When I was growing up, I would go to my grandmother's house and on top of the television in a faux cut crystal glass dish they sat, gently being warmed by the Philco console.
Circus Peanuts...candy of the damned.
I was at an elderly customer's house the other day and after finishing, she pulled a grandmother on me...tried to feed me. Oh yes, I put up a brave fight, saying that I was on Weight Watchers, didn't want to be a trouble, really wasn't hungry, but in the end I lost and she reveled in her victory by loading me up, a couple of pieces of pizza, 2 pecan swirl pastries, a bag of homemade coconut macaroons, and my eyes beheld the horror...
CIRCUS PEANUTS!!!
Memories flooded my head of the orange peanut shaped concoctions. I think my first thought as a young child tasting the strange sweet lump was the same as the one as I had last week...
WTF?!
*shudder* why the #*&@$ do these companies think that a creepy @$$ clown that looks like he's about to throw up orange chunks is a good marketing strategy for this product?!!!!
I'm not going to say what these look like because you already know. I just now noticed the company name on them.
They say that it's marshmallow. I say more like a cross between stale Play Dough and spoiled Duncan Hines frosting. If you leave them out to get stale, you can build a storm shelter with them. The taste, I just don't know. PLEASE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT THE TASTE OF A CIRCUS PEANUT IS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW SO I CAN DIE IN PEACE!!! Traditionally, foods are flavored to mimic, however loosely, a flavor found in nature. I cannot determine the base flavor of this at all.
And if you suck them like a Jolly Rancher, they get really slimy in your mouth a fizz a tiny bit. I think that I threw up in my mouth a little just now.
I'm going to go lie down now, I'm getting rather queasy thinking about these.
7 comments:
You post was hilarious and sorry, but I've never tried the nefarious circus peanut candy.
Mebbe they taste like chicken? LOL!
it IS an unidentifiable flavor! eeewww! and i feel the same way about clowns. ~shudder~
Yes!! I remember these! Although I recall them as yellow and disguised as "bananas". And the various elderly people in my life seemed to love them. I wonder if I'll have a dish of them in the house when I'm eighty . . . :/
I think you pretty much covered it with Play Dough and spoiled Duncan Hines frosting.
Stale sugar. No real flavor.
Absolutely gross.
I never tasted circus peanuts but I do know about those that looks like bananas. My grandmother always had a bowl of those on her table with another bowl filled with marshmallow strawberries. Back then I was able to eat them and I remember I liked the taste too. Today I think it taste only sugar and I just can't stand the idea of eating one anymore.
I too wonder what those are supposed to taste like. I looked at the spangler company's website and they say that their circus peanuts are banana flavored. (Brach's says "banana inspired").
What's worse than a circus peanut?...I'm going to assume Circus Peanut Gelatin dessert. They have a recipe for it on their circus peanut page. Gross!
http://www.spanglercandy.com/spangler/products/circuspeanuts.php
BANANA FLAVORED?! "INSPIRED"!?!!
You know, I'm going to forgo all the horribly scary yard decorations and just make a batch of Circus Peanut Gelatin Surprise Dessert!
The surprise you might ask? If you don't throw up it's a surprise!
Thanks for sharing,(I think!)
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