Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 26 days agoWhy do you suppose sour candies are so popular these days? It wasn't a market when I was a kid.message-squaremessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down116
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareWhy do you suppose sour candies are so popular these days? It wasn't a market when I was a kid.Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 26 days agomessage-square75fedilink
minus-squarefinderscult@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·26 days agoWhen were you a kid? Sour patch kids and warheads the like have dominated the candy aisle for the last few decades.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·26 days agoLooks like 1993 was the start of the sour candy surge in the US. I did most of my candy eating in the 60s and 70s.
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·26 days ago“These days” being those that comprise the recent entire half of your life is a hell of a framing
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-226 days agoSour candy sales jumped 25% last year.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·26 days agoHere’s another article not from 30 years ago I said “these days” not to mean all the time since I was a kid, but to mean “these days”. I included the personal information to indicate that the phenomenon has occurred entirely within the time since I was a kid. Really sorry to confuse you. I hope we’re good now. You seemed upset.
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·26 days agoI wasn’t upset and I think it’s sad that you’re primed to interpret things that way automatically
minus-squarefinderscult@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·26 days agoAh, fair. I blame Saturday morning cartoons and a transition from violence for fun towards self harm. No need to punch each other or slap fight for competition if you can just see who can stand the most warheads at a time.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days agoIt’s food perversion I tell ya!
When were you a kid? Sour patch kids and warheads the like have dominated the candy aisle for the last few decades.
Looks like 1993 was the start of the sour candy surge in the US. I did most of my candy eating in the 60s and 70s.
“These days” being those that comprise the recent entire half of your life is a hell of a framing
Sour candy sales jumped 25% last year.
Here’s another article not from 30 years ago
I said “these days” not to mean all the time since I was a kid, but to mean “these days”.
I included the personal information to indicate that the phenomenon has occurred entirely within the time since I was a kid.
Really sorry to confuse you. I hope we’re good now. You seemed upset.
I wasn’t upset and I think it’s sad that you’re primed to interpret things that way automatically
Ah, fair. I blame Saturday morning cartoons and a transition from violence for fun towards self harm. No need to punch each other or slap fight for competition if you can just see who can stand the most warheads at a time.
It’s food perversion I tell ya!