Today is the day that someone somewhere invented Coca-Cola. I’ll be honest I don’t really have much information on it’s past or anything but I do know a classic treat when I see one.
Sure it’s a drink and not candy, but it’s a great drink to wash your candy down with and that’s good enough for me. So happy birthday Coke!
With Easter bearing down on us like nothing else I’ve decided to give you guys a whole line up of Easter reviews. I started with these two egg treats (last weeks and this weeks reviews), and then I’m heading for what could be the silliest Easter treat ever.
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Recently while visiting my dad he handed me a very unusual gift. He handed me a bag of M&Ms and told me it was a collector’s item. I couldn’t figure it out but then he explained it.
It would appear that M&Ms are no longer called plain. Instead they now call them “Milk Chocolate”. I never noticed this, and I can’t figure out why they’d change it.
I probably should have told you sooner so you could have bought some grapes and let them dry out in the sun. But hey you could always go the simple way and buy a box already dried. Either way go out and cover them with chocolate, or buy them pre-covered, really it all depends how much time you have in your day.
So go find a potato and dip it in something creamy, green, or filled with beans.
Normally I start every update day with a big hurray and I’m all excited but to be honest today I’m just really, really tired and sore. I had a late night of comedy fun last night and today was all about the updates and trying to figure out how to wake up. All this said we’re starting to head into Easter mode with our first of 3 Easter treats. I’ll post more about the upcoming season later for now I’m going to go snuggle up in bed and watch some cartoons and eat some candy.
This has got to be the best name of any kind of snack store ever. It’s not particularly creative but it’s really fun to say.
I love when normal products get the super crazy extreme treatment. You end up with silly slogans like this.
I was in the US and I must say that you guys are really good at keeping secrets. If you ask just about anybody in the world what a snicker doodle is they’ll have no idea that they’re missing out on an awesome cookie.
So as you may or may not know I had a really bad experience with root beer as a kid. It involved drinking a can of root beer that was older than sand. Over the last few years I’ve decided to try and get over this experience and start enjoying root beer again. I order it from time to time even if I don’t really want it. So far the plan has worked really well.
I recently decided to even go out on a limb and try a small time root beer out. It was great. This stuff’s nice and smooth, not too strong, just perfect. I think I may be changing my root beer fear into a love for the stuff.
I just got off a Delta flight and I was happy to note that not only are the peanuts back on flights but now there’s choice in your snacks. I personally recommend the cookie.I love the fact that the guy is wearing the same outfit several years later. Makes me wish I had some of my childhood clothing.
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Well here it is, another update day, a day late. I’m starting to think that Wednesday might not be the best day to do updates; I have to think about it. Well hopefully a box full of chocolate covered fruity goodness will make up for the delay. These are a Canadian classic treat and I dare you to tell anybody from the East coast that they’re not spectacular.
Time to fry up some potatoes and munch, munch, munch. I’ve always had a yen for salt and vinegar chips myself, but any flavour, even plain, is all right with me. Due to the potato chip day festivities, as well as a slight spat of food poisoning, updated day will be tomorrow instead.These commercials are kind of funny and they made me smile. They also introduced me to a bar called 'Japp', gotta find one of these.
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I’m eating peeps today, but not just regular peeps…
These are no sugar added peeps.
What I want to know is if they’re not a little bird shaped gelatinous balls of sugar covered by sugar, what are they?
This weeks review has a little history to it. After many e-mails from Candy fanatics I’ve finally done the Jelly Belly review. My biggest problem with doing a Jelly Belly review has always been choosing the flavour to review.
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I just celebrated my birthday yesterday at a great buffet and man did I ever fill up.
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I’m in a good mood, and not just because it’s update day, but that is pretty much the most important thing that could possibly happen in the world so I’ll rank it pretty high. To add to the update day happiness we get to review something great. Well it’s European and it’s a Kit Kat, it’s also a variant but two out of three isn’t bad. At least this one’s a little creative.
Today is also the day we added the finished “What does Reese go good with” article. Got a pouch of cups and looking for a fun way to eat them, then stop reading this and check it out.
I’ve decided that I’m going to open comments all of my BLOGs from here on in. I’ll try it out as an experiment. I’m also going to try and be more attentive to the comments and say things to people when they visit. Please keep in mind that I’m a little socially awkward so it might come out a little strange.
