Candy Review

Cadbury Starbar

2010-07-23T13:19:00.002-04:00

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Originally uploaded by inajeep

Bought in England enjoyed in New Jersey. Wow, this candy bar was wonderful and I am sorry I didn't buy more while over in England.

The Nugat was smooth, not very peanutty but had a wonderful little cookie aftertaste. The chocolate was very good but tended to flake off when eating. Either way since I have a relative going over there in a few weeks I will put in a request for more of these.

Wonka Domed Dark Chocolate peices

2010-06-24T13:27:00.001-04:00

Wonka Domed Dark Chocolate peices
Originally uploaded by inajeep

The new candy is something I have been waiting for ever since the remake of the movie came into the theaters. Using the brand. They are called Exceptional.

The dark chocolate is bitter like it is supposed to be but I don't find these exceptional in any way. Nothing particularly wrong with them either. I don't taste the milk chocolate dome and dark chocolate is not a favorite of mind.

Interesting bag and with the holographic coloring it is difficult to photograph and even hard to read.

The squares are larger than they should be IMO.

I won't be buying these again but will try the others just to see. I still miss the willy wonka bar from my childhood. Oh Scrunch bar would you ever taste as good as you did back then?

Botan Rice Candy

2010-03-16T10:56:00.001-04:00

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Originally uploaded by inajeep

This candy was bought at the Philadelphia Flower show for $2. There was a small asian shop setup outside the show and I wanted to try the rice candy. The film on the inside of the wrapper was edible. The candy itself is chewy and sweet. Not overly sweet and had a slight fruity taste.
It came with a sticker.

vitamingum?

2010-01-26T14:03:00.001-05:00

vitamingum?
Originally uploaded by inajeep

Yes. I tried it and the grape/pomegranate flavor was better than I expected. Not much to report on other than the price with was $3 at 5below. The artificial color was very deep and my teeth looked blue for a while. I don't know what my body absorbed or if it is even worth buying but I may try the other flavors one or twice. The price is a bit of a put off more than anything.

Premiums M&Ms

2009-12-15T11:01:00.002-05:00

premiums M&Ms
Originally uploaded by inajeep

I thought that you couldn't mess up a chocolate + almond candy. I was wrong.

First, the good things. Very pretty package and it sits up nicely. The entire whole almond is crunchy and tastes fresh.

Now for the bad stuff. The chocolate had no flavor. I had to bite one in half to check to see if there was chocolate. The candy covering while pretty does not look like candy and is nothing like the candy shell of a normal M&M. I thought that each piece was wrapped in a protected shell much like the chocolate eggs at easter because a. they didn't look like candy and b. it tasted like and felt consistently like a wrapper. If you ever handled those decorative soaps that had a wax or some type of coating that dissolved in water then you know what these M&Ms felt like. Or, again I have an easter analogy, if you ever got that egg dye kit that had the metallic pearlescent dye, then you know what they look like.

More bad news:
It was $4 for 6 oz.
There is no visible date code so you can tell if they are old or not.
The resealable bag noted on the top is just a normal plastic bag that is not resealable.

This candy was obviously designed by a marketing team because this feels like they started with the look before they even considered how it would taste.

I will not be buying them again. I love the normal almond M&Ms and will stick with them. The only thing premium about these is the packaging and price.

goetzes

2009-10-01T09:38:00.001-04:00

goetzes
Originally uploaded by inajeep

Outside of the funny name these caramels are awesome.

Addictive and I am searching for more after I get up from my desk.

Hello Panda snack

2009-03-02T20:31:00.001-05:00

Hello Panda snack
Originally uploaded by inajeep

Again this snack borders on being a non-candy item. However, they were delicious. The cracker/cookie was light and crisp and the chocolate center was soft and creamy. I will be buying these again.

Chocorooms

2009-02-27T08:16:00.001-05:00

Chocorooms
Originally uploaded by inajeep

More of a snack than a candy but had enough chocolate to classify as a candy for me. They are based out of Japan

The chocolate was fresh as it was in a sealed foil package underneath the cardboard box. It had a slightly bitter but not an over powering chocolate taste. The cap was more substantial than I thought. I would have preferred a less dense cap. The little cookie/cracker part aka the stem had no real flavor and put me in mind of an animal cracker without the flavor. Overall it would be very easy to eat the entire box in one sitting if you weren't paying attention.

