Showing posts with label ginger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ginger. Show all posts

Monday, January 04, 2016

This Week In Candy

It's a new day, a new month, and a new year, so there's lot to talk about.  First of all, this month we're celebrating two great things, cookies and retro cereal.  Every Wednesday this month we're posting a new cookie themed thing, because cookies are awesome, and there are so many cool cookie making tools out there to see.  Every Friday this month we're posting some classic retro cereal commercials.  While old cereal is stale and gross, looking back at old cereal and remembering how cool it was is not gross.

With the new year comes the first episode of the new and improved Junk Fud podcast.  Later this week we'll be posting the first episode, part one of our series called Junk Fud on the Road.  Next week we'll be posting our second episode, but first part in our series about junk food history.  In three week's we'll be posting the first episode of Junk Fud and You, our interview segment.  Finally, at the end of January we'll be posting the first in our end of the month candy round up podcasts called Junk Fud News.  Make sure to check back (or follow us on social media) to find out when the new episodes are released.

January is always a bit of a depression month for me, candy wise.  There's no holidays that celebrate sweet treats at all.  We have to wait till Valentine's Day before we can justifiably eat an entire box of chocolates.  Worse still, the store shelves are just full of rejected Christmas candy.  The selection of rejected Christmas candy just gets sadder and sadder as the days go by.  I know that New Years is technically in January, but I think another holiday is required.  Maybe some kind of escape from the cold winter days, or if you live in Australia an escape from the heat.

Snack Facts is back!  With the new year comes the return of Snack Facts, our Instagram feed.  Every day this week we'll be posting a fun fact about a particular snack, this week it's marshmallows.  We were inspired by a marshmallow roast we had recently.  Make sure to follow us on Instagram to get a daily Snack Fact (this week on the subject of marshmallows), if you don't use Instagram, you can also follow Snack Facts on our Twitter feed and Facebook page as well.

Today we post part 1 of our gummy review-a-thon.  It's been a while since we've done a review-a-thon, so we thought that gummies would be the perfect candy to focus on.  Today's gummy review is a little bit out of the box, or bag as would be more appropriate.  Make sure to check out our Facebook page, Twitter feed, Tumblr page, or any of our social media sites to keep up with this week's gummy review-a-thon.  You can also click here daily to read our latest review.

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Stuff I Want To Try

Ginger-Lemon gummies  - Haribo - Because there aren't enough ginger flavoured gummies in the world. - Click here to learn more about this treat.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

California Candy Recall!

If you've found yourself enjoying a "DaiJyoBu Ginger Candy" you might want to read this article. Apparently some of them (imported from China) have been found to contain lead. I'm not sure what one does after they may have consumed lead, but I'd recommend not going for seconds.


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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Ginger Ale Halls?

As of the last few weeks I seem to be fighting a cold that just won’t go away. Needless to say candy once again has the cure for what ails me. So while looking for some cough drops at the store the other day I came across these little treats. Apparently Halls now come in Ginger Ale flavours.In particular Canada Dry ginger ale flavour. Now I know when I have an upset stomach a glass of ginger ale always does the trick but I’m not sure if this is also the same with colds. More importantly I thought the big health factor to ginger ale was the fizzy water. Well I guess we’ll see if these help my cold, and if they do you can bet I’ll let you know.

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Ginger in Ginger Ale?

I’ve never really thought of Ginger Ale tasting like Ginger ever before. However after purchasing a nice bottle of Canada Dry I discovered on the label a little “Made from Real Ginger” tag.I guess if you think about it while drinking it you can kind of taste a slight ginger flavour. I always thought of Ginger Ale as just being Ginger Ale flavoured, now it’s making me wonder about cola as a flavour too.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Gingery Mint

My friend Leba gave me this little tiny ginger candy and it was yummy. The best thing about them isn’t the flavour though; the best thing is the little messages on the outside.
It’s as if I’m having a love affair with a Ginger Mint.
Although this one seems to be moving a little too fast for my liking.

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