Merry Christmas

Hey everybody, I just wanted to say happy holidays, merry (or happy) Christmas, happy Hanukah, happy Kwanzaa, and enjoy your Festivus. I've always seen this time of year as a time to get together with friends and family, and a time to eat really great food. So I hope you're eating the food that makes you happy and comfortable, and I hope you're eating it with people that make you happy and comfortable as well.

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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanzaa, Have a Joyous Festivus!

I hope you all have a great holiday season, and I hope that whatever you're celebrating ends with a spectacular dessert.

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The Chanukah House That Couldn't

We didn't just give away a Chanukah House last week, we also got one in the mail to try ourselves.  Since I'm neither Jewish, nor patient with these kinds of projects, I decided to send this to my Jewish relatives in the US.  As you can see there are a bunch of great decorations in the kit...

However all was not well with the Chanukah house.  As you can see many of the cookie pieces were broken.

I'm not sure if we should blame the folks at Manischewitz or the US Postal Service for this problem.

I can assure you that a valiant attempt was made to erect the perfect dwelling for a cookie Jewish family.

But in the end the house fell apart and it turned into a big... yummy looking... mess of cookies and icing.  I think the problem might have been in the packaging and the fact that the cookies don't really have much from keeping them apart   Cookies colliding in the mail can lead to broken cookies.  Maybe if you bought your Chanukah house at a store, it might fair better, assuming that the people putting them on the shelf don't drop them.  If you've had better results with your Chanukah house, let us know.

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Last Chance To Enter The Chanuukah House Contest

If you're one of those people that likes to wait till the last minute, then here it is. At midnight tonight we pick our winner.  So if you want to win yourself a free Chanuukah House Kit you better enter right now, you can learn more about the contest here.

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You Have This Weekend To Write An Awesome Chanukah Poem

Monday is your last day to enter our Chanukah House Kit contest and maybe walk away with an awesome prize.  If you're the kind of person that likes to craft words into a symphony of beauty and expression, you might have some late nights this weekend. Just remember  we like candy here, and we like the folks at Manischewitz as well, so if you can incorporate either or both into your poem, bonus points will be scored.

Click here to get more details about the contest.

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Just In Case You Didn't Know...

We're giving away a really cool prize right now.  It's a Chanukah House Kit, and one lucky Candy Critic reader can walk away with this great prize.  All you have to do is write us a Chanukah poem, and you could win yourself this tasty treat.  Don't worry, you don't have to celebrate Chanukah to win this house, it's fun for anybody.

Click here to learn more about the contest.

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Chanukah House Kit Giveaway!!!

The folks at Manischewitz have given us a Chanukah House to give away.  So what's a Chanukah House, well it's the perfect little vanilla cookie house that you can build yourself.  You may be saying "but I don't celebrate Chanukah, can I also win this prize?"  You bet you can, why not build yourself a whole cookie house neighborhood for the holidays, and this way you can include your Jewish neighbors as well.

But if you win this contest there's more!  If you visit Manischewitz's Facebook page (click here to check it out) then you can enter your Chanukah House into their Decorating Contest, and that could net you 500 dollars cash.  So if you win our contest you've got a free ticket to enter another contest.  It's a pretty good deal.

So how do you win a Chanukah House Kit, well it's fairly simple.  Write us a short poem about Chanukah, if you can incorporate candy, or even the Chanukah House into the poem then you'll get bonus points.  Make sure you also give us a way to contact you if you win (an e-mail will do) because it would be horrible if you wrote an awesome poem and we couldn't send you your Chanukah House Kit.  The contest ends on December 3rd, that will give you plenty of time to get your kit, build it, and enter the Manischewitz contest.  This contest is also only available in the US, sorry Antarctica.

To enter just leave us a comment on this blog post, or drop us a line here.

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