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.
I. LOVE. THIS! And I’m not even big on eating peanuts (unless they’re boiled) OR candy corn by itself, but you had me at the Payday comparison! Plus, how easy will it be to keep a snack mix like this around the house this season, or package it up pretty to give to my kids’ classes. Oh and I agree about southerners and fits, but don’t forget we’re prone to extreme fits of excitement too, especially when it comes to food (yep, I have those a lot while reading SP) lol 🙂
I guess in my mama’s part of Tennessee one threw a “wall-eyed fit.” insert mental picture of a woman rollin her eyes around like a crazy person.
I make this also…however I add in some raisins too! DELISH!
I actually saw Candy Corn and peanut mix packaged together at Aldis!
You forgot coniption fit. This website http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-conniption-fit.htm defines it as: Assume for a minute you decided to tell your parents about your plans to ditch college and join the circus. The next event you witness should qualify as a conniption fit. A conniption fit is a sudden, violent emotional outburst generally triggered by shocking news or an unexpected turn of events. Unlike a tantrum, which could be triggered with little outside provocation, a conniption fit is often an anticipated response to incredibly bad or disappointing news. A conniption fit is generally characterized by a tirade of strong language accompanied by signs of frustration, rage and/or sadness. Sometimes a person having a conniption fit is reduced to stutters and incomprehensible epithets.
Oh…and I do love the PayDay candy corn mix. Only problem is I was eating a lot back in September of 2008. Ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks with intestinal problems that then required surgery. I attribute it to too many peanuts. So…now I try to stay away from this stuff. It can be addictive though.
Conniption fits were the kind most popular around my house too. Been known to throw a few of those myself! LOL!
Here in Yorkshire we tend to call a coniption fit a “pink fit” or a “purple fit”. I don’t know the reason why unfortunately.
I had to write to Southern Momma’s to find out the difference between ” having a coniption fit” and ” throwing a coniption fit” as around here you can say both when describing what happened e.g. when someone says” she had a pink fit “or “she threw a pink fit” it means the same thing.
Just bought my second bag of candy corn & will have to try this.
I’ve heard of hissy fits, but not cow fits or duck-or dying duck fits! : ) Guess I moved away from the south too long ago. *sigh*
Totally making some with M&M’s for little Halloween teacher gifts!!