A New T-Shirt To Celebrate My Worst Days

Why Would You Eat That?!! T-Shirt
by candycritic

I love this design where Tom Yeo found the inner pain I feel every time I eat something that I really shouldn't have.

Click  here to check out some more t-shirt designs.

Watch me feel like the representation on this t-shirt by checking out episodes of Chris, Why Would You Eat That?!!

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This Week In Candy

As of last Thursday night I have not had internet, television, or telephone service at my home.  This has forced me to head out to my local hangout/food establishment to work.  This was something I had always planned on starting so that I could focus on writing a bit more and get out of the house now and again.  It's proven to be a big success, however I've also hit a few glitches with updates and blog posts.  As I iron out these problems I think I'm going to continue this trend, as long as the folks here don't get sick of me and kick me out.

I guess the  big news right now is the Christmas/Chanukah season.  I hope all you guys are having a great holiday season, and I hope it's full of sugar plums and christmas treats.  My plan is to keep it low key, but that plan almost never works out.  So baring that, I hope to have lots of friends around and lots of good food to  munch on.

Last week on Snack Facts we looked at the classic holiday treat, the candy cane.  This week we're going too look a little more broadly at holiday treats, and we're going to feature some random holiday snack facts.  You can check out all our awesome Snack facts on our Instagram feed, and if you don't have Instagram, you can also find it on our Twitter Feed and Facebook page.

Today we're also posting the last of our selection of Christmas candy reviews.  Reese has always impressed me with their holiday treats, and once again I'm not disapointed at all.  Click here to find out why I loved these chocolate bells so much.

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Friday Candy Video

In my lifetime I've endured several scrapes from trying to get the last chip out of a can of Pringles.  It's a fairly well known hazard.  In the past the people at Pringles have just made fun of this, but it seems they're finally doing some work to try and help us with this problem.  Sure this first idea might be a little grandiose, but it's a start.

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Tic Tac Syndrome

Tic Tac Syndrome is what I call it when you can't eat just one of a particular type of candy.  Actually it's a little more serious than that, the Tic Tac Syndrome is what happens when you can't help but dump an entire package of candy in your mouth all at once.  The name comes from the candy (Tic Tac) that consists of a package of small mints that are simply unsatisfying to eat individually.

While Tic Tac’s are the best example of a candy you can't eat slowly, there are many others.  Pixie Sticks, (Canadian and UK) Smarties, and Chiclets gum, are a few other examples of candies that cause people to down an entire package in one go.  These treats just have a certain flavour and texture that is satisfying when it fills up your mouth.

While I believe that I suffer from this syndrome in a fairly bad way, I'm not the only one.  I've spoken to many candy fanatics all over the world that have had problems with the Tic Tac Syndrome.  These people have told me tails of stuffing their faces with all kinds of bite-sized treats.  Some are proud of how many of a particular treats they can shove in their mouths; while others are ashamed at how quickly they go through an entire package of candy.

For those that want to defeat the Tic Tac Syndrome, it can be a great challenge.  The best way to regulate the problem is with novelty candy dispenser, such as a PEZ dispenser.  These can slow down your face stuffing habits, but they're not perfect.  First of all, most of these dispensers are cumbersome to fill.  There's also nothing to stop you from just emptying the entire contents of these dispensers into your hand and simply eating all the candy in one gulp.

The only other cure I've heard of is an unplanned accident.  Say for example your tasting a new mint, and each mint is made up of a tiny mouth pleasing little round ball.  Many people suffering from the Tic Tac Syndrome would have a hard time just eating one or two.  Now if these mints were super-powerful, or spicy, this would leave you in a great deal of discomfort.  Having this happen enough times, or having a serious enough trauma, might kick you of the habit.  But it doesn't always work, and I'm proof of that.

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This Week's Review

I don't often review mints on Candy Critic.  I don't review them because frankly I have a very hard time telling them apart.  I'm not really sure what makes a good mint, and what makes a bad mint.  When you eat a mint do you care more about taste, or more about how well your breath smells afterwards?  Do you want something that lasts long, or something quick?  Do cinnamon candies count as mints?  There are just so many factors into mints, and this makes them very hard to review.

Click here to read an attempt at a mint review.

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This Week In Candy

You may have noticed that this entry has in fact been backed dated.  Why is that?  Well the start of my week was a stressful fight with bureaucracy that lead to me not having interenet for almost 4 days.  While I love writing about candy, and taking photos of candy, and eating candy, I hate the whole technical side of running this site and all that it entails.  No matter, after several phone calls, and a guy coming over with a computer around his neck, that was awesome, we have internet and I'm not going to go through the process of updating everything I couldn't when it was down.

