Yesterday, I discovered a kindred spirit on Craigslist. No, it wasn't in the "Dating" or "Casual Encounters" section. It was under "Best of Craigslist" (who knew Craigslist has a "Best of" section?!). The author of this post describes his/her method of eating M&M's:
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.
Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
This is exactly how I eat M&M's! Now, I've never gone as far as this person has ("When I ... am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd ... I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars ... along with a 3x5 card reading, 'Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.'") but I do enjoy the candy-shell testing process.
When I shared this story with Amy, she revealed that her method of M&M-eating involves carefully removing the candy shell with her back teeth and then eating the remaining chocolate core separately.
We also learned that we have different techniques for consuming Twix bars. Amy removes the ends and edges and then carefully eats away the cookie part so she's left with just chocolate and caramel "for dessert." I approach the Twix in the opposite way and eat off the chocolate and caramel on top, leaving the plain cookie (with a thin residue of chocolate) as a palate cleanser.
Amy dissects the "100 Grand" bar in a similar manner, carefully removing the chocolate and crisp-rice sheathe before savoring the gooey caramel inside.
All of this is fine, and I am tolerant of alternative candy-eating lifestyles. Amy, however, has declared my method of downing a Kit Kat bar to be "wrong." I don't break the 4 individual "Kit Kat-lets" apart from each other; I approach the Kit Kat as any other candy bar and chomp right into it, pre-defined breakaway perforations be damned. To me, the skinny bars of chocolate and wafer are too insubstantial on their own; I prefer more girth (or at least more width) to my candy bar. And if that's so wrong, well then, I don't want to be right.
Even after seven years together, we still learn new stuff about each other every day!
How about you, loyal readers? Care to admit to any deviant candy-eating practices?
I have never found any specific way to eat an M&M, however REESE'S peanut butter cups must loose their chocolate outside before being finished off. There is just no other way.
It's been so long since I've actually eaten a real candy bar, it's hard to recall. However, I must agree with Amy that eating a Kit Kat without breaking it apart first is blasphemous. After all, that's *why* it has those handy dividers, is it not? Anyway, since I *am* sitting here eating SweetTarts (I had to buy a roll in a candy store last weekend because they reminded me of college and I don't think I'd had a whole regular-sized roll of them since then), I realized I do have a method for them. After putting one in my mouth and savoring it for a while, I try to suck the moisture out of it to make it disintegrate. Some of them immediately turn into a powder, but others aren't porous enough, and I eventually have to chomp on them. After 10 or so, this really causes a friction burn on the tongue, but for some reason I continue to do it. I guess it's a good way to ration them...that and the stomach ache I am getting. I also have to peel the wrapper away in a coil and leave the entire wrapper attached until the roll is gone. Have you ever heard it's "good luck" to have your SweetTarts roll start and end on the same color? And, hey, since when are green SweetTarts the flavor of green apple instead of lime? I can't stand apple-flavored things! Don't get me started.