Candy In The Media - Upclose With Gummy Bears

This pull away shot of Gummy Bears (starts at around 0:42) is beautiful.

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New Candy Critic Shirt!!!

Candy Critic Chris By Tom Yeo T-Shirt
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Check out this great design by my friend Tom Yeo. Makes me wish I could eat a giant chocolate bar right now.

You can check out some of our other t-shirts here.

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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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Posting A New Review This Morning, And It's Not Exciting... Not The Review Just The Candy - Eesti Vabariik 100

I've said this a million times on this site, and it keeps coming up again and again, boring candy is the worst to review. The thing that makes boring candy tough to review is that I don't really have anything great or anything horrible to say about it. Most boring candy is candy that I would certainly recommend if you're looking for something to fill that sweet tooth craving. The fact that it's not horrible (and often not even that bad) is the perfect reason to eat it. The problem is I have to fill these review with words, and if "it's just milk chocolate" than I only have four words to my review at that point.

Click here to read the other words we used to describe a simple milk chocolate bar.

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Candy In The Media - Rainbow Jello Awesomeness

I can't tell you how great it is to see these guys cut through the Jello with a tennis racquet.

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Watch Us Make Japanese Candy... With Commentary

All this week we're posting reviews of Japanese DIY candies, and I bet you're wondering how easy (or difficult) they were to make. Well have I got a surprise for you, we filmed the entire process, and to make it even more entertaining we have commentary as well.

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We Have A Japanese Do It Yourself Candy Review-A-Thon Happneing All Week Starting With - Popin' Cookin' "Sushi"

Allison and I picked up a few Japanese DIY candy kits on our recent trip to Japan, and we decided to carve out an afternoon and make them all. Each one was really fun to build and we had all kinds of surprises along the way. This week we're going to document our adventure with a review-a-thon and a really long video.  We're starting the review-a-thon with probably my favourite of the three kits, the Popin' Cookin' sushi set.

Click here to find out what I thought about this kit.

The video featuring us making all of these kits with a fun voice over commentary will be going up later this week (unless you're on Patreon in which case it'll be going up later today). You can keep an eye open on this blog or subscribe to our YouTube channel to find out when it's online.

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Candy In The Media - The Engineering Of A Gumball Machine

If you think about it, gumball machines are the practice grounds for safe crackers. I imagine that every safe cracker in the world would rip off gumball machines when they were kids.

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It's Time For A Look At This And Last Month In Candy, Also A Review - Toffifee

To start off this week we're posting a review of a candy that likely could have been our Christmas review, but I feel it fits better being a post Christmas review, Toffifee. If you ask Allison it's the one treat that I always love to eat around Christmas time. She's nice enough to make sure we have a box every year as well. It's strange that I haven't written a review up until now, but better late than never.

You can click here to check out this new review.



We're also re-starting our video series, Chris's Monday Morning Breakfast Thoughts as a monthly show. We've decided that  it works much better as a monthly show and we'll be posting it on the first Monday of every month.  You can always find the new episode posted here on this blog, but you can subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the videos as soon as we finish them.

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Candy In The Media - It's Like Pulling Taffy

Marisa Wu is a really fascinating person with a really great business. Next time I'm in New York, I think I might try and get some of here Salt Water Taffy.

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It's The Last Review of 2018, And We Have A Bonus To Go With It - Strawberry Milk Candy

It's been a pretty strange year in the junk food and candy world. Straws became public enemy number 1, and food became more political than ever. We got to travel a whole lot, and exspirience treats from places like Finland, Kenya, and Japan (just to name a few). We also started to build up our YouTube channel, something we hope to continue to do in the coming years. It's been a fun road in 2018 and we thought we'd end it with a candy we picked up in Japan that might seem simple, but has a really great package.

Click here to read our last review of 2018.



The package is so great that we made a little video showing off how cool it was.

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Thanks for following us and reading our reviews all throughout the year. We're going to keep going into 2019 and hopefully for many years to come.

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Candy In The Media - Making Cake Sprinkles

What better way to celebrate a new year than with a birthday cake covered in sprinkles.

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Merry Christmas

Hey everybody, I just wanted to say happy holidays, merry (or happy) Christmas, happy Hanukah, happy Kwanzaa, and enjoy your Festivus. I've always seen this time of year as a time to get together with friends and family, and a time to eat really great food. So I hope you're eating the food that makes you happy and comfortable, and I hope you're eating it with people that make you happy and comfortable as well.

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It's A Very Special Christmas Edition Of Junk Fud On The Road - Tokyo Disney Resort

In this episode Allison and Chris talk about their trip to Tokyo Disney Resort during the holiday season.

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Candy In The Media - Christmas Edition

I hate it when commercials use Santa as a way to promote healthier eating. I also don't like it when candy companies try to sell themselves as a healthy choice. I like candy and I like Santa, but I know that neither one of them is healthy by any standards.

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Unusual Candy For Your Tree - Bacon Candy Canes

It would be very un-Canadian of me to put these candy canes down. After all, bacon is our national meat... or it should be... if we have a national meat. I think the bacon flavour could work in candy cane form, particularly if the sweet is a nice maple flavour. Then I can hoist my Canadian flag up and celebrate Christmas properly. The great thing about this candy cane is that the best way to eat these is on Christmas morning with your pancakes.

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Unusual Candy For Your Tree - Krampus Candy Canes

Of all the candy canes we're featuring this month, this is the one I'm most afraid of. It says that it's cinnamon, however I assume that it's blazing hot cinnamon. If it's not super spicy then I don't really get the theme of this treat at all. The best way to eat this candy cane is with some cold milk.

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It's Time For A Review... From Someplace Really Cold... Maybe It's Not Such A Good Idea - Sirius Rjomasukkuladi

I'm feeling a little down lately. I've got the Christmas blues attached to a little home sickness. I'm a big fan of Canada at this time of the year. I like the decorations, I like the snow (as long as I don't have to shovel it), and I like the holiday treats. I'm not in Canada so I miss not having it all around. Yesterday however Allison and I baked cookies, went to a Christmas concert, and also visited a Christmas market, and it helped.

I thought it might also help even more to have a chocolate bar from a place where it's really cold right now. Turns out that didn't help very much at all. I am looking forward to the review we're posting on Thursday because it's really filled with Christmas cheer. So here's hoping I get that last jolt of cheer before the holiday's start up in full.

Click here to read today's review from someplace really cold (Iceland).

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Candy In The Media - Christmas Edition

This is one of the most clever looks at the existence of Santa Clause, or the M&M guys.

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Unusual Candy For Your Tree - Gravy Candy Canes

I think of all the strange candy canes we're featuring this month, this one is the most useful. I think on its own it's probably not going to taste great, but like the macaroni candy cane, dipping this one into your mashed potatoes might be a fun treat. If you want to go one step further, suck one end into a spike, skewer your turkey onto the candy cane, and dip it in your mashed potatoes. It will completely eliminate the need for utensils and make cleanup a breeze.

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