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.
What about the fit that you pitch and fall in it? My grandma says I used to do that a lot when I was a young’un.
Up here in the Northland, we find ourselves:
– Warning folks, “Don’t have a cow!” – didn’t know this was shorthand for “cow fits!”
– Calling this recipe a shortcut for Pearson’s Salted Nut Rolls. Similar to PayDay, but made right here in St. Paul, Minnesota. They’re a nougat loaf coated in caramel and rolled in peanuts. Yum.
Maybe this recipe is why the grocer commented today that he can’t keep the candy corn shelf stocked – he thought it was early, but I think it’s just right.
Love this recipe! We also take peanuts and red hots candy and mix that together. (My fatherin-law got me hooked on that one) I just had a glass pumpkin given to me last week. Now, because of these posts, I am even more excited about using it. Happy Halloween y’all!!!
I make this every fall except I ad raisins to mine! This year they are selling the candy corn and peanuts mixed together in a bag. I bought it but I don’t think there are enough peanuts in them. I bought a very cute owl bowl at Walmart last week that I put mine in.
Thank you so much for this fun and yummy recipe. I also bought my glass pumpkin at Walmart. You can now go and buy one in fall colors. They have them out now so hurry they do go fast. God bless you and your family and keep up the good work.
I always look forward to this time of year. Seeing the pumpkins in the fields, we all know that Fall is approching. And it’s time once again to get the glass pumpkin and fill it with this wonderful recipe. I always use Honey Roasted peanuts with the candy corn. I have already made the first batch and the jar is already empty. I try to keep filling the jar thro Thanksgiving. Seems like the childrens just can’t get enough, of course I always make sure the children have a bag to take home with them. But, I really think we all eat our share. We love it! Really enjoy your blog and your posts. Thanks for sharing lots and lots of love and good home cooking. May God bless you and your family.
Thank you so much for your encouragement and kindness Ladonna, I hope that God is blessing you and your family as well!! Where did you get your glass pumpkin? I have been wanting one but they seem to be hard to come by.
I purchased my glass pumpkin at Wal-Mart several years ago. Hope you can find one.
Thank you so much for letting me know Ladonna!!
Anchor Hocking sells ’em… not very expensive either. 😀
http://anchorhocking.oneida.com/anchor-hocking-large-pumpkin-jar-cover.html?ne_ppc_id=1287&ne_key_id=26429841&utm_source=ProductListings&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=85623R9&gclid=CPi24KKR07kCFSdp7AodAkoA2Q
I hope this is what you are looking for.
Christy, I was in our Wal-Mart in Tennessee Sunday and they have a big display of glass pumpkins in the front of the store. They had clear glass and amber glass.
Christy,
Just wanted you to know that this stuff is very dangerous!!! My grand-daughter, Katie Rose, made some and sent me a big jar of it last fall for Halloween, and I have to warn everyone that as soon as you open the jar and take a bit, before you know it the jar is EMPTY!!!!! The stuff just disappears!!!! LOL…….of course then I bought more dry roasted peanuts, and candy corn and made a big batch of it……same thing happened!!! The only thing that didn’t disappear was my waistline!!
LOL, I am glad you enjoy it Patrick. Maybe you have a gremlin emptying the jar. Yeah, blame it on that!