MUNDANE MYSTERIES: What is the Circus Peanuts flavoring?

Orange Candy Peanuts on a White Background

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: What is the Circus Peanuts flavoring?

Congrats, you’re off the hook candy corn! Circus Peanuts have voted the new worst Halloween candy this year. The BEST and still champion is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. As it should be.

For years I could never pinpoint what the actual flavor these orange looking marshmallow peanuts was. The original orange colored one is an artificial banana flavoring.

Another little fun tidbit about the Circus peanuts… without them we would’ve never got Lucky Charms. That’s right, back in 1964 a General Mills employee chopped some of the circus peanuts candy pieces into a bowl of Cheerios and boom Lucky Charms was born.

Please don’t hangout Circus Peanuts for Halloween this year. No one wants them. ha ha

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