Candy corn is divisive. Hot-dog-flavored candy corn is not.

For all of the sugar it contains, candy corn elicits plenty of bitterness. The kernel-shaped, tricolor Halloween treat has long taunted its haters merely by appearing on shelves every fall, alongside the plastic skeletons for your lawn and the bags of mini chocolate bars that trick-or-treaters actually covet.

It’s annually derided in a wave of disgust as predictable as the changing leaf colors, with social media critics likening the candy to “melted down traffic cones” and what would happen “if bad breath was chewy.”