1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, and dates here in spirit, 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: which is appropriate because this is the kind of a 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Halloween themed episode of short Stuff. Is it not, Chuck? 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 2: It's spoopy? 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: Spoopy spoopy? Is that what you said? For real? 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 2: Yeah? Are you gonna do this bit every year? 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: I don't remember you saying it, so yes, as long 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: as I forget the next day, Yes, every year I'm 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: going to do. 11 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 2: This spooky sboo b y is a lighthearted spooky Okay? 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: Is that your own trademark slogan? No? 13 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: Look it up? 14 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: Okay, I will look it up. Actually, I'll forget all 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: about it and won't look it up, and then next 16 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: year I'll agree to look it up again. 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: We should all pause. Let you look it up? Okay, 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 2: since this is short Stuff, we'll just let the tape 19 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: roll right. 20 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: Oh, look there it is. Yep, you're right spoopy. 21 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 2: No, I didn't make it up. It's a thing. 22 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: Okay. You know what else is the thing? Chuck? 23 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 2: Candy corn? 24 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: Candy corn. That's right, it is a thing. It's one 25 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: of the most divisive candies. It's probably the most divisive 26 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: holiday candy of all time. 27 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,199 Speaker 2: Where do you land? 28 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: Oh, I don't like it at all. 29 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 2: Okay, do you like it? I mean there's a bit 30 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: of a nostalgia play. I don't. I definitely can't say that. 31 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 2: I think it's like, oh boy, this tastes great. I 32 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 2: can't wait to eat it. But like if someone throws 33 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 2: a candy corn in my mouth and I happen to 34 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 2: be chewing, I'll be like, oh, that old, that old memory. 35 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: But I don't go puh puh. 36 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: I got you. We need to get one of those 37 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: house divided license plates, right, sure. So candy corn is 38 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: actually super old. We know it's at least coming up 39 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: on one hundred and fifty years old. They think it 40 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: came out in the eighteen eighties. And by the way, 41 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: thanks big time to history dot com, Better Homes and Gardens, 42 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: Always a Treat dot com, mb Henry dot com and 43 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: candystore dot com. A lot of dot coms in there. 44 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: But the one of the things about candycorn is its 45 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: origins are murky. So people just generally say, yeah, this 46 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: guy's the inventor. 47 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, I mean, are we going to that guy? 48 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: Sh No, let's talk about where it came from. Originally, 49 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: we think. 50 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, because previous to the actual corn, they were making 51 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: these kinds of candies. And that's not to say the 52 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,679 Speaker 2: ones that were shaped that way, in color that way, 53 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 2: but we're talking about mellow cream. 54 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: Yeah. You know those candy pumpkins. Yeah, that's mellow cream, 55 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: right exactly. That to me is quintessential mellow cream, even 56 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: more than candycorn. Yeah. 57 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 2: And apparently they used to make all sorts of phony 58 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 2: vegetables made out of that junk because Americans were still 59 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 2: farming and they could you know, if you had a 60 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: little seven year old, you could be like, you got 61 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 2: to work in the field all day. When you come home, 62 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 2: you're going to get this mellow cream asparagus tip. 63 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: Or mellow cream back choi. 64 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh boy. 65 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 1: You would think these little kids who were being forced 66 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,679 Speaker 1: into child labor, the last thing they would want to 67 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: see in their candy were agricultural products. But apparently that's 68 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: all they had to choose from. Now. The other thing 69 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: to know about this this context that candy corn emerge 70 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: from is that these candies were available year round, and 71 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: the thing that made candy corns stand out among its 72 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: peers is that it had three colors, technically two colors 73 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: and the presence of all color. 74 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. I like that. I like the way you put it. 75 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: So let's talk about the guy who actually is credited 76 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: with inventing this. Probably is who cares at this point. 77 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: He's been credited for so long it doesn't really matter. 78 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's from Philadelphia, and they like to take 79 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 2: credit for everything. So we're talking about George Renninger is 80 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 2: how I would pronounce it, or Renninger maybe, And he 81 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 2: worked at the Wonderly Candy Company in Philly, the Brotherly 82 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 2: Love City. Yeah. 83 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: And the reason why he's credited is that he was 84 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: an employee there and they are known to be the 85 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: first company to start producing these, and I guess he 86 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: was a candy designer there. So Wonderly Candy Company was 87 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: the first to put these out. They were out for 88 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: a little while, and you could, like I said, they 89 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: were available year round. All of these things were, and 90 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: they weren't associated with Halloween. You could find them at 91 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: just about any celebration where they had candy treats. But 92 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 1: the thing to know about them is they were so 93 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: you know, like candy cigarettes or little candy people that 94 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: you eat are candy things that look like other stuff. 