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"Eugh, what kind of fresh hell is this!" the Doctor exclaimed, spitting out a small handful of candy corn into a bin.
"You could 'ave spit that into a napkin, y'know. And you mean to say you've never tried candy corn? In 903 years? Never?" Rose gasped, incredulous, at both his rudeness and his revelation.
The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Believe it or not, there are some things I haven't yet experienced. I wish that one could've stayed a mystery! Maybe you lot just do it wrong. I'll wager I could find some edible candy corn on another planet."
"If you feel that you must..." Rose said with a smirk.
"I must," the Doctor concluded.
However, a return trip to New Earth revealed that even they couldn't make a palatable candy corn.
"Surely the planet Equinoxia could do it. It's fall half the year and spring the other half," the Doctor decided.
He was disappointed.
"Maybe we need to go somewhere with a full year of fall," suggested Rose.
"Autumnalialunador it is!" the Time Lord declared.
The Autumnalialunadorians hadn't perfected it either. Rose perfected her pronunciation of the planet, however.
Rose was beginning to think candy corn was going to be the Doctor's equivalent of jousting windmills five planets into the whole experience.
"I suppose it's just impossible," the Doctor sighed. "I mean, they look like they should be good, but taste like something Bertie Botts would've rejected."
"Don't despair. Fall does have candied apples. And s'mores!" Rose attempted to cheer him up as they stepped back out into the busy London sidewalk.
They were both taken aback to see that fall decorations had been replaced by Christmas ones.
"Well.....apparently I have shopping to do," Rose muttered.
They found a market with open air stalls. Rose was perusing handmade scarves for her mum when the Doctor let out a distressed cry. She dropped the scarf and was by his side in an instant. "What happened? she asked.
"Seriously, Rose?" he exclaimed, aghast.
As he held up a bag of red and green candy corn.