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  "Circus Peanuts"
From: Don Martinson llmen at execpc.com> on 2000.07.04 at 02:05:34(4972)
>Actually Tom named the 'Circus Peanuts' Anthurium for the smell of that
>atrocious candy that you buy in celephane bags at candy counters that is
>shaped like giant peanuts in their shells. This orange sherbet-colored candy
>has a ghastly foam texture with the sicky-sweet fake smell (and taste) of
>bananas (amyl acetate) that is used for cheap artifical banana flavoring.

Those things were my favorite "cheap thrill" as a child! However,
your description of them is quite correct.

--
Don Martinson

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