Thought this was interesting - usually there is SOMETHING on the internet for any given topic, but I can't find a thing after googling, checking ebay, etc. What company made these? When were they discontinued? Were they discontinued due to danger or something, or just because they didn't sell well enough?
Game came out in 1996 so this should be in compliance with the 20-year rule.
Oh, and, the answer to the question on the card is, predictably, "the wick" :)
Is there any chance this is meant as a Copyright Trap? That would be cool!
Weird, this seems like a "viral news story" sort of thing that quickly faded away, but lasted long enough to get into trivial pursuit.
During the '90s there was an upswelling of concern around global warming and environmentalism which slowly faded into the background in the years afterward, and this seems to be an incidence of that. I found a reference to "Flavor Favors" via google books (as a reprinted section of a magazine (Biodiesel Report from 1997) in a book (History of Industrial Uses of Soybeans, 2017) containing a summary of another article from another magazine (Soybean Digest, 1997)):
4869. Hager, Stacey. 1997. Soybean candles take the cake.
Soybean Digest. Mid-Feb. p7
Summary: Called Flavor Favors, birthday candles made from soybean oil are a tasty alternative to petroleum-based candles; they come in red, white, blue, and yellow colors. You can eat that part of the wax that doesn't burn-but not the wick. Recently invented by three students at Purdue University (Indiana), they won a contest (started 4 years ago by Purdue agronomisit Lee Schwitzer) to find new industrial uses of soybeans. The contest is funded by soybean checkoff dollars. The candles are 83% hydrogenated soybean oil and 16% glycerol (an emulsifier), plus 1% coloring and a bit of flavoring. The original flavor was peppermint, but the students have also experimented with cherry, blueberry, bubble gum, fruit punch, lemon lime, and vanilla. Colors include white, red, blue, and yellow. Moreover these candles drip less and burn longer with a shorter flame than do commercial candles. "The soybean candles are not quite ready for mass production," but the inventors do hope to produce them commercially.
In 2001 a company bought the rights to the candles and sold them in a few test markets in the US, but apparently they didn't catch on. (Incidentally, being made of hydrogenated soybean oil they would have been loaded with trans fats and extremely unhealthy.)
Soybean oil based wax candles are still available today, but the edibility is not widely touted and as far as I know nobody sells any that are intentionally flavored.
So, the answer to the question is: the wick.