I Don't Understand Candy Making

According to this commercial, in order to put an almond into a Hershey's Kiss, the predatory regular Hershey's Kiss must stalk his almond prey.

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All The Facts You Want With Snack Facts!

Well it's all over, Snack Facts has finished it's 12 (plus one) issue run and now it's all available to you right now!

Join Sir Francis Sweetums as he and his compatriot Barbara (a sugar glider) discover all the fun facts about snacks. You can learn about gum, potato chips, holiday treats and even more. Each issue is available individually for only 50 cents, or you can get the entire collection 13 issues for 5 bucks.

Have a snacking adventure and learn something by picking up Snack Facts here.

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A New Episode Of Junk Fud on the Road All About Bulk Barn

For this special episode of Junk Fud on the Road, Allison and Chris talk about their favourite stop before any road trip Bulk Barn.

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Digitize Your Gummy Bears

Pixelated Gummy Bears T-Shirt
by candycritic

The only way to enjoy your favourite candy is at low resolution.

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A Hand Full of Something Missing

One of the things I will never understand about the candy business is flavoured chocolate. Some might even argue that flavoured chocolate is not really chocolate. This argument comes about from the fact that most flavoured chocolates are white chocolate with some kind of flavour added, and many people believer that white chocolate is not chocolate. I'm very divided on the subject of white chocolate being chocolate, but when you add a weird flavour to the chocolate my division pulls a little more towards the idea that it's not. While I don't always understand why companies use flavoured chocolates, I don't always hate them. I just keep wishing that instead of making a chocolate taste like something else, why not use chocolate to accent an amazing flavour.

Click here for an example of why I don't like flavoured chocolate.

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Also be sure to check out my micro comic called Snack Facts to learn a little more about snacking history and science.

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Reese Predicts The Future

In the future, robots will eat peanut butter.

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13 Issues Of Snack Facts!

Well it's all over, Snack Facts has finished it's 12 (plus one) issue run and now it's all available to you right now!

Join Sir Francis Sweetums as he and his compatriot Barbara (a sugar glider) discover all the fun facts about snacks. You can learn about gum, potato chips, holiday treats and even more. Each issue is available individually for only 50 cents, or you can get the entire collection 13 issues for 5 bucks.

Have a snacking adventure and learn something by picking up Snack Facts here.

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Who Doesn't Like Bubble Gum?

Gorilla Gum T-Shirt
by candycritic

Even gorillas like to chew a little bit.

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It Depends Where You Are

One of the questions I get from people about doing a website where I review candy is, "Won't you run out of candies to review?". There's an assumption that everything we see on our grocery store shelves is all the candies available in the entire world. This week's review reminded me that even when you have the "same candy" it's not always exactly the same. There are plenty of candies to taste, and even those classic candies might not be the same from place to place. So don't worry, I don't see myself running out of candies to review anytime soon.

Click here to find out if M&Ms are the same everywhere.

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I Feel Dirty

I feel like the slide when the peanut is jumping into the pool is kind of X-rated.

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Get The Snack Facts Bundle!

Well it's all over, Snack Facts has finished it's 12 (plus one) issue run and now it's all available to you right now!

Join Sir Francis Sweetums as he and his compatriot Barbara (a sugar glider) discover all the fun facts about snacks. You can learn about gum, potato chips, holiday treats and even more. Each issue is available individually for only 50 cents, or you can get the entire collection 13 issues for 5 bucks.

Have a snacking adventure and learn something by picking up Snack Facts here.

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It's Time To Look Back At A Couple of Classic Candies

Normally for In Hindsight I re-taste a candy I reviewed a while back and see if I still think it's the same. Today I've decided to not only taste a couple of classic candies I've already reviewed, but also compare them to each other to find out which one is better.

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I'm Not Pulling Your Ear

Twisty Taffy T-Shirt
by candycritic

I might be pulling your leg... or your taffy.

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Candy Themes I Don't Understand

It's not very often that I get a candy that has a complete back story that I don't know at all. It most often happens when it's a candy from a place I've never lived, like this week's review. There's something made by Haribo Germany called Maoam. I don't know what that words means and I don't understand the candy. I still enjoy the candy for the most part, but I never really know what to expect. There are a few western candy campaigns that I don't get, most notably the Twix pick a side campaign. I feel like I'm missing something in this campaign because I just don't get it.

Click here to read about these Maoam candies and tell me if you understand it.

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Why not check out my now finished mini comic series called Snack Facts as well.

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The M&Ms Dream

When I was a kid, I really wished that this is was how M&Ms were made. Now I wish it even more.

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It's Time To Facts All The Snacks

Well it's all over, Snack Facts has finished it's 12 (plus one) issue run and now it's all available to you right now!

Join Sir Francis Sweetums as he and his compatriot Barbara (a sugar glider) discover all the fun facts about snacks. You can learn about gum, potato chips, holiday treats and even more. Each issue is available individually for only 50 cents, or you can get the entire collection 13 issues for 5 bucks.

Have a snacking adventure and learn something by picking up Snack Facts here.

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Crunch Into Some Fashion

Crunchy Potato Chips T-Shirt
by candycritic

I think a lot about potato chips, it's nice to have a t-shirt that explains what's on my mind.

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A Cup Full Of Chips

I feel like the trend of sweet and savoury is starting to become completely normal. When I was a kid the idea of mixing sweet and savoury was something totally new. There were only a few salty snacks that you would see in a sweet form, and almost every time you'd see them the salt would be removed. Things like popcorn and peanuts would be in both, but you'd almost never find salty popcorn or salted peanuts with anything sweet. I feel like chocolate covered pretzels and potato chips were the first to cross over. Then, as people got used to it, these treats became less special and more mainstream. Today I feel like there's enough sweet and salty treats out there that I should dedicate and entire section of candycritic.org to this combination of flavours.

Click here to read my latest sweet and salty review.

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Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

If I ever plummet to my death, I hope I too reflect on Rolos.

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Get All Of The Snack Facts

Well it's all over, Snack Facts has finished it's 12 (plus one) issue run and now it's all available to you right now!

Join Sir Francis Sweetums as he and his compatriot Barbara (a sugar glider) discover all the fun facts about snacks. You can learn about gum, potato chips, holiday treats and even more. Each issue is available individually for only 50 cents, or you can get the entire collection 13 issues for 5 bucks.

Have a snacking adventure and learn something by picking up Snack Facts here.

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