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Episode Transcript for Candy Circus Peanut Salad

Kristen this is going to be our best recipe yet I have a hint for you okay what is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of 2-year-old Carrie oh my gosh the cutest little baby girl ever in your little footy pajamas I was really cute you were okay but more realistically yeah what do you think of with stubborn Carrie who refused to be potty trained oh absolutely 100% circus peanuts yep and we're putting them in a recipe hot diggity [Music] welcome to Mom's Wooden Spoon where the recipes are retro and so are your hosts you can say that again [Music] I am so ridiculously excited for this recipe I knew you would be okay so as the story goes Yes Kristen the perfect child oh yeah that's me uhhuh saw Mom cleaning out a diaper yeah said "Ooh that's gross." Mom said "I wouldn't have to do this if you went pee pee in the potty." Yeah Miss Perfection said "Okay mommy." And did right potty trained instantly yes and my mom thought "I got this potty training nailed." That's right and along came Carrie so I'm a little more hard-headed than Kristen stubborn willful prideful a little less likely to please and it came to potty training and I'm like "Nah I'm good I'm good with the pee peeing in the diaper yep I'm good." And so after multiple failed attempts my mom was like "All right I'm buckling down." That's right she read some horrible book of how to potty train your child in 24 hours that's right because apparently that's all she was willing to put into it at that point I am done with you Carrie over 24 hours we did all things potty related and every time I went to the potty I got my favorite candy of all time right and you might wonder what that is chocolate no no butterscotch no no they didn't have Skittles and Mike and Ikes that's right I was struggling to think something fruity yeah I would have liked that a good Twizzler but no my favorite the circus peanut oh I loved me the circus peanut party in your mouth heck yeah so this recipe is an ode to the circus peanut it is the best and let me say this quickly oh I hope it's quick before we get going I have planned Yes a multitude and variety of circus peanut facts to regale you with today my friends and don't worry folks I have other facts and I'm the editor so really you don't have to worry but if you're wondering when you hear this episode why Carrie's not on it at all She's so excited and then we don't hear it's because I've edited her out everything about circus peanuts that is harsh because there's some fascinating things about circus fun and what I loved about this recipe and one of the reasons we chose it first of all it's from our yellow church cookbook from 1978 right really fun and we know the person who put this in there it's Mrs. Jan Furnas we love the Furnas family yes very much and we're excited to try this recipe we are and when we were reading the recipe what struck us was the ingredient list it says 30 circus peanuts shelled

I was like that's hilarious that is great yeah that's really cute and we're like oh that's funny we need to make this I think that's wonderful and so I had looked up a recipe so good news is this one's smaller yes than a lot of the ones online which since we're feeling questionable in the flavor of this Yeah is good to make less rather than more that's right you know and speaking of flavor people think that circus peanuts are orange flavored because they're orange colored they are not my friend no they are not what are they you know everything circus peanut do you know I think I do yeah I I know you know your least favorite artificial flavor I'm sure banana they are banana flavor so getting to my first circus peanut fact okay and once you tell us can we try one I haven't had one for decades absolutely okay yeah great so first circus peanut pack they have absolutely no idea why circus peanuts are peanut shaped and banana flavored there's no history really uhhuh so they think one theory is that they originated with the traveling circuses of course where vendors would sell salted peanuts and candy so they kind of did a combo one that makes sense but the banana flavor well so there's all kinds of random reasons that they think so one of them thinks that it's rumored to have arisen from a shortage of other flavors during World War II oh interesting so the yummy flavors were out the only thing left was bananas all that's left is bananas so let's throw that crap in there so they are banana flavored nobody knows why lots of rumors abound you can currently find them however with different flavors no really yes yes they make them vanilla and cherry I want to taste one of these and then one more thing is they think that the banana was a freak accident what that it just kind of fell into the the They're making circus peanuts they're like "We don't quite know what we're making oh crap I spilled this what is it?" Willy nilly oh my gosh they were candy makers like Carrie lives her life just willy nilly all over the place flippety floo clearly second child circus peanut makers okay so here's a stale one for you oh my gosh they look like I remember they're hard as a rock yeah