Candy In The Media

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Candy Costume Ideas - Me

Halloween is quickly approching, and if you haven't decided what you want to wear, you still have time.  Sure you could go as a spooky goblin, or your favorite serial killer, but why not go a different direction this year?  Why not dress up as your favorite sweet treat?  To help you out with your costume decision making, every day this week I'll be scouring Amazon.com in search of some of the best, and strangest candy related costumes.

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For this final installation of the Candy Costume Ideas, I thought I'd go through some costumes that I would consider.  I have to be honest; I didn't really find that many costumes that fit the requirements for me.  I generally hate wearing costumes and more so I hate wearing makeup.  The only candy costume that I found that I was willing to wear was this gingerbread man.  I particularly like the lollipop staff that comes with it.

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Other than that I think my only other costumes for me would fall into the primate categories.  If someone could somehow make a costume that was both monkey and candy related I would be so into that.

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But until then I think I'll just stick with regular monkeys, or at the very least sock monkeys.

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Monkey Mounds

I love monkeys.

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Nikko Treats

Allison and I took a trip to Nikko Japan to check out the great Shrines and Temple there.

The most famous landmark in Nikko is this little carving which was the first (according to many) to depict the famous expression “see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil”. So you can imagine that the city is crazy about monkeys.
All of the gift shops are loaded with monkey cookies, monkey cakes, and monkey candy. I particularly liked these monkey lollypops that came in packages of three.
One of the shrines also had this little display about snacks and sweets but unfortunately I can’t really tell you more about it since I can’t read Japanese.
The area is also well known for its Castella cake. A Portuguese treat that was brought over and is most often sold in fancy stores and restaurants. I had a couple of slices that are covered in gold flakes. They tasted nice as well, simple, moist, and soft.

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