The Christmas Extravaganza Continues With Santa

Here's a completely random thing that happens to me often because of this site. I often find that I have to misspell certain words. In the most recent case it has to do with this new Christmas chocolate review. The chocolates are in the form of Santa Clause. So in this bag there are several Santas, which all my spell checks consistently remind me is not a word. It makes sense that a pluralized version of a proper name cannot be a word, but when you're such a famous person and your image might be on many different things then that changes. I know that my spelling is not the best, but I try, the fact that the word Santas keeps coming up wrong for me on my spellcheck is driving me nuts.

Click here to read about the holiday treat that caused a great deal of red marks on my spell checking apps.

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Dyslexics of the World Untie!

Being dyslexic myself, I can relate to this.

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Today's New Candy Review Brought Up An Interesting Question - Twinkies "Chocolate Cake"

While posting this week's new candy review, a question popped into my head, how do you spell the singular for Twinkies? Do you simply remove the "s", or do you substitute the "ies" with a "y"? The other question is should you  spell Twinkies in the singular in the first place. After all they always come in packages of 2 or more. Maybe this is one of those words that should stay in pluralized form, even if there's only one.

Click here to find out what we thought about these Twinkies, and we promise not to bring up this stupid question ever again.

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Classic/Creative Candy Advertising

A simpler tag line for an advertisement there has never been.  It's pretty effective for just about any candy in the world.  I guess the only problem is that it sounds strange when you say it out loud.  I'm sure any grammar nerds out there will tell me that it's not correct.  I'm sure there's supposed to be a "'s" or "is" thrown in there somewhere.

I found this ad here.

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Candy News

I don't want to call these gingerbread houses, I'd rather call them gingerbread art.  Here's the first, and here's the second.

Just in case you want to make your own gingerbread art, here's how you can make a ginger D20.

Quick cookie tip, this is particularly good if you bake a lot of Christmas cookies this season.

I'm probably one of the worst food bloggers when it comes to typos, fortunately I'm not the only one.

The secret origin of candy canes.

How well do you know Yankee candle? I can only assume since you're reading this blog about candy that you know your Jelly Belly flavours.

Just when you thought all of the news this week would be happy, and be about Christmas, Mars has to go and shrink their bars, for profit.

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Classic/Creative Candy Advertising

I've never tried Smooooth N'Juicy before.  I don't think they make it anymore.  Too bad, I would have been interested in seeing what gum would be like if it was smoother and juicier than normal.  I think one thing that may have lead to this treats demise is the name, way too many "o's".

I found this ad here.

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Classic/Creative Candy Advertising

With the advancements in M&M technology (allowing you to put just about anything you want on an M&M) the idea of making a complete keyboard is very simple.  Better yet, I'd like to have a real working keyboard made out of M&M's, and it doesn't have to be edible.  I'm not sure what it would do for me ergonomically, but it would probably make me pretty hungry every time I posted a new blog entry.

I found this ad here.

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Chips Or Crisps

I love to travel, I love to explore every corner of the earth and see what's around the next bend.  I also love to snack, and my snack of choice while traveling is often banana chips. The great thing about banana chips is that they're available almost everywhere.  Sure in some places they're a little harder to find, and often more expensive, they make such a great snack and are often worth it.  There is one very strange thing I find all over the world about these yummy little chips.

The strange thing is their name "chips".  In many places all of the the world a potato, deep fried, and put into a bag is known as a bag of crisps.  Chips, in their crispy, bagged potato form are pretty much only available in North America. For more of the world "chips" are the fried potatoes you get on the side of a hamburger.  I have no problem with this at all, it's a cultural difference, most people that call them crisps still understand you when you call them chips.  It's a fun difference between cultures.  In the case of banana chips, I think it's strange because not one of these "crisps" using countries calls their banana chips, banana crisps.

To me a banana chip is pretty much the sweet brother of a potato chip.  A banana chip is thinly sliced, cooked (fried or dried), and put into a bag. A potato chip is also thinly sliced, cooked (in this case almost always fried), and put into a bag.  I think for the sake of this argument you can pretty much say that both of these products are produced the same way.  So why do so many places that sell "crisps" call their banana chips, "chips"?  Why not call them banana crisps, they are after all crispy versions of bananas.

It's fairly difficult to figure out the exact origins of the banana chip, some say South America, others might point to Africa, and in many countries they go by a completely different name.  But every English, and a few non-English countries I've ever visited calls these snacks banana chips. Even if I don't get them as a side dish to my hamburger.

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The Second Last Treat In Our Israeli Candy Review-a-Thon

Well Michal came through (after a little internet trouble) and fixed all of the translations on our past Israeli review-a-thon entries.  I have to admit that I had a really fun time trying to translate them, and in doing so, I discovered that some of these treats are actually available in North America (just in case you're tempted to try one yourself). I also have to say that I'm really proud of myself for getting a couple of them right.

Click here to check out the second last, and most creative, treat in our Israeli candy review-a-thon.

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The Second Israeli Bar Review In Our Review-a-Thon

Yesterday I had a few changes in the translation of the bar.  Fortunately I have some readers that are always nice enough to show me the way.  I should mention that if you see a spelling, or translation mistake anywhere on this page, I'd be very thankful if you pointed it out.  Not only do I not speak every language on earth, but I'm also bad at spelling and grammar at the best of times.

Click here to read the latest review.

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