they are so one of the other things that they had said is they think they were made cuz it was back in the penny candy days yes because they taste the same whether they're fresh or whether they're stale as all get out they taste the same and since you didn't wrap your candies they just went into the bin for penny candies that's right oh neat that they thought that that's part of that worked out well well while Carrie takes her first taste this sucker is fresh out of the bag are stale it is oh they are tough I'm going to dump these out because we need 30 circus peanuts to make this Jello salad you're tasting it so bad are they let me take a bite that banana do you hear that that's me biting it that banana flavor is so strong it is strong I like it mmm I do not but it's chewy man it is and shockingly circus peanuts are hard to find mhm mhm we had a shopping list my husband went out and picked everything up he went to the Walmarts no circus peanuts nope he ran across the street to Kroger mhm no circus peanuts he looked online Dollar General they sell circus peanuts he went to three Dollar Generals they did sell them they were all out who was buying all the circus peanuts who the heck is buying them out I don't know I again lots of circus peanuts facts I read somewhere that grocers were saying that that's the way circus peanuts sell they get in a shipment they sit in the store they sit in the store they sit in the store they all get bought that's weird yeah they're like I don't I don't know what happens is there just one dude that comes in and buys circus peanuts some guy or girl who's born in the 60s and 70s is like my favorite candy yeah yeah I don't know but they said multiple grocers concurred that's wild and we can attest to the Dollar General experience that's crazy so this recipe Carrie do you want to tell us kind of what's in it did these suckers expire in like 2020 I know right they're tough Carrie just put more in her mouth so I'm going to tell you what's in them they're gross but I can't stop so the recipe is called candy circus peanut salad so that you're not confused that it's just regular circus peanuts in this salad well I mean cuz that's confusing I know right and so it has orange Jell-O so it goes beautifully with the circus peanut color stick with the color palette yep yep and then of course the boiling water and the cold water to make the Jell-O and then we have to take 30 circus peanuts and chop them up into little bits and the weird thing is we are going to then put that with the hot water and the Jell-O in the blender and blend it till the circus peanuts are dissolved so that's interesting because when I looked up the recipes online the blending was not a thing wow you just chopped up little bits you put them in the hot water and let them melt uhhuh which they do not in their entirety and you can tell by eating those you would never get these completely dissolved if you weren't blending these up I don't think and maybe they won't be completely dissolved but it might be nice to get a little bite of a circus peanut yeah so if you look at the online pictures Yeah you can see little chunks of circus peanut cuz they just don't completely melt so this will be interesting cuz we're definitely going to have smaller chunks if we're blending than if you're just trying to melt these that's wild I was telling people about what we were going to make and they said salad and I said "Well yeah that's what they called jello things back then they would call it a jello salad even though it had no vegetables in it. I was wondering what the heck is that all about well apparently they started calling it Jell-O salads because when you put the little pieces of fruit or marshmallows in there it looked mixed up like a mixed green salad with little bits and pieces in there well I thought it was cuz you served it on a bed of lettuce well that too yeah so are we going to start chopping some circus peanuts I think we need to so we're going to crinkle for a bit why don't you grab your bag and see how many are in there we need 30 that's hard let's Let's just lift them and drop them ready here's what they sound like so fluffy and light I broke off a chunk of mine oh that's good one two three let me see I have 13 I did get three bags just in case we needed a few more I have 14 okay so doing math we need three more I think cutting them is going to be hard it's gonna be very hard so then as I was thinking about salads Jell-O salads I was wondering how did those crazy Jell-O salads with the olives and the the little hot dogs yeah yeah how did those weirdo ones come into fashion and you know a little bit of it is kind of what we talked about in other podcast episodes is that companies came out with cookbooks and they were trying to use their Yeah their product in all kinds of weird ways breakfast lunch and dinner yep but another thing is I thought this was really interesting Jell-O was a mass produced convenience food okay so in the 50s housewives believed that women who resorted to instant products were lazy disorganized and bad wives oh that does not surprise me at all I mean if your whole life has been working hard to make all these things for your family and now all