.

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Speaker 2: Here's the truth.

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Speaker 1: I'm listening.

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Speaker 2: Since you just started talking about it, I was having a little nostalgia for it. But I don't want it in the house if no one else is going to eat it. That's the truth. the problem. We had a few trick-or-treaters last year, and I just realized we have no... candy in our house right now, and in case we have some, I guess, so I do need, we do need to go out and get a little bit of candy today just in case. They're having a Halloween party somewhere in the building, so maybe they're doing that instead of having trick-or-treaters, but we should just have some in case.

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Speaker 1: They didn't give us a sign. They usually let us know if kids are going to be coming by.

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Speaker 2: I did get a notice that we're having a Halloween party.

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Speaker 1: Are we going? It's kind of for kids and their families. But stay here, folks. Would you believe, with all this back and forth, there are a few Key and strange states that make candy corn the most popular in their state.

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Speaker 2: Robes. That reads.

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Speaker 1: I get that. I'm shocked that any one of the 50 states could vote candy corn as their most popular.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it is probably the candy that is most directly tied to Halloween than any other. Like in terms of what is a Halloween-themed candy, candy corn. You don't need candy corn in July anymore. You don't eat candy corn in March.

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Speaker 1: They say Thanksgiving is the only maybe.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. So it is specifically associated with this time of year. So that makes sense to me.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll stay here. We'll let you know if you're in one of these three crazy states that think candy corn is the number one candy out there. Also, we'll give you the results from CandyStore.com. What exactly are the most hated Halloween candies and what are the most loved Halloween candies this year?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, on this Halloween Saturday. You're listening to Amy and TJ, and we are debating, apparently, the candy that has divided this nation. No, we think the midterm elections are dividing folks from a political standpoint. No, look no further than candy corn. And yes, even in this household, we are a home divided.

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Speaker 1: It's a weird, it's one of those things to, we could probably come up with a few other things that I hear somebody likes it. and I actually think what's wrong with that person.

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Speaker 2: You think something's wrong with me? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Like our horror movies. People look at us.

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Speaker 2: People think something's wrong with us.

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Speaker 1: Something's wrong with you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so that's how you're making me feel right now.

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Speaker 1: That something's wrong with you. But it's one of those things I cannot understand.

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Speaker 2: How?

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Speaker 1: Anybody likes this stuff?

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Speaker 2: I feel like that when you eat frog legs. So like the same way I feel about you watching frog legs. That's a great French delicacy, baby.

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Speaker 1: Come on now.

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Speaker 2: Anything that's a delicacy is disgusting.

00:12:38
Speaker 1: The French know what they're doing.

00:12:39
Speaker 2: Delicacy equals disgusting. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: What were we having yesterday? We had escargot yesterday. We were going crazy last night.

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Speaker 2: When you say we, that would be you. I did have some caviar. I tried to expand my palate, but. That was actually pretty good.

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Speaker 1: We sound so bougie right now. This was a normal restaurant that just had a few. Oh, my God. That sounded awful.

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Speaker 2: It's like a neighborhood restaurant, but it had like a tasting tower. So we just got a little adventurous. That was our big Halloween outing.

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Speaker 1: We had escargot. Well, I tried a little of the caviar, but not the escargot.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and then we topped it off with a bottle of, yes, no.

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Speaker 1: Let's get back to candy corn. Okay, let's get back to our roots of candy corn. Yes, candystore.com does have a list, every state. Most popular candies, only three robes, list candy corn as the most popular, according to the survey, in those states. Do these states read for you?

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Speaker 2: That's kind of random. I would have thought it was more the Midwest. I would have thought more like Kansas, Missouri, like where I grew up or spent a lot of my childhood. Utah, North Dakota, and Maryland. Maryland is really a bizarre one. I don't know why I have an idea of what state, but I would think just the Midwest. I don't know. I don't know. Corn.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Farm? Agriculture?

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Speaker 2: Iowa. Who knows? I mean, why not Iowa? Iowa is like anything with corn in it, right?

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Speaker 1: North Dakota.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's next to Iowa, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: I think. Oh, boy. I'm sorry I asked that question.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if I was looking at a map, I could answer that. But no. Side unseen, I cannot tell you. All right.

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Speaker 1: So those three states. Let's tell you. Instacart has their own list as well. This is just... Frankly, what was sold most in the month of October? This is what Instacart has actual numbers on. These are the things that were bought and sold most. This is a pretty, this makes sense, this is mainstream popular type candy.

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Speaker 2: Wait, you're doing the favorite or the most hated?

00:14:30
Speaker 1: Do the Instacart, Instacart, Instacart.

