'Tis the season to be nauseous...

[samhexum]

Several companies are putting a new twist on candy canes with unconventional flavor offerings like hot dogs, brisket and sardines.

While the holiday treat typically comes in a minty flavor, now other varieties such as ketchup, brisket, cherry, bubble gum, clove, mango chili, sour cream and onion, and Caesar salad have all hit shelves this year.

After the 2021 peppermint shortage, many companies are attempting to produce candy canes with a variety of tastes, reported Axios.

The shortage, which was caused by a drop in peppermint oil as well as supply chain issues, forced manufacturers to expand flavors and create a wide-ranging variety of non-peppermint candy canes.

One company, Archie McPhee, really thought outside the box and developed a sardine-flavored treat — and, yes, people eat them according to the company’s president David Wahl.

The company is also responsible for other odd flavors like macaroni and cheese, pickles, bacon, kale, hot dogs, sour cream and onion, and butter.

Wahl said the pickles-flavored candy cane is their best seller.

“My dream would be just like Willy Wonka to do a full meal of candy canes, where you started with the appetizer and worked your way to dessert,” Wahl told HeraldNet.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/candy-canes-now-come-in-brisket-sardine-flavors/

   

  

Edited December 21, 2022 by samhexum
for shits and giggles

[Luv2play]

The problem I have with candy canes is that they are made of sugar. Introducing savoury flavors doesn't alter the basic truth. You are eating suger. So I avoid them. 

[samhexum]

22 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

The problem I have with candy canes is that they are made of sugar.  So I avoid them. 

Not all sugar is bad for you...

 

 

[Luv2play]

3 minutes ago, samhexum said:

Not all sugar is bad for you...

 

 

That tune takes me back to the '60's. There was another tune called Sugar Shack around the same time.

Also Sugar and Spice but not sure that was the title.

[samhexum]

1 minute ago, Luv2play said:

That tune takes me back to the '60's.

 

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1969.

No.	Title	Artist(s)
1	"Sugar, Sugar"	The Archies
2	"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"	The 5th Dimension

[Luv2play]

2 minutes ago, samhexum said:

 

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1969.

No.	Title	Artist(s)
1	"Sugar, Sugar"	The Archies
2	"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"	The 5th Dimension

My memory does not fail me. I link songs to where I was in my life. Back in 69 I was at university and I remember Sugar Sugar on drives to the ski hills.  

Edited December 22, 2022 by Luv2play

[BabyBoomer]

3 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

My memory does not fail me. I link songs to where I was in my life. Back in 69 I was at university and I remember Sugar Sugar on drives to the ski hills.  

Where were you in 1963 when "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs was the number one record of the year?

~Boomer~

[Luv2play]

7 minutes ago, BabyBoomer said:

Where were you in 1963 when "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs was the number one record of the year?

~Boomer~

I was 16. I remember that spring Leslie Gore had the smash hit "It's my Party"

As for Sugar Shack a bunch of my friends had a shack at a ski hill in the Laurentians north of Montreal. We called it the sugar shack.

Edited December 22, 2022 by Luv2play

[BabyBoomer]

2 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

I was 16. I temember that spring Leslie Gore had the smash hit "It's my Party"

As for Sugar Shack a bunch of my friends had a shack at a ski hill in the Laurentians north of Montreal. We called it the sugar shack.

You have an excellent memory.

@samhexum is too young to remember 1963.

~Boomer~

 

[Luv2play]

1 minute ago, BabyBoomer said:

You have an excellent memory.

@samhexum is too young to remember 1963.

~Boomer~

 

In many respects I have a photographic memory. More like total recall.

[+ WilliamM]

I remember seeing the musical "Hair" on Broadway in late August 1969 after coming back from SouthEast Asia.

So those are the songs I love.

[samhexum]

3 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

I remember seeing the musical "Hair" on Broadway in late August 1969 after coming back from SouthEast Asia.

Was Diane Keaton still in it?

[+ WilliamM]

9 minutes ago, samhexum said:

Was Diane Keaton still in it?

No. But I saw  Woody and Diane in Play It Again, Sam  on Broadway around the same time.

[Luv2play]

7 hours ago, WilliamM said:

I remember seeing the musical "Hair" on Broadway in late August 1969 after coming back from SouthEast Asia.

So those are the songs I love.

I saw the London production of Hair also in late August of 1969 after having hitch-hiked around Europe for the summer.

[samhexum]

9 hours ago, WilliamM said:

No. But I saw  Woody and Diane in Play It Again, Sam  on Broadway around the same time.

 

1 hour ago, Luv2play said:

I saw the London production of Hair also in late August of 1969 after having hitch-hiked around Europe for the summer.

Hey, braggarts...  I saw the London production of A Chorus Line in 1977, which not that many people can say, since it only ran for 3 years across the pond. And I was a 15 year old on my own, since my dad & sister had no interest.

Edited December 22, 2022 by samhexum
just for the hell of it

[+ Charlie]

6 hours ago, samhexum said:

 

Hey, braggarts...  I saw the London production of A Chorus Line in 1977, which not that many people can say, since it only ran for 3 years across the pond. And I was a 15 year old on my own, since my dad & sister had no interest.

Well, I can say it. But I was gay man in my 30s at the time.

[+ WilliamM]

7 hours ago, samhexum said:

 

Hey, braggarts...  I saw the London production of A Chorus Line in 1977, which not that many people can say, since it only ran for 3 years across the pond. And I was a 15 year old on my own, since my dad & sister had no interest.

I saw two-time Oscar wimner Vivien Leigh in a Broadway musical called "Tovarich.  She was an excellent dancer, but not much of a singer

[samhexum]

22 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

I saw two-time Oscar wimner Vivien Leigh in a Broadway musical called "Tovarich.  She was an excellent dancer, but not much of a singer

So you're saying she was the Paula Abdul or JLo of her time?

[+ WilliamM]

29 minutes ago, samhexum said:

So you're saying she was the Paula Abdul or JLo of her time?

Vivien won  best actress Oscars for Gone With Wind and Streetcar Named to Desire. She was also a legendary comic actress in The Skin of our Teeth in London.

[+ WilliamM]

By the way Jim Pardon admitted have a huge crush on Kirk Cameron on Watch What Happens with the great Andy Cohen.

[samhexum]

10 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

Vivien won  best actress Oscars for Gone With Wind and Streetcar Named to Desire. She was also a legendary comic actress in The Skin of our Teeth in London.

Yeah, but I doubt she had the talent exhibited by JLo in her Will & Grace episodes or by Paula Abdul in her Voltaren commercial.

6 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

By the way Jim Pardon admitted have a huge crush on Kirk Cameron on Watch What Happens with the great Andy Cohen.

When he is ready to retire his identical twin will take over and it will be called Watch What Happens with Sasha Baron Cohen.

Edited December 22, 2022 by samhexum
for shits and giggles

[+ WilliamM]

4 hours ago, samhexum said:

Yeah, but I doubt she had the talent exhibited by JLo in her Will & Grace episodes or by Paula Abdul in her Voltaren commercial.

When he is ready to retire his identical twin will take over and it will be called Watch What Happens with Sasha Baron Cohen.

Vivien Leigh  was married to Lawrence Oliver. They approved together in  many  classical  plays in London

Edited December 22, 2022 by WilliamM

[+ WilliamM]

Vivien Leigh left the Broadway musical for the only really talented  Gabor.

Leigh ha nervous   breakdown  and died  in the summer of 2967

[samhexum]

24 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

Vivien Leigh left the Broadway musical for the only really talented  Gabor.

Why do you keep bringing up Magda?