95 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: That's what candy corn was originally meant to be. And 96 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: of course candy corn it's in the name, but we 97 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,559 Speaker 1: think of it today as like little kernels of corn 98 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: that you would like eat. It was originally marketed as 99 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: candy corn in the sense that corn was chicken feed. 100 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: So this was basically candy chicken feed. Is how candy 101 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: corn started out. 102 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, because apparently, and this is something that I didn't know. 103 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 2: This to me is the fact of the show is 104 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: that including a little bit after World War One, but 105 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 2: previous to that, in a few years after apparently corn 106 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 2: was kind of like a like a it's not a 107 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 2: vegetable to start right, Yes, it was a garbage starch 108 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: like people. It wasn't on the plates of most Americans, 109 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 2: and you had to have been really hard up for 110 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,799 Speaker 2: food apparently to eat corn as a human. 111 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: It was just for chickens exactly. So this is what 112 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 1: kids were eating. They would go to the store and 113 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: get a box of chicken feed from the Golitz candy company. 114 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: So this is the company that really exposed candy corn 115 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: to the world. 116 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 2: Which is I love corn. Do you like corn? 117 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,679 Speaker 1: Yeah? I like corn on the cob for some reason, 118 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: once you take it off the cob, I think it's disgusting. 119 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 2: Oh, even in like a dish like a Lotte or 120 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 2: like a salad or something. 121 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: It depends. It really depends on the dish. But like 122 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: if it's canned, I mean, oh god, I can barely 123 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: like talk about it. 124 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: You know the old story of when I was missing 125 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 2: that front tooth and I would eat corn, and that 126 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 2: would be little rows of uneaten corn every like two inches. 127 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 1: That was a Mad magazine cover too. I think it 128 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,919 Speaker 1: was so candy corns out there, the genies out of 129 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: the bottle, as they say, kids are eating this candy 130 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: chicken feed. But then by like the mid twentieth century, 131 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: people ate corn normally, and by the mid twentieth century, 132 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: Halloween was very much associated with candy. I think around 133 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: this time is when candy corn really became linked to Halloween. 134 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: It would be weird to see candy corn at Easter, 135 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: but that's how it used to be. Friends. 136 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, but now it's linked starting in the mid twentieth century, 137 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: like you said, to Halloween, and we will take a break, yeah, yeah, 138 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 2: and we'll talk about how you make this stuff right 139 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 2: after this all right. You went to that website alwaysatreat 140 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: dot com and they had a pretty good story there 141 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 2: about how they used to manufacture this, and it's not 142 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 2: a whole lot different than they do it today. Obviously 143 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 2: it's automated today, but back then, you would get a 144 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: bunch of dudes and they would get sugar in corn 145 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 2: syrup and some other you know, magical ingredients, and they 146 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: would cook it and these big kettles and boil it 147 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 2: all up. They would ad a little marshmallow, maybe a 148 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 2: little fond it to smooth it out a little bit, 149 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 2: and forty five pounds at a time they would make 150 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 2: this warm slurry and they would pour it into buckets 151 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 2: called runners, and then these guys called stringers would walk 152 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: backwards down a line and pour this candy into these 153 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 2: little little molds, these little trays in that classic iconic 154 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 2: kernel shape. 155 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, and the trays were made of corn starch, and 156 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: it would take three passes. For some reason, I don't 157 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: understand why the stringers, the guys pouring the candy corn 158 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: slurry into the mold, would walk backwards, do you. 159 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I was trying to think it 160 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 2: might be easier to pour I mean it was probably 161 00:08:58,360 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 2: had something to do with the setup. 162 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I could understand if you're left handed you're 163 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: walking backwards, but or if you're right handed, Yeah, I 164 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: think right handed you'd be walking backwards if the thing 165 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: was on your left. There's no explanation I can find 166 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: for why they would walk backwards. 167 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 2: Well, they are from Philly, so maybe they were just 168 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 2: like we're candy corn stringers, we walk backwards. 169 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, probably that's the answer is as good as any. 170 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: But the whole thing is that we would take three 171 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: passes because they would put the white in, then the yellow, 172 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: and then the orange. And that's how it was originally made. 173 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: And basically nothing has changed except, like you said, it's 174 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: become automated. They use essentially the same ingredients, which are 175 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: you ready for this? It's like you said, made with sugar. 176 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: It's made with fondon, which is sugar water and corn syrup. 177 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: It's made with corn syrup, which is a whole bunch 178 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 1: of different sugars, mostly glucose, vanilla flavoring, and marshmallow cream 179 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: which is made from corn syrup, sugar water and eggs. 180 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 1: There's a lot of sugar in these things, and they 181 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: alt them into a slurry, all those ingredients and they 182 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: pour them into corn cornstarch molds just like they did 183 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: one hundred something years ago. 184 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. Boom, boom boom. They just layer up the colors 185 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 2: just like that. More than and this is according to 186 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 2: the National Confectioners Association. The NCAA says thirty five million 187 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 2: pounds of this stuff, which amounts to nine billion pieces 188 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 2: of candy corn, are produced annually in modern times. 189 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: Yes, and even in keeping in tradition, they make the 190 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: machines work backward for some reason when they're pouring the slurry. 