Wed. 10/13 - Who's To Blame For Candy Corn?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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How candy corn went from a year round candy marketed at farmers to the love-to-hate it Halloween treat it is today. Plus, a new interactive image gallery that starkly shows what effects three degrees of global warming will have on coastal cities around the world. And, in ten years, one of the biggest comets ever recorded will be passing by Earth. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Raycon, Get 15% off at buyraycon.com/kottke Links: Why Is Candy Corn the Most Hated Halloween Candy? (Eater) Episode Three - Satan's Earwax (Preserve Halloween Podcast) Where Our Love/Hate Relationship With Candy Corn Comes From (The Atlantic) The Saccharine History of Candy Corn (National Geographic) Why Brach's Turkey Dinner Candy Corn Might Taste Different This Year (Mashed) All About Candy Corn (National Confectioners Association) What To Know About Confectioner's Glaze (Taste for Life) Why is there shellac in my chocolate mints? (McGill) How Candy Corn is Made | Unwrapped (Food Network, YouTube) See how climate change could drown landmarks around the world (The Verge) What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized (The Guardian) Google AR Brings Endangered Swedish Animals Into Your Living Room (Gizmodo) One of the largest comets ever seen is headed our way (National Geographic) Largest comet ever observed will come close to Earth in 2031 (A/V Club) The Biggest Comet Ever Discovered, Bernardinelli-Bernstein, Is Headed Our Way (The Daily Beast) Here's how to watch live coverage of NASA's next asteroid mission (Space.com) More about the Lucy Mission from the 09/22 episode (Kottke Ride Home) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cocky ride home for wednesday October 13th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:42.7	How Candycorn went from a year-round candy marketed at farmers to the love-to-hate-a-halleline treat it is today.
0:51.4	Plus a new interactive image gallery that starkly shows what affects three degrees
0:57.5	of global warming will have on coastal cities around the world. And in 10 years, one of the biggest
1:04.3	comets ever recorded will be passing by Earth. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:13.4	So maybe you've seen online, or possibly even in real life, at the grocery store,
1:19.9	Brocks, the top purveyor of candy corn in the U.S. has released a turkey dinner blend of
1:27.1	candy corn. Looks like something out of a retro-futurist
1:30.5	menu for the 21st century. Now, this is their second year getting in on the Thanksgiving
1:35.6	market. Last year, they released a bag that had candy corns colored and flavored like
1:40.7	roasted turkey, green beans, cranberry sauce, stuffing, glazed carrots, and sweet potato pie.
1:47.8	This year, the carrots and sweet potato pie have been replaced with coffee and apple pie.
1:53.9	Now, if part of your reaction, after fascination and maybe discussed, was that Brox needs to stay in their lane,
2:02.2	they've got the Halloween market.
2:08.3	Stop trying to branch out to other holidays. Well, then you may be intrigued to discover that candy corn was not originally a candy made exclusively for or sold just during Halloween. In fact,
2:16.9	it wasn't originally called candy corn at all. The exact
2:21.1	origins are murky, but the candy is usually thought to have been invented by George Reninger
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