I might buy these again.

Peanut Butter Whoppers

2008-11-06T13:26:00.001-05:00

Peanut Butter Whoppers
Originally uploaded by inajeep

Missing the chocolate taste and the peanut butter isn't overwhelming. Overall and nice candy but I would have liked it better half the shell was chocolate and the other half peanut butter. That would have been special.

Sad sad news

2008-09-04T09:49:00.000-04:00

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5689239

ABC News
Chocolate Lovers Pained by Candy Changes
More 'Chocolate' Candy Bars Now Include Vegetable Oils Instead of Pricey Cocoa Butter
By ALICE GOMSTYN
ABC NEWS Business Unit

Sept. 2, 2008—

For years, Sharon Leitner's candy bar of choice was Take 5.

"I liked that it was a combination of different flavors," the Cincinnati resident said. "It was salty and sweet, [with] caramel and peanut butter and chocolate, and it had something for everybody."

But this past spring, Leitner, 24, noticed a change.

"It just didn't taste like it used to," she said. The new taste was "more waxy and artificial."

A look at the bar's wrapper helped Leitner understand why: cocoa butter -- which experts say helps give chocolate its smooth, creamy taste -- wasn't on the candy's ingredients list.

"Then I started noticing that there were all kinds of other products that didn't have cocoa butter," she said.

Changes to the formulations of several candy bars has chocolate lovers like Leitner buzzing -- and not in a good way.

Cybele May, the founder of the candy review Web site Candy Blog, said that in recent years rising cocoa prices have led candy companies like Hershey's -- the maker of Take 5 and the top chocolate-seller in the U.S. -- to replace cocoa butter with cheaper vegetable oils. The ingredients list for Take 5, for instance, now includes "palm, shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil."

"They just ruined that," May said of the Take 5 bar.

Hershey, meanwhile, stands by its products. The company "is committed to making the world's best chocolate," said spokesman Kirk Saville.

The Cocoa Question

While a "handful" of the company's products do include vegetable oils other than cocoa butter, he said, "we continue to make Hershey's, Hershey's Kisses, Reese's peanut butter cups with pure milk chocolate as we have for over a century."

Ingredients for Whatchamacallit bars include palm kernel and soybean oil and may also include sunflower or safflower oil, according to the candy's wrapper.

That defense -- that there are Hershey's products that still contain pure milk chocolate -- isn't enough for Leitner.

"To me, shaving out the cocoa butter in the less-popular products kind of says that if you like Whatchamacallit [candy bars] you're less deserving of quality ingredients than say, someone who likes Reese's cups," she said.

Cocoa Butter

Cocoa butter is fat derived from cocoa beans. Like other commodities, cocoa prices have skyrocketed in recent years. In 2006, one metric ton of African cocoa butter cost less than $4,000. Today, it costs more than $8,100, according to Judy Ganes, the president of J. Ganes Consulting in Katonah, New York.

Ganes, whose company specializes in research on tropical food products, said that a combination of growing global demand for chocolate and problems in cocoa-producing countries -- heavy rains in Indonesia and civil war in the Ivory Coast -- have driven prices to peaks not seen since the 1970s.

"It certainly has hurt manufacturers," Ganes said.

Ingredients: Truth About Food Labels

In the United States, when a so-called chocolate bar doesn't include cocoa butter or includes other oils, it can't actually be labeled chocolate.

"According to the Food and Drug [Administration's] regulations for chocolate, cocoa butter is the required fat for chocolate," said Susan Smith, the spokeswoman for the National Confectioners Association.

Take 5 used to be Sharon Leitner's favorite candy bar. But the Cincinnati resident says that Take 5's current blend of ingredients -- which, according to the candy's pacakaging, includes "palm, shea, sunflower and/or saffron oil" -- doesn't please her taste buds.

In 2006, there was a challenge posed to this standard and to other standards for U.S. food products. The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the trade group representing the food, beverage and consumer products industry, petitioned the FDA to "modernize" its regulations.

GMA spokesman Brian Kennedy said that the goal of the petition was to accommodate innovation in the food industry.

He said that under current regulations, for instance, if food companies make pasta out of a blend of whole wheat flour and white flour, they can't officially call it "pasta."