Other than that, we're preparing for an epic adventure this holiday season, and that's taking up a lot of time mostly just trying to tie up loose ends.  We also have a winner for the Chanukah House contest, so thanks to everybody who entered.  We're also working on a few new ideas to add to the blog in the new year, so get ready for all that too.

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The Last Of The Ice Cream Review-A-Thon

While working on the review-a-thon this week I started to realize why I don't review more ice cream treats.  Photographing ice cream is very challenging, and I'm not really talking about taking the photograph itself.  The challenge comes in getting the treat from the store, where I bought it, home to the nice surroundings to shoot it.  This is particularly difficult in the summer when ice cream is most available.  Let me just say that I can honestly say that global warming has caused me a great inconvenience.

Click here to read the last of the Ice Cream Review-A-Thon.

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Did You Know That This Month Is National Dessert Month?

Neither did I. It came as a bit of a shock, and left me with a problem. I'm not sure how one like myself who celebrates desserts every day can make this month a little more dessert filled.

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Junk Food And ADHD

According to some scientists in Australia, too much junk food (fast food) may cause you to become... hey look at that puppy... what was I talking about?

Click here to read something or other.

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Cake Problem

I love a good looking cake, the only thing better is a great tasting cake. If you combine the two together I’m pretty much unable to control myself and I explode since I don’t know if I should eat it or just look at it.

Click here for an example of a cool looking cake. Does it taste good? I hope not.

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Some Technical Problems

My poor little Acer 1 laptop seems to be on the fritz. I tried doing stuff, it didn’t work. My friend Mark tried doing stuff, it didn’t work. Allison is doing stuff right now… it’s still not perfect but she might be making progress. It basically means I may be a little late with a few posts over the next week or so. I’ll get them up but maybe not in super fast time. If anybody happens to be an expert on Acer 1s and how to make them stop freezing up please drop me a line.

Thanks

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Book Issues

Well I was hopping to have the book ready to go but honestly things for me got a lot more hectic than I imagined. I also took a lot longer to work on the images than I thought it would take. So I’m still working through the files but it just might take me a little while to get everything in order. I’ll keep you posted and hopefully have a new deadline ASAP.

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To review or not to review, that is the question.

Sometimes I wish I had all the time in the world, and all of the appetite in the world so I could review every single treat that crosses my path. That would be great, but truly that’s pretty much impossible. My mind explodes when people ask me how I manage to find enough treats to review on this site. This gummy is a fine example of a questionable review, in fact just about every gummy becomes a bit of a question for me. I mean gummies are fairly similar in texture and flavours, the shape is really the only difference but I’m not sure I could write a few paragraphs about how this gummy really doesn’t look like any bug I’ve seen but still looks creepy.
The other problem with choosing treats is when I’m present with two or more flavours of something. Do I go with the popular one, the strange one, or the one that I’ll probably like?

Finally treats that I get as gifts are always a difficult choice. Whether I get them in a restaurant after a meal or in a bag from friends, I’m never sure if I should review them. Would my friends be offended, and are these restaurant mints really any different than other restaurant mints? I have to think about this.

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Not food really.

Allison and I stopped at a fruit stand to pick up some fruity snacks on our trip and we came across this little ugly friend. It’s called a hedge ball and it’s supposed to keep fruit flies off your fruit. It’s also supposed to induce vomiting if you eat it so I’m thinking a sample isn’t a good idea. Fruit is most certainly my favourite food (other than candy) and fruit flies sure know how to ruin my fruit so I’m giving this guy a try.

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Theeeeeey’rrrre ok.

One treat that always suits a road trip and always makes me feel like a kid are the mini boxes of cereal. However I’ve noticed a problem as of late with these. It would appear that the cereal companies aren’t really putting the effort into the perforations that allow you to turn your box of Frosted Flakes (or whatever you chose or got stuck with) into a mini box bowl. The perforations on this box, and all of the boxes in my pack, where faint and pretty much useless.

I ended up using a knife instead and that’s always a danger because if you poke too far you’re gonna have a leak.
After a few minutes of careful cutting I managed to get it open and no leaks. The next problem I now have is how in the world do you drink the last bit of milk out of the bottom of this bag?


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RSS oops

It would appear that the Candy Critic RSS feed isn’t working well at all right now. I may have to revamp it to get it back up and running. I’ll let you all know when it’s back up to its awesome sweet stuff glory and you can re-hook back up to it. I’m not the greatest RSS scripter so it might take a while.

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