191 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 2: That's right, And are we done? Of course not, because 192 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 2: somehow you found actual survey statistics on how popular this 193 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 2: stuff was. 194 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's a thing. It's been around for almost 195 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years for a reason, and the 196 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: reason is there's some people out there who actually like 197 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: candy corn. 198 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 199 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: I know, it's weird. It's a weird thing to say, 200 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: but it's true. So much so that the National Retail 201 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: Iteration a font of statistics that have to do with shopping, 202 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: purchasing and consumerism in general, so that in twenty nineteen, 203 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of people who shopped for Halloween stuff 204 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: bought candy corn one of them. I wasn't either. We're 205 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: in that weird five percent, but I can't believe it. 206 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: The thing is is, I don't think all those people 207 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: are eating candy corn necessarily. No. 208 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 2: And it turns out if you go on to crafty websites, 209 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 2: there are all kinds of fun little crafts you can 210 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: do with candy corn because it is a you know, 211 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 2: the color itself lends itself to sort of fall feelings 212 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 2: and fall crafts, so you can do all kinds of stuff. Basically, 213 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 2: you can hot glue it on whatever you want to. 214 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: Basically. Yeah, I saw a cute one. I can't remember where, 215 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: but if you spike a pumpkin, you can make a 216 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: little candy corn pumpkin hedgehog. Ah. That's cute, that's adorable. Okay, 217 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: So I found some more stats too, all. 218 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 2: Right, let's hear it, like, oh, I don't know where's 219 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:03,199 Speaker 2: it popular? 220 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, candystore dot Com looked over sixteen years of their 221 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: shipping data. That's amazing to identify the top three favorite 222 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: candies for each state, and candy corn was in the 223 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: top three. It was not the first for any state, 224 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: but it was in the top three for a bunch 225 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: of different states, from South Carolina to Maine to North 226 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: Dakota to Michigan to New York, and then nationwide it 227 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: was number eight. 228 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 2: That's amazing, and we should thank Leslie, the temp at 229 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 2: candystore dot Com that month, who they tasked with doing this. 230 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 1: You're right for sure? Or Leslie? 231 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, poor Leslie, that's a right. Probably wouldn't a bad job, 232 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 2: all right. They also did a poll, and I think 233 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 2: Leslie was in charge of this too, because did they 234 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 2: pull three thousand people. 235 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: Thirty two hundred and forty seven they pour? 236 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 2: Did they pull thirty five hundred? 237 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:52,839 Speaker 1: Nope? 238 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 2: I guess they pulled everyone that they had their email 239 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: contact for, which was like you said, three two hundred 240 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 2: and four, and they said that do you like it? 241 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 2: Do you hate it? Why? And nostalgia, which is what 242 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 2: I mentioned that was one of the big reasons why 243 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 2: people get this stuff. It's something they had when they 244 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 2: were a kid that they might have liked the taste 245 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 2: of when they were a kid, and then as adults 246 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 2: they'll say, well, you know, I gotta I gotta be 247 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 2: in that fall spirit and let's let's grab a bag. 248 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then sweetness was another one for people who 249 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: like candy corn, and then conversely, sweetness was a big 250 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: reason people don't like candy corn. 251 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. 252 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: One of the respondents that it was like biting into 253 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: a sugar cube, and that's pretty close to accurate. There's 254 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: also the waxy texture that puts some people off, including me. 255 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 2: I actually don't mind that part. Yeah, I'll tell you 256 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 2: what though, I haven't had one in years, but it's 257 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 2: an unforgettable flavor. 258 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I have had it. I can bring that flavor 259 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: to mine too, I just I don't want it again. 260 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 2: Essentially, Yeah, I'm with you. 261 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: And overall though, out of that thirty two and forty 262 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: seven Americans, they pulled fifty six percent we're fans and 263 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: forty four percent were not. So that there are more people, 264 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: at least according to that pole, who like candy corn 265 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: than don't. 266 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 2: That's right. And if you thought it couldn't get any 267 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 2: better everybody, Leslie drilled down even further and found out 268 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 2: how people how people eat them. Fifty one percent just 269 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 2: pop it in their mouth and crunch it like it's 270 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 2: a piece of popcorn. Normal sixteen percent start with the 271 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 2: widest bit, which is the yellow bit, and then thirty 272 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 2: three percent conversely flip it over and start at that little, 273 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 2: smaller white end, Which is amazing to me that someone 274 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 2: actually takes that tiny of a bite of something that small. 275 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, some people like that tiny, little white as if 276 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: it tastes any different, right, it definitely does not. It 277 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: should know. If it does, you might want to take 278 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: it back to the store because there's something wrong with. 279 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: The che corn. Yeah, this white part tastes good. 280 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: You got anything else? 281 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 2: I got nothing else. 282 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: Well, we're getting close to Halloween, everybody, which means short 283 00:14:59,440 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: stuff is out. 284 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 2: Stuff you should Know is a production of iHeartRadio. For 285 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 2: more podcasts my Heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 286 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 2: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.