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(DIR) Post #B1QCBnY0cI6JhkrNXE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:24:10Z
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Holiday Question:Does anyone *like* candy canes? Peppermint sticks?What makes a candy cane or peppermint stick "good?"I recently got a candy in a card that was more like a "U" than a "J" ... It was ... chewy. But not on purpose. Aren't they shaped that way so you can hang them on the tree?I know there are defenders of EVERY candy no matter how heinous so speak up!(If you don't have candy canes are there any strange winter candies where you live?)
(DIR) Post #B1QCL8YNszQtSaUM0O by Flisty@mstdn.social
2025-12-19T23:25:48Z
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@futurebird I was trying to work out earlier whether candy canes and sticks of rock are the same sweet or not. I haven't tasted either in ages so I really can't with it out. But they're both kind of peppermint, kind of snappy but chewy... Hmmmm
(DIR) Post #B1QCYzwsfwQkpJYXwm by Catfish_Man@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T23:28:18Z
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@futurebird weird answer: I don't like candy canes, I don't particularly like peppermint, but I *love* the peppermint ice cream with candy cane bits in it that Mitchells in SF has a seasonal flavor
(DIR) Post #B1QCbciJWEd7dKziN6 by vestige@sleepyhe.ad
2025-12-19T23:28:47Z
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@futurebird https://www.thebanner.com/culture/food-drink/lemon-sticks-baltimore-flower-mart-XTEPXY2UOZFINKQVROJ7K75MY4/
(DIR) Post #B1QCeSTA415MjJG6Bk by GeoWend@kosmos.social
2025-12-19T23:29:17Z
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@futurebirdI always liked them when I was growing up, and my mother's family traditionally used the stick form to stick in a lemon and drink out the juices of the impaled fruit.
(DIR) Post #B1QCir2KfIpw59o1lw by hydropsyche@ecoevo.social
2025-12-19T23:30:02Z
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@futurebird I love candy canes! I will definitely be buying some at the after Christmas sales.
(DIR) Post #B1QCjKztGwi10GtV8C by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:30:04Z
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@vestige Are ya'll trying to troll people with this ish?
(DIR) Post #B1QCkn0ibYqcAtyQuu by noodlemaz@med-mastodon.com
2025-12-19T23:30:27Z
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@futurebird I like minty anything really
(DIR) Post #B1QClSn1GsqTkZt5Oa by vestige@sleepyhe.ad
2025-12-19T23:30:32Z
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@futurebird it's delicious
(DIR) Post #B1QCp1VycXWkJic60u by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:31:15Z
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@vestige Do you eat the lemon or? the stick? ... do you use those powdery candy canes for this? I'm so confused.
(DIR) Post #B1QCtNfCDLKaAV0Grw by Lemniscate@infosec.exchange
2025-12-19T23:31:59Z
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@futurebird I love mint stuff and include most peppermint things in that, but some are kind of offputting in taste. I suspect it’s when cheap filler ingredients have been used. I have run into the strangely chewy small cane situation and those don’t taste great to me. I feel like the little ones were harder and not chewy when I was little. Also more candy cane shaped than the U phenomenon. But then, I feel like a lot of candies and cookies taste worse than when I was little. I tend to bake my own cookies these days, but don’t plan to tackle homemade candy canes :p
(DIR) Post #B1QD2Zd75oLht6Pel6 by Nickiquote@mstdn.social
2025-12-19T23:33:40Z
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@futurebird Candy canes aren’t so popular outside the US, I think. They’re a poor relation to a proper stick of rock, I think.Growing up I always associated Christmas with chocolate coins and cheap foil-covered chocolate Santa decorations you would hang on the tree before eating.
(DIR) Post #B1QDEGG8wBl1HoF36u by vestige@sleepyhe.ad
2025-12-19T23:35:48Z
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@futurebird You suck on the stick until the lemon juice comes up, sort of making peppermint stick lemonade. The extrusion process of some sticks means that they have long empty paths inside the interior like tiny straws. Its the sort of novelty you would expect from a city that celebrates eating whole crabs on sandwiches.
