NOW STEP RIGHT UP TO THE NEW CIRCUS PEANUTS.. LEMON! STRAWBERRY!!

 Hey, it's been a ha;f year and I plan to go back to regular posting...anyway, main CP maker Melster, after doing Banana standard ones, has now gone in Spangler's direction of different flavors..in this a dedicated one each..

The new flavors are

Lemon

Strawberry

Both of which Spangler had mixed with the classic orange banana ones.I haven't tried 'em but would very much like to. They certainly would've been interesting. There should be chocolate,but something seems nasty about how that would look LOL

Anyway, glad to be back on this blog..more to come..OH.North Riversaide CALIF. has a store near some of their shopping centers. It's called BIG BACK SNACKS (nice plug, no?) and has a number of different exotic candies like the above., FIVE AND BELOW has a lot of these.

THat's all for now..bye

Why People Stopped Eating Circus Peanuts

Heh..I sure haven't!

NEW INFORMATION SINCE LAST POST

Hi, back here..I have moved two counties--no, NOT two COUNTRIES LOL-but, TWO COUNTIES..to RIVERSIDE. from LA I have had a surprising very happy new home..we went to El Cajon's

Tom's Farms, est.1971, and had fun and lunch there (me, my mother and our longtime friends).While in the candy store there, there were all kinds of candies reviewed here and elksewhere.

Yes, TOM'S FARMS candies, like CIRCUS PEANUTS, as mentioned back in 2019, 2 yrs ago, and Candy Corn, Chowards, Necco/Spangler Wafers, BBBBats (Worrels),etc.,etc.,etc.,etc.,etc.

Of course, watchinbg diet, and we can't give candy to our beloved bichon frise dog....sorry, Deen..

(A candy lover's dream!) I have had occasional circus peanutds (CPs, as Cybele May has called them-go thru earler posts here) here in Riverside county,as well. Spangler (from their own bag,

at the former Pic/Save/Big Lots, and LIKE banaas,mas they should, NOT as bbq chips)!L:OL

Had Spangler Circus Peanuts from both the CVS brand (barbeque potato chip like) and (from Pic N Save) Spangler brand thremselves (banana), and from Dollar Tree and from Wal*Mart(sic), Melster's (ALWAYS BANANA!) Circus Peanuts. 

Just Me and my Peeps

PeepsTM candy marshmallow were invented back in 1953 by Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based, Just Born, Inc. and have been a longtime staple of Easter.

The candy has crystallised sugar crystals on top of yellow marshmallows shaped like bunnnies or ducks. Simple as that. In later years, by the 1960s, they expanded
into a major industry of their own. In the last several decades, they've been in all imaginable colours and shapes:
Purple duck
Green Bunnies
Brown Poops (just kidding!)
and so on.

Even sour (YECH) Peeps.

While Just Born Inc. has gone into also Hot Tamales and Mike and Ike, the sugar coated 'mallows are their trademarks and most popular candy. Today,
you can find the marshmallows (like "normal" rather than Circus Peanuts) year-round, but still especially at Easter.


Here's some videos..

Circus Peanuts for a birthday..

How'd you like to have those nice, foamy, marshmallows. Yes, those things...as this nears its second birthday (and thanks,specifically, to Cybele May, who runs Candyblog who sort of inspired this in the first place... Nice peanuts,huh?

Anyhow, December 8 was my birthday..we went to the local La Mirada,Calif. bar/grill and I got, among others, /Spangler Circus Peanuts,(Gold Medal "off brand" from CVS) two bags, and I enjoyed them, saved, saw, came, and ate them within a week,,though Melster's (sold in its own bags) are by all means even better and the bes,t

Rainbow Colored Peanut marshamllows

On Sunday, April 19, 2015, I went to Unviersal Studios Hollywood and went to the CityWalk to It's Sugar candy store. I found the It's Sugar-rebranded-Spangler assorted Circus peanut marshmallows.

Even with the classic orange color/banana flavor pairing it was nice to get some color/flavor variety:
White......vanilla/marshmallow
Pink.........punch(?)
Yellow......lemon (yeah.....I know: why not ORANGE? Orange colored standard circus peanuts are flavored like the yellow fruit banana..)

