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.
Fall around our house is defined by when you buy the first bag of candy corn! I love the idea of combining it with peanuts! Yum!!
I like your Mama’s suggestion about ther hand cream! :-)…lol
This Payday recipe would be a great dish to do with my 2 year old and he can really call it his own too!…LOL…thanks!
Not sure why I hadn’t heard about this until recently, but I was so glad that I did and that I tried it! It is SO GOOD!!! I couldn’t figure out why I liked it so much until I saw the name of your post and then it hit me. That’s exactly what it tastes like! Just for fun and a slightly different experience, you can throw in some pretzels and m&m’s, too.
I am from Mississippi originally and while we throw some fits, we also pitch some. I had never heard of cow and duck fits before, though. In the middle of typing this comment I pitched a little hissy fit when my 4-year-old claimed that the screen popped out of the window all by itself and I had to go outside to fix it while the city is very noisily fixing a water leak in our front yard. But everything is okay now. 😉
Looking forward to seeing you in Garland, TX!
Well this recipe is used a lot down here in Southern Louisiana. lol When you get started eating this snack it’s so hard to put down. Get extra corn to use after halloween. We like this for when we go camping. lol
My Mom was in the hospital and told me every day she wanted some eggplant cooked with shrimp. Well didn’t really want to bring it to the hospital, but when Mom threw her Hard Headed Fit, I made her some brought it, and she ate the whole thing. Kind of made me feel guilty. So after when ever she said she wanted something, she got it. lol
That is an awesome crock pot. Mine is an old out of date one, but heck if it ain’t broke you don’t fix it. Well not unless you get a free one. lol
Christy I love the new cook book. My wait was well worth it.
Thanks for a job well done.
We’re going to have to make this one at our house. Our 4 year old loves candy corn and peanuts…now I’ll have to mix them up for her or let her do it.
Love this snack! Thanks for posting (and for listenin’ to your mama.) 😉
I’m from Tennesseean descent and we not only pitch fits, we thow fits (no r in throw), and “cut the awfullest shine ever was.”
in our place, the weather could turn out to be uncomfortably humid that is why we bought an air conditioner at home to reduce h’:.