of a sudden it's an easier way to do well that kind of discredits all the work that you've been doing absolutely of course people are going to respond with "Uh no I'm far superior because I made my Jell-O by hand." Exactly I boiled the cow's hooves right so to get out of that dilemma women actually started adding labor back into the product right and so instead of cooking from scratch they would use these instant products these convenience foods but then they would doctor them up to make them much harder we're so stupid I know right people are so dumb sometimes you need to be like the the women needed to be like the Rice Krispie treats commercials from the 80s where the mom's making the Rice Krispies in the kitchen she doesn't let anybody in but they're so easy to make so she gets flour and she flies it into her face and it's all down her shirt I forgot about that she's like "I've been slaving all day to make these Rice Krispie treats for you." That's what they should have done yeah absolutely just lied yeah liars wouldn't have worked at all no okay so as I am cutting as I am cutting this incredibly stale circus peanut I found some quotes on my favorite Reddit about people and their joys of circus peanuts oh cool i want to hear but you know what I have a question I have a quick question are they really stale isn't this how they're supposed to be I don't know would they get harder than this well let me I have a quote that might just answer this oh good okay yeah so someone wrote in about a family member and said he left circus peanuts out to get really stale and then gnawed on them like a rat oh gosh I can see you having to do that there's no way you could bite into it apparently they're very difficult to make what yes this would seem like a super cheap and easy thing that you would just make cuz they're so cheap to buy it was a dollar a pack no so Spangler candy oh I love Spangler Bryan Ohio home of the Dum Dum makes circus peanuts it is one of like five people in the country that makes them that makes circus peanuts yep they have a guy who is responsible for making the circus peanuts a guy the guy uh the guy does not like circus peanuts I mean he doesn't like them what's the guy's name I it did not say I think it's probably Darryl well his last name is Kerr K E R R probably Darryl Darryl Kerr yeah Darryl that sounds good yeah okay we'll call them Darryl Darry okay yeah I like a good nickname yeah that's good like the outsiders yes so okay so Spangler Candy has been producing uh circus peanuts since the 1930s and obviously Mr kerr has not been making them since the 1930s oh really well I maybe not obvious it is to me so anyway apparently there's very little room for error you have to get them to the exact specific temperatures and you have to get just the right amount of moisture into them yes I guess that makes sense so when you get all the ingredients in in the right order at the right temperature if you have too much moisture you get a thin crusty layer on the outside of your circus peanut crusty eww if you do not get enough moisture they're too dry and they cave inward oh well you wouldn't want a caved in circus peanut no you certainly wouldn't wow so just Darryl's in charge of the whole thing Just Darryl and his other brother Darryl right yes well at least there's two of them yes yes I'll tell you what my hands are hurting I I have only made it through one I'm like maybe through two here oh yours are way bigger yeah I'm not making them I'm not making them any smaller my hands are killing me already this is crazy these suckers have got to melt though well hopefully they melt cuz this is Normally I'm the fine dicer you know I really like it fine and I ain't doing no more of this no way all right so I've got some more Reddit quotes about circus peanuts okay do tell I will these are some of my faves okay let's see those circus peanuts were among my dad's favorite candies oh wow yes my father had questionable culinary taste no kidding he also put Wishbone French dressing on cottage cheese and pineapple and pineapple ew ew  French dressing on cottage cheese sounds disgusting French Wishbone French dressing wishbone French I don't know why I was thinking Italian well cuz that sounds less disgusting but no it doesn't it sounds disgusting Italian too so somebody else said that they love them but only when they're fresh so because when they get stale they're impossible to eat okay but the trick is and maybe we should try this microwave them for a short burst of 9 to 20 seconds depending on how hard they are okay we're totally doing that let me grab one okay okay how many seconds nine to 20 depending on how hard they are so I don't know is this a 10 second I'm gonna start with 10 seconds okay I'll keep cutting them while you all right I'll come back over and cut all nine seconds yeah for all nine seconds let's see how far I can get I'm still not through I mean still not through these are hard okay here we go uh not smushy enough let's try 5 seconds I'll put it on 10 and then I'll grab it on five that way I can just get started okay there's 5 seconds oh they're so soft here look it's ooey gooey try it what oh my gosh even more banana flavor yum they're easy so much more delightful mhm oh my gosh they taste so much better all right so if you are going to try circus peanuts much like stale Krispy Kremes you just got to microwave that sucker for a little bit yeah let's see if it cuts easier oh look at that cut cut snippity snap shut your face Oh we're going to microwave these bad boys it gets hard super fast so I don't think if we microwaved a whole bunch of them at the same time it goes right back to being hard interesting all right so now we know if you get some stale circus peanuts microwave that sucker and you too can go into a diabetic coma I really feel like I'm shaking now I've had two whole circus peanuts yep I kind of got the sugar sweats

