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While out and about, you manage to obtain a cute cooking pot designed to look like a witch's cauldron. It's a little eccentric but wanting to get in the spirit of things, you or a loved one obtain it and food is prepared in it, be it for a personal or social gathering.

Only... anything made in this pot tastes startling of candy corn. Regardless of whether you finish your homemade treat, you find that no matter what you eat or drink, everything for the next twenty-four hours tastes exactly like candy corn. The strange thing is, this only seems to happen once. After you've given it a good scrub, it doesn't seem to have the same effect ever again.


Nolan had been out and about, looking for some possible Halloween-themed cooking utensils to use in case he wanted to make some Halloween-themed food or something. While he had been out, he had stopped by a little store that seemed to deal in little quirky things that one wouldn’t normally buy unless they were using them for a specific purpose such as decorations or some such. While he would have just browsed for a bit and left, he had noticed a cooking pot that looked like a witch’s cauldron. While he wouldn’t have normally gotten it, the price had been quite low, and he figured it might be useful for something.

He had taken it home, trying to figure out what to do with it, and figured that perhaps using it for a little cheese fondue might be the best to try first since it was just melting the cheese and the dipping ingredients would be raw. Not much work unless he wanted to try adding more to the cheese part of it.

And so, he created the fondue, the cauldron working quite well for the purpose, and soon enough he was ready to eat out of it. After grabbing a piece of bread, he dipped it in, took it out and ate a bite of it… only to immediately spit it back out after the awful, horribly, TERRIBLE taste of candy corn overwhelmed his senses! He practically shouted, “what the HELL!?” as he tried to find something that would get the disgusting candy corn taste out of his mouth. Only, nothing seemed to work! Taking more bread, eating hot sauce, nothing! It ALL tasted like candy corn!

He wondered if the cauldron was cursed and decided not to use it again, immediately cleaning it out and making sure that he could take it back as soon as possible. No one should have to suffer through that! Unfortunately, everything he ate for the next twenty-four hours tasted like candy corn. He thought he was going crazy. How could anyone stand the taste of ANYTHING after only being able to taste that one thing for a whole day?! He had stopped eating, in an effort to try to get it out of his mouth. It was only the next day, when he carefully tried another piece of bread that the taste was now gone. He was free of the horrible sugar and honey taste!

After the experience though, he made sure to get rid of everything in his cooking cabinet that could make anything taste sugary. Even if sugar didn’t taste like candy corn, the sweetness alone for all that time was enough to make him want to stay away from any of it for the next few months.

He still had to get rid of the cauldron though and made sure to throw it in the dumpster outside, so that no one would have to experience the horrible candy-corn-cursed-cauldron every again. Hopefully he wouldn’t find it again, though some students were known to sometimes look through the trash…