When you finish eating a bag of candy and there\'s that sugar left on the bottom of the bag, do you eat it?

On the one hand, that\'s the absolute sweetest, concentrated and possibly most delicious part of the entire bag of candy and the candy might as well have been dirt since this is the REAL treat.

On the other hand, it\'s probably extremely unhealthy and all the colouring and wax and whatever junk the candy was coated in has accumulated into this pool of dust on the bottom of the bag.

It\'s different for different types of candy but the idea is pretty much the same. I\'m asking because I bought a container (not a bag) of Runts a long time ago and I\'ve finally finished it. There\'s this multicoloured dust on the bottom of the container that I\'m continually tempted to eat it... I don\'t want to throw it away so I just keep this nigh-empty container in my room.

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Is it colorful?.... Nah, don\'t think I would.
But I used to eat the salt left over in the bags of french fries. That\'s gotta be even worse for your health.

I always eat the Sugar at the bottom,Bu when i eat all the sugar,My mouth starts to sting.Sugar is still good.:miam:

When they had that special cheese powder for the burger king fries, I used to eat the left over cheese stuff.:D

I sometimes licked around inside my bags of salt and vinegar chips.:lol:

But nah, I wouldn\'t eat the plain sugar. I\'m hyper enough without its aid.:P

Never thought I\'d see the day when I sided with the newblings as opposed to the Vets. But, here I am.

That is the best part, either you eat it or I will.

The hell kinda topic you running Pocket? Um... I never cared for candy that much to lick all the \'sugar reminants\' at the bottom. But come on Pocket, it came in a sealed container and it\'s bloody candy, just eat the damn stuff if you like it so much...what\'s the worst that could happen, eh?

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lol What do you want from me? I\'m just asking a simple question. Some people are health freaks and other aren\'t. I\'m curious as to what you think about the stuff at the bottom of the bag.

I always eat the sugar from sour gummy worms/bears and the powder from bags of chips but Runts are different. Their shells have nearly no flavour but a small amount of of chipped shells might enhance the flavour.

...Or it might taste like hard wax.

I also appreciate the dust on an aesthetic level. It\'s very colourful like a powdered rainbow and not in a bad way where you mix all the colours of the rainbow together and you get black. It\'s more like... A tiny bowl of Froot Loops.

I\'ve never been really big on the theology and philosophy topics. People throw in their two cents and then everyone has an opinion trying to give a lot of thought to a question that makes them feel smart and more mature but it\'s mostly a charade. I prefer the topics that let me post some gibberish.

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If you\'re concerned about your how healthy it may be, why are you even eating candy in the first place? Something like, oh, I don\'t know, fruit let\'s say, is sweet, isn\'t unhealthy and has real nutritional value.

I\'m only slightly concerned about health so giving up candy all together is a really stupid solution to a problem that doesn\'t really exist - Sort of like cutting off your leg if you\'re mildly overweight (too extreme). Besides, the poll asks if you would eat the stuff on the bottom. I already said I\'d eat most of it (still unsure about Runts).

Pocket, I can read. My post was just a question I had from what I read. I admit it was rude of me to not answer your question first.

I wouldn\'t eat the sugar left over simply because I don\'t even really eat candy. I don\'t see the point of putting something in my body that has no beneficial qualities. Like what I said in my first post, I think fruit is a much better alternative to candy when you want something sweet.

Secondly, your comparison of not eating candy to someone cutting off their leg because they\'re mildly overweight is really, really stupid. You can view not eating candy as extreme all you like, but it\'s not a stupid decision because the healthier a person\'s diet, the better. It\'s beneficial to a person even if they think that there isn\'t a problem. Cutting off your leg on the other hand, is really stupid unless your leg actually needs to be amputated, and I fail to see how a mildly overweight person is going to benefit from doing so. So yeah, while some people may view both as extreme, they\'re more opposite than they are similiar.

Ok... Thanks for pulling this thread out of the fire so you could flame me. Fiery flames I say.

You\'re right. I\'m retarded. No more being mean.

I eat Peeps which leave alot of sugar leftover in the boxes..know what I use the sugar for? Not for eating, definitely.

Leave it in the box, mix it with a good amount of boric acid. Ants and centipedes eat theirselves to death. Well actually, while they\'re eating the sugar the acid makes holes in their exoskeleton and they die of dehydration.

What\'s boric acid? Is it something I can get at a drug store?

I\'ll have to remember that. Not only does it sound like a great idea, but it\'s also an awesome concept.:devil:

You eat Peeps?! Hollow eats people!:eek:

Boric acid can be bought in bottles at drugstores, yeah. At least, that\'s where I get mine..

And oh, with ants, sometimes they carry the boric acid tainted sugar back home and kill their entire colony.

And yes I eat people. I thought that was common knowledge.

Cheese is good.........I love doing that! I don\'t really eat the left over sugar, but sometimes I will.

i don\'t bother eating candy.i just go grab 4 or 5 little sugar packets and open them up and eat them.

Warning: (Sorry to get technical on a topic like this, but I couldn\'t help myself.) Do not mix boric acid with water! Any solid acid mixed with water takes on it\'s corosive, destructive nature, and that be bad, people! Of course, if you find boric acid in candy, it can\'t be that bad.

As for being on topic, no, I don\'t eat the stuff on the bottom of candy bags. For the most part, I don\'t even notice it.

I don\'t usually buy stuff specifically to kill ants. They die soon enough in winter so I just let them be.