(DIR) Post #B1QDUbsSKXJKxyxRy4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:38:46Z
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@vestige This is why there is so much crime in Baltimore.
(DIR) Post #B1QDYF8snh8rc5NFJI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:39:25Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou I am not a fan. Not even in toothpaste. This means I use kids "bubblegum" toothpaste.
(DIR) Post #B1QDeZFUxPLxi7U42q by Nickiquote@mstdn.social
2025-12-19T23:35:43Z
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@futurebird And a Cadbury’s selection box on Christmas Day, of course.
(DIR) Post #B1QDeaQWZtldMbeNs0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:40:33Z
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@Nickiquote As a person with a nut allergy I like to think of those as "Russian Roulette" for when you've been waiting for dinner for three hours and decide to risk it.
(DIR) Post #B1QDkGUFcvttG66KY4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:41:36Z
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@Nickiquote It can add excitement to the evening for the whole family!
(DIR) Post #B1QDoFfScAd7sOFGoS by Nickiquote@mstdn.social
2025-12-19T23:42:17Z
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@futurebird “Who’s sober enough to drive to the hospital?”
(DIR) Post #B1QDpx3slLYQkXTkxM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:42:38Z
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@vestige To be less silly if I can find the right candy canes I might try this. You make it sound kind of good.
(DIR) Post #B1QDvB8hqhvbrKEBSS by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-12-19T23:43:32Z
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@futurebird There is a local candy shop in the Twin Cities that used to make lots of peppermint ribbon candy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_candyFor when one wants as many curves in the hard candy as possible.
(DIR) Post #B1QDw1Njc4qZszev6O by jmax@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T23:43:36Z
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@futurebird @vestige Nah, it's because of Old Bay addiction. Withdrawal is terrible.
(DIR) Post #B1QEDKzlwZpbdghwrQ by australopithecus@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T23:46:48Z
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@futurebird Two main appeals for me: • I'm a sucker for any kind of mint-flavored candy• after a few minutes you've got yourself a shiv
(DIR) Post #B1QEYofco9ANkvWfNw by rdviii@famichiki.jp
2025-12-19T23:50:40Z
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@futurebird I like them but rarely go out of my way to find them. Peppermint is a good thing, but I'm just not really a candy person in general.
(DIR) Post #B1QEg1yXjotn32oaQq by sinvega@mas.to
2025-12-19T23:51:53Z
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@futurebird @Nickiquote there's a really good YA book called Henry Tumour where (spoiler I guess) someone defeats another kid by doing exactly this with a bag of similar chocolates :D
(DIR) Post #B1QF4LUCqiewVeDeVc by lionelb@expressional.social
2025-12-19T23:56:23Z
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@futurebird There is a thing called Edinburgh rock which is somewhat translucent, very brittle and flaky. Closely resembling mica. It is vile.
(DIR) Post #B1QF8TdcU0Iewyamiu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:57:11Z
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@lionelb Some of the worst foods on earth are old time candies that survive only on nostalgia for suffering.
(DIR) Post #B1QG5gV2J7g5vPoGVU by kzeta@sfba.social
2025-12-20T00:07:50Z
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@futurebird My kid LOVES candy canes.As for me... I like them crumbled up on dark chocolate cookies. Or as part of Christmas bark. 😋 ... and I do like to put them on my tree. But these past few years, I've been more cautious about putting them on the tree because... my aforementioned kid will snag them and eat them. And then run around the house with an intense sugar high.
(DIR) Post #B1QGCPVTsuo9FYE0au by msbellows@c.im
2025-12-20T00:08:33Z
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@Nickiquote @futurebird Okay but chocolates don't work in hot glue guns like candy canes do.