The Spangler stamp imprint was all over them. These candies get repackaged and resold since 1911..oh, wait..that was Lewis Black's very well known candy corn comment.

Anyway, if you stop by a mall or anything like that or like Universal (and Vegas's Venetian has this but I didn't buy them then) that has It's Sugar check the four colored Circus peanuts. But don't tell 'em I sent ya!:)

A Tale of two Circus Peanut brands

The public domain status of CIRCUS PEANUTS (TM-NOT) has resulted in many companies (and packagers for stores!) offering the famed marshmallows. The two most frequently seen where I am, are Melster, especially in Dollar tree where any size (6 Peanuts per serving of 4, x 4, 24 or 7x4 for 28) can be bought for the nice, comfy price of $1.00, (and Family Dollar has in larger bags what seem to be that brand packed for them, that or Brachs, Farley or Sathers, certainly NOT Spangler), and Spangler, which is the brand that dominates (generally masquerading as instore drugstore brands). I went to Dollar Tree and one of those offering
the Spangler brands (Rite Aid, yeah, it doesn't SAY Spangler but it HAS the name on the candies!) and bought and mixed the candies in a bag.

Spangler is squishy due to the gelatin, and not only looking orange, but the usual mismatching banana flavor seems mixed in with orange flavor...

Melster has a more larger, "gummy" "peanut" with a banana bubblegum flavor (Banana Splits, one banana two banana anyone..?)

Mixing them in one bag (on my way to see the current animation movie "Home") was very odd..given that the two brands of Circus Peanuts are so different as described.....

Still, all in all, very interesting having both, and I've had both individually before.

Endorsements and criticisms of Circus Peanuts!

Besides the reviews of specific Candies, I like to SOMETIMES just REFER to outside opinions,..,

like these from Urban Dictionary.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Circus+Peanuts

CIRCUS PEANUTS REVIEW

CIRCUS PEANUTS
One of the oldest, most controversial, most sweetest, and most mysterious candies ever has to be the non-copyrighted, multiple-company
produced, inconsistent flavor/shape/taste Circus Peanut, which first showed up (as a Christmas type or years end candy) in the early 1800s,
maybe even before Necco (then Chase and Co.) Candy Wafers showed up in 1847, eventually by the 1940s winding up as an all year round bagged candy.
They're peanut shell in shape.
Orange in color.
Banana in Flavor.
Made by multiple companies.
And like dirty comic Louis Black might say as he did of candy corn, it's been recycled since 1910.

Even sold by THOSE VERY SAME COMPANIES to other packagers to MANY stores (ergo, Type A, Type X, etc. will be commonly and naively associated by us
average shopper as additional makers of Circus peanuts, yet one of the longest makers in the 20th century still making them, Spanglers, since 1941, has
their name on the candies, literally..I saw those in the Queen City brand in Big Lots(nee Pic and Save) stores. MIXED with some other brand.
The "peanuts", containing pig skin gelatin, corn syrup, natural or artificial flavor, color, are also made by Melster which also, like Spangler (best known for their
own trademakred lollipops, Dum-Dums), also has a working deal with store and indie brands that outsource them from Melster, as well as Farley and Sathers, and
Brach's, and no doubt they also have "peanuts" winding up repackaged. Kind of like, much like, Candy Corn, and in fact, comic Louis C.K.Black has said that all
candy corn was made in 1914, which some wags might just also say of Circus Peanuts.

Here's what a typical CIRCUS PEANUTS package might look like:

(OKAY, OKAY, if *I* made the candy.:))

Spangler, for one, has done Peppermint white Circus Peanuts and other flavors in addition to the orange color/banana flavor (maybe even Finger Nail Polish Remover flavor!:)) that
we would naturally normally associate with Circus Peanuts normally.

The strane delights can be found in everything from small bags to bulky ones...

Basic RECIPE
Sugar
Gelatin
Corn Syrup
Flavor
Color
(last two of choices)