“Candy Critic,
I heard about a contest, maybe other readers might be interested?
Anyway here’s the contest info:
The Tic Tac ® Brand Invites You to Remake the Shake!
There’s a contest going on at www.remaketheshake.com: download songs with the legendary Tic Tac ® shake sound, then record a video of you doing an original dance or musical act inspired by Tic Tac ® mints. Upload your video to enter the contest. The winner gets $10,000.
Thanks so much,”
Two things:
First of all I’m fairly convinced that Adrian works for the folks at Tic Tac.
Secondly I suddenly got flooded with memories of me eating Tic Tacs then filling up the little container with water and having a little drink stash in my pocket.
Click here to check out the contest.
CC
Sure they look all cool and plastic like but I’m not really sure what they are. I was assured that they’re some kind of food but other than that I’m at a loss.
I’m not even sure what’s in them beyond “Shreded Stick”.
I checked the back and all I got was nutrition facts that told me I should consume 4 tbsp to make a serving but no clue as to how to serve it. This may be the one treat that stumps me.
As it turns out it’s pretty useless. Both colours pretty much have the same flavour and both basically taste like crappy butterscotch. Now I’m not super picky about pudding so I wouldn’t go so far as to say don’t eat it, but if you want something great invest in some cozy shack pudding, now that’s tasty.
I was interested in this place because I saw many puffed pastries and people pumping things into these pastries.
I ordered a couple of the pump filled baked delights and I was overjoyed because the nice man filling my puffy bun wasn’t stingy with the chocolate and green tea cream (note I ordered two pastries one green tea and one chocolate).
Although the treat was fine the name of this place kind of creeped me out a little. All I can think about is eating some old mans chocolate filled beard.
The candy was what you find all over the place but this cool little rainbow flag made of Jelly Bellies in the front really impressed me. Way to represent.
Have you ever paid too much for a cupcake? Well I can’t say that I did but I have to admit that I did pay a lot for a little cupcake.
It’s from this place called Kara’s Cupcakes in Ghirardelli Square. The cupcake in question cost about 3 dollars, and it wasn’t that big.
It was well decorate though. The nice big dollop of chocolate icing and cute little design like flower on the top were rather attractive.
It also didn’t taste too bad either; the icing was actually what I might call amazing. Although the cupcake itself was really just ok. I’m not sure if I’d buy a whole box of these but trying one was well worth it.
If you’re going to San Francisco be sure to wear flowers in your hair, but if you happen to be a candy fanatic be sure to stop in Ghirardelli square as well. Fro what I understand they’re ok if you wear flowers in your hair while you visit.
From what I can make out of the random plaques all over this place Ghirardelli square is the founding spot where the famous Ghirardelli chocolate was made.
I don’t think they’re made there anymore but the place is full of Ghirardelli shops as well as other fun shops. They have a few pieces of Ghirardelli history around too but to be honest not that much.
For the holidays they put up this huge tree with all kinds of chocolate bars on it. I was disappointed that they weren’t real but happy later because this California and it gets warm and melted chocolate makes me sad, unless I’m dipping something in it.
Driving to the square, well you can park in official Ghirardelli parking. I wonder if the tickets are made of chocolate?
The thing to do now a day at Ghirardelli square is try the ice cream. There are several Ice cream shops all over the square, but don’t be fooled they’re all the same, they sell the same thing at the same price, they’re just spread out. The night I went apparently many of them had either sold out of stuff or for some strange reason closed remarkably early. That meant that the line that was already normally very large was huge. I waited though and was rewarded with a pretty good sundae. The ice cream was creamy and the chocolate sauce was pretty good. Worth the wait, but maybe not worth the wait that I saw during their peek hours.
While venturing through China town in San Fran I came across a little place that apparently baked all kinds of Chinese cookies, including the illustrious fortune cookie. They didn’t just make regular ones either they had them in a whole bunch of shapes, colours, and flavours too. But what I discovered there was something that made me go squirrelly with delight.
See when they make fortune cookies, sometimes the folding or the baking doesn’t go just right. They collect the error cookies and sell them in huge bags for super cheap. Now I’m a huge fan of fortune cookies, and the fortune is really the least important part to me. So a bag full of fortune cookie bits was in my future. Man this is why I live.
I found all kinds of cool treats and sweets all over the place but I have to say I was little disappointed about one aspect of this towns sweet offerings, high-end chocolate stores.
Don’t get me wrong there where great snacks available in many of these stores, all of them even. The problem was most of the treats in these stores where the same treats in each of the store. Few if any had something original to offer and many of the treats where just the same thing you could buy at a grocery store. Most often I just found that these store where trying to sell you Ghirardelli chocolates at discount prices instead of offering something new.
Most importantly I heard that it had Garlic Ice cream, and there was no way I was going to let that go un-tasted. I have to admit I was geared up for disappointment. I’ve tried many novelty type deserts before and most often they layer it with another flavour so heavenly that you can’t even make out it’s weird sake.
Now I tried for a while to write what I thought of this treat but I just couldn’t give this description what it deserved. Then I remembered that Allison took some notes of my reaction so I’m just going to put them down and you decide:
I was so excited about the yummy treat in store I kind of lost my mind.
Worst of all the containers they come in are a little tricky. So with a lost mind and a tricky container I was one frustrated sweets junky.
I eventually got my chocolate sundae something or other cheesecake open.
Allison had no problem opening her special 6-carb cheesecake, but that’s because she has something I don’t. Self-restraint and a gift to open complicated boxes.
I figure I’d start off with this amazing treasure. I found this store that sold gigantic fortune cookies. Need I say more?