(DIR) Post #B1QGCQfRZMN4qjtTlI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-20T00:09:04Z
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@msbellows @Nickiquote You WHAT.
(DIR) Post #B1QGy0P8WAAJIQx6uG by rehana@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T00:17:38Z
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@futurebird @vestige One school I went to in Pittsburgh had us sell these. I could never get them to work.
(DIR) Post #B1QHAlQZVqJObwhvSi by aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social
2025-12-20T00:19:57Z
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@futurebird I'm not a hater of candy cane/peppermint sticks but I'm not a big fan of hard candy in general.It's too sweet for me. A small one at the end of a meal, why not but you'll never find me binging on hard candy.Chocolate, now...😋
(DIR) Post #B1QHFOiDOZxHbmAZJA by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-12-20T00:20:47Z
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@futurebird lots of old-timey stuff tastes quite good when you get the accurate ingredients and process. (E.g., marshmallow is a real flavour and actually good, if you're willing to do the labour-intensive part involving roots.)There are also a bunch of things that taste a lot better when you aren't getting enough of something in your regular diet. (Or are just plain hungry, which was more common in former days, or are doing heavy manual labour as a matter of course.) @lionelb
(DIR) Post #B1QHS8lO0JtbuNjFvk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-20T00:23:08Z
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@graydon @lionelb "There are also a bunch of things that taste a lot better when you aren't getting enough of something in your regular diet. (Or are just plain hungry, which was more common in former days, or are doing heavy manual labour as a matter of course.)"This is what I assume all of those recipes from the 50s about putting meat chunks in gelatin are about.
(DIR) Post #B1QHcCMpSZ1Ryv2SHo by roytoo@mstdn.social
2025-12-20T00:24:54Z
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@futurebird I like an occasional candy cane. Our youngest teen loves them.
(DIR) Post #B1QHl1G08VZw893E5Q by nieuemma@mastodon.de
2025-12-20T00:26:30Z
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@futurebird I enjoy peppermint. The cane is not it's peak form.
(DIR) Post #B1QHpdnYmaMIp2x46K by BLTpizza@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T00:27:10Z
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@futurebird @lionelb I'm remembering the beautiful ribbon candy my grandparents would have out. They would give the grandkids this peppermint flavored taffy like candy. It was a red and white disk with an evergreen tree in its center. It was a little like plastic until the sugar started to dissolve. We also made Buckeyes. They didn't last long.
(DIR) Post #B1QHvv4hSiCq8qxkK8 by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:28:26Z
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@futurebird @graydon @lionelb i'm convinced that those recipes exist because everyone smoked and so they had no taste buds.
(DIR) Post #B1QI89KAJCy1oK1nfM by CA7746@masto.ai
2025-12-20T00:30:41Z
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@futurebird Peppermint? No, yuck. Chewy? Ew.Cracker Barrel sells straight "candy sticks" of other flavors year-round, with different colors, bright & spiraling. IIRC cinnamon sticks tasted alright 20 years ago. Though sucking lasted longer than my interest in the flavor. And crunching to finish it off was unpleasant. I wasn't keen on candy in general.Bend a stick during production, and it's a cane.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_candy
(DIR) Post #B1QIItoKKOoqsjGI8u by raynetoday@mstdn.social
2025-12-20T00:32:38Z
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@futurebird @msbellows @Nickiquote That was exactly my reaction.And now my head is spinning, wondering how to use hot melted candy canes for the greater good this season... 0_o
(DIR) Post #B1QIOHua9IHP4ql0GO by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:33:37Z
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@futurebird yes, you can hang them on a Christmas tree. they do become stale if you don't eat them. i've put candy cane in my coffee or tea before, instead of adding regular sugar. but i like peppermint. there are other non-peppermint flavours. you can also get other flavoured ones like fruity, Sour Patch Kids, Starburst, etc, which are more like traditional hard candy in candy cane form.
