This Week In Candy

I know that many of you reading this are still stuck in the cold end of February, wondering if the snow will ever end.  But me, I'm already thinking about spring, warm days, cool treats, and iced tea.  I have had such a craving for iced tea, and I realized something, there really aren't that many iced tea flavoured candies out there.  How could one show "iced tea" in candy form anyways.  I would think that it would always come across as just tea.

It's going to be a bit of a slow week on the Candy Critic blog this week, mostly because we're preparing some new material, and we want it to be just right.  We'll still have our regular posts like Candy Art, Classic/Creative candy advertising, and our Friday Candy videos, we're just going to cut back on some of the extras this week.

Finally, we've opened an Instagram (candycritic76) account recently, but we're not really sure what we're going to do with it.  Do you have any ideas, what do you do with your Instagram photos?

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Free Iced Tea Made Me Happy

Yesterday I had a good day.  Don't get me wrong, it started out pretty horrible.  I had a miserable shopping trip that ended with me having to go to a second grocery store and re-choosing everything I almost bought already.  This second store was much further away, and I had to go alone.  I was harassed by a group of religious people that tried to sell me trinkets on the way, and it was very hot.  I also thought I had left the stove on at home, so I was paranoid about it the whole way there.  Then a beacon of hope came from a nice young lady handing out free newspapers on the street corner.  In my hot, and grumpy state I walked up to the corner sore from carrying a lot of groceries.  The lady with the newspapers looked at me with pity.  You see, this day the newspaper had a campaign to give away a free bottle of Lipton's Green Ice Tea with each paper.  The lady looked at me, handed me two bottles of the ice tea, and didn't burden me with a newspaper I couldn't even read.  I'm not a religious man, but yesterday I met a saint.

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Organic Big Gulp

What's next organic nachos, hot dogs, or those deep fried looking things that don't really look appetizing unless you've had too much to drink. The organic Big Gulp could be a new trend for 7-11.

Click here to read more about it.

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