Pay Day Candy Mix (And The Varying Degrees Of Fits Thrown In The South)
I am posting this recipe so my Mama will stop having dying duck fits wanting me to.
Has your Mama ever thrown a fit? Have you ever thrown a fit? If you answered no to either one of those, you just can’t be a Southerner. You see, Southerners throw fits and we all have varying degree of fits, which are not “had” but “thrown“.
There is the classic hissy fit, which is rather mundane but still entertaining to watch. This is typically thrown by otherwise demure and well behaved ladies and consists mostly of high pitched voices being pitched even higher as hands wave around in the air and heads shake, sending dangly earrings bobbing after the jerky head movements.
Hissy fits aren’t that big of a deal unless combined with heat and humidity, then it can get ugly. A hissy fit might typically be thrown if you were about to have guests arrive for a party only to find that ice hadn’t been bought ahead of time or the sherbert in your punchbowl had already melted. The script for a hissy fit usually begins with “Oh lord! What are we gonna do now?!”
Cow fits are a bit more urgent, usually requiring some form of action to soothe the nerves of the fit thrower. One might throw a cow fit, for example, if you were running late for an appointment and discovered that your favorite heels had been chewed by the puppy. The cow fit script in this case would sound something like, “My shoes!! My favorite shoes!! Those were the ones I was going to wear today!”. Now dying cow fits require immediate action, but mainly just to get the fit thrower to hush so we can all have a bit of piece (In the interest of self disclosure, I am rather prone to cow fits due to my extreme lack of organization and ever growing to-do list, which wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t spend half my time looking for the dern list).
A duck fit is really one of the most minor fits but when it becomes a dying duck fit – you post the Payday Candy Mix recipe so you can get your Mama to stop quacking so much. ~grins~
The reason Mama wanted me to post this was because it has become quite the “pass along” idea among her quilting friends. Its like this fad all of a sudden, go to anyone’s house we know and you’ll see a pretty bowl (usually pressed glass) filled with this candy mix as soon as you step into the foyer (Which Southerners tend to pronounce “Four-yer” rather than the much more fashionable “Foy-yay”.). So see, her intentions were good, she wants y’all to have some of this candy, I just had other things on my plate and hadn’t got around to it until now.
If you like Payday candy bars, this is right up your alley because it tastes just like a payday, but is a heap prettier when presented in a nice little pressed glass bowl.
Sounds yummy. I love payday!
when I was younger we used to say “uh oh Mom’s gonna have a fit when she finds out” we never defined what kind of fit because we never knew how she would react….just that she would and it wouldn’t be good.
Nothing says fall in our house like this mixture-been doing it for years and sometimes I do add M&M’s to it-num num!. Plus its so good for you-very healthy-right?? 🙂 the health of the nuts balances out the candy! I’ll just keep telling myself this as I go for another handful!
In my southern family we say “pitch a fit” instead of throw. We also call them Jessie fits(named after one of my father’s 5 sisters who was prone to pitch fits at the drop of a hat).
I going to the store now to buy candy corn and peanuts.
Love this mix!! It has been a tradition in my mama’s home & our home for years!!
You’re really in trouble when someone throws a hissy and a fit ;o)
I like this mix but I also use Corn Nuts mixed with Candy Corn. I use to keep it on my desk with a little scoop to share with my staff at school. Yes, I am addicted to this mixture too.
We don’t “throw” fits… LOL We “pitch” fits!! 🙂
Thank you Susan, I was a little disoriented: We “pitch a hissy fit”, “throw” a generic “fit” and had or have a “conniption fit”. In my mind the most severe is pitching a fit followed by throwing a fit followed by having a fit. “don’t have a cow” is a warning, and I love love love “dying duck” fit. Can’t wait to use that one. I guess it depends on what part of the south you are from., but your brain knows what verb to use with each fit. Best, Janet