00:14:32
Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry, sorry.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll start here. Number one on that list, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. You like those?

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Speaker 2: I love Reese's peanut butter cups.

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Speaker 1: All right. And after that, peanut M & M' s in particular.

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Speaker 2: One of my absolute favorites.

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Hershey's milk chocolate. People just like chocolate bars. Not a fan of milk chocolate. And then M & M' s. Wait, you're not a fan of milk chocolate, you said?

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Speaker 2: No, I like dark chocolate.

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Speaker 1: Dark chocolate.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Number five on the list, Snickers is not going anywhere. Kit Kat.

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Speaker 2: Love a Kit Kat. Really? Oh, I was so excited when I got a Kit Kat. Oh, my gosh. Peanut butter cups and Kit Kats. And peanut M & M' s.

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Speaker 1: So good. All right. Well, after that. I think Sour Patch Kids might be the best candy on the market.

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Speaker 2: They're amazing.

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Speaker 1: They're kind of incredible.

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Speaker 2: Actually, Annalise basically grew in my womb on nothing but Sour Patch Kids. I was so nauseated that that was the one thing I could eat all day long.

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Speaker 1: It's just a special mix and a blend and how they get those flavors right, go from that sour to that sweet. That's an amazing candy.

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Speaker 2: You're so good.

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Speaker 1: After that, you got the Haribo gummy bears.

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Speaker 2: Yum.

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Speaker 1: Those are fantastic. And then after that, Skittles and Twix round out the top 10. Twix is so good. That's a good thing. Twix is so good. Are they still doing the left Twix, right Twix thing? I never really understood that.

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Speaker 2: I didn't either. I was like, I just eat both of them. I'm confused. Now, what's not on the list, which I'm very upset about, this is also nostalgic. And this is actually a fun fact. You and I, as we were... getting to know each other as friends over the years, we realized we had so many bizarre similarities. And I remember being on set with you at Good Morning America, and we just said, somehow we started talking about our favorite candy bar. And you're not even a chocolate guy.

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Speaker 1: At all.

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Speaker 2: But you and I said my favorite all-time, hands down, no question, candy bar ever, the 100 Grand Bar. And you literally, your jaw dropped.

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Speaker 1: It's the only candy bar I like in my life.

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Speaker 2: It is so good.

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Speaker 1: The only one.

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Speaker 2: It is the most fantastic. You can't find it everywhere. But the hundred grand bar and Halloween, the little red packaging and the little one. When I got those, I would hoard them. I would save them. I would savor them. And they would even get stale because I was trying to make them last. That's how much I love them.

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Speaker 1: They're so rich and delicious. The smaller ones are better bites than having the bigger ones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Hundred grand bars. Yeah. Fantastic.

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Speaker 2: That's what we should just go get a big bag of hundred grand bars. And then that's the only candy we hand out.

00:16:41
Speaker 1: I think we should get candy corn.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

00:16:43
Speaker 1: Because when it's left over, I know I won't be eating it. Don't have to worry about a thing. We'll give you these last two here. The most loved and most hated Halloween candy. This is from candystore.com. This is funny. Take whichever list you want.

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Speaker 2: All right. We'll continue on with the best from Candy Store because I think that the worst is the funniest.

00:17:02
Speaker 1: All right.

00:17:02
Speaker 2: The best from candystore.com. Number one, Snickers. I was never a fan.

00:17:07
Speaker 1: Too heavy, man.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. It was always heavy. Yeah. I mean, I love Nougat, but I.

00:17:12
Speaker 1: Don't even know what it is.

00:17:13
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to figure out what Nougat is.

00:17:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not really sure what it is. Nougat or Nougat?

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Speaker 2: I think it's Nougat. Number two, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Yes, love that. Oh, I do like number three, the Nerd Gummy Clusters.

00:17:21
Speaker 1: Those are new, aren't they?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I love Nerds.

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Speaker 1: Oh, my God.

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Speaker 2: The little Nerds boxes, the grape and the strawberry. That was always my favorite. Yummy. Number four, M & M' s. Number five, Sour Patch Kids. Number six, Kit Kats. Number seven, this is strange, Hot Tamales.

00:17:35
Speaker 1: That is one of my favorites. Between that and Mike and Ike.

00:17:38
Speaker 2: Oh, I do like that.

00:17:38
Speaker 1: That is a fantastic candy.

00:17:39
Speaker 2: What are Bubs, number eight?

00:17:41
Speaker 1: Never heard, and it's all in all caps. It's capital B-U-B-S. Have you looked it up? I didn't take the time.

