Two Does Not Become One

Likely my most hidden shame is I really love the Spice Girls. I enjoyed their music when it came out, and still listen to it today. Allison questions my taste in music, but I don't care. While eating this Hershey Bar that is the subject of today's new review the song "Two Becomes One" popped into my head. The song is about the connecting of two wonderful things in to something better, which this bar failed at completely. In fact I would have gone so far as to say that at least one of the elements of this bar is ruined because of this bar.

Check out this review that had me doubting if mixing candies can make something better.

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Don't Let These Butterfingers Slip Through Your Fingers

 While it's not my favourite candy bar, it's really cool to watch them make Butterfingers.

Don't let a single issue of Snack Facts get through your fingers either.

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Talking About The Canadian National Exhibition

In this latest episode of Junk Fud on the Road, Allison and Chris talk about their past adventures at the Canadian National Exhibition.

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Is It Zebra or Zebra

Zack the Zebra T-Shirt
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 I feel like this shirt is both Canadian and American.

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Crunky All Week Long

Many people outside of Asia have no any idea what Crunky is, but those who have visited or lived there are very familiar with this chocolate treat. I'm not too sure what was the first Crunky treat since there are so many different ones available right now. It was likely the milk chocolate bar with the rice crisps, but I could be wrong. All I know is that today there are so many different treats made in the Crunky style, and this week I'm going to review 3 of them.

Check out the first of many Crunky reviews.

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See Them Make Jelly Beans

 Jelly Belly makes every flavour you could imagine.

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This is Why I'm Fat?

 There are a few things that some people like that I don't. Licorice, marshmallows, fat.

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Yes I Want This Y T-Shirt

Yannick the Yak T-Shirt
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 There's nothing about this shirt that I don't truly love.

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Makin' M&Ms

 I wonder if the people working at this factory get sick of seeing pretty colours all day?

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X Is Hard

Xavier the Xerus T-Shirt
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 X was the hardest letter to write in this book. Frankly there was a time I thought it couldn't be done.

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Flavour Combinations We Love To A Fault

I think we have a bias about what flavours work with which candy. While there are certainly some flavour to candy combinations that objectively don't work, there are many candies that for some reason we always expect them to be a certain flavour, even though there's no reason that it has to be that flavour. Take gumnies, for some reason chocolate flavoured gummies are just never a thing, yet there's no reason why it shouldn't work. Chocolate works in just about every single other sweet treat, but it's extremely rare in gummies, why is that? There's nothing about gummies that suggest the texture of fruit, but for some reason most gummies are fruit flavoured.

Check out my latest review to read about another flavour combination that should work.

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The Magic Way They Make Nerdss Ropes

 It's a marvel of science how they make these tasty ropes.

Check out my full Nerds Ropes review right here.

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What A T-Shirt!

Wally the Walrus T-Shirt
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 You might have thought that the letter "w" would be difficult to write into an alphabet book about animals and candy, but strangely it was the first one I came up with.

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Shape Is Important

I think it's pretty interesting that a candy like the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup can exist before the Reese's Bar. I say this because bars are the most typical shape of chocolate treats, and cups although not too strange, are not nearly as common as bars. Even the old commercials for Reese's Cups used to show people eating bars of chocolate and accidentally getting peanut butter on these bars. They never explained the cup shape, and frankly I don't know where it came from. I probably would have never even thought about this if it wasn't for this bar, the candy that appears to be a step backwards in the evolution of the peanut butter cup.

Check out my full review of this strange yet very simple bar.

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A Whole lot of Chocolate Bars

If you've every wondered how to make a million chocolate bars, Hershey's got your covered.

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A Junk Fud and You Where I Talk About My New Books

 In this episode I talk about my two new books, Treats and Beasts and The Complete Snack Facts.

You can pick up your own copies of either (or both) of these books right now.

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This Is A Very Cool T-shirt

Vincent the Vulture T-Shirt
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 I feel like watching a vulture eat ice cream would be very interesting, although I don't think I'd like to eat the same flavour of ice cream as a vulture would.

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Dessert Themed Candy

You would think that making a dessert themed candy would be easy. Some people even think that desserts and candies are pretty much the same thing. While I will agree that there is some crossover between desserts and candy, saying they're the same thing is like saying lunch and dinner are the same thing. While both are similar and can even have similar ingredients, there's a certain something that differentiates these two meal, and the same is true with candy and desserts. This is why I find that not all dessert themed candies work. I feel like the people that come up with these dessert/candy combinations don't really understand the difference, and I even think they figure mixing these two themes is an easy combination.

