Candy corn enthusiasts are rejoicing now that Oreo has released a special candy corn cookie for the Halloween season. It's a half-orange, half-yellow frosting layer tucked between two golden Oreo wafers. Last night, the limited edition flavor hit stores, and this morning, TODAY anchors and TODAY.com staffers took a taste.
Like the iconic candies that inspired them, these Oreos got mixed reviews. Some of us loved it (seven cookies later, video producer Kyle Michael Miller is now on a sugar high) and some of us hated it, but most of us summed up the experience like this: “Eh, it’s not that bad…actually, it’s kinda good… wait, can I get one more?”
The cookies didn’t fare as well with the anchors.
'What you can't see is how these smell,' said Savannah, who also concluded that they were 'not that bad.' Natalie passed on them entirely, but only because she's not a fan of candy corn to begin with. Al was a little more direct, pronouncing them, 'Just wrong.”
Reaction on the Internet has been similar – the consensus seems to be that if you like candy corn, you'll like these, but you might be judged by the foodie set.
Candy corn itself is a polarizing treat. While it’s a Halloween staple and one of the top-selling candies for the holiday, a TODAY.com poll from 2011 of more than 47,000 people found that it was the second most hated candy, with 25 percent of voters declaring it their “least favorite.”
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