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Speaker 2: You know what? Number nine, Twix, and number 10, oh my God, I was going to tell you my most hated, my most hated Halloween candies, and it just came in at number 10 as the best Halloween candy, Butterfinger. I hate those things.

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Speaker 1: Is that special? It's like an.

00:18:01
Speaker 2: Orangey, crusty peanut butter thingy.

00:18:03
Speaker 1: It flakes up a lot. I hate it.

00:18:05
Speaker 2: There was something about it that made me gag.

00:18:07
Speaker 1: To each his or her own. Sorry, Butterfinger people, we are not. It's a wonderful candy.

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Speaker 2: My mom, it is her favorite candy. My mom's two favorites are Butterfingers and what's the other one that I hate? Butterfingers and Baby Ruths. I hate those. Those are my mom's favorites. I remember when I would get the Halloween candy, you dump it out, you trade with your brother or your sister. I would give my mom all the Butterfingers and all the Baby Ruths because I hated them.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple on the worst list here I don't know. Number five and number seven. I actually don't know it all.

00:18:43
Speaker 2: I don't either. Nope. Okay, the number one most hated Halloween candy.

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Speaker 1: Again, this is from candystore.com. This is based on a survey, not sales, but they asked people, what is your most or least favorite Halloween candy? This is the answer.

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Speaker 2: This is embarrassing to me because the top two I love. Candy corn is the number one most hated Halloween candy. And number two, we used to buy these in my family, buy the, like, constantly. Circus peanuts.

00:19:05
Speaker 1: Those orange peanuts. I love those.

00:19:08
Speaker 2: I love the texture. I love the taste. It's so artificial, but I loved it.

00:19:11
Speaker 1: They have a worse texture than a candy corn.

00:19:13
Speaker 2: I love a circus peanut.

00:19:14
Speaker 1: You should use those to like prop up tables that don't sit evenly on the ground. There's a weird spongy. I love it. What do they taste like?

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Speaker 2: Like delicious marshmallow-y something. I love them. Honestly, the texture makes me happy. It's almost like a, okay, you know when people have the stress, the little stress balls? To me, that's what a circus peanut is for my mouth.

00:19:35
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to eat that.

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Speaker 2: No, but it gives me that same, like, ah, I love this circus peanut. This was my most hated. The peanut butter kisses. Those were the candies. you i don't know it by its name but they were in the waxy orange and.

00:19:50
Speaker 1: Black kisses The regular chocolate kiss.

00:19:53
Speaker 2: Oh, the peanut butter kiss.

00:19:54
Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a peanut butter one. I didn't even know that.

00:19:56
Speaker 2: The peanut butter kisses I thought were the ones. Remember, it was like a peanut butter flavored taffy that was in a orange waxy, and it had twists on the end, and the black, it came in orange and black.

00:20:08
Speaker 1: We were talking about that. You're 100% right. I know what you're talking about.

00:20:10
Speaker 2: And I hated those. I'm like, what are these? They didn't have a name on them.

00:20:13
Speaker 1: Those little things, yeah.

00:20:14
Speaker 2: They didn't have a name on them. And people would just, you know, you'd go and you'd see it in the basket and you'd try to avoid getting them because they taste disgusting.

00:20:22
Speaker 1: I thought it was a Hershey's Kiss that they made in peanut butter.

00:20:24
Speaker 2: No, no. Those are the wax. You only see them at Halloween in orange and black wax. Those were awful.

00:20:31
Speaker 1: Peeps, I didn't know they made Halloween peeps, but I guess it makes sense. The wafers, the Neko wafers.

00:20:37
Speaker 2: I know what they are. Are they like Swedish or they're Scandinavian or something?

00:20:40
Speaker 1: Number six here. Those are so, why do they make these?

00:20:43
Speaker 2: This was disgusting. Wax Coke bottles.

00:20:45
Speaker 1: What was in them?

00:20:46
Speaker 2: I don't know, but the same with the wax lips. I never knew what to do with them. I was like, am I supposed to eat these?

00:20:51
Speaker 1: You know Mary Jane's, number seven, worst candy?

00:20:53
Speaker 2: I know the shoes, but I don't know the candy.

00:20:56
Speaker 1: Eight and nine.

00:20:58
Speaker 2: I love black licorice, and I love Almond Joys, and I love Smarties. I love a lot of these most hated candies. Wow. I love, I mean, black licorice, good and plenties. Every time, because my brother hated them. I'm like, give me all your good and plenties. I love these. Oh, the candy coating with the black licorice inside.

00:21:16
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Twizzlers?

00:21:18
Speaker 2: I love Twizzlers.

