Humor Me

I guess there is no Candy Corn Appreciation Society, because I thought for sure that I would peeve someone for dissing their favorite Halloween candy in the Too Old to Trick or Treat column. But just a few people said they like candy corn and others rated it very low, including one person who told me his dog wouldn't eat it. (I know my dog would, however.)

Here are some of the other responses:

From Ken in Grand Prairie
You never get too old to trick or treat but at some point you switch from a candy bag to a martini glass. Every year my dad would trick or treat with his martini glass and within a half hour he would be the leader of at least a dozen really happy old guys stumbling around the neighborhood.

From John
I'm sure you'll be inundated with emails about eating candy corn, but I'm not going to be intimidated by the volume of candy corn eaters.

I do eat candy corn. I just don't eat as much as my wife.

I would discourage older trick-or-treaters though. The guy with the mustache doesn't get anything at my house. Let him get in his car and buy his own.

From Debbie
I really never liked candy corn either as it is too sweet. But we just visited my sister's and she had mixed it with salty peanuts and my husband loved it. I thought it was certainly a better way to eat it too. I even made some with caramel apple candy corn (can you believe that?) and it was even better in my opinion. But in answer
to your querie isn't it like fruit cake????? Apparently not.....we tried to buy some
for the mix and Albertson's was out (that is why I bought the caramel apple) so
we tried Market Street and they said they had been out for weeks and that
wal-Mart was out too!!! So what does this tell you? I think you have given
candy corn a bad rap and it does not rank in the same class as fruit cake!!!

MW: Maybe those stores didn't order any candy corn this year because nobody ate it last year. (Seriously, isn't there some kind of candy corn fan club that can really get testy with me? It would make a good blog.)