oh no that's That's something Jell-o salads reminded me of potluck dinners at church right heck yes yes of course I don't think we ever had a Jell-o salad at home I think we No way I mean yes it was for lazy housewives but right far more adventurous housewives than our mom heck yeah sorry mom sorry mom but she I mean that instant Jell-o stuff that still took a lot of work way too long I mean sheesh I was looking through the church cookbook trying to find stuff that probably we would have had at one of the potluck meals there was a Jell-o salad I'm pretty sure we had it said potluck favorite oh yep and it was called a Christmas salad oh and it had little squares of cherry lemon and lime Jell-O that had fruit cocktail in these little cubes oh boy and then they were folded into a cream that was made of cream cheese and Defiance Dairy milk aww That's awesome yep oh you know that was actually really popular they called it like the chandelier because then you'd have this white chandelier no uh no stained glass yeah yeah stained glass you know same diff chandelier stained glass yeah you had the pretty little colored Jell-o fancy glassy Jell-o yeah yeah in the cream yes you'd have the white Jell-o with these blocks of color or the white cream with the blocks of color yeah but the addition of the fruit cocktail that's a in the Jell-o that's a special twist on nasty I think it is a special twist there is there is nothing worse in my opinion than fruit cocktail grapes oh they are so mushy man I mean I can do the pears yeah yeah oh the little cherry cherry such a joy but the grapes Oh no no no no no no okay here's some others so non Jell-o recipes of foods we may have had there were a gazillion in one casseroles that had a combination of ground beef noodles and a cream of something soup oh uh yeah yeah or chicken noodles and a cream of something soup yeah and if you wanted to really make it fancy you could have rice instead of noodles oh that's right I would never take those I would always take the ones that had the noodles and sometimes you'd find some with stove top stuffing oh delicious yeah and then the last one I found that I totally remember we even had a jar in our pantry of this gallstones that was in the fridge Carrie that's true these would have been served at a potluck I'm sure and I never would have taken one in a million years they were pickled watermelon rind yeah I ah I Nope pickled watermelon rinds and they were like a sweet pickle that had cloves floating in the jar with it oh was that in the cookbook it was yeah I I don't want to make that Carrie next year Kristen nope next year wow yeah I thought that was fun and there was one more thing in the church cookbook that I wanted to tell you about and see if you remembered this okay it was at the end in miscellaneous it was a recipe for a chemical garden oh and then they would make like little uh you put strings in it and then No you didn't even have to put strings they just built themselves up up up these chemicals built on each other they sold them in the stores and they were called I think magic rocks yes and they were different colors and they grow these Yeah uh real tall towers but apparently they were really delicate and there was some funny person on Reddit you know cuz I love Reddit and here's what she said this brings back the most traumatic experience in my entire life my gosh so traumatic I was in the third grade and was bringing my jar to school to show the class I tripped and the little mountains got all jarred loose and were floating in the water no but the nun still made me walk up and down the aisle showing my classmates I lost track of how many times I said they're not supposed to be floating around like that they're not supposed to be floating around like that the nun added to her humiliation the trauma I think the trauma is that in the 70s we let children play with caustic chemicals that you know that you can still get those kits yeah but apparently you don't need to if anybody wants to make those we have the recipe it used charcoal briquettes and laundry bluing don't eat it right and ammonia because everybody buys laundry bluing nowadays omg you'd have to have a gas mask on to safely I know right put all those things you're not supposed to mix stuff with ammonia like I said toxic chemicals for children wow yeah oh that poor girl trauma now the trauma wasn't the fact that she was gassed out and passed out while she was making the magic rocks that's just part of what happened that's right