(DIR) Post #B1QIb6e5LaSVtu9YQK by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-12-20T00:35:57Z
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@futurebird @lionelb Meat in aspic goes back to medieval times, so perhaps.Though I think a lot of those recipes come down to altered palates (smoking, drinking, tranquilizers, Depression Baby with developmental differences including perma-hungry) on the one hand and social warfare between church ladies "trading" recipes, on the other. (Bring something good; provide recipe for something less good in the benign form. Less benign forms involve misuse of the concept of pickles.)
(DIR) Post #B1QIdWr2sDx9lXN1Rw by msbellows@c.im
2025-12-20T00:35:39Z
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@raynetoday @futurebird @Nickiquote Pro tip: NOT sex play. It's HOT!
(DIR) Post #B1QIdXvKtkyn58NxmC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-20T00:36:24Z
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@msbellows @raynetoday @Nickiquote How do you--um. no thanks for all of the tips I guess?
(DIR) Post #B1QIvmS1coYPLkN1c0 by clarablackink@writing.exchange
2025-12-20T00:39:39Z
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@futurebird They seem to have changed the formula on candy canes over the years. I did enjoy them as a kid but as an adult I did encounter the various formulations that were "off".Peppermint sticks and candy canes are nice in tea or hot chocolate. You use them to mix it and the sticks melt in them like sugar cubes (which I also miss from childhood).But, its been over a decade since I tried any Christmas candy.
(DIR) Post #B1QIwXZQR7OrUJC6Ai by pussreboots@sfba.social
2025-12-20T00:39:49Z
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@futurebird I admit to liking candy canes. Yes, they are made for hanging on Christmas trees. No one in my immediate family (spouse and daughters) like them so I have stopped getting them. I think it is just my dad and me who likes them and he's at the other end of the state.
(DIR) Post #B1QJ25soI3IxM2uR96 by msbellows@c.im
2025-12-20T00:40:42Z
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@futurebird @raynetoday @Nickiquote Look, I don't want to get into too much detail, but let's just say I have it from "good sources" that hot glue gun candy cane actually will melt holes in a latex gimp suit, and that it then took "certain people who are not me" 45 minutes to get unstuck from the bearskin.
(DIR) Post #B1QJ6dDmHW2fuRseLA by wil@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:41:37Z
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@futurebird I like them, though crushed up in chocolate is even better. A good one is crisp, not chewy. Can't eat them anymore, GERD. :pumpkin_pensive:
(DIR) Post #B1QJKSdcQUvX8lYt6G by glasspusher@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:44:07Z
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@futurebird I like them. Not as much as wintergreen
(DIR) Post #B1QJLZE9PgYNrlB1U0 by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-12-20T00:32:29Z
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@burnitdown @futurebird @lionelb "Everyone smokes" really changes the palate.One of the things I lament about my present geographic location is that no one does Danish style bacon; the available actual bacon (= water not an ingredient) is apparently being done with love and care by a forty-something three pack a day smoker trying to re-create that magical first-bacon moment when they were five years old and eating bacon cooked over a wood fire started with gasoline.
(DIR) Post #B1QJLaqTOgnmsu78r2 by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:34:52Z
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@graydon @futurebird @lionelb i hope he fails. that sounds vomit-tastic.
(DIR) Post #B1QJLbxxEMNeMOcd9c by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-12-20T00:37:23Z
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@burnitdown It's less "strong smokey notes" than "a protracted fanfare of smoke"; it's not awful, but it would only work for me if the bacon were being used as a flavourant in a larger dish like bacon and buckwheat.@futurebird @lionelb
(DIR) Post #B1QJLdDEb2CIE4mLbs by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:42:40Z
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@graydon @futurebird @lionelb i rarely even eat bacon anymore. maybe if i ever get to go camping again, and we cook some over a fire with some maple syrup. that's the shit. otherwise... bacon was so overdone for like five years back in the 2010s, i just don't really care for it anymore, and the way it's produced these days, it's a health hazard to eat it anyway. i'd much rather have smoked tofu. i'm not even vegetarian, but the food often has so much more flavour than "i cooked the meat with no spices and nothing added, how is it?"
