Candy corn is a no go

Candy is one of the most important elements of the spooky season. Many people tend to think about all the chocolates and fruity candies that line the shelves this time of year, but one candy in particular makes me cringe when it is brought up as someone’s favorite: Candy Corn.

Now I believe people have a right to like what they like, but I can not understand why someone would enjoy the wax flavored sweet that is candy corn. This candy orgining in the 1880s as “Chicken feed” is far from the peak tier of all halloween candy. Candy corn wasn’t even considered a halloween candy until the 1950s. Before it was a “penny candy” that was marketed to be affordable for year-round enjoyment.

The piece that really sells it for me as a terrible candy is when candy corn was first made, it was made with carnauba wax. For those of you who don’t know, carnauba wax can be used to make various waxes and polishes as well as candy corn. I wasn’t kidding about that wax flavor.

On top of that, that recipe has hardly changed since its creation in 1880. So you are basically eating the same candy your great great grandpappy was eating. The multiple colors on candy corn are not even different flavors, but rather just different colors of the same “mallow creme”. I’m not saying there has to be recipe changes for candy to be good, but some change can be.

Now some of you may be arguing that there are different kinds of candy corn or that certain candy corn flavored delights are great. For that I’ll have to agree with you. Over the years companies like Nabisco have created candy corn spin offs like candy corn oreos, which I’m sure taste great and lack that original candy corn wax. Even creations like candy corn-coated popcorn can be delicious when made right. 

My point is, however, that candy corn isn’t a good candy on its own or at the very least isn’t the best halloween candy out there.But of course, that doesn’t stop candy corn from making fourth on the best halloween candy list for 2021 or getting about 35 million pounds of it made in the U.S. in 2016. So at the end of the day, your candy favorites are still your own personal opinions, even if the ones about candy corn being good are wrong.