the trauma was that they broke off they're not supposed to be floating like this they're not supposed to be floating like this these are lame they were really cool before I tripped and fell pay no attention to the scratches on my face we are still cutting circus peanuts how far are we into the episode 30 minutes my hand is so sore note to self don't make stuff with circus peanuts oh lord you got to really be dedicated to this recipe no kidding here's a little tidbit for you oh I like tids and bits it's a circus peanut tidbit did you know that circus peanuts were the inspiration for Lucky Charms really the inventor I have no idea what his name is he's the other Darryl the other Darryl he um was having a bowl of I think it was Rice Krispies um I'm not sure I have I have so many exciting things about circus peanuts that I can't find all of my Cheerios I found my note oh he was having he was having Cheerios and he had some circus peanuts and he decided to much like us chunk up his circus peanuts bless his heart and drop them into the Cheerios and he thought "Oh well this is a taste treat delight." You can totally see it because these kind of have the same consistency of little bit yeah yeah so anyway so he thought it was delightful oh yeah cuz that's what I would do eating cereal when I was a kid and want to put candy in it I don't think he was a kid that's what I would want to do as a grown ass adult is put candy in my cereal next time you're a grown man you'll want to do that that's right next time yeah and so anyway and then I learned the marshmallow bits if you want to be in the know I do I always do do you know what the official people call the marshmallow bits in lucky Charms uh tids and bits why would they call them that I don't know there's no tits I didn't say it me neither I said tids but I heard it I heard it oh my Carrie it's gone inappropriate tits and bits would you give me some of that cereal with the tits in it okay bringing it back um if you ever have the chance to work at the Lucky Charms factory oh I would like that chance you're going to want to make sure that you refer to the bits as Marbits marshmallow bits see I was close tits and bits you were not even Yes I was I had the bits part you were creepy and inappropriate again Kristen with her creepy inappropriate okay I'm down to four how are you doing I'm done Oh I mean but yours are like six times the size as mine that's true let me just take a few of yours here mine will be the ones that don't dissolve but that'll be okay I think having a few of these in here that sit in liquid and get soft might be okay I mean she really cuts like two two chunks out of her marshmallow Carrie's trying to pretend like she's better than me but we all know we all know now we know why Kristen's cutting goes so fast she's like a 1950s housewife using prepackaged products hey that's mean yeah I am not lazy disorganized in a bad life okay I might be but not because of the marshmallows you are not disorganized that is true that is true that is true jerk

that was funny okay moving on okay so um some other statements that people have made about the circus peanut oh oh I I need to know more prepare to be horrified oh okay she I'm not sure who she is okay um but let's just say it's her sister named Kristen Kristen prefers circus peanuts factory fresh oh and once served slices at a cocktail party where guests were adding them to crackers and prosciutto we're a podcast you have to make noise I'm so aghast she sliced them up yeah and people added them to prosciutto crackers and prosciutto yeah so here's the question did she slice them longwise did she get like a mandolin it would break the mandolin blade can you imagine I mean that's what you'd want to do paper thin paper thin oo tasty so you would be the cracker would be gone and swallowed the prosciutto would be gone and swallowed and you'd still have a bit of the circus peanut in your mouth oh absolutely absolutely okay and then this one is my favorite really not for what it says but kudos to the fabulous writing style oh of this Redditor oh do tell oh I say that all the time do tell okay do I remember circus peanuts how could I or anyone ever forget them oh much like the mashed potatoes at Kentucky Fried Chicken or some former girlfriends there was an unexplainable attraction to them followed by a mystified sense of self-doubt bordering on self-loathing oh no why did I eat them and I know I'm going to do it again that's funny I know it that was awesome oh my gosh you know what while you finish cutting your last peanut um in the next 20 minutes I'm going to go ahead and microwave the water till it's boiling okay I'm pretty sure I have blisters me too on my hands from this y'all like I did not expect for this to be such hard work I did not sign up for this it's early in the morning I still haven't had enough coffee no way and I have blistered my hands I'm going to go back and then cut my big bits into smaller tits and bits oh are you yeah while we wait on the boiling water because what else do we have to do oh I thought that you were just so proud of your big bits

I have always been proud of my big bits

