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Ridiculous claim on the back of the candy corn package here at work

downtownrobbrowndowntownrobbrown 446 Posts
edited November 2011 in Strut Central
"Amercians eat enough BRANCHs Candy Corn that if you laid them end to end it would circle the world 4.25 times".


I'm not buying that. We're a fat lot but those numbers seems ridiculous.

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  • TheKindCromangTheKindCromang 1,463 Posts
    Specifically "BRANCHS" brand too.
    It'd be one thing if we're just talking Candy Corn in general...
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    They are assuming that all the candy corn they make gets eaten.
    Americans throw out, and have at the back of the pantry, enough Branches Candy Corn to...
  • cookbookcookbook 783 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    They are assuming that all the candy corn they make gets eaten.
    Americans throw out, and have at the back of the pantry, enough Branches Candy Corn to...

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    I can eat the fuck out of some candy corn. Don't do it often, but when I do...CIRCUMNAVIGATION!
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like...latitude/
    Put my rhymes into fortune cookies to leave Confucious confused
  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,475 Posts
    rootlesscosmo said:
    I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like...latitude/
    Put my rhymes into fortune cookies to leave Confucious confused

    A+ quote right there.
  • BallzDeepBallzDeep 612 Posts
    candy corn sucks.
  • downtownrobbrowndowntownrobbrown 446 Posts
    I work with engineers so eventually someone was going to figure this out:


    that is more than 13 billion candy corns.

    or 44 candy corns per person in the US.

    no way the average person east 44 candy corns a year.

    I agree
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    But the average person easily throws that many in the trash.
  • downtownrobbrowndowntownrobbrown 446 Posts
    i don't throw 44 away. WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE!
  • FunkyFlatulentFunkyFlatulent 1,106 Posts
    but how many are there in a bag? I bet there's at least triple that.. So that's a 1/3 of the population. Then if you add bags bought for parties you're probably down to 1/2 the people. Then if you add the really fat and hefty we've been around the world and i i i......
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    Y'all don't even know about Brach's huh?
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Fucking candy snobs...try candy corn til Beavis comes out the eyeballs. You don't even know.
  • Fred_GarvinFred_Garvin The land of wind and ghosts 337 Posts
    Maybe re-branding is the way to go:

  • flatblackplasticflatblackplastic 1,209 Posts
    i thought this was going to be choking related.
    a friend of mine a few months ago was choking on a single skittle. another one of my friends had to jump in and give him the heimlich to save him .

    2 weeks later he cut his hand with a chainsaw.

    both make for good jokes down the line :lalala:
  • TheeeCasualMaleTheeeCasualMale 2,564 Posts
    Depending on how you read the quote, they might be referring to laying Americans end to end... not the candy corn.
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