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RE: My Day Was Made When I Found Candy Corn in Panama - Thumbs Up Thursday by A Panama Mama
@apanamamama -- I love you, girl, but I can't stand candy corn. Were I able, I'd keep you supplied with the stuff from here to eternity. You could have every last kernel anyone ever gave me. Jeez, I'd buy more and pay you a bounty with that to take it off my hands. (I have to say though ... you'd have been a cheap date. Did @panamapilgrim know this, back when it would have done him some good?)
We haven't had a trick-or-treater at our very remote mountain home in decades. But when we still lived in a city, I used to joke about maybe handing out candy corn to teach kids to stay away from our house. Cheaper by far than resorting to something "healthy" to get the message across.
My mom actually hates the stuff too, but my dad loves it, so maybe I got it from him. If you gave away candy corn, I'd come to your house a hundred times in a row! :) The husband doesn't like the corn either... :( More for me! :) He doesn't like to buy it for me though...makes the kids want to eat it and he thinks they should have less sugar. Boo. ;) We bought 36 pounds of it the other day on clearance. Hee hee. But we plan to give a lot of it away at a celebration we're having next week. A good deal is a good deal. ;) Thanks for the comment. Made me laugh!
(Imagining 36 pounds of candy corn!! My Sweet Lord!!!) Don't get me wrong. I'm not without my sugar-based vices. I had a favorite candy shop in Estes Park, CO where I would special order 10 pounds of banana taffy at a clip to pick up as we drove through on our way to Grand Lake every 4th of July. (Little tiny town, one paved street three blocks long ... but the biggest fireworks display in the state.)
I'd tuck one piece in each cheek over and over and sail through life on a sugar-high all week-end long. Occasionally I'd sit down for a meal. I went through the same sort of thing with Werther's Originals for a while. I still go on binges with stuff -- and not always candy. So I know how comforting it is to have an "endless supply" of whatever you crave.
(BTW, The Weasel also pulls the trick of buying things he knows I either don't like or aren't apt to like ... based on the "more for me" strategy. Often that works for him. He'll eat practically anything ... and I won't.)
But I also buy you things I don't like/can't have. Ice cream, Mounds bars, Dr Pepper, the list goes on.
And you sneak bites from all of it. (Don't think you're getting away with a thing!) So this is hardly a "more for me" arrangement, is it? More like less for me and some for you. (You see now, how he came by that nickname, don't you?)
I have a taste of ice cream sometimes. I bought you a month's supply of Butterfingers on sale. I won't have one of them. I'll grant you I have the odd Mounds. More than I should, but way less than I would like. And way less than you.
I only finish them quickly, dear, to save you from yourself. Deny it all you like. We both know that's the truth.
BTW, he just this minute finished polishing off the last quarter of the cherry crisp I made the other day. (So I can get busy making him a peach one. Don't think I don't know how this game is played.)
Lol! Too funny. Yep, having an endless supply of candy corn at least until next year might be the goal. ;) Gotta slow down our intake though... No telling if we'll ever see candy corn in Panama again. Maybe by then, I'll be super sick of it and read to move on to the next candy up for grabs on clearance. :) Have a great day!