Carrie but today I want to be more like you I have super tiny bits some would say almost invisible bits oh no oh my gosh oh iyiyi this is bad first the tits and now this it's the sugar I'm telling you it's the sugar holy cow we had two of these oh my gosh insane well let's go ahead and read the recipe so we know what the heck we're doing and we can tell everybody what we're doing I'm just stretching my hand out I'll read it you cut okay you read it so we're going to blend the Jell-O and boiling water in a blender okay and then we're going to add the peanuts cut up that's just odd what yeah so first the boiling water and the Jell-O get blended cuz I mean that clearly is an activity that needs blending but I don't think it says blend oh yes it does you just read it it says blend Jell-O in boiling water I said you cut I'll read shut up shuttin' up okay and then we're going to blend until the peanuts are dissolved except for Kristen's yeah then we're going to pour it into a large bowl and we're going to add here's a good one we're going to add drained pineapple to the mixture okay and then we're going to add the pineapple juice that we drained that doesn't make any daggone sense why do you have to separate it is it important to the pineapple going into this mixture to have as much of the moisture pushed out of it as possible maybe so that it soaks up some of the Jell-O instead of just holding pineapple juice I don't know I'm trying to be scientific about this I don't know but you brought crushed pineapple I did not pineapple tits and bits or the pineapple nugs I don't know what they're called the bigger pieces right yes and so with crushed you really can't get the juice out so I think we're just going to dump it all in at the same time exactly what one would expect from a 1950s housewife using prepackaged materials yep yep that's fine lazy lazy lady okay and then we're going to add two cups of cold water we're going to let it partially set now Kristen and I have some experience with letting Jell-O partially set we have troubles and it was a failure yeah we put it in the freezer though you know sometimes you just want to finish the recording I know right we're like we are done our hands are killing us we're tired yes so anyway so we're going to try and partially set it this time and not kind of fully set it we do not want to be lazy disorganized bad wives right yep Yeah so we're going to actually try and partially set we'll see if that works yeah and then lastly we're going to prepare some Dream Whip and we're going to fold that in yeah we did not get Cool Whip we bought the packages of the Dream Whip yeah so if you are not familiar with the Dream Whip and why would you be right this was a 70s staple and so you take this little package of powder yeah and then you add a little milk and vanilla and then you blend it until soft peaks form right okay so wait you buy the dream whip you add your own milk and they make you add vanilla they couldn't even put vanilla in good lord okay well we don't have to make that yet the water's boiling let's go ahead and start oo hello the water is prepared it is so let's get this started yes get the blender okay get the Jell-O in the boiling water to blend okay you better move fast cuz I think these peanuts are going to need the water at its hottest I think it is so we're going to be back in a minute because this is going to be very very loud you don't think people want to hear this I think they do not Carrie let the people listen Kristen bye [Music]

uh we had a little issue well I will tell you all I had the blender on high it's like a fancy schmancy Vitamix i don't use it very often if we had used a 1970s blender we would not have had this problem but no I had it on high and turned it on and it blew the lid off the blender and hot boiling lava Jell-o went everywhere everywhere poor Kristen her little arm is burnt she's got orange Jell-O on her shirt she smells delightful oh my gosh yummy yum yum um I have been uh cleaning up their dirty dirty kitchen floor and now for every step that we make for the rest of this episode you will probably hear the cronch

sticky of our shoes because the water was so hot there is nary a circus peanut in sight no I did not have to chop them that small after all nope I mean look at that let's pour it in the bowl there's a foam on the top that's kind of cool it is a horrific orange color it is dayglow orange wow so note to self if you're using a Vitamix don't put it on high it literally shot the lid off omg oh that smells like banana oh boy wow if you're allergic to red dye number five I know right you are not gonna want to eat this so bright orange wow that's a lot of orange okay so the next we're gonna Let's see add drained pineapple to mixture okay and then add two cups of cold water okay so we did do less than the called for amount of water because we did lose obviously some water a little bit just a little bit well it's all soaked into my shirt her skin my skin and the floor and cabinetry gotcha are we just keeping this in a bowl or are we putting it in it says "Let partially set and then fold in the dream whip." So yeah we need to put this in the fridge should we put it in something that's not so deep do you see what I'm saying yeah this might