Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoWhy do you suppose sour candies are so popular these days? It wasn't a market when I was a kid.message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-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 · 7 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squarefinderscult@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months 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-up0·7 months 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-squarefinderscult@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months 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-up1·7 months agoIt’s food perversion I tell ya!
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months 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-up0·7 months 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-up1·7 months agoI wasn’t upset and I think it’s sad that you’re primed to interpret things that way automatically
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.
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!
“These days” being those that comprise the recent entire half of your life is a hell of a framing
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