Foods That Make You Go Ewwww

I was having lunch with my neighbors not long ago. They are nth generation country folk who grew up with Hog Butchering Time as part of their lives. They have had chitterlings.

 

Add me to the Circus Peanuts Hater Club roster. The only reason I might keep some around is if I should accidentally drink poison and needed to induce vomiting.

 

The orange candy. They are nasty.



I get kinda nauseous just looking at the pic.

 

I went to The Straight Dope where someone asked the question Does anybody actually like Circus Peanuts?

Here is the reply:

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Based on our informal survey, consumer reaction to Circus Peanuts falls into three categories:

Fear and loathing
“Ewwwww! I tried one once. It was like eating a dead finger.”
“They taste like they’re stale even when they’re fresh.”
“Like orange-flavored Styrofoam.”
“I think they are the horror that is the circus, that flat tin taste of fear and clowns and little lost children amid the cotton candy stink and the piles of elephant doo-doo and the clamor of the midway and the tinny sound of the circus band endlessly wheezing its way through yet another soulless circus fanfare.”

You get the idea. My assistant Jane found that the few stray Circus Peanut molecules escaping from an unopened package made her gag.

Grudging acceptance
“Yeah, I like them. When they get hard enough you can use them for building material.”
“It wouldn’t be my first pick, but if there was a bowlful at grandma’s, I’d take a couple.”

I personally fall into this category. Having done this job 25 years, I can put up with anything.

Don’t like ’em, but have an older/younger relative who thinks they’re great
“The only reason I would buy them is for my nieces and nephews. I could have them in the house without temptation.”

No one we heard from would admit to a personal enthusiasm (as opposed to tolerance) for Circus Peanuts.

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From that same website:

Despite a public response that can charitably be described as tepid, Circus Peanuts are available from several companies. In other words, people compete to sell them! So apparently what we’ve got here is a product that survives not because anybody is genuinely fond of it, but because less than 100 percent of the populace is totally repelled. Strange, but people have used the same principle to become president of the U.S.