take forever maybe I can get a 9 by13 inch pan should we put it in the freezer you're hilarious okay so I think what we'll do is we will go put this in a 9 by13 inch pan put it in the fridge and I'm going to go get some wound care for my burns a 'lil aloe vera aloe vera and uh we will be back once this is partially set and uh make some dream whip you know maybe we can look in the church cookbook and see if they have burn salve oh that's a good idea recipe yeah let's look that up okay we'll see you guys in a bit [Music] we have semi set Jell-o hot diggety dog it worked we didn't put it in the freezer we didn't mess with it while we were waiting for it to chill we also went ahead and made the dream whip which it was not dreamy I'll be honest oh man it took forever it did we really complained a lot about it while making the dream whip it really was almost as much work as just buying whipping cream and making your own yeah the only thing I could come up with was you could make it on the fly you didn't have to have whipping cream you could just grab your milk so if you were lazy and disorganized you didn't have to pre-plan and make sure that you had the whipping cream on hand exactly okay so it is about the consistency of jelly like grape jelly it is the picture is horrifying because the top like a foam came to the top it's probably nothing but circus peanuts probably so I've mixed it up in the 9 by13in pan just so that the Jell-O is kind of loose and now we're going to add in the Yeah so when I looked online this does not look like what I saw really what did it look like they didn't mix it it looked like the orange with the foam on the top and it looked like it had the cool whip in so I think that they mixed the Cool Whip in and then or the Dream Whip and then refrigerated it I mean we could do that should we refrigerate it to set more I feel like we should cuz this is weird it's It doesn't say that we should it just says fold in prepare Dream Whip pour in pan which is already in the pan and sprinkle with graham cracker crumbs it doesn't even say how much graham cracker crumbs uh-uh oops oh and then Kristen's just flopping the dream whip all over the place oh I have to lick my finger oh what a shame mhm yeah I don't know if it'll solidify again I really don't know I kind of am tempted to just put it back in the fridge and see anyway so what I saw online it was a square of Jell-O it was not a soupy Wow and this is pretty soupy but it was set I think perfectly any longer and it would have been set too much I think yeah I'm kind of tempted to put it out and let it finish setting if it will see if we could get like squares of it rather than just a big scoop of soupy mess okay we could try that we'll put the graham cracker crumbs on and then put it back in the fridge and uh then come back and check it in what do you think a half an hour I Yeah however long I feel like I don't know it's We can always put it in the freezer that's worked so well for us in the past oh it always works well you know whipped cream well I was going to say whipped cream in the freezer cool whip is frozen all you do right yep yeah I that's what I'm thinking because this is very unappealing it is very soupy looking it is uh I took a picture of it before we added the Dream Whip and it's kind of horrifying um it looks a little better but the texture I don't want to eat that it looks like what comes out of a person's body when they do liposuction [Laughter] oh dear oh dear she says "Oh dear." And and this has chunks in it like the picture does because not all some of it's jell-o some of it some of the Jell-O is more gelled than others yeah I'm really feeling like we need to put it back in that maybe she just forgot that part maybe I don't know we'll have to call her and ask her cuz I'm sure she'll remember this recipe from 1978 it looks like cheese it does it looks like a casserole topped with melted cheddar cheese it does not melted enough yes exactly melted did you want to taste it before we No okay okay I'm going to take that back out to the fridge and I think we're just going to try again yes I think that's our best Oh do we want to top it with graham cracker crumbs oh we probably ought to do that that'll make it look prettier use this big giant spoon that's got for this just sprinkle I mean you might as well it is ooh Can you guys hear the thunder it's raining where we are it's the perfect thing to be doing on a rainy day it really is making circus peanut salad it's really just like a little fruit cocktail jell-o salad fluffy jell-o salad because we've got orange banana and pineapple that's true it's just every little fruit flavor you can think of so tropical it is that's what they should call it tropical delight tropical delight I used the term Oh curd I was talking about lemon curd the other day yeah and my friend is like you know that just sounds disgusting it does you want to put more in that corner because I think that's going to be the best part of the whole thing sure graham cracker crumbs and so I was like "Okay well I could call it like a lemon compost." And she's like "That sounds a lot like compost that's also disgusting." I'm like "How about lemon delight?" And she was good with that so from now on aka lemon curd known as lemon delight lemon delight and so this is tropical delight you don't even have to tell anybody that there's circus peanuts in there never no they'll just be like "Oh is that banana?" you'll be like "Yep 100% all real banana flavor." All natural banana all right well we're going to stick this in the fridge and we'll see you guys in a half an hour or four depending on how long it takes that's right [Music]