My latest review is an attempt to mix a dessert with a candy, it tastes pretty good, but I don't think it worked.

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Crazy Eyebrow Skills

 I'm not sure if this makes me want to eat Cadbury chocolate, but it does look cool.

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Not Every Letter Is Equal

Ursula the Urchin T-Shirt
by candycritic

 Writing some of these beasts is a little more challenging than others.

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Raw Dangerous Cookie Dough

I have a question for you, has raw cookie dough always been dangerous? I ask because I've been eating cookie dough for a long time. In fact I can't remember the first time I've ever tried it, and I can safely tell you that I don't think a year of my life has gone by without eating cookie dough. It just seems like in the last few years people have had to make special cookie dough for me to eat. When I was a kid, I would just eat the stuff right out of the bowl, or tube as the case may be. I never thought about raw eggs being dangerous, I guess I figured mixing it in a bowl made it safe?

Check out my fun review featuring very safe cookie dough.

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Buying Snacks Can Be a Challenge

 I feel like the world needs more inconvenience stores.

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Is Today The Day?

 Is today the day I get to eat something so strange that my mind shuts down and I just curl up in a ball and weep? Or is today the day I'm disappointed by the fact that my mind is still awake and I have not curled up into a ball?

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This Totally Tortoise T-Shirt Is Terrific

Tanya the Tortoise T-Shirt
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 I feel like watching a tortoise eat taffy would be very time consuming.

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Mac Tonight?.. With Cheese?

 

There's a lot of attention on social media to rail against "stunt food". I would argue that the originator of stunt food has to be the candy industry. It's been decades that this part of the food industry has dared it's customers to go for really silly food combinations and flavours. Strangely this is also the area where I see very few social media posts railing against it. For the most part it seems that people are okay with weird and over the top candy creations, but when it comes to regular food, and even desserts there seems to be a problem. This makes me very happy because I would have nothing to write about on this site if candy companies didn't try new things, and I for one even enjoy the crazy projects that go horribly wrong.

Check out a fairly strange candy concept, and see if it went the way you thought it would.

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Terrifying Japanese Candy Commercial

An odd casting choice was made when making this commercial.

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SSSSSSlip Into This T-SSSShhhirt

Stew the Snake T-Shirt
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 I'm not sure that snakes like salted anything to be honest.

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Take A Chunk Out

I'm very biased about the shape of candy bars. I've realized that if a candy bar does not fit the common size of candy bar on the store shelf, I'm less likely to buy that bar. There are a few exceptions, but most of the time it has something to do with where I'm buying that chocolate bar. If I'm at a candy specialty shop I tend not to think too much shape of my candy, but if I'm at a pharmacy or grocery store I feel like buying odd shaped candy is weird. Am I the only person that thinks this way? When was the last time you bought an odd shaped candy bar?

Read my latest review and find out why you should pick up an odd shaped bar.

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That's One Expensive Chocolate

 I'm not sure I'd even want to eat it after I paid for it.

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Making Treats and Beasts - A Few Problems

In past entries in this blog I've mentioned that there were a few problems making this book. The one that people ask me first and foremost every time I tell them about the concept for this book is "how did you mange with the letter X". I won't lie, for the animal in this case I had to do some research. This was probably the only animal in the book that I can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it exists. The candy however was actually fairly easy, in fact that reason I felt comfortable using candy in this book was because I knew I had a candy for the letter x.

The next problem came about when I started thinking about making this project into a book, or selling it in any way. I realized that I couldn't use brand names for candy without either paying out companies or risking breaking some kind of copyright. Once I started working on these drawings I started to have to update a few pieces in order to make sure the beast was enjoying a generic treat. I actually enjoyed this challenge. I did use some research material for finding generic candies, but thankfully it was almost entirely my own website candycritic.org. I also decided that it would be okay to use the names of candies from outside North America.

I would be lying if I told you that turning these drawings into a book was not filled with some other frustrations. I had to double check spelling and grammar at least a dozen times. I also had to figure out how to format my drawings to they could be printed into a book. I've worked on books and comic books in the past, but frankly someone else almost always did the pre-press work for me. I learned a lot and it actually left me confident enough that I made a second book quickly after (the complete Snack Facts).

I hope you enjoyed my tales of putting together Treats and Beasts. As always, if you want to pick up your own copy, check it out right now on Amazon.

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You'll Really Run Rampant With This New R T-Shirt

Rachel the Raccoon T-Shirt
by candycritic

Of all the treat and beast combinations I've done for this series, I feel like there's a possibility that some day I'll see a raccoon eating rhubarb custards in real life.

