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.
This stuff sounds great….My brother used to have “fits” my grandma always said “John had a fit and fell in it”. I was younger than him and thought it was just hilarious, imagining my older brother falling into something….I just love your posts and recipes, they’re wonderful….Patti
Love this recipe. Saw it mentioned in today’s post and had to make it. Lunch time and I went to buy the ingredients and everybody loved it. Thanks again. Any more recipes like this to wow the ladies at work with?
The crazy thing married to a farmer and most Farming men will have to agree with this: “Well the woman is still having her fit. I better go check cows AGAIN even though it’s been 5 minutes ago.”
CHRISTY, LOVED YOUR EXPLANATION OF FITS. MY PARENTS WERE BOTH BORN IN LOUISVILLE, ALABAMA. THEY WERE BOTH BORN IN ARIES. I ONLY HEARD ONE ARGUMENT IN 63 YEARS OF MARRIAGE. NEITHER ONE OF THEM EVER PITCHED A FIT. THEY WERE BOTH VERY EASY GOING PEOPLE. WE KIDS HAD BETTER SENSE THAN TO TRY OUR PARENTS BY PITCHING A FIT OURSELVES. I LIKE PEANUTS, BUT NEVER LIKED PAYDAYS OR CANDY CORN. IN FACT I LIKE ALL KINDS OF NUTS. BUT I’LL MAKE IT FOR MY GRAND CHILDREN. THEY WILL PROBABLY LOVE IT.
BOTH MY PARENTS WERE SOUTHERN COUNTRY. SO IS OUR ENTIRE FAMILY. LEFT THAT OUT BEFORE.
I hope they love it Martha! You will have to let me know.
This is sooooooooooooooooooooooo good !
Christy I rue the day a clerk at Walmart told me about mixing these two items to make it taste like a payday. I didn’t even like candy corn but was buying it for the grandkids. Now I love peanuts & love Paydays and this mix is just the thing!!!! Oh my goodness I didn’t need another vice. I already had my mom’s homemade fudge every Christmas. Now that she has passed on my sister has taken over (somewhat) making at least our immediate family fudge. Mom made it for everyone and I do mean everyone. It is the old fashioned kind you ccok to soft ball stage and beat and up until the year she died we had fudge every Christmas. Along with other candy she made. I can make the fudge but don’t because I just eat it – lol. Love your posts even though I am past your stage of life I can still relate.
My momma makes the old fashion Hershey fudge and we only get it on Thanksgiving and Christmas…
LOve, LOVe LOVE this!! It’s hard to not eat lots of it!