Another animated short
Rosa Here’s another fun candy-related animated short, this time about a pinata being persecuted at a party.
Rosa
Qra Qra – Lemon
You can probably guess that today’s review is not of an American candy. American companies may give their products weird names to make them memorable, but they’d never go for…
Santander Tropical Fruit Bits
When I first moved to Rochester, I found it a bit odd that everyone talked about how great Wegman’s was. Really, Rochester? The coolest thing about you is a grocery…
Awesome animated short
Via Candy Addict, an awesome and beautifully done animated short about a boy who finds himself in a land where everything is made of candy (kind of like that Simpsons…
Gummi Jelly
I bought these Gummi Jellys (Jellies?) in Spain, but I’m 90% sure that I also saw them in France. Though the gummi part of the name conjures up thoughts of…
Oops!
Apparently my blog turned 2 last Sunday (August 2nd). Oops! A belated happy birthday to the blog! While we’re doing a random, unscheduled post, here’s a reminder to enter my…
Candy Creativity
I love making gingerbread houses because you get to get all creative with candy as decoration. Via Serious Eats, check out this sweet show of candy creativity: In case you…
Sunbursts
My first run-in with chocolate-covered sunflower seeds was when my mother brought home several little logo-ed packs that she’d gotten at some booth at a job fair. The two of…
Cranberry Raisinets
Nestle’s Cranberry Raisinets have been making the rounds in the candy review blogosphere lately (check out Candy Blog and Candy Addict). A PR rep sent me some free samples, three…
A Chocolate Lunch for Julie & Julia
Just the first sentence of this post from the Kitchn blog made me want to cry with jealousy: “I went to a blogger’s chocolate lunch on Monday with Scharffen Berger…
Choco Roll Taro
One of my dad’s specialty, cranks-it-out-for-dinner-parties dishes is taro root with chicken. He poaches chicken, uses the resulting stock to cook sliced taro root for hours until it’s buttery and…
Weird candy commercial with a twist
Here’s another weird commercial, only this time, the commercial isn’t actually for candy. Via Candy Dish Blog.