Why do people associate candy with children?

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Adults love candy too. A candy lover here .

I eat a bar of chocolate twice a month. That's it. I get cravings.

Candy and sugar do taste different to children. children usualy like sugar more than adults do, which could be why people associate it with youth. Alot of people had happy childhood moments with candy.

I heard that as a person ages, their taste buds become more numb to certain spices, and the sugar seems to get sweeter tasteing. That could also have something to do with it, I guess. Strange how that works, but I noticed this in my parents, my own mouth, and especialy my Grandfather who loves extremly over cooked cabage. (I'm not exagerating about "overcooked")

He and my father wouldn't touch candy, but my mother and I love dark chocolate. Of course these guys used to love candy as children. Especialy my Grandfather, who couldn't get candy very often, since his family worked so hard as farmers. I still like a variety, but lean toward sugar free more often than not. Eating it doesn't seem to have the same motives. I used to be a real lover of white chocolate. Now it just tastes too much like powdered sugar mixed with cream.

Cuz as a child you don't think about your weight as much as when you're an adult, so as an adult you try and stay away from that stuff. That's at least how I figure it.

I really don't know how adults do it.


*chews on a Hershey's bar*

I love candy.

Why do people associate autism, with children?

My Nana says that sweetness is one of the very first flavors you're able to taste when you're a baby. Maybe that has something to do with it?