I’m not disagreeing with that, but you can do so much worse.
Case in point: Good and Plenty, and black licorice in general. I’m not saying you can’t acquire a taste for either, certainly someone is eating them, but why would you want to? Candy corn is just kind of waxy and sweet, like a non-chocolate tootsie roll.
I’m just saying, I would be at least 3x as miffed as a kid getting black licorice, or raisins, or some other bullshit in my candy pail than candy corn.
When you’re an adult, it’s different, you can have whatever kind of candy whenever you want, regardless of the time of year – when you’re a kid, you’ll take candy corn every day of the week over a lot of other subpar halloween hand-outs. And even as an adult, sure, I wouldn’t willingly buy a bag of it to eat for myself, but if I were given the choice between eating a handful of candy corn or a handful of Good and Plentys, yeah, I’m taking the candy corn.