CANDY MEGAPOLL VOLCANO LAIR OF DOOM! aka the Mission Command thread

[Kat]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

So, stop shooting me already!

Hey, I hardly ever shoot you.

[BJMoose]

Well, shoot.




No. Wait. I mean. . .

[Rat Diva]

:sigh: Cleanup on Aisle 6.

[Kat]

*bang*

[Zeener Diode]

I know this poll is closed to all latecomers, but I just have to throw this out there: Ayds.

[Jaglavak]

I hereby propose, demand, and declare that all diet candy is disqualified.

[Inner Stickler]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

Let's both wait up for poor Inner Stickler, who's most matchy-matchy with Idle Thoughts.

Well, goddamn. At least I've...well, there's always....You could say...



Aiiieeeeeee!

[BJMoose]

urk

[Fenris]

Hey--did we have Clarke Bars in the first round? If not, I object!

[Rat Diva]

Well, phooey, I managed to miss those somehow Sorry, Fenris.

[Fenris]

I DEMAND RESTITUTION!

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

Well, phooey, I managed to miss those somehow Sorry, Fenris.

What else did you "miss"?

[Rat Diva]

Trust me, if I were "accidentally" "missing" things "on purpose" there's a lotta stuff on the poll I'm far more likely to have "missed" than Clark Bars.

[Pure]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

Trust me, if I were "accidentally" "missing" things "on purpose" there's a lotta stuff on the poll I'm far more likely to have "missed" than Clark Bars.

I'm still sad that we're the most discordant.

Sigh.

[Rat Diva]

Since there's not going to be much action until the rest of the Round 1 polls time out, I've decided to throw in an Easter egg.

The first person to PM me the name and creative work of origin of this character gets a special bonus.

BTW I've futzed with it sufficiently so that Google reverse image search and TinEye don't work

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Oh yeah I've seen that somewhere. Can't remember if it was a movie or TV show or my nightmares but I've seen it.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by Pure

I'm still sad that we're the most discordant.

Sigh.

Don't forget, opposites attract. And a little old fashioned humble sincere begging wouldn't hurt either.

[Management]

Quick question since this is about candy: can anyone identify the brand of candy this is (or was)? I drew this from memory and it is not perfect, but close.

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They are circular fruit drops, about an inch across, like lollipops without sticks.
They came in a can with a pry-off lid.
They had powdered sugar loose in the can, so had a dull sort of finish.
I think they were just called "Drops" but I may be wrong.

Have not seen them for years. Probably lasted until the 80s. Googling "fruit drops metal can" is not helping. Thanks.

[Pere]

Originally Posted by Pure

That spreadsheet is a thing of beauty for this data hound.

Check out Borb's reports on the great Best Painting Megapoll.

[Kat]

Well, I searched with "circular fruit flavor candy metal tin powdered sugar" and Google is bringing up lots of stuff about Cavendish and Harvey fruit drops/fruit candy. Could that be it?

The packaging does not match, but that could just be due to a design update.
Website to see current packaging and pictures of the candy (I don't see any kind of "company history" page on the site that shows old packaging design, but you can look around for one):
http://cavendish-harvey.de/en/

Google image results for "cavendish and harvey drops"

[Pere]

Ooh, I remember those.

[Management]

Yeah, no, I don't think those (Cavendish & Harvey) are it. Those little tins are common, but the ones I recall were in a can-size can, with that distinctive black screen-printed outside with the colored drops on it - the lids were plain bare metal. Thanks, though.

[Rat Diva]

How 'bout these?

[Borborygmi]

Originally Posted by Management

Googling "fruit drops metal can" is not helping.

This is odd. If I am in Google image search and I search on fruit drops metal can I don't see anything promising. But if I search on fruit drops metal can in basic Google I get thumbnails of images along with the conventional search results, and one of them is a thumbnail for...

Looks promising to me. Regardless, though, I love the Drops mock-up drawing, Mgmt.

[Rat Diva]

Nice Google-fu there.

[Pure]

Originally Posted by Pere

Check out Borb's reports on the great Best Painting Megapoll.

Drools...

[Homer]Daaaaataaaaa[/HS]

[Rat Diva]

By the way, first person to ID the Easter Egg gets to pick one Round 1 loser for a second chance in Round 2. It will be entered in a 3-way winner-takes-all matchup with a random Round 2 poll

[Rat Diva]

Good grief, Fenris ate his Wheaties this morning He correctly identified Candy Wife from The Marvellous Misadventures of Flapjack for the win!