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The Right Ingredients, But Not

I sometimes feel like the research and development departments of some candy companies don't really understand what makes candy great. I feel like sometimes (this new review is a prime example), these companies "know" what works in a candy bar, but they don't understand why. It's too often that I try a treat that should work on paper, but the design of the bar or the quality of ingredients just makes it a complete failure. With this treat I had my hopes up, but they were dashed on the first bite.

Check out this disappointing review and find out why it failed.

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What to do if You Chew a Lot of Gum

 I feel like this is the kind of thing I would think of doing when I was a kid, but I'd give up at around the 5th or 6th wrapper.

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Making Treats and Beasts - The Cover

The other piece of art and design I had to think about when I decided to make this a book was the cover. While working on the animal drawings I had zero thought about if this was going to be a book, and less about details like covers. When I started working on colouring the drawings I realized that this book is probably going to need a cover. I'll admit that my first thought was just to collage a few of the drawings together and see if that worked out.

Then I was doodling in a my sketchbook and I decided to start with a circle. I thought that maybe I could make a circle (which is a common shape themed in this book) and randomly scatter a few drawings around it. I thought maybe the drawings could be held up using trees. Then I started thinking about decorating those trees with candy. Finally I thought that maybe instead of just reusing a few of the animal drawings, I could put some nice text in the trees.

Next thing I knew I had a rough concept for the cover. I used some pencil crayons to see how it might work in colour. I made a few mistakes on my rough attempt, but I feel like the overall concept worked. Now that I knew I was going this direction, I knew I had to ink it up and get it under the camera to shoot.

It took a few attempts to ink it up. I'm actually not very confident with my inking, particularly when it comes to letters. I feel like this worked pretty well, and the next phase was to colour it up. Fortunately that wasn't too hard as I already had a rough drawing in colour to reference. I probably should have done that with all the animal drawings, but live and learn.

Next, some of the challenges I had with this book.

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Junk Fud Drive Around Two Lakes

 In this episode Chris and Allison talk about a drive around two of the great lakes.

Check out all the episode of Junk Fud on the Road right here.

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Quick, Get This Q T-Shirt!

Quinn the Quail T-Shirt
by candycritic

 If you've never had quints candy, I highly recommend it.

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A Lesson About Heat

 

Throughout my candy and snack eating life, I've tried to expand my horizons. There are two way I feel that people can expand their food horizons. One is to try new foods that they would have never tried before. A great example for me is spiders. I decided to try eating spiders because other people eat them, and it turns out I kind of like them. The second way to expand your horizons is to take a food you don't really like, and try it in different ways over and over again, to see if you can gain a taste for it. That's exactly how I feel about spicy food. Ten years ago I couldn't handle any kind of spice at all, today I'm getting much better and starting to figure out what people love about spicy foods. This new review would have been very different tens years ago, maybe an episode of Chris, Why Would You Eat That?!!

Check out this spicy review and marvel at the fact that I didn't cry.

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An Interesting Opinion of Classic Candy Treats

 I do often watch other people review candy, but I've never been so interested in someone else's opinion on the subject than I was watching this video.

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Making Treats and Beasts - The Inks Turn Into A Book

As I mentioned before, I really had no direct plan to turn this collection of drawings into a book. In fact I wasn't even sure that I would finish all of the drawings. I figured I might loose interest at some point and just move onto something else. The thing is, I didn't. I really wanted to try and finish each and every drawing in the collection, and near the last few drawings I realized that I think it would make a really fun collection, maybe in a book format.

After deciding this, my next phase was to figure out how the book should look. I decided that I would use a few electronic fonts, however I wanted the letter that was showcased to be my own design. Since I had designed the animals and snacks using a rough circle template, I figured the letters should also fit into this template. I found lots of reference online and starting sketching out some font ideas. Eventually I had each letter drawn and inked.

The other choice I made once I decided to make a book was that I wanted the illustrations to be in colour. I don't own a scanner and I didn't want to buy one for this project. I still wasn't convinced it would actually pan out. Since I am a photographer, I decided that I would photograph each drawing. This turned out to be fairly challenging, particularly getting the light just right. I built a setup and had to shoot each and every drawing on the same day. I wanted to make sure they all matched perfectly.

After that I brough everything into various Adobe editing tools and after a few drawings were done I had a system that worked fairly well. The good thing about taking the photos of the art was the fact that many of the sketchy lines and even the texture of the paper came through just a little bit. I feel it gave the art a really nice natural feeling.

The colouring was probably the hardest part of the process for me. I'm not a great expert on colours, and I found parts of this process to be very hard on the eyes. I do however feel that it worked out fairly well and I'm glad I went beyond black and white.