(DIR) Post #B1QJLeF2lnErPydJ4K by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-20T00:44:16Z
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@burnitdown @graydon @lionelb "i'd much rather have smoked tofu. i'm not even vegetarian, but the food often has so much more flavour than "i cooked the meat with no spices and nothing added, how is it?"Same. I'm not veg or vegan but I love vegan dishes, I just wish that it was easier to avoid nuts and sunflowers when eating vegan foods from restaurants or pre-made snacks.I'm very proud of my home-cooked tofu!
(DIR) Post #B1QJXqaofrrBCQdMxs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-20T00:46:35Z
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@glasspusher OK. Exactly what *is* a "wintergreen" ?
(DIR) Post #B1QJnFrV0Te5uimg3U by glasspusher@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:49:20Z
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@futurebird @lionelb when I was a kid in NJ in the 1970s, there were candies called “buttery mint puffs” that I loved
(DIR) Post #B1QJsWx8tFSQMuwIka by glasspusher@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:50:17Z
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@futurebird The chemical is methyl salicylate. If I have them it’s usually a life saver
(DIR) Post #B1QK3LEgnHazDMIm7U by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:52:14Z
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@futurebird @graydon @lionelb i like adding fried tofu cubes to soup. you could also just put salt and pepper on them and heat them up in the microwave. there used to be a restaurant in my neighbourhood called So Good where that was a lot of peoples' favourite menu item. it's too bad it's gone, but restaurants can't last forever.
(DIR) Post #B1QK9mT0Sl7vPJ4LKa by Moss@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:53:23Z
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@futurebird @lionelb *mouth full of Mary Janes*Muh-uh, hut up!
(DIR) Post #B1QKLeX1n7f6GubwmW by FeloniousPunk@beige.party
2025-12-20T00:55:32Z
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@futurebird @glasspusher As a kid, I used to pick wintergreen berries in the forest. Some people know them as tea berries.
(DIR) Post #B1QKv9IbOIuzpXn0N6 by BootsChantilly@mstdn.social
2025-12-20T01:01:58Z
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@futurebird I hate peppermint. Candy canes, gum & mints & bark & everything else peppermint. Ugh.
(DIR) Post #B1QLII1t67CTZG0Q2y by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T01:06:09Z
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@futurebird Don't remember any winter candies in particular. But for "strange Anglosphere" stuff there is Violet Crumble, first chocolate bar of Australia, which some people might think is great and some might think is horrible. I also remember a "British/Irish food store" that was near me for a while. I tried some British snack things and they truly maintained the reputation of British food (they were horrible).
(DIR) Post #B1QLLrbfHO8ImDRbzk by steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co
2025-12-20T01:06:48Z
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@futurebird I like the red and white solid ones. The ones with green swirls are yuck, as are the equivalent rock candies, and you can quote me on that. I reluctantly got used to the taste b/c I have these relatives.If tree branches are weak or droopy, they won't stay put, but people put them on trees. A nuisance, if small kids or some animals are present.They get sticky when eaten, so they are messy in kids' hands. Kids love them, of course.I think they are supposed to represent a shepherd's staff. The whole "shepherds tending their flocks by night" part turned into delicious cavities and sticky doorknobs.
(DIR) Post #B1QLUAfiHMNKDuIcIy by samiamsam@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T01:08:17Z
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@futurebird i really do not like peppermint or anything similarnot just the candy, anything minty
(DIR) Post #B1QLmiyFUkVnoPoerA by truppel@twit.social
2025-12-20T01:11:38Z
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@futurebird I recall a children's book that claimed the candy cane was invented to teach kids about Jesus. The red is for Jesus's blood, the white for salvation, and the shape isn't intended as a cane, or for hanging on a tree, but a J for Jesus. There was probably more that I don't remember. I am skeptical about the truth of the story. I enjoy them more than most of my friends and family, partly because the effort of getting them out of the plastic means they have no calories.