so once again we got impatient we put it back in the fridge we waited a while yeah maybe a half an hour maybe 15 minutes nobody cares anymore we're just going to eat it yeah we are yeah before we eat it however yes I had one last circus peanut thing to share well let's end this sucker with a bang what is it Carrie there is for your purchasing pleasure yeah circus peanut cocktail syrup what yes no yes so you can make your own circus peanut drinks my goodness mhm this is what it says about it okay step right up flavor enthusiasts our circus peanut syrup is a whimsical twist on tiki tradition oh my a carnival of taste that'll leave your palette doing somersaults whoa and on the bottle it reads "Stale circus peanuts enriched with real clown flavor." Now that's funny that was hilarious that's right okay let's scoop this up it has a bunch of graham crackers on the top so it just kind of looks like the moon that's right it's jiggly wiggly underneath that and we're serving it up on our delightful Goldilocks and the Three Bears plate from our childhood yes Kristen was very excited to have Okay it's scooping okay I don't know that you could have sliced it but that's set up that extra 30 minutes in the It helped it set up do you want to take the first taste I think as it's my recipe all right well as you taste that I found a great article online that was bizarre news dominating the headlines in 1978 the year of this recipe now first before I tell you the bizarre news tell us Carrie does it taste bizarre yeah does it really and when you first put it in your mouth it is pure circus peanut but then you kind of get orange and pineapple so I would say it gets better as the taste goes on that is 100% it you put it in your mouth and you get fake banana it's circus peanut it's circus peanut if you like that flavor it's great and then as it kind of melts in your mouth you get a bright flavor of the orange jell-o and the pineapple and it I think it's quite delicious to be honest second bite yeah a nicer combo I mean I'm not telling you to go right out and make this it is not worth the hand cramps from cutting those circus peanuts in my opinion if you have someone in the family that loves circus peanuts and you would like to treat them then this is it this would be delightful I think kids would love this it's sweet it's Well it's a tropical delight it is in the end it just kind of tastes fruity it kind of is bizarre like the news that I was going to tell you so why don't I tell you more please do I forgot about the news see I interrupted I know it's It's okay no I asked you I asked you if the tropical delight was as bizarre as this news and you won't know till I tell you the news I mean that's a lot of buildup I know right so here's the first article from 1978 a man was found roaming around town threatening to shoot the first person in sight with a weapon he was wielding a 12in brown handled cooking fork

excellent he was going to shoot you yep yep he was not the only person that was brandishing kitchen wear as a weapon that year oh okay yeah apparently a man was arrested at the Dunkin Donuts threatening other patrons with a coffee cup holding it in his hand as if it were a gun how do you hold a coffee cup like a gun that's what I was thinking I do not know do you put your finger like make a gun sign with your hand and put the cup like over your finger right is like the handle of the gun like a just a giant trigger hole yeah I don't know I don't either it's very confusing yeah yeah yeah and then here's the best one okay a woman drove her car up to the steps of the New Jersey State House in Trenton and said "Merry Christmas." before throwing a severed human head at state troopers okay so the next question is was it July that's funny ew yeah ew and it turned out to be her mother's head oh perfect for mom's wooden spoon right there no not perfect sorry mom just kidding no no no um yeah those are way weirder than the Jell-o salad I think so too mhm all right well I you know I have nothing else Kristen okay I'm going to take another bite I think enjoy so that is it for this episode as well as for season 3 of Mom's Wooden Spoon I'm so sad I know but never fear we're going to come back we will we promise absolutely Kristen and I are having way too much fun to leave you now heck yeah if you haven't subscribed please do it now so that when we come back we're easy to find think you can pick up right where we left off that's right and it'll be like this little summer hiatus never happened never at all can't wait to see you in season 4 bye

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okay are we ready to talk about all things circus peanuts oh heck to the no to the no heck no bum bum

done with the circus peanuts oh gosh