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How Long Candy Lasts · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: You know, Christine, in a couple of weeks when Halloween's over,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be November 1st, and you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be looking at all the Halloween candy, and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to say to yourself, how long does this Halloween candy last?
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  Speaker 1: We have the answers, we think. It's Light FM, Cubby, Christine,
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  Speaker 1: producer Kristen. And, yeah, I mean, different candy lasts for
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  Speaker 1: a different amount of time. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get to chocolate because, you know, that's super important.
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  Speaker 2: The National Confectioners Association gives us the guidelines, shelf life
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  Speaker 2: of your candy. So chocolate can last 8 to 10 months.
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  Speaker 2: If it's wrapped in foil and stored in a cool, dark,
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  Speaker 2: and dry place.
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  Speaker 1: Again, this may not apply if you have a six
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  Speaker 1: and a four-year-old in the house.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: The chocolate won't last that long.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to have to worry.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to hold on to it, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. Eight to ten months. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Dark chocolate gives you longer. You get two years out
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  Speaker 2: of dark chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Alder chocolate will sometimes have that white, hazy coating known
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  Speaker 2: as a chocolate bloom, but it's still edible. Chocolate that
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  Speaker 2: is really too old to consume will have a bitter taste.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how about this, Christine? What about hard candy? I've
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  Speaker 1: always wondered about lollipops and like butterscotch.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think they should last forever? Right?
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  Speaker 1: I've always wondered. Do they do that study?
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  Speaker 2: You get a year out of them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, longer than I thought.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought till the end of time.
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  Speaker 1: Like honey?
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  Speaker 2: Like hard candies. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like what could go wrong?
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  Speaker 1: What about caramel?
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  Speaker 2: Six to nine months if packaged properly.
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  Speaker 1: Again, you're not getting a year out of these, are you?
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  Speaker 2: No, I thought they would last longer.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here's a good one for you. You know
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  Speaker 1: what has to last forever? And let me know if
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  Speaker 1: it's on there. Candy corn.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you would think candy corn would last forever, but Cubby,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to finish that up in nine months. And
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  Speaker 2: especially keep it unopened. If you've opened it, no, you
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  Speaker 2: don't have long at all. It'll get stale.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't hold it over until next Halloween? No.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: What about jelly candies? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So about a year, if unopened. If the candy's packaging
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  Speaker 2: is open but kept in a covered dish, it'll start
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  Speaker 2: to go stale immediately. After about six to nine months.
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  Speaker 1: I keep waiting for you to say, like, four years
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  Speaker 1: for something in particular here. But nothing. All right, what
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  Speaker 1: about gum? They always say if you swallow gum, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be in your belly forever.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: But that's, I believe, a myth. It is. What about gum, though,
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  Speaker 1: in general? How long does it last?
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  Speaker 2: Only six to nine months.
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  Speaker 1: What is up with this?
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  Speaker 2: I thought that would last longer. You can tell when
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  Speaker 2: gum is... Have you ever tried, you had a piece
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  Speaker 2: of gum and you know it's old because it's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of nasty and not making gum?
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  Speaker 1: Can I tell you what I did over the weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: We were in Lynchburg, Virginia. I mentioned that for my
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  Speaker 1: niece's wedding. And we had a free day on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: to kind of drive around and thrift. And I went
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  Speaker 1: to a baseball card collectible store. And I bought baseball
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  Speaker 1: cards from 1990. And they had gum in them. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what?
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  Speaker 2: You tried the gum?
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  Speaker 1: I put the gum in my mouth. It crunched like
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't believe. I opened up a pack. I went
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  Speaker 1: through the cards. It had gum from 1990, sometimes 91,
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  Speaker 1: depending on the year. And I put it right in
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. It was like you're eating, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like crackers.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cubby.
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  Speaker 2: And you're here to tell the tale. Did you spit
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  Speaker 2: it out?
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  Speaker 1: Well, my son Miles goes, I want a snack. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, no, you don't want this. You don't want this. No.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised you opened the cards. Aren't they more valuable
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  Speaker 2: if they're not open or does it not matter?
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  Speaker 1: You have to know what's in them.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm. But did you have to taste the gum?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I see a guy do it. I know they're
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  Speaker 1: saying if someone else does it, it doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: should do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a guy on social media and he opens
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  Speaker 1: up cards and he goes, oh, gum. And he always
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  Speaker 1: eats it because, and he, you know, and then he
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  Speaker 1: moves on and he goes through the cards to see
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  Speaker 1: what's in it. But yeah, you have to open them
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  Speaker 1: because you don't know, like if you get a, let's
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  Speaker 1: say you buy a pack of NBA cards from 1985,
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  Speaker 1: you might have a Michael Jordan rookie in there. And
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  Speaker 1: that's worth a lot of money. But you won't know
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  Speaker 1: until you open it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get anything really valuable?
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  Speaker 1: There are some that I have to check, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I'm, you know, walking around with 10 grand
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  Speaker 1: or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: But there were a couple of cards that, like there
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  Speaker 1: was a Derek Jeter second year card. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's worth anything. But again, they have apps now
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  Speaker 1: where you can snap pictures of. Do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, find out.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't find like a Babe Ruth or anything.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like you got scratch-offs.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? It is very much like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. Because you open it up and you might
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  Speaker 1: get a gem and you might get a clunker.
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  Speaker 2: A dud.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. A dud. All right. Well, there you go. Halloween candy.
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  Speaker 1: Most of it doesn't last less than a year.
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  Speaker 2: And don't ever chew gum from the 90s.
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  Speaker 1: Right. But I'm alive, though.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you're here to tell the tale.
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  Speaker 1: Although my stomach just went.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: What do you have coming up in the news?
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  Speaker 2: Let's check out the headlines and why you should not
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  Speaker 2: be listening to music as you go to bed.