Made with Chocolate

A blended product, he said, would probably be more palatable to consumers than 100 percent whole wheat pasta. But if the new product isn't called pasta, he said, people won't buy it.

This package of Milk Duds includes the label "made with Chocolate & Caramel." Candy critic Cybele May said that words and phrases such as "made with chocolate," "chocolatey" and "chocolate candy" are sometimes used by candymakers to describe candy that doesn't meet the federal government's standards for chocolate.

"When they want to have pasta, they want to purchase something that actually says pasta," Kennedy said.

But when the GMA petition came to light, it was its implications for chocolate that got attention: An appendix to the petition noted that the changes could allow for manufacturers to use vegetable oils other than cocoa butter to make chocolate.

Both consumers and small chocolatiers decried the proposed changes. In 2007, Mars Inc., the No. 2 chocolate-seller in the U.S. and the maker of M&M's, broke ranks with industry peers and also came out against the petition.

Chocolate Wars

Europe has had its own chocolate wars. In 2000, after years of heated debate, the European Union struck an agreement allowing for chocolate products to contain up to five percent of oils other than cocoa butter.

"Mr. Goodbar is made with chocolate but is not a chocolate bar," candy critic Cybele May said. The ingredients list for the bar does include cocoa butter, but it also includes "palm shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil."

To date, the U.S. petition has gone nowhere.

"FDA will complete the review of this petition in context of the Center's priorities," FDA spokesman Mike Herndon said in an e-mail to ABCNews.com.

'Chocolatey' Goodness?

Meanwhile, May said that candymakers can skirt the regulations for what can be labeled chocolate by emblazoning their wrappers with phrases like "chocolatey," "made with chocolate" and "chocolate candy."

Hershey's Kissables, she said, are one example. May, who blogged about Kissables earlier this month, said that when the candy contained cocoa butter, the candy's wrapper included the phrase "milk chocolate." It's since been replaced with "chocolate candy."

On the back of the Kissables wrapper, the vegetable oils used are listed as "palm, shea, sunflower, and/or safflower oil."

There's a difference between the old Hershey's Kissables wrapper (above, courtesy of www.candyblog.net) and the new one. Candy critic Cybele May says the new wrapper no longer says "milk chocolate" because the candy's formula has changed.

Such combinations of oils and that "and/or" conjunction can be found on other candy wrappers too. It gives candy companies the flexibility to change which ingredients they use when vegetable oil prices fluctuate, said Barry Swanson, spokesperson for Institute of Food Technologists and a professor of food science at Washington State University.

"If one of those fats or oils becomes very expensive, they'll just use less of it," Swanson said.

"I think anytime we're looking at increased costs, you're going to find more, shall we say, creative formulations to try to reduce the cost involved in producing a product," he said.

Cocoa Substitutes

May said that Hershey's isn't the only company that uses substitutes for cocoa butter. Baby Ruth bars by Nestle -- the third-biggest chocolate-seller in the U.S. -- once contained "real chocolate" but haven't had it for a long time, she said.

Ingredients for Baby Ruth Miniatures include cocoa but also hydrogenated palm kernel and coconut oil.

Nestle also recently introduced a Mexican bar in the United States called Carlos V. May said that the Mexican version of the bar was made of chocolate, but the American version is not.

Attempts to reach Nestle's Mexican branch were unsuccessful.

Patricia Bowles, the communications manager of Nestle Confections and Snacks for Nestle's U.S. branch, said that the changes to Baby Ruth's ingredients took place before Nestle purchased the brand in the 1990s.

Overall, she said, economic conditions haven't led Nestle to change the formulas for its products.

"We are not quick to change something that we know our consumers love," she said.

Changing ingredients isn't the only way candymakers and other food producers cope with rising food costs; they can also change the sizes of their products and, most noticeably to consumers, they can raise prices. Both Mars and Hershey announced wholesale price increases earlier this month.

Nestle, which also sells bottled water, frozen meals and other food products, has reported its 2008 profits were bolstered by price increases for its goods.

Copyright © 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures

Chex Mix Select (Chocolate Peanut butter)

2008-05-28T14:00:00.003-04:00

This is not a candy, however with liberal amounts of chocolate you move into a gray area that allows me in good conscience include this in my simple lonely blog.

