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.
dear christy, i am now living north of the mason dixon line and have commited the ultimate sin of marrying a yankee. he is slowly being converted to the ways of the south.
i made this candy recipe for the first time this past halloween. neither he nor any of his high fallutin’ family members had ever heard of it!! unbelievable!! they could not enjoy it until they analyzed and dissected it to try and figure out what it reminded them of!! how sad.
You can chocolate chips to this also and you have a chocolate covered payday. I just love chocolate.
I tell my kids to “Put on your big girl pants and deal with it” Then pitch a fit when they talk back.:)
we must be sure to remember the patient, understanding Southern Gentleman who has been trained at his mother’s (and sister’s!) knee on how to handle a Southern Lady’s Hissy Fit:
keep your mouth shut until it blows over, only say “yes, dear” when prompted to respond, and quickly find something to fix OUTSIDE the house unless tasked to correct the fit’s source…
for he knows if he follows these steps that soon enough the spice will turn to sugar once again!
Hey gal,
I thought of some other kind of “fits”…LOL
We have what is called the “snot-slinging fit” in which you are so mad you are crying and slinging…welll, you know!!
My grandchildren have “total melt downs” don’t want to be around when that happens…
Also when we are confronting someone on an issue we call that a “come to Jesus meeting”…which I’ll be having with my adult son real soon! All’s he needs to do is say “Yes, Mama” and all will be right in my world…because “When Mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy”…Amen??
and everybody said Amen!!! 😀
This brings back so many memories! My mama used to throw a lot of hissy fits and conniption fits when I was growing up and they seemed to be much worse when she was having hot flashes or when our air conditioner was broke, which was quite often. Us kids used to laugh at her when she wasn’t looking. I guess we were disrespectful once in awhile. Shame on us! As for the Candy Corn and peanut recipe…..I can’t wait to try it. We love candy corn, so I know it will be a hit. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I love this season. i have those 2 things in my cabinets right now. I need to stop eating it though.