This time of year, I get very excited about my favorite fall treat… candy corn! I know it’s not everybody’s favorite, but it is sickly sweet and chewy, and I love it. I like to mix it with salted peanuts, so the corn gets a light coating of powdered salt, and then I pick only the candy corn out of the bowl and leave the peanuts for my husband.
When questioned as to why I bother mixing the two, I can only say candy corn is especially yummy with a little extra salt. Candy makers have introduced several additional flavors of candy corn – from peppermint to pumpkin spice. To this, I say – Nooooooo, we have enough pumpkin spice in October and do not need to mess with the perfect candy corn traditional flavor.
I like to eat my candy corn two ways; if I am in a hurry, I grab a handful and eat them two pieces at a time. But the preferred method is to take my time and eat each colored layer of candy corn individually, starting with the white, to the orange, to the yellow. This is a fun treat while watching traditional Halloween movies. My favorite is Hocus Pocus. I even have two black cats, one named Salem and the other Thackery Binx.
It was only last year that I learned that you could stack candy corn in a circle and make it look like a corn cob. Now I discovered that there is a candy corn stacking game!
This is how you play:
1) Give each player her or his own bag of candy corn, or bowlfuls of candy in equal proportions.
2) When the leader says “go,” each player begins to stack her or his own “ear” of candy corn.
3) As the stacks fall into the center of themselves, ultimately collapsing, the players have nothing left to do but eat their candy corn.
4) The winner is the player who has the last, tallest “ear” standing.
5) Everyone gets a prize, eating their corn cob!
I think I will stock up on candy corn and play this game on Thanksgiving!
“The great thing about candy is that it can’t be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn, like the Great Pumpkin, appears solely on Halloween.” Rosecrans Baldwin
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