I just opened this bag to satisfy a small hunger pang at work and realized my hand was going in and out of the bag at a rapid pace and I may have been missing part of a thumb and index finger. The stuff is that good.

whistle candy

2008-01-31T09:54:00.001-05:00

whistle candy
Originally uploaded by inajeep

No ratings for this. I'm gonna abandon my old format because I don't do this enough.

Found at the Korean Market, I don't know what I paid for it but the candy itself is perfect. Not the too sweet or tart candy found in the states. You can actually taste subtle flavor. The whistle part is loud and piercing. You put the candy in your lips like the cartoon and blow in and out. Beware a bit of spit get's build up inside and will eventually start shooting out.

I will be buying this again and again and NOT giving this to my son.

reese's whipps

2007-12-03T16:59:00.001-05:00

reese's whipps
Originally uploaded by inajeep

Name: Reese's Whipps
Company: H.B. Reese Candy Co
Presentation?: Orange wrapper much like the cups.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Chocolate, peanut butter whipped up like Tree Musketeers

Texture? soft

Flavor? Not much of it. Tasted peanut butter as an aftertaste among other things.

Price? $1.00 US

Worth it? For some

Category - Candy Bar

Rating: Won't buy again

Notes: Not much flavor in the peanut butter.

soda pop rocks

2007-10-04T00:59:00.001-04:00

soda pop rocks
Originally uploaded by inajeep

Review Pending.

I think they will be disgusting but the little lunch pail holder is cool.

Mints from Korea

2007-05-24T15:50:00.001-04:00

herb mints
Originally uploaded by inajeep.

I really tried these and while I tried to stay away from mint reviews these were interesting. Bought in Korea they have multi layered ingredients that I can not identify because I can't read Korean. The flavor is memorable and not wholly unpleasant but it's not something you normally find in a mint. It tastes familiar but I could quite place the herb. Kinda like oregano/basil/clove.

grapefruit candy

2007-05-21T15:14:00.001-04:00

grapefruit candy
Originally uploaded by inajeep.

This is hard candy and with the ringing endorsement of "Refreshing in throat" you really can't go wrong.

A review is pending....

peanut buttered roast squid

2007-05-21T15:12:00.001-04:00

peanut buttered roast squid
Originally uploaded by inajeep.

Ummm, I won't review this unless I am really bored, drunk or both. I have it and believe the way the squid is prepared it's good for about 30 years. I just can't bring myself to try it.

Coming Soon....

2007-05-07T10:53:00.000-04:00

Weird candy. I'm getting my studio ready to take some photos of candy that may or may not qualify as candy. Taste tests are at my sole discretion.

Nutty Peanut Butter Bar

2006-12-21T09:42:00.000-05:00

Name: Nutty peanut Butter Bar
Company: Little Debbie / McKee Foods
Presentation?: Plain yellow with white pattern on the background. Green bar. Snack Smart stamp

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Chocolate, peanut butter, rice

Texture? Chewy

Flavor? Not much of it. Tasted peanut butter as an aftertaste among other things.

Price? .80 US - Small

Worth it? No

Category - Candy Bar/Nutrition Bar

Rating: Won't buy again

Notes: The candy bar is mascarading as a health/nutrition based bar. It's does have things like zinc and some other things good for you but the flavor is not something I want to experience again. it's not bad but it's just not good. If I needed a nutrition bar, maybe because it's cheaper than a bunch others out there but that's not my goal in eating a candy bar.

Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar

2006-11-28T09:33:00.000-05:00

Name: Reese's Crispy Cruncy Bar
Company: Reeses's
Presentation?: Typical Reese's wrapper. Heavy on the orange and yellow.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Chocolate, Crispy peanut butter candy, peanuts

Texture? Soft and crunchy.

Flavor? Very Good! A little overly sweet. Lots of peanut butter and peanut flavor.

Price? 1$ US - Larger size so I guess there is a smaller one somewhere.

Worth it? Yes!

Category - Candy Bar

Rating: Will buy again.

Notes: This candy bar is the closest I have had to the infamous Scrunch bars from Wonka. The peanut butter candy is light and crunchy. The opposite of a butterfinger. Since this is a brand new candy it was very fresh.