Thank you
The Management.
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Today in history is an important one, for today the first Tootsie Roll… well it rolled off the assembly line. Chewy, chocolaty, a work out for both the senses but more importantly for the jaw today is a day to bite into a Tootsie Roll with pride.
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It may appear that update day is once again late but that’s not true at all. In fact update day was right on time, this BLOG update on the other hand is very late. The good news is it’s here and all is well, the better news is this week we look at a sort of new, but kind of classic gum. It’s been a bit since we’ve had a gum review online and this may be our first minty gum review yet, but I’d have to check to be sure.
Also today we posted the link to the great new Candy Map. It only has a few places marked on it so far but I’m pretty sure it’ll fill up fast. If you happen to own or know of a candy sight that should be added let us know.
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Today is a great day, for today we can celebrate two great events that shape candy. A day to look at two reasons why I stuff myself with sweet treats and smile.
First of all today is National Chocolate Mint Day. Eating chocolate and convincing yourself that you’re freshening up your breath at the same time. It’s wonderful. I do however always wonder how they came up with this strange combination.
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I don’t really have any gumdrops to eat today, so I’m a little sad.
But I do have gumdrops on my phone so I’ll make some calls and pretend I’m eating them.
Do you feel the love, do you? Well I do, I can feel so much love that it’s starting to clot my heart and… Just kidding, that’s no love, that’s just too many deep fried mars bars. Well today we give you a little more love with our review. Little hearts with nice messages on them, all that with a bear and pig hugging on the box. It’s a beautiful day my friends.
Now go give something sweet to someone that is a little sweet.
Sorry I haven’t been updating lately but I have a new and fun idea in the works. See people always ask me where they can get all kinds of great treats, or where I get some of my treats. Sometimes people want to know where they’re made. Well I’ve decided to work on a google maps mashup and list all the candy places I find. I’ll post a link to it once I’ve got it started and I assure you the list will grow.
It has also come to my attention that many of you reading this BLOG do not know that this BLOG is only an accompaniment to a big fun crazy for the whole family site called Candy Critic. If you’ve been enjoying any of this site check out the rest it’s well worth it.I figured since the Super Bowl spots are all the rage right now I might pick out my favourite one and post it. It’s not really a candy ad exactly but it completely threw me off when I saw it.
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Well it’s a cold one but it’s here. Update day to me means something special, mostly that I’ll be working my brains out updating everything and trying to finish things that I put off. Having said that this weeks review is one I’ve been waiting to put up for a while. It’s been a bit since I’ve put up a salty review so here you go.
Also this week you can check out what to get that special someone for Valentines Day. We polled our members, and some special friends to find out what the best sweet treat they’d want on this day of love.
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For those that have never tried Frozen Maple Taffy on a stick you really must give it a go. I’m not sure what’s in it but there’s a great process of pouring hot stuff on snow and then eating the snow… When I put it that way it sounds a lot less tempting than it is, trust me.
So while walking aisle of my grocery store I came across a fun new way to eat my Reese Peanut Butter… Well anything really. It also gave me an excuse to eat more candy for breakfast. This day was looking up for me.
I decided to make these fine little puffs part of this balanced breakfast. I should mention that this breakfast is in fact not really that balanced, but I just wanted to say that.
So what’s the verdict, how are these sweet little puffs of chocolate and peanut butter? Surprisingly tasty. In fact they’re not bad at all, I have to be honest I was expecting to have to force down more than two spoonfuls but I managed the whole bowl with little to no discomfort. The best way to describe them is that they’re like corn pops with a chocolate/peanut butter twist. Yummy!Sometimes you can see when something is going wrong, something leaves our lives and although it returns it is never the same. This was the end of Cookie Monster, as we knew him.
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I’m working on an article for Candy Critic that’s all about what goes well with Hershey’s cups (Candy of the Month Club members can see the work in progress). I’ve managed a whole bunch so far but I’m stuck with 4 left and no ideas.
So if you have any ideas let me know on the forum or just e-mail me.
I can’t explain it but all I can tell you is that big things are a foot for this Candy Critic. So big that it caused the wonderful thing we like to call update day to go one day behind. Either way we have a fine new treat in the ring today, cool and chocolaty. I gotta go make dinner now.