(DIR) Post #B1QLzOTF1cjhzrLzeK by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T01:13:53Z
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@futurebird We used to get candy canes so we could hang them on the Christmas tree. Very pretty! And they were made of sugar - a big plus for us kids!
(DIR) Post #B1QMPSM1D19pZQP2kS by debcha@saturation.social
2025-12-20T01:18:33Z
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@futurebird I recently moved back to Canada after a long time in the US and rediscovered Moritz Icy Squares — they are made with coconut oil and so melt at about 22C (vs ~35C for cocoa butter), which explains why they are a winter treat in Canada and why they could not easily be shipped around the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischoklad
(DIR) Post #B1QNigfeIvABQeJpWC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-20T01:33:15Z
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@catmisgivings @glasspusher @lionelb This has to be some kind of trauma response.
(DIR) Post #B1QO9EUDCY2TppcwDI by glasspusher@beige.party
2025-12-20T01:38:08Z
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@futurebird @catmisgivings @lionelb I’ll bring it up with my therapist next session
(DIR) Post #B1QOFEvMUCnAvlBsB6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-20T01:39:14Z
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@catmisgivings @glasspusher @lionelb Now I can't stop thinking about the way they are as hard as sand until suddenly all at once they *dissolve* And there is nothing there but air.
(DIR) Post #B1QQ6Q47tRrOmrDCl6 by Burn_this_@beige.party
2025-12-20T01:59:58Z
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@futurebird @Nickiquote My throat tightens up just thinking about it.
(DIR) Post #B1QuvS712bI6WnoWxs by lionelb@expressional.social
2025-12-20T07:45:21Z
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@futurebird @catmisgivings @glasspusher On the other end of the scale, I remember fondly some clear rose coloured boiled sweets of perfect, almost rubbery texture and tongue-shaped depression. They had an intense cherry flavour. Delicious.Unfortunately, these were a vehicle for getting penicillin into children, in an era when that drug was way more effective than it is now.A too successful strategy.
(DIR) Post #B1R8Y5O0lfROk7W2Jk by Chris_Swan@mstdn.social
2025-12-20T10:18:01Z
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@futurebird I like candy canes but they aren't quite so much of a thing. In the UK we eat lots of chocolate - and of course, mince pies and Christmas pudding!
(DIR) Post #B1ROlIMZhJHMUNv3Oy by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T13:19:43Z
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@futurebird these canes are rare were I live, and I have no idea of they taste like what you've got. I heard people in German (or was it Europe in general?) liked chewy sweets more than the US, and I wonder if candy canes are from some forgotten past when the US liked chewy sweets
(DIR) Post #B1RemcrqXxcJdeCdQO by UnCoveredMyths@autistics.life
2025-12-20T16:19:14Z
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@futurebird I prefer them as peppermint pieces.They keep me from coughing, especially when I am thirsty and have to wait to drink anything due to bladder issues.
(DIR) Post #B1Rnip4I8rgNuKHkBc by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-12-20T17:59:21Z
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@futurebird I like hard peppermint candy. Not as much as chocolate but for variety on occasion. Candy canes are kind of an inconvenient shape for it though.
(DIR) Post #B1RsTdgYgElC20lOSG by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
2025-12-20T18:52:40Z
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@futurebird I did wonder who decided that a stick of peppermint rock would be made somehow Christmassy by bending the end over to make it look like a walking stick.The theory I heard is it's not a mobility aid, it's a bishop's crook, because Saint Nicholas, right? The religious reference has been lost over time, and it's just a conventional habit, like depictions of gracile brown "reindeer" instead of chonky grey ones.
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2025-12-20T21:02:28Z
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@futurebird mint + sugar = good