Love it or hate it, feelings run high over candy corn come Halloween
Cruel joke for trick-or-treaters or coveted seasonal delight NEW YORK -- Cruel joke for trick-or-treaters or coveted seasonal delight? The great Halloween debate over candy corn is on. In the pantheon of high-emotion candy, the classic shiny tricolor kernels in autumn's white, orange and yellow are way up there. Fans and foes alike point to the same attributes: its plastic or candle-like texture (depending on who you ask) and the mega-sugar hit it packs. “I am vehemently pro candy corn. It's sugar! What is not to love? It's amazing. It's like this waxy texture. You get to eat it once a year. It's tricolor. That's always fun,” comedian Shannon Fiedler gushed on TikTok. "Also, I know it's disgusting. Candy corn is objectively kind of gross, but that's what makes it good.” Or, as Paul Zarcone of Huntington, New York, put it: "I love candy corn even though it looks like it should taste like a candle. I also like that many people hate it. It...