I’ll never forget the first time my mother gave me candy corn. She said,
“Here – Lewis, this is candy corn. It’s corn that tastes like candy”.
[high pitched sound] This tastes like crap! And every year since then,
Halloween has returned and I, like an Alzhiemer’s patient, find myself
in the room, and the room has a big table in it, and on the table is a
bowl of candy corn. And I look at it as if I’ve never seen it before.
“Candy corn”, I think. “Corn that tastes like candy. I can’t wait”. Son
of a bitch!!

— comedian Lewis Black, from The Daily Show 

I’m guessing because it looks like a corn kernel?

How does it taste? I’ve never got the chance to eat one, but I’m n love with the way they look ♥