Once again, apparently, I am an oddball.
Our “At Work/Online Network” question for this week deals with a person's LEAST favorite Easter candy. I kinda sorta did it to see just how many people agree with me that the abomination known as black jellybeans should be banned from the face of the Earth. As of yesterday, though, only one person who answered the question online agreed with me.
The rest thought it should be Peeps.
I wasn't quite sure what people have against Peeps; I mean, I know they're cloyingly sweet and quite chewy, but to me, at least, they're nowhere near as bad a black jellybeans, which taste like someone throwing up in your mouth after eating too much road tar. But maybe that's just me; in fact, if you look online, you can find whole communities of people who gather to rag on the candy. And while there are others like me who aren't fond of black jellybeans, they seem quite outnumbered by those who loathe Peeps.
Wow. I had no idea.
If nothing else, this was an exercise in Confirmation Bias, where someone supposes that everyone believes the same things they do but find out (often quite explicitly) that others actually don't. So, I guess I'll take away two things from this—one, that if there's a more universally loathed candy than Peeps, I have yet to find it.
And two? Well, I guess I'll remain an oddball for a little while longer.
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