Next the cover idea.

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Kit Kat Done 5 Ways

In this experiment I taste a Kit Kat bar done 5 ways, room temperature, refrigerated, frozen, microwaved and baked. Find out which one tasted best, and which one changed entirely.

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This Is A Perfect T-Shirt... with Capital P

Pete the Penguin T-Shirt
by candycritic

 I wonder if the popcorn would get cold?

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My Favourite Candy Of All Times... Only Not

The number 1 candy review of candycritic.org is a milk chocolate Kit Kat bar. The thing is, it's not this milk chocolate Kit Kat bar. When I first started to review candy, people would often ask me if I was worried about running out of candies to review. I never really thought that far in advance, but maybe a sign that I'm starting to run thin on candy ideas is the fact that I've reviewed at least 5 different version of the milk chocolate Kit Kat bar. I guess it would seem pointless, except for the fact that each one of the milk chocolate Kit Kat bars is actually fairly different.

Check out my latest milk chocolate Kit Kat bar review coming from the USA.

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Jaw Killer Is Killed

I feel like they're cheating a little, but I also love looking at a jaw breaker cut in half.

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Making Treats and Beasts - Rough, Design and Finished Inks

After finally coming up with a concept for an alphabet book, treats and beasts, I had to draw each and every creature and snack. I started each drawing with a very rough pencil sketch. I referenced the animals a great deal from photos online. I never traced anything, but I would have pages on a Google search open throughout most of the sketching process. I would fixate on a few particular images, but I tried to take bits and pieces from each.

Rather than have to erase all my rough pencil lines, I used animation paper and I would then trace out a cleaner version of my sketch onto another piece of paper. The animation paper would allow me to trace the other image easily since I had animation pegs to keep both drawings lined up. Next I would use a few inking tools, mostly sharpy pens and fine liners, and I would start inking my drawings.

I probably worked on the first two or three drawings at the same time when it came to inking. As I progressed I would add a new detail to one drawing and then go back to the others and add the same kind of detail. I love this stage of making art because it allows me to watch television and movies while working. Eventually I discovered the amount of detail I wanted to add without overworking the drawing.

This was probably the longest process of making this book. It was also the most Zen of them of them all. I could just sit and doodle away while watching television. I should also mention that at this point I had not actually decided that this was going to be an actual printed book. My thoughts were that I would just post these pictures online and share them with my friends.

The next phase is when that changed.

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It's Specifically Orange Taffy

Olga the Opossum T-Shirt
by candycritic

 We all have our favourite flavours of taffy, even opossums.

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Is It Candy?

Every so often I come across a candy that tries to defy reality. It's not rare for candies to play pretend, gummy worms, cream eggs, and many other treats pretend to be other things. The thing is that many of these candies pretend to be other things in a cartoonish way. I don't think one would mistake the average gummy worm for a real worm (although there was one time where that might be different). This week's new review is a treat that pushes the envelope a little bit and tries very hard to too like it might actually be the real thing. I'm kind of glad that not every candy strives for this excellence, but I'm also happy that some candy companies do.

Check out this week's fairly realistic candy treat.

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A Kinder To Remember

I don't think I'll ever forget this Kinder Egg commercial, it will haunt me till the day I die.

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Making Treats and Beasts - Early Sketches and Concept

 

I've always wanted to draw an alphabet book. I've thought about it for a while, but I've never been able to figure out a theme that would work for me. Monsters where always an early thought, but while I really enjoy the look of monsters, I don't really know much about monster history, or at least not enough to find a monster for each letter of the alphabet. That's the first big problem you get when you're coming up with an alphabet book, figuring out a character or idea for the most obscure letters of the alphabet.

Then one day I was sketching in my sketchbook and a thought crossed my mind, I drew a walrus eating wine gums. The idea suddenly crossed my mind, I love animals and I obviously love candy. While I do care for the wellbeing of animals, my main interest is learning about different kinds of animals, this is why the alphabet concept worked well for me in this case. Candy is also an obsession of mine, and once again it's about the variety of candy that I love.

So after sketching out the walrus eating wine gums, I started to sketch and write out animals and candy for each letter of the alphabet. Fairly quickly I had all the animals and treats sorted out. There were a few challenging letters to deal with, but not as many as I was expecting. The bigger problem I had was trying to find treats for each letter. I didn't want to use brand names in this book, so the challenge was to find non brand names for certain letters of the alphabet. Fortunately I've traveled a fair bit and had treats from many places around the world, so in some cases I used more obscure foreign treats to fill in some of the harder letters of the alphabet.

