Poll: Does candy corn suck?

Not that it’s much of a secret around here any­more, but it’s time for a seri­ous Hal­loween con­fes­sion:  I don’t like candy corn.  In fact, I loathe it.

CANDY CORN - Y U NO?

(Image credit: some­one on the inter­net who is now my hero.)

Ever since I dared to express my unflat­ter­ing opin­ion of Candy Corn Oreos –and by exten­sion candy corn itself–I’ve incurred the wrath of the candy corn faith­ful.  (Well, okay, “wrath” might be a lit­tle strong. It’s more like gen­eral dis­ap­proval and a few snarky tweets .)

To fur­ther fan the flames of The Great Candy Corn Debate of 2012 ‚ I checked in with ShezCrafti.com correspondent-of-the-now Mick Dundee, who weighed in with the following:

This man speaks the truth.

 

In response to this  FIRESTORM OF CONTROVERSY , The Good­will Geek wrote  this mea­sured response  which sums up my feel­ings rather per­fectly, and I quote: “Candy Corn will go march­ing on, long after we are all dead… serv­ing as a tire­less, never-ending sym­bol for Hal­loween. But that does not mean it needs to go in my mouth.”

And so, dear read­ers, my poll for the month of Octo­ber is sim­ply this:

 

Please direct all pro-candy corn sen­ti­ments and let­ters of sup­port to Reis O’Brien .

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