Candy Scabs?

2006-09-07T11:10:00.000-04:00

http://store.candywarehouse.com/candyscabs.html

I haven't had a chance to buy this yet but I'm gonna buy it. I don't expect the flavor to be really good but it's a funny idea.

Free Dentyne Gum promo!

2006-06-22T08:33:00.000-04:00

Promo Link (http://www.dentyne.com/agecheck.asp)

I dont' know how long it's for but you can choose from Peppermint, Cinnomon or Wintergreen or at least their marketing speak for those flavors. It asks for you Birthday, address(of course) and an email address.

Cookies Reese's

2006-04-20T12:11:00.000-04:00

Name: Cookies Reese's
Company: Hershey
Presentation?: Brown & orange wrapper with a picture of the cookies on the front

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? eBay WrapperCash

Content? Chocolate cookie with Reese's peanut butter on top wrapped chocolate.

Texture? Fresh cookie, not hard. Perfect texture

Flavor? There's a party in my mouth.

Price? US $99

Worth it? Oh Yeah.

Category - Marketed at cookie but is really candy.

Rating: I must have more

Note: There are only 4 cookies and I couldn't wait till the end of this review to finish them. I will have to buy more very soon.

Scrunch Bars by Willy Wonka

2006-04-17T15:22:00.000-04:00

I finally got some hits on google looking for my all time favorite candy bar. More importantly I was able to find the name and verify that it contained peanut butter. Yes, it was so good it survived 20+ years in my brain but not without some damage like I had forgotten the name and ingredients. Still kinda scarce info on it and no photos.

They could have been more like Scrumdelicious Bars but maybe my mind is dredging up info from the movie.

Gertrude Hawk Peanut Butter Fudge

2006-04-11T16:04:00.000-04:00

Name:Gertrude Hawk Peanut Butter Fudge
Company: Gertrude Hawk
Presentation?: Old fashion checkered pattern two color.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Peanut butter fudge.

Texture? Each one I tried was a perfect texture and consistency.

Flavor? Yes! #1 favorite.

Price? Worth it at any price but it's about $3 for a large 4" diameter circle. Puts me in mind of an oversized ReecesPeanut Butter cup.

Worth it? Hell Yeah.

Category - Fudge

Rating: Will sell own mother to get some.

Note: This is my all time favorite. I've had other store bought peanut butter fudge but this one always is fresh and tastes fantastic. It's not overly sweet and I usually have to pace myself from gobbling the entire portion down. I'm just glad they don't sell it in large blocks of it or I'd experience serious financial and medical problems

Cocoa Pete's Maltimus Maximus

2006-02-23T09:58:00.000-05:00

Name: Maltimus Maximus
Company: Cocoa Pete's
Presentation?: Cardboard rectangle box with a tanish color with a easy open tear off portion. Not cheap looking or feel.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Malt and milk chocolate

Texture? Good and malty.

Flavor? Good!

Price? 3.20$ US - Expensive! I got ripped.

Worth it? Yes! but only as a treat.

Category - Bite size round nuggets.

Rating: I must have more.

Notes: I ate them too quickly and I want more. I bought them from a Deli in Portland, Oregon that specializes in good food and beer. Interestinginly, this candy treat was created by the maker of Pete's Wicked Ale. I'm a bigger fan of Malted Milk Balls because there is less chocolate.

Cocoa Pete's Nuts So Serious

2006-02-23T09:52:00.000-05:00

Name: Nuts So Serious
Company: Cocoa Pete's
Presentation?: Cardboard rectangle box with a pistacio greenish color with a easy open tear off portion. Not cheap looking or feel.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content?Hazelnut butter, pistachio and chocolate

Texture? Great, nutty.

Flavor? Very Very Good!

Price? 3.20$ US - Expensive!

Worth it? Yes! but only as a treat.

Category - Bite size round nuggets.

Rating: I must have more.

Notes: I ate them too quickly and I want more. I bought them from a Deli in Portland, Oregon that specializes in good food and beer. Interestinginly, this candy treat was created by the maker of Pete's Wicked Ale.