The next step was to design the book and start the rough drawings.

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I Love Narwals

Nancy the Narwhal T-Shirt
by candycritic

 I might even love narwals more than I love nougat.

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Christmas In July? Nope.

You might think it's a little weird to post a review featuring sugar cookies in July. While I could go with the general idea that I wanted to celebrate Christmas in July, it's just not true. Around Christmas time last year I decided to try and plan out my reviews a little better, and at that time I had many treats to review for Christmas. I decided that I would look at one of those national day calendars and that's when I learned that July 9th is National Sugar Cookie Day. I thought it would be fun to save this review for this week, so you can not only remember Christmas, but also celebrate National Sugar Cookie Day.

Check out this sweet sugar cookie treat review.

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Happy Canada Day!

 

May all your candy be red and white and maple flavoured!

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Canada Day Candy Commercial

 While Canada has had some amazing commercials for candy, I feel like for me, this is the ultimate piece of Canadian nostalgia. No kid my age could ever forget this song.

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My Favourite Videos So Far

I'm always making new videos, but these are my favourite so far. I'm hoping that these might some day become our most popular, but I figure my opinion is fairly biased.

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Munch Some Marshmallows

Marcus the Moose T-Shirt
by candycritic

 I feel like this is a very Canadian t-shirt.

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Bulk Candies In Supermarket Bulk Bins

One of my biggest fears as a Candy Critic are the strange bulk bins you find in grocery and foreign food stores. It's a fear that I often have to face, but every time I purchase a treat from one of these bulk bins I have little to no idea what I'm getting myself into. There are really three ways this kind of treat can go. It can be a great new discovery, something tasty and unique. It can be something horrible, so bad that I can't understand why people even sell such a treat. Finally it can be really, really boring, and this is actually the most common problem. With something great or something horrible there's plenty to write about, but with something boring, like an average fruity hard candy, I have a hard time filling up space when I write the review. Most of the time I end up filling the review full of explanations about how hard that particular review was to write.

Fortunately this treat was a a little more interesting than usual, not sure I loved it though.

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Making Chocolate

Eater takes a look at how candy bars are being made, and it's fascinating.

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Love This Lizard T-Shirt

Lucy the Lizard T-Shirt
by candycritic

 I feel like this could actually happen.

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Gummy Art

This week's review features gummy creations that are some of the most beautiful and creative designs I've ever seen. It makes me wonder if anyone is making artisanal gummies. I've been to thousands of candy shops in my life, but I've never seen anyone making super high end gummies. You would figure that there would be a market for beautiful gummies that are so detailed and so fancy that they belong in a museum. The folks at Amos have come pretty close to making this high end gummy, but I feel like there's an artist out there that could change the world.

Check out my review of these very beautiful gummies.

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Retro 3 Musketeers

 I'm just glad that my candy bar has never yelled at me.

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Mountain Dew Has Run Amuck

 I often wonder why I eat or drink things, but sometimes I also wonder why people even make certain treats. This Flamin' Hot Mountain Dew is a prime example.

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Jump Around For Some Karinto

Kimberley the Kangaroo T-Shirt
by candycritic

 Some might not know what Karinto is, but I assure you kangaroos love them... I assume.

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Why Do Cups Work So Well

 

While writing this review a thought came across my mind, why does the cup work so well with peanut butter and chocolate? More importantly, why don't more companies make treats in a cup shape? I feel like a Snickers or Oh Henry cup would be pretty tasty and unique. You might even try to make some gummy cups? It's just really weird how one company makes almost all of the cup shaped treats, and it's almost always just peanut butter and chocolate.

Check out the latest cup treat by Reese's

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Making Mochi

 I don't think I've ever seen someone make mochi on such a big scale.

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Jumping T-shirts!

Jennifer the Jackrabbit T-Shirt
by candycritic

While I love all of my designs for Treats and Beasts, I might just love this one a little more.

Maybe you'll love another one even more, check them all out here.

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Cookies and Pretzels

Sometimes I think pretzels could qualify as the perfect cookies. I feel like you can do just about anything to a pretzel that you can do to a cookie, in some cases even more. Dip a pretzel in icing, no problem. Cover a pretzel in peanut butter, yup. Cover a pretzel in chocolate, an excellent idea. The thing that makes pretzels unique is that you can also dip them in mustard and it works great too. Pretzels really are the ultimate cookie, and they're not even really cookies. This week's new candy review is proof that the pretzel needs to be reclassified.

Find out why the pretzel needs to a fresh designation.

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I Would Lose

 I feel like the kids who win these candy challenges are beyond anything I could handle.

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