When the folks at Gumball asked me to review some free gumballs and a gumball machine, I thought, “Why not?” I can’t remember the last time I actually had a gumball, but I do remember wishing my parents would buy me one when I was a kid. For the record, my tiger parents never did… Dubble…
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Huevitos
Huevitos was another Ricolino’s candy that I picked up at a local Hispanic grocery. They were touted as new, though Cybele said she had them last year. The packaged?described them as “candy coated chocolate flavor eggs.”?”Chocolate flavor” is a marketing/packaging red flag. It means that there’s no actual cocoa butter inside. These looked nice, like…
Endangered Species Organic Health – Dark Chocolate with Goji Berry, Pecans, and Maca
This Spider Monkey Endangered Species bar was part of their Organic Health line. I think the “health” part means that they’re full of those trendy superfruits and things of dubious actual health benefit. The bar was Dark Chocolate with Goji Berry, Pecans, & Maca. Maca?seems to fall pretty squarely in that trendy health claims category….
World Market – 72% Dark, Pomegranate Dark, and Chipotle Chili Dark
Today I’m wrapping up my coverage of Cost Plus World Market’s store brand chocolates with three of their mini squares. You can check out earlier entries on Monday and Wednesday. 72% Dark Chocolate was a plain, solid square. Instead of looking like a smaller segment of the larger bars with the World Market logo imprint,…
World Market Toffee Caramel Milk Chocolate
I’m working my way through Cost Plus World Market’s store brand of chocolate. Monday, I reviewed the Strawberry and Champagne Dark Chocolate. Today, we’ve got the Toffee Caramel Milk Chocolate. I was curious as to exactly what World Market meant by toffee caramel. Generally speaking, your basic combination of sugar and butter is either toffee…
Guest post: ChocoTense Saturn
Today we’ve got a guest post from my favorite in-the-Netherlands ex-pat, Neil! ~Rosa Greetings again from the soggy Netherlands, dear ZOMG, Candy! readers. Today’s post is about a 150 gram bar I found at a local discount store, Wibra. Wibra is good for generic 1 Euro utensils, deeply discounted name brand toiletries, socks, and an odd…
Hissee Fit Snake Spray – Cherry Chase
This Hissee Fit Snake Spray?came, along with a bunch of other candies, as a free sample from the National Confectioners Association. It is definitely not something that I would have picked up on my own. Spray/liquid candy is a weird genre. It was basically a tube of liquid candy with a little squirting nozzle attachment…
ISS Oh Yeah! Bar
I got this Oh Yeah! bar sample at Duke Recreation’s open house. Gotta love well punctuated food brands! The wrapper promised chocolate, caramel, and peanuts. Two of the three were readily visible upon unwrapping the bar; it was completely covered in half peanuts and coated in chocolates. The nuts were dry and crunchy with a…
Crystal Light Sugar Free Chewy Candy – an attempted review
I received this bag of Crystal Light Sugar Free Chewy Candy as a free sample from the National Confectioners Association. I’m not one who would buy sugar free candy for myself, but I was happy to give them a try. I’d had Crystal Light’s Sugar Free hard candies before, which I had found quite nice.
Cadbury Choclair – Blueberry
I found these Cadbury Choclairs in the Chinese equivalent of a mini-mart. I didn’t know exactly what to expect – based on the packaging, I thought that they would be blueberry-flavored chocolate. Instead, they turned out to be little caramels with a blueberry flavored center. It looks like I wound up with the blueberry version…