Cadbury's Snack Shortcake

2006-02-23T09:43:00.000-05:00

Name: Snack Shortcake
Company: Cadbury
Presentation?: Yellow wrapper, eye catching but nothing special.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? N/A

Content? Shortcake covered in chocolate

Texture? The chocolate was fresh as well as the shortcake.

Flavor? Good to very good.

Price? No price. Bought from Belmont Station in Portland Oregon. Specializes in UK candy products and lots and lots of beers!

Worth it? Yes

Category - Candy bar

Rating: Yum.

Note: Great texture and easier to eat then a packet of Keeblar's version which is sold as a cookie.

Hershey's Kissables

2006-01-18T10:17:00.000-05:00

Name: Hershey's Kissables
Company: Hershey
Presentation?: Silver soft package. Very colorful candy. Red, Yellow, Orange, blue. Shapped like little pyramids or Kisses. The candy itself looks a little mishappen. They would really work in cookies.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? What make this candy special? Chocolate and a thin candy coating

Texture? Nice, not a hard stale choclate and the candy coating isn't thick enough to be annoying when crunched.

Flavor? Good chocolate. Standard from Hershey.

Price? US currency .80 from a candy machine at work.

Worth it? Yeah or Nah

Category - Loose.

Rating: Good. Will buy again under the right circumstances.

Notes: Candy coated milk chocolate much like a plain M&M. I perfer M&M peanuts I wouldn't buy these instead of M&Ms. I have to say that the texture and a little nicer than M&Ms and I would buy them instead of plain M&Ms to go with Popcorn.

Jaw Buster

2005-06-02T10:21:00.000-04:00

by Ferra Pan -
Jaw breaker of multiple colors. Sold individually. No sour tart in the middle like most others.

Ferrero Rocher - Fine Hazelnut Chocolates

2005-05-31T10:28:00.000-04:00

Little golden foil wrapped orbs of chocolately goodness. mmmmmm

Name: Ferrero Rocher
Company: Rocher

They are located in Sumerset, NJ !!!
Presentation: Round golden tin wrapped balls.

Content? What make this candy special? Hazelnut in the center surrounded by a very fine smooth chocolate.

Texture: Wonderful, the crispy thin shell of chocolate with finely chopped nuts mixed in crunches easily. The hazel nut is not hard on the teeth.

Flavor? Excellent!

Price: $99 for 3 but during the holidays they sell them in larger numbers and different configurations (pyramids, boxes, etc)

Worth it? Yes, my absolute favorite candy.

Category - One bite but some with a more refined sense might use 2 bites.

Rating: I must have more.

Reeses's Peanut Butter Lovers

2005-05-23T13:23:00.000-04:00

Will be reviewing this candy shortly.

Hershey, PA H.B. Reese Candy Co.
Peanut Butter colored wrapper.
Limited Edition
Taste, Vote and Win. Never tells you what you win except at the very end of the details on the back of the wrapper. Trip to hershey, Pa or a t-shirt.

Chew-ets Peanut Chews

2005-05-06T12:43:00.000-04:00

Name: Chew-ets Peanut Chews
Company: Just Born. Inc - Previously from GoldenBergs
Presentation?: Wrapper is red but not brightly so. Peanut Chews name is yellow and orange faded letters. I give it a middle of the road rating. Nothing memorable

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? No.

Content? Peanuts, dark chocolate, nougat,

Texture? Chewy and more chewy

Flavor? Brings back memories of eating them. Still hurts my teeth too. Dark chocolate cuts the sweetness.

Price? US .60 from store.

Worth it? Yeah

Category - 5 peices of rectangled bite sized Candy bar like goodness

Rating: I must have more.

Notes: This is a nostalga candy for me Carmel/nuget like substance with peanuts wrapped in a dark chocolate. There is plenty of sugar but you don't get an overly sweet feeling from it. My mom used to bring them home when I was a little kid. The candy is made in Pennsylvania and I Goldbergs was bought by a rival Just Born Inc who makes marshmellow peeps, Mike & Ikes and Hot Tomalies. I don't see this candy at all much outside of the area but now it's a new company, who knows. The competive version of this product wasn't as hard and was milk chocolate. I'm glad they went w/ the old receipie.

