Candy across the world
Rosa This neat article in Business Week is a nice overview of different candymakers around the world, battling it out for marketshare. An accompanying slide show lists the victors – the…
July 2009
Plan B: Truffle making
A fun NY Times column about trying truffle making as a backup job (scroll down to the final third for the chocolate part). Chocolate + tequila + chili + potato…
Chow Gift Guides – the candy picks
Back around Fathers’ Day, Chow recommended Vosges ice cream and LaLaBoodle’s Dark Chocolate Toffee as good gifts for dad. More candy goodies appear on their Summer Gift Guide: Southern Candymakers…
Cracked out candy commercial
I feel like I could start a new blog category just for weird candy commercials. Via AdFreak, an ad for an Australian candy company that features a terrifyingly ginormous doll…
Can candy boost your athletic prowess?
Via the NY Times Really? column, an explanation of why candy isn’t your best option for pre-workout food. I wonder if heavily nutted candies could work though, as they’re pretty…
Candy Comics
From F-Minus, May 30, 2009: From Natalie Dee, June 24, 2009:
A French near miss
Sadly, it wasn’t until after I got back from Europe that I saw David Lebovitz’s post about a special, limited edition run of French stamps that look and smell like…
Candy Industry Trends Report, 2009
Candy trends are fun and funny. Back in the day, dark chocolate was just a trend, and now it’s pretty much the norm. Recent trends that I can think of…
Summer break, sort of
Hi dear readers, On Monday, I start being a real person. What do I mean by that, exactly? Well, I graduated back in May, spent most of June traveling, and…
Candy through interpretive dance
Via AdFreak, a strange commercial for Cadbury’s Caramilk bar that explains how the bar is made via interpretive dance. Perhaps y’all can make sense of it? I watched it and…
Maoam Happy Chews [Review]
Maoam is a German candy brand that’s been owned by Haribo since the late 1980s. They’re sold under the Maoam name, but the packaging is quite Haribo-esque, and the Haribo…