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| Candy Corn & Musk Sticks; split from the "Americans foodstuffs" thread | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 22 2008, 10:40:21 AM (1,260 Views) | |
| NurseJules | Oct 22 2008, 10:40:21 AM Post #1 |
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haha totally off topic, but my mom send me a pack of candy corn for halloween and both my boyfriend and flatmate were extremely grossed out...poor aussies were just like how do yank kiddies eat this stuff?? and i replied, ummm vegemite? |
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| i<3sydney | Oct 22 2008, 02:18:02 PM Post #2 |
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candy corn is the BEST! you can get a decent sized bag for a dollar or two back home. at sugar fix it's probably like $10+! i'm sooo tempted to call my dad and ask him to send me some, but i really really REALLY need to make a huge effort to stay away from sweets! |
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| deanna712 | Oct 22 2008, 02:31:21 PM Post #3 |
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I love candy corn!!! It is my all-time favorite. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll get a bag from one of my friends back home! |
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| Lisa66 | Oct 29 2008, 04:38:35 PM Post #4 |
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Or, musk sticks?! Have you tried one? OMG - nasty! My daughter got one at the milk bar and brought it to me and said "here mom, try this" ... and it was pink ... and I didn't even hesitate ... and - EWWW! |
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| pastrycook-136 | Oct 31 2008, 08:01:20 PM Post #5 |
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I have tried a musk stick. It is like eating perfume or air freshener. They could also stand in for a urinal cake. |
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| NurseJules | Oct 31 2008, 10:40:19 PM Post #6 |
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haha i've also fallen victim to one of those  definitely gross in my opinion haha
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| KimInMellie | Oct 31 2008, 11:47:06 PM Post #7 |
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Michael tells me they also come in fruit flavours. 
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| TerritorianTori | Nov 1 2008, 08:34:05 PM Post #8 |
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I actually like the musk sticks.  You can also get musk-flavoured LifeSavers.I've tried the fruit-flavoured ones too. They're not as good. |
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| Judy | Nov 1 2008, 08:51:58 PM Post #9 |
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Would this be a good time to mention peeps? |
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| NurseJules | Nov 1 2008, 10:06:00 PM Post #10 |
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haha peeps...now you're talking
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| Pamm | Nov 1 2008, 10:44:33 PM Post #11 |
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When I was a chat host for MSNBC, we had one chatter who was addicted to Peeps. I'd have known Easter was coming just by her rejoicing that they were in stores!  Don't care for 'em myself....what the heck is a musk stick? I thought musk was a perfume. |
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| TerritorianTori | Nov 1 2008, 10:48:11 PM Post #12 |
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Pamm, have you ever had Turkish Delight? It's kinda-sorta like that. Yeah, it's perfume. Perfume-scented-tasting candy. Hey, Peeps are cool! I knew a guy in college who was like that too. Obsessed with Peeps. I only liked the original yellow ones. Blue and purple just didn't seem right. LOL. |
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| Pamm | Nov 2 2008, 05:38:18 AM Post #13 |
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Tors, I am afraid I have to say.. Ewww! I guess some people like that but I don't want candy to smell of anything but chocolate
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| TerritorianTori | Nov 2 2008, 08:18:53 AM Post #14 |
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So you're not much into Willy Wonka, then?  There's lots of good chocolate here. You'll have fun trying it all. I'm a bit partial to Chokito, myself. BTW, just to keep it on-topic, last year we bought some candy corn from Sugarfix and Kirk tried it. And hated it. LOL. "Oh well, more for me!"
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| Pamm | Nov 2 2008, 09:21:18 AM Post #15 |
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Oh I *adore* the original Willy Wonka (and the only one to my mind), Swee'tarts are my favorite non-chocolate candy *grins* Just what a diabetic needs, huh? LOL! |
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| Lisa66 | Nov 2 2008, 05:01:01 PM Post #16 |
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Speaking of chocolate ... I bought a few bags of individually-wrapped Cadbury milk chocolate frogs, you know, in case we had trick-or-treaters. They were 2 bags for $6 at Safeway! And ... I just ate 4 of them. I always do this - overbuy halloween candy "just in case" and end up making myself sick. I'm not even a huge sweet-tooth type (gimme salty potato chips any day) - just something about halloween candy. |
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| KimInMellie | Nov 2 2008, 05:28:41 PM Post #17 |
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Good Turkish Delight is amazing. If it's made using rose water instead of the weird not-really-meant-for-consumption rose perfume, it really is delightful. I've only had turkish delight that lives up to its name twice, once in Adelaide and once in Maldon. Yummmm.
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| deanna712 | Nov 9 2008, 08:32:08 AM Post #18 |
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 I just found out that one of my best friends from home just sent me a big box of candy corn!!!! I can't wait to get it!  |
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| TerritorianTori | Nov 9 2008, 05:15:25 PM Post #19 |
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Yeah, real Turkish Delight is awesome. We used to get it in a local Greek restaurant. It was so nice. 
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| CheekyOne | Nov 13 2008, 03:27:51 PM Post #20 |
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I bought a turkish delight bar the first time I visited Oz.I didn't actually read the label until I bit into it and tasted perfume.Won't do that again..I don't understand the appeal of perfumey tasting stuff.  Give me candy corn any day!
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