TAKE5

2005-01-13T08:47:00.000-05:00

Name: Take 5
Company: Hershey's
Presentation?: Red wraper w/ title in gold and white. Nice and professional but a little subdued. It put me in mind of the 100,000 grand bar wrapper.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? Pretzels, Carmel, peanuts, peanut butter, milk chocolate

Texture? Great flavor, pretzel is fresh and crunchy w/out being too hard. It's not tough to chew and the flavors are disernable.

Flavor? MMMMMM

Price? .99 US

Worth it? Yes!

Category - Candy bar

Rating: I must have more.

Notes: This is a keeper. It comes in two smaller bars. I finally found a new candy bar worth buying. It's light and easy to eat (unlike a full-size snickers) and it contains the right amount of ingredients. I'd buy this over most other candy bars.

Giant Smarties

2004-12-29T09:52:00.000-05:00

My neice gave me a huge roll of smarties. They are the size of a quarter and thick as 3 quarters stacked. That's a big smartie.

Giant Smarties

Name: Smarties (Giant)
Company: CE DE Candy - Union, NJ USA
Presentation?: Does the candy wrapper/container look good enough to eat? No, it is wrapped in a clear plastic wrapper twisted at both ends

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? n/a

Content? What make this candy special? vintage candy it's esentially sugar, chalk and food coloring. Not as sweet as the smaller version and harder to eat.

Texture? Hard and cruncy like a really old Tums tablet.

Flavor? What I imagine colored chalk should taste like.

Price? US currency? From online source $ 22.15 for Count: 36

Worth it? If you are older than 25 you'll really like this candy. I like the Novelty of the candy but after you eat it your satisfied and don't really crave more.

Category - hard candy

Rating: Not bad

Gummi Eye Ball

2004-10-28T16:30:00.000-04:00

Gah, discusting.

Taste like a fruity shampoo.

Reeses's Peanut Butter Cup - Extra Smooth & Creamy

2004-10-28T16:21:00.000-04:00

Name: Reeses's Peanut Butter Cup - Extra Smooth & Creamy

Company:H.B. Reese Candy Co. / Hersey

Contact: 1-800-468-1714 (9-4 EST weekdays)

Presentation: Wrapper seems a bit old fashion. Tan air brushed background with logo and a picture of a bitten cup.

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes: None : (

Content:peanut butter covered in chocolate
What make this candy special? "Limited Edition" was printed in the upper left corner. Marketing lie or not? Extra Smooth and creamy. It was. More like a fresh batch or small chocolate store.

Texture: smooth and creamy.

Price?:US currency .75 US.

Location of purchase: Vending machine at work - ~Atlantic City, New Jersey

Worth it? Yes

Category - Candy bar

Rating: Yum
Out of (Will sell own mother to get some, I must have more, Yum, Not bad, Hmmm? ,spit it out, send angry complaint letter, burn the wrapper and eat the remnants to remove taste)

Notes: I might buy this again but there are so many variations and other companies that make this type of product that I won't go out of my way to purchase this specific version.

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2004-10-28T16:18:00.000-04:00

Name:
Company:
Presentation?: Does the candy wrapper/container look good enough to eat?

Prize/Give Away/ Sweepstakes? Is there a prize in you cracker jacks.

Content? What make this candy special? Sugar content, nuts, chocolate, nougat, jellied something or other?

Texture? Does it explode in your mouth in an flavor sensation or does it lie there like a 15 year old hound dog with a breathing problem.

Flavor? MMMMMM or Blah

Price? US currency?

Worth it? Yeah or Nah

Category - Candy bar, hard candy, chewy candy, gum, one bite, two bites, three bites... etc

Rating: Will sell own mother to get some, I must have more, Yum, Not bad, Hmmm? ,spit it out, send angry complaint letter, burn the wrapper and eat the remnants to remove taste.

Introduction

2004-08-26T14:40:00.000-04:00

This blog is a candy review blog. That simple. I like candy. I wish to share my views and others eventually on the subject.

I had planned on a web site but this might be easier to start. My goals were to create an area/place that would be:

a. be interesting to me and others
b. something I enjoy doing
c. able support itself (maybe)

2 or 3 years ago I shared this idea with one other - I thought we would put together a web site but it never happened. I won't put this person's name on the site. But since I'm honest I will contact this person if the site starts. I will start with this blog to see if I can generate any interest and build a web site either after or in parallel depending on my time.

First order of fun:

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