Staying fit when eating’s your job
Rosa Here’s a nice puff piece from the NY Times discussing how professional eaters deal with the health and weight ramifications of their jobs. It basically boils down to eat less,…
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Haribo Fruit Salad
I was carded when I bought this bag of Haribo Fruit Salad. Why was I carded for gummi candy? Because I bought it in the specialty foods section of a…
My kind of weight loss program!
Via Chocolate Bytes, a new study finds that facing temptation in the form of chocolate actually helps strengthen one’s resolve to be healthy and lose weight. I guess my giant…
Dagoba Super Fruit
It was bound to happen. I bought and wrote a review for a candy that I’ve already written about: the Dagoba Super Fruit bar. But I’m publishing it anyway, as…
Crunky Nude Ball: The Funniest Named Candy Ever!
Lotte’s Crunky Nude Ball is the most hilariously named of the Korean candies that Nana and Justin sent me. Here’s Nana’s description: “Bought just for the name…Crunky is a Korean…
For fruit’s sake!
Via AdFreak, a cute, if catty, series of webisodes for Cranberry Raisinets. She’s the new girl in town, and the raisins aren’t so sure about her! The first one’s below.…
Korean Red Grape Gummies
More candy goodness from Korea! Nana translated the name of these red gummy grapes into “my gummy,” which I’m guessing is the brand. The gummies inside were soft and gooey,…
Candy Gift Ideas Continued
More candy gift ideas, courtesy of Chow.com, in an extra candy heavy top ten list of mail order treats. I count 3.5/10: Devil in an Apron Organic Caramels, Recchuiti Asphalt…
Lotte Pepero [Korean Candy Review]
Hooray for globetrotting friends! My friends Nana and Justin recently finished up a three-year stint teaching English in Korea (next stop for them: Scotland). Before they left Korea, they were…
Camille Bloch Mousse Caramel and Noisette
More “discontinued” and thus discounted goodness from Wegman’s, this time in the form of two Camille Bloch Mousse chocolate bars, a caramel and a noisette. The two bars are quite…
Camel Milk Chocolate Goes Global!
Al Nassma, the world’s first brand of camel milk chocolates, is poised to make the leap from Dubai to the global stage. I am intrigued. And impressed. Via Serious Eats,…
Chuao Chinita Nibs
I’ve read several reviews of Chuao products since I started candy blogging, and I’ve been wanting to try them for quite a while. Somehow, though, they never came across my…