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[–] 2 points 5 hours ago

So fucking lame….funny bone shattered

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago

    this is just an ad

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

    Am I the only One who realizes that Twix is just short for TWO STICKS

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  • [–] 10 points 17 hours ago

    Two of my three kids are allergic to peanuts, so it was necessary for me and my wife to destroy any candy that contained peanuts.

    It was difficult, but for the safety of our children we eliminated the candy in the only way we know.

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  • [–] 8 points 19 hours ago

    Is this an ad?

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago*

    OH BOY I LOVE {product.id().name}! ITS SO {random.choice(product.descriptors)}!

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  • [–] 54 points 1 day ago (22 children)

    I’ve never understood this, steal your kids treats? You’re an adult and can just buy the candy when ever you want.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    My kids don't eat a ton of candy. They go trick or treating and get a truck load of it which they will never eat. I have taken some here and there. Halloween candy usually lasts us til summer.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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    Why do wives eat French fries off their husbands' plates when they could just order their own? Because it doesn't count if you didn't order it. Those fries may as well be in international waters. Same with kids candy.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (2 children)

    I do it because I'd want 3-4 fries at most and it's a waste to get an entire order of fries for that.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    you are an exception, I think.

    in my experience, people want like half the order

    which is often fine, because some places give you way too many potatoes

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago

    You try them and then you want more sometimes but it's unreasonable to take more when you're sharing with someone else. If you treat your husband that way, he may think you have no respect for him and for me, personally, that would be devastating. Most people don't think about that and they should.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    It's hard to buy candy for yourself as an adult because you know it's nothing but love handles and tooth decay in shiny wrappers. But if it comes into your orbit once a year without buying it, it's tempting.

    Of course, when my kid was small he basically didn't bother eating it at all. He'd get like 100 pieces of candy and they'd linger around until Christmas. When I was a kid we'd get pillowcases full and it'd be gone in days. Not sure if that's a generational thing or if my son was just not very motivated by sweets.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago

    That was me in the 80s. I think part of it was that my mom was a health nut so we’d never get that stuff except for holidays and the impulse was to save it. But I’d forget about it and she’d throw it away at Christmas. Same thing with Christmas candy, throw it out at Easter.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    As a kid, I’d hoard Halloween candy and eat it one bit at a time over the course of months. My parents never threw it out, and I’d typically still have some of last year’s candy when the next Halloween came round. Chocolate never goes bad, in the sense that it is dangerous to eat it— it just separates out which might not taste as good, but if you don’t mind that, it’s fine to keep around. I was fine with it. And of course, my favorites were always the hard candies and other sugar based ones, not the chocolate anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    One of my kids is allergic to milk & gluten so their candy stash is basically always reduced by 30-70%.

    If I give that candy to the other kid (thing 2 is much younger) it’s not healthy for anyone to eat that much candy. Let alone someone less than 5.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago

    This post brought to you by Big Candy(tm)

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  • [–] 30 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    The inclusion of the full name and capitalizing the Peanut Butter Cups is telling me this is an ad. So is the unnecessary inclusion of the photo.

    I feel like a person making a joke would have just said peanut butter cups, or reeses cups, or maybe just reeses.

    A non-marketing individual would have been more likely to find a photo of someone with chocolate on their face, rather than a glamour shot of a twix.

    And only speculation, but the person in the profile pic doesn't look like the type to make this age-group of joke.

    All of that aside, the basis of the conversation is it's own issue, it implies that both parents have gone through their kids candy for their own reasons, and one found the results interesting enough to bring it up later. Not that this is an actual scenario that happened.

    Thank my TED.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    If it really were marketing copy, they'd spell it right.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure if I agree. They're pretty shady with all this stuff. My brother's general counsel at some major candy maker, and for some reason his role at one point included content approvals, and they're just sneaky. Now I'm interested in confirming if that's one of their tricks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Wait. There are people that actively seek out Twix? Fake news.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    I took my wife to the US to meet my family after we got married. It was before halloween so there were tons of cheap variety bags of candy. We bought one of each to take back, snack on, and give out as gifts. Her favorite was twix.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    We're all noticing the veiny texture on the candy, right? No? Just me? K

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