[BJMoose]

Actually, he used his admin powers to look inside your head.

[Rat Diva]

I know, but he didn't find anything

[Management]

Borborygmi: Those are the ones, exactly. Thank you. I didn't remember the green "Olde English" circle. But you got it.

I see they do still make them, but the can ain't the good kind.

[Borborygmi]

[Rat Diva]

Round 1B results:

Cherry Mash Chocolate Coins Rolos Hershey Special Dark Scotchmallows Toffee Ghiradelli Dark Chocolate Squares Chocolate Oranges Ribbon Candy Hershey with Almonds Cadbury Crunchie Bar Caramello Lemon Drops Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs Raspberry Truffles Lindt Lindor Milk Chocolate Truffles Red Hots Hershey's Dark with Almond Strawberry Candies with Strawberry Goo Inside Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans Reese's PB cups Peanut Clusters Bon-Bons Barber Pole candy Fruit Slices Hot Tamales 5th Avenue Toffifay Pecan Turtles Buckeyes Chocolate Fudge Peanut Butter Snickers Cherry Drops Maple Sugar Candy

[TheChileanBlob]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

Round 1B results:



Strawberry Candies with Strawberry Goo Inside

[Jaglavak]

Fruit slices?!?? You freaks be illin.

[Rat Diva]

Where'd I put the Jag repellent... ah.

[NAF1138]

So, when does round 2a start?

[Idle Thoughts]

Originally Posted by TheChileanBlob

Thank you for the explanation. Numbers may as well be Chinese.

Just as I suspected, Idle Thoughts is my poor crazy person who knows nothing about candy.

I just filled @TheChileanBlob's Mounds with my own feces (which, consequently, made it taste better), let's see if she can tell the difference.

[Rat Diva]

Originally Posted by NAF1138

So, when does round 2a start?

Sunday night, most likely.

[Rat Diva]

Originally Posted by Idle Thoughts

I just filled @TheChileanBlob's Mounds with my own feces (which, consequently, made it taste better), let's see if she can tell the difference.

IDLE EATS HIS OWN POOP!

[Jaglavak]

It's instinctive. Or in this case, outstinktive.

[Borborygmi]

With the 1B polls closed I've updated the correlations table. I didn't really intend to offer anything like this again until after all of Round 1 was closed, but I got messing around with the data and here we are. No time for me right now to play around and improve the formatting, unfortunately. I felt bad about how the previous table ganked up the appearance of Page 2 of this thread, so this time I dumped the updated table in one of the Box's recent threads here.

[Jaglavak]

Matrix is not symmetrical, pivot table appears to have extra columns. You could also put it in this thread inside a spoiler box.

[Kat]

With the new poll information, it appears I am most like KidV.

[Detroit Hoser]

The spreadsheets are fun, Borby. Thanks for doing them.

[Rat Diva]

Now I'm most like Pere; least like JoanieBaloney. That doesn't surprise me, since I think JB and I have voted opposites on just about everything and I've always thought Pere has excellent taste

PS: that's a fine thread for a data dump

[Rat Diva]

Hold onto your Islets of Langerhans, here come the 1C winners!

Saltwater Taffy (tied with Ferrero Rocher Hazlenut, winner decided by random.org ) Caramel Bullseyes Goo Goo Cluster U-no Conversation (Valentine) Hearts Marshmallows SweetTarts Whoppers Almond Joy Butterscotch (hard candies) Pocky (any flavor) Skor Bar Dark Chocolate Truffles M&Ms - almond Peanut Butter Fudge Sugar Babies Dum- dum pops Nougat candy Snickers Molasses candy Marathon Bar Ghiradelli Milk Chocolate Caramel Squares Espresso Truffles Peanut Brittle Zagnut Smarties Rocky Road Bar Peanut Butter Truffles Chunky Bar Andes Candies Tootsie Pop Sky bar Snickers Peanut Butter Squared Rocky Road Bar

[Jaglavak]

How can obvious back markers like saltwater taffy or valentine hearts still be in the running? I smell a rat.

[Rat Diva]

::mumblegrumblesnarl:: not my fault, the weather here refuses to believe that it's September.

[Detroit Hoser]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

I think JB and I have voted opposites on just about everything

I'm pretty sure everyone votes opposite JoanieBaloney, according to the stats. Makes you wonder what kind of horrible childhood she had.