The folks at Sucre have even more to give.

Not enough that the folks at Sucre where nice enough to send some samples of their Christmas treats, but they’ve also added a special treat for all of you. If you go to their web site and order some chocolates you just have to enter the code “SUCRE” when you place your order and you get $10.00 off orders over $70 – (this can be multiple addresses). The offer is good until the end of the holiday season so get on it.

And the giving doesn’t stop there either. A portion of every sale they have will go to the LA/SPCA as well. I start to wonder how these people are going to make any money over the holidays.

Click here to check out their site and order some chocolates.

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Coffee Flavoured Yoghurt

Rob Beschizza of Boing Boing decided to post a clear and concise review of what appears to be coffee flavoured yoghurt. Sometimes few words are needed.

Click here to read his review.

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Book Issues

Well I was hopping to have the book ready to go but honestly things for me got a lot more hectic than I imagined. I also took a lot longer to work on the images than I thought it would take. So I’m still working through the files but it just might take me a little while to get everything in order. I’ll keep you posted and hopefully have a new deadline ASAP.

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Another package… YAY!!!

If one box wasn’t enough, today I also got a box filled with Puredent gum as well.
It has a cool nametag telling me all about itself. That’s pretty informative for a pack of gum if you ask me.

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A Gift from New Orleans

The folks at Sucre sent me a sample of some holiday treats today and boy do they look yummy.

They included a note thanking me for trying their treats and telling me all about the sale their having right now.
Best of all, the note is signed by a cute little puppy named Bon Bon.

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I love Factory Tours

The only thing better than watching them is going through them… actually watching them is only marginally interesting to me, going through them is where it’s at.

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Pomegranate and Cheese

Tim Horton’s has just released its new Danish Flavour, Pomegranate and Cheese and I’m really happy with the gesture.

I like the fact that they’re experimenting with new fruits and pushing the envelope. I just wish the cheese was a little thicker and the pomegranate didn’t taste like cherries.

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What kind of candy should I eat when I go to this movie?

I just got an e-mail about a film in the works about the candy industry called Shelf Life by Michael Layhey. I don’t want to give away anything about the movie but I can assure you from what they sent me I’ll be keeping up with their progress. I’ll post anything I get about it on the blog and if I get a chance I’ll do my first movie review about it when it comes out. I just wonder how it will score on Taste, Texture, and Novelty.

Click here to sign up for more information about this film.

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Candy Educational Tools

I’m learning about gummy worms or is it genetics. Boing Boing has a post about a photographer that shoots candy to represent science. It’s pretty clever.

Click here to check out the link.

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Jon's Cereal Brigade!

Morning and happy return to the Cereal Brigade! I was out of action there for a while owing to yet another dearth of milk and cereal! However I have returned with a new box of Cocoa Krispies....but compared to the Japanese variety...these are most lackluster! I would only give them a 7 out of 10, because they have only been lightly dusted with cocoa powder! The Japanese variety are encased in cocoa! Otherwise they were the same I think... but this apparently more local variety is indeed not nearly as good! Now, in honour of the superior nature of Japanese Cocoa Krispies, here's a commercial from Japan for another Kellogg's cereal - Kombos! Enjoy!

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Crazy Candy Store Mystery

The Chive has this great colourful picture of the famous Belgium statue. It looks like it might be decorations for a candy store and I want to know where.

Click here to check it out

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Insert Tab A

Boing Boing has a piece about an artist that makes cool things out of packages included is a couple of Kit Kat frogs.

Click here to read more.

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Pop Goes My Lunch

A group of New York artist/designers have decided to create places for people to eat lunch in New York City. They’ve designed a whole bunch of contraptions that allow the street food dinner the ultimate in luxury. I may have to make a trip to check this out.

Link via Boing Boing, click here to check it out.

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I really like my mail person.

The joys of getting a package in the mail will never grow old on me. Today I got a package from the fine folks at Honibe. They make little honey sweeteners for tea and coffee that frankly I’m dying to try and not willing to share. They also make a candy form of sweet little honey drops in lemon and regular. Thanks folks from Honibe, a review is on the way!

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Another Lunch Box Piece

I love the simplicity and the colour of each of Lisa’s pieces. It really shows the spirit of candy, and that’s simply fun.

Click here to see more.

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Paper or Plastic

Today while purchasing a Coke product the store clerk handed me this fun little envelope that had all kind of winning potential. After looking over it quickly I saw that the campaign was all about being environmentally conscious and the prizes where apparently all made up of recycled bottles.

I find it odd to make a prize ticket about environmental awareness out of so much paper. It was a lot bigger than most prize tickets and it had you rip off the top and bottom and it also had a huge black square in the middle. I know that the paper used to make this ticket was recycled but I always thought reducing was more important.

Either way I can’t complain too much because I won another free Coke.

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Kind of Strange

I got this link via Facebook and I though this photo was just too strange for words. Check it out if you’re hooked up to Facebook and leave a comment.

Click here to check it out.

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Fake Foods Can Be Tasty

Cracked has a list of 6 fake foods you most likely have in your kitchen right now. You may ransack your kitchen after reading this.

Click here to read more.

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Creepy after Halloween

Comedy.com has a nice little selection of creepy vintage advertising that also includes some candy ads. I may have seen some of these before but it never hurts to share again.

Click here to check it out.

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The Cadbury People Say No

It appears that Cadbury and Kraft will not be forming a super food company so my dreams of macaroni and caramel will have to wait for another corporate merger.

Click here to read more.

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Gum Jerk

Seriously who puts their gum on the wall?

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Fruit is fun.

I think I really love fruit because it has such a close tie with candy. The only thing that might be even more related might be nuts. Fruit however can be used in so many ways to accent, flavour, and colour candy that it blows my mind. I always love getting new treats that use fruit in a new (at least to me) way. This review is just that, it also uses one of my favourite fruits of all times. As you would imagine by this post, me second favourite food, after candy, is fruit.

Click here to read the review.

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Happy Bitter Sweet Chocolate With Almond Day!

To celebrate this most illustrious of all holidays I’ve decided to chow down on a Burnt Almond Bar.

This particular treat was a favourite of my sisters when we where kids and I couldn’t figure out why anybody would want a burnt chocolate bar over a bag of gummy bears or a Tootsie Pop. As I grew older I developed a taste for dark chocolate and I guess these aren’t that bad, although the chocolate is a little waxy.

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