Stick it to the man

What's the appeal of eating something on a stick? What makes it better than just eating it? Who thought stick = fun? I'm really not too sure. You could look at history and find out that sticks and food have been around forever. As long as man has been cooking, food sticks have been an important part of life. The problem I have with this action of putting food on sticks comes from the candy world, well all of my problems and joys... Well let's just say my whole life revolves around candy. Oh yeah, back to my the stick problem.

Why in the world do so many candies come on sticks. I think the only candy that has to be on a stick is a popsicle. Why might you ask. Well go to your freezer, put an ice cube in your mouth and don't take it out. Can't do it, can you. You have to pull cold things out of your mouth or it hurts. If your reading this thinking anything odd, you are a sick human being. Lollipops are okay with me as well, not because I think the stick is necessary. Actually if you think about it the idea of taking a candy out of your mouth half way through eating it is kinda gross. Try spitting out your chewing gum after a few minutes, hold it, then put it back, yuck. The lollipop was an original idea, and not so much today but in the past they were huge and impossible to stick in your mouth in one shot. You can still find them that way now but for the most part lollipops fit comfortably in your mouth whole.

My problem comes from the new idea of putting things like chocolate and gummies on sticks. Chocolate has been around for a while but the gummy thing has become a new and very strange trend. Whenever I eat a gummy on a stick all it does is get all gooey and stringy, and if they decorate them it looks cool and all but the little bits of icing fall all over the place. The chocolate for the most part when you get it on a stick is cheap chocolate, I'm not saying it's all cheap but for the most part it is. The other problem is chocolate cracks and when your trying to eat it on a stick it falls all over the place.

Let's face it, just putting something on a stick is not really that creative an idea. If you need the stick by all means use one, but if your doing it because you think it's clever to put something new on a stick, your wrong. Try something else, we as candy consumers are finished with the stick thing, I want something new and fun not something pointy and long. Again if your thinking something odd you really need some help.