00:21:19
Speaker 1: Okay, we're good. Twizzlers were nowhere on any of these lists.

00:21:22
Speaker 2: You know what?

00:21:23
Speaker 1: I'll give you, give me a state. Where are you curious? Before we go here, they have a list. What is the favorite candy in each state? What state would you be curious about?

00:21:33
Speaker 2: New York, because we're here.

00:21:34
Speaker 1: We'll give you New York. New Yorkers like Sour Patch Kids, number one. Hot Tamales, number two. Bubz, number three. Give you a great state of Georgia. Jolly Ranchers, number one. Nerds, Gummy Clusters, number two. And Swedish Fish, number three.

00:21:48
Speaker 2: Oh, Swedish Fish. I forgot. Those were some of my absolute favorites. What about Arkansas?

00:21:53
Speaker 1: Arkansas favorite candy. Number one, Butterfrickin' Finger.

00:21:56
Speaker 2: No!

00:21:58
Speaker 1: That's why I got out of there. After that, Jolly Ranchers and M & M' s. Who else you got?

00:22:04
Speaker 2: Michigan. Ask me.

00:22:04
Speaker 1: Michigan. Number one, Starburst.

00:22:07
Speaker 2: Oh, I love a Starburst.

00:22:08
Speaker 1: Number two, Candy Corn.

00:22:10
Speaker 2: See, I'm from Michigan.

00:22:10
Speaker 1: Number three, Butterfinger.

00:22:12
Speaker 2: Ooh, my mom loves them, and we're all from Michigan. We're all Michiganders. What about Missouri? We both spent time there.

00:22:17
Speaker 1: A fun state. Almond Joy. Yay, I love Almond Joy.

00:22:20
Speaker 2: Number one.

00:22:20
Speaker 1: I love Almond Joy. Hot Tamales, number two. And Milky Way. I like a Milky Way. You like everything on this list, baby.

00:22:27
Speaker 2: I like a lot of candy.

00:22:27
Speaker 1: What's another curious state? California. M & M' s, number one. Florida Skittles. are number one. What else? Let's go with Virginia. What do they do up and around DC? M & M' s.

00:22:37
Speaker 2: Okay.

00:22:38
Speaker 1: Up there. Maryland. Let's see. What are they doing up there? Oh, they like the candy corn.

00:22:41
Speaker 2: We haven't given the West enough love. Let's do, what's Arizona?

00:22:45
Speaker 1: Arizona likes Sour Patch Kids, Nerds Gummy Clusters, and M & M' s.

00:22:51
Speaker 2: All right. This is, it's fun.

00:22:53
Speaker 1: It's interesting to see. I'm trying, nothing out here is too far-fetched or Three Musketeers in Mississippi.

00:22:59
Speaker 2: Oh, I do like Three Musketeers. Again, I like everything.

00:23:04
Speaker 1: Tootsie Pops.

00:23:05
Speaker 2: Nope. Oh, I don't like Tootsie Rolls. I hated getting Tootsie Rolls.

00:23:09
Speaker 1: There is one state that has Tootsie Pops as its number one.

00:23:13
Speaker 2: Which one?

00:23:14
Speaker 1: They're across the river there from us.

00:23:16
Speaker 2: New Jersey? Yes. Meh. What's Connecticut?

00:23:21
Speaker 1: Connecticut is almond joy.

00:23:23
Speaker 2: Yum.

00:23:24
Speaker 1: People like that. I'm looking at the number ones. How about Maine?

00:23:27
Speaker 2: I'm just curious.

00:23:28
Speaker 1: I will give you Sour Patch Kids, Candy Corn, and Lifesavers. It's the only time I've seen Lifesavers on this list. I will give you Wyoming. They're the only ones, I believe, that has number one for them, saltwater taffy.

00:23:40
Speaker 2: I do like saltwater taffy.

00:23:41
Speaker 1: Okay, this is crazy. You don't like pie either, right?

00:23:45
Speaker 2: I never said I didn't like candy.

00:23:46
Speaker 1: We should tell that story one day.

00:23:48
Speaker 2: We can tell that story one day.

00:23:49
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. So, folks, enjoy. This is just fun. It's fun. They put these out. There's a lot going on. On this weekend, we got the midterms coming up. They're trying to get a woman kicked off the ballot in Alaska. There's a murder on the loose somewhere.

00:24:03
Speaker 2: Couple of them.

00:24:04
Speaker 1: Somewhere in the U.S. All this is going on. Let's just enjoy some costumes, enjoy some candies. Be safe. Have a good time out there, folks. And we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm TJ. That's Robes. We'll talk soon.