Pay Day Candy Mix (And The Varying Degrees Of Fits Thrown In The South)
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I am posting this recipe so my Mama will stop having dying duck fits wanting me to.
Has your Mama ever thrown a fit? Have you ever thrown a fit? If you answered no to either one of those, you just can’t be a Southerner. You see, Southerners throw fits and we all have varying degree of fits, which are not “had” but “thrown“.
There is the classic hissy fit, which is rather mundane but still entertaining to watch. This is typically thrown by otherwise demure and well behaved ladies and consists mostly of high pitched voices being pitched even higher as hands wave around in the air and heads shake, sending dangly earrings bobbing after the jerky head movements.
Hissy fits aren’t that big of a deal unless combined with heat and humidity, then it can get ugly. A hissy fit might typically be thrown if you were about to have guests arrive for a party only to find that ice hadn’t been bought ahead of time or the sherbert in your punchbowl had already melted. The script for a hissy fit usually begins with “Oh lord! What are we gonna do now?!”
Cow fits are a bit more urgent, usually requiring some form of action to soothe the nerves of the fit thrower. One might throw a cow fit, for example, if you were running late for an appointment and discovered that your favorite heels had been chewed by the puppy. The cow fit script in this case would sound something like, “My shoes!! My favorite shoes!! Those were the ones I was going to wear today!”. Now dying cow fits require immediate action, but mainly just to get the fit thrower to hush so we can all have a bit of piece (In the interest of self disclosure, I am rather prone to cow fits due to my extreme lack of organization and ever growing to-do list, which wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t spend half my time looking for the dern list).
A duck fit is really one of the most minor fits but when it becomes a dying duck fit – you post the Payday Candy Mix recipe so you can get your Mama to stop quacking so much. ~grins~
The reason Mama wanted me to post this was because it has become quite the “pass along” idea among her quilting friends. Its like this fad all of a sudden, go to anyone’s house we know and you’ll see a pretty bowl (usually pressed glass) filled with this candy mix as soon as you step into the foyer (Which Southerners tend to pronounce “Four-yer” rather than the much more fashionable “Foy-yay”.). So see, her intentions were good, she wants y’all to have some of this candy, I just had other things on my plate and hadn’t got around to it until now.
If you like Payday candy bars, this is right up your alley because it tastes just like a payday, but is a heap prettier when presented in a nice little pressed glass bowl.
Hi Christy…..really your recipes, blogs & humor ….Thank-you! Well this mix sounds good, so I’ll try it, since I love paydays! Fits…..I’ve seen & had many myself….I actually had a coniption fit on my Facebook wall last night….frustrated with their new thing they’re trying….no more emails/notifications/text messages to my phone from the FB Team…..they changed ALL my settings & claim that I can set my settings back the way I want them…not true….tried @ least 6 times ….it just stayed the way THEY had set them….been this way 2 days now….they claim its to cut back on the amount of emails they send ….now I’m getting NO emails from them! Oh no, I’m throwing a FIT of some kind right now; don’t know what kind?????? LOL Well, enough complaining now…sorry people. I really like all the different types of fits you’ve all mentioned here …thank-you! Yeah….I’m thinking M&M’s sounds good in the mix. Mmmmmmmm!
I feel your pain! With the Southern Plate Facebook page having over 27,000 family members on it now, when fb up and changes something it often leaves me thrown for a serious loop and I’ve even been locked out of my account for days at a time only to just log in and have it magically fixed, lol. I wish there was a way I could pay something to them and have a customer service line or something but in the end, the benefits are worth the downside and it’s been a great tool to be able to stay so closely connected with all of you. I hope your account gets fixed like you like it soon Margaret!
Tell your mama….Thank you for having a dying duck fit! Just the recipe I needed for this Halloween.
Christy , honey you are like a blast from the past, only you’re in the here and now ! I look forward to your posts every day to see what kind of story you are going to share with us ! I’m all too familiar with the kinds of fits “pitched” and their intensity. I’ve seen and heard my share and have been known to pitch a few myself ! By the time I read one of your recipes I’m having a drooling fit ! Keep the smiles and stories and recipes coming, we’re always waiting on them !
Ummmm….this sounds so good! I’ve also melted candy corn, mixed in some peanut butter, then patted it out and cut small pieces. Dip in melted chocolate almond bark – just like homemade Butterfingers!!
Love this stuff with some M&M’s thrown in. By the by, if someone’s fit is just dramatically over the top, we’d say, “She pitched a ring tailed tooter!” Woo~boy, now that’s somethin’ to witness! 😉
How about the kangaroo fit. That’s when your toddler starts wildly jumping up and down when he doesn’t get his way. This may be accompanied by arms waving in the air, fists clenched, high pitched screaming, and/or crying. Kangaroo fits are not welcome at our house and end quite quickly 🙂 that dying duck fit is a good one!
In my husband’s family they call them “riggin’ fits” typically initiated when one becomes frustrated while “riggin” their fishing gear, other activity that does not go the way one desired or looking for a lost object.