This Week In Candy

Things are really getting back to a routine here at Candy Critic.  Our Instagram feed called "Snack Facts" is once again posting regularly.  This week we'll be looking at fun facts about gummies.  We're still posting regularly on the blog, and even irregularly with some new long format posts dealing with projects, editorials, and all kinds of fun candy stuff (including last week's post about how we shoot candy on the go).  This week we hope to start a new project that will eventually lead to a post all about the trials and tribulations of trying to eat a giant jaw breaker.  We'll be posting regularly on Twitter and Facebook with our daily progress, and once it's all done we'll post the full blog article.

We're also considering re-working the way we use Facebook.  Right now we post a few articles and pictures there, but in the future we're thinking of posting even more articles, similar to our Twitter feed.  I'm not sure if 4 or 5 link posts a day to candy related news articles would be considered obtrusive on Faebook or not.  I'll think about it some more before I go ahead.

This week's review comes to us from a stopover flight in Germany.   I couldn't resist picking up a few bags of gummy treats, and this week's review is one of them.  Click here to read this week's review of Haribo gummy turtles.

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This Week In Candy

Is Valentine's Day just a holiday made up by greeting card companies?  Sure, it's a possibility.  The question is, how bad can a made up holiday be if it's all about love?  While I agree that spending a bunch of money on things that you'll only want on Valentine's Day is kind of silly, and putting pressure on people to make it a "special" day is also pretty wrong.  But if you look at it as a basic idea, it's really nice to have a day that you can sit with that special someone and just remember why you like each other.  Or, you can sit with your friends and bitch about why relationships suck, either way it's healthy, I think.

To help celebrate Valentine's Day, all week on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr we're suggesting some great inexpensive snack related things you can do with that special someone.  It just goes to prove that you don't have to spend a fortune to make that special someone happy.

Speaking of social media, if you haven't checked out our new Instagram feed featuring daily candy facts, you're missing out.  How else could you learn how to say "donut" in seven different languages?

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This Week In Candy

Last week I attempted my first ever "I'll make it, if you suggest it".  It's a little project I'm doing on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.  It's very simple, every so often I ask my friends to suggest something that I should attempt to make, in many cases the recipe doesn't exist.  Then I pick the one that I think is the most insane, and try to make it.  This first attempt is an Oreo upside down lava cake with frosting.  Just in case it's not clear, I used an Oreo instead of a cherry in the middle of the pineapple.  This suggestion came from my friend Brent, who may be making a future appearance on the Junk Fud podcast.  I have a few more suggestions that I may try, but I'm always looking for more ideas as well.  So be sure to send them in and I may attempt your treat.  As a note, I should tell you that while this looks tasty (?), it's was kind of gross.

Don't forget, it's not too late to enter our contest with a prize provided by our good friends at candycrate.com.  First prize is an awesome box of nostalgic candies sent right to your front door.  All you have to do is tell me what candy treat has the best memories for you, and why.  Click here for more details, and information on where to enter.

The rest of this week, like last week, is going to be full of nostalgic candy.  We're looking back at some of our favorite candy things that gives us great memories.

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This Week In Candy

Well we're getting back into the regular swing of things here at Candy Critic.  All this week we're having our Australia/New Zealand epic trip round up.  Not only are we posting a whole bunch of highlights from our trip to the great down under, but all this week we'll be having an OZ/NZ Review-A-Thon.

We're also working out our new changes to the site, including our weekly news roundup, instead of daily news posts.  But if you need your candy news now, we'll be posting all (more than in the round up) of the the candy related news articles we find on our Twitter feed, as we find it.  After this week, we're also going to change our review update day to Monday, that way you'll have your weekends free to go outside and smell some flowers.

Finally we're working hard on our new podcast which we hope to have online soon.

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Bazooka Fun Times Ahead

The folks at Bazooka (@BazookaCandy) said that they'd send me some treats to sample... sounds great.  Then they tweeted me a preview photo of the treats they're sending... awesome (but a bit of a tease).

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A Twitter First For Me

I've been tweeted by an airport.  I think today I will also do another first, for myself at least, and I will "Follow" an airport on Twitter.

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Creepy Pudding Face Guy

Jello pudding really seems to enjoy creeping me out.  They have a giant billboard in New York that either smiles when people are happy (on Twitter) or frowns when they are sad.  Both the frown and the smile are kind of creepy, but the free pudding stuff you can get for following them might be worth it.

Click here to read more.

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Tweeted Candy

In a survey this Halloween Snickers was found to be the most "tweeted" candy this Halloween. The candy with the least "tweets", 100 Grand. I'm not surprised about Snickers being number one but 100 Grand deserves to be a little higher than last in my opinion. Maybe I should start a tweet 100 Grand campaign next year and see if we can get it up the ladder a little.

Click here to read more about the stats.

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Rooftop Coffee

So apparently this guy drives around with a fake cup of coffee on his roof and tweets the reactions. I think I may have to try this but I’m going to go bigger and a little more style. I’m thinking a full on birthday cake.

Click here to follow his tweets.

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