Sour Patch Kids Freeze – Review Buy From Amazon! First, there was fire, then there was freeze? Sour Patch Kids revealed their two newest flavors together. They even did the promotion of them all together. I couldn’t go on Instagram without seeing both of them side by side. Which made the fact that I couldn’t…
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Sour Patch Kids Fire: Bringing the Heat? [Review]
Sour Patch Kids Fire – Review If you are reading this, you are probably a fan of spicy candy. I never really have been, but I have been a fan of Sour Patch Kids forever. I have given them some of the highest possible ratings on my site. And to be honest, when I first…
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Salted Caramels
It’s fall, and here in the U.S., that means pumpkin-flavored EVERYTHING. Seriously, Trader Joe’s October Fearless Flyer is about 90% pumpkin stuff. One of their seasonal pumpkin products includes these Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Salted Caramels. The box described the caramels as “dark chocolate with a smooth pumpkin spiced caramel filling sprinkled with real Hawaiian sea salt.”…
Shangri La Tea Chocolate – Milk Chocolate Earl Grey and Masala Chai
Shangri La is a tea company that’s now making inroads into tea-flavored chocolate. They sent me free samples of their line-up to review. I’ll cover the Earl Grey and Masala Chai?today, and the Black Currant and Chamomile Mint on Thursday. Both the Early Grey and Masala Chai?were made with a 38% cacao milk chocolate base….
REVIEW: Churchill’s Confectionery Carousel
Churchill’s Confectionery is family-run, London-based company that is now making inroads in the U.S. via shops like Williams Sonoma and Bloomingdale’s. They recently sent me a free sample of their Carousel tin filled with toffee and vanilla fudge. The tin itself was beautiful: a round cylinder with a tented top and embossed with colourful (see…
Peanut Hottie
Howdy! I’m Patty, a professor of Psychological Sciences at a small college in the midwest. Some important background information: I’m absolutely obsessed with peanut butter. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t keep any sort of nut butter in the house, or I’ll enter into a nut-butter-induced-fugue-state…within a few hours, the nut butter will…
Haribo Bärchen-Pärchen [Review + Meaning!]
This is the second bag of Haribo gummies that I bought while in Switzerland. They caught my eye because I’ve never seen them in the U.S., and they had a giant Neu sticker on it, which made me think that they were, well, New. What does?B?rchen-P?rchen mean? Google translate tells me that?B?rchen-P?rchen means Bear Couple….
Alcove Chocolate – Fleur de sel, Red Velvet, and Mimosa
Alcove Chocolate, a So-Cal chocolate brand that has now expanded beyond California, recently released 12 (12!) new chocolate bars. I got sent free samples of the full-sized bars, plus 3 of the flavors in miniature square version (they call them mini tiles), for review. I’ll start with the mini tiles, Fleur de Sel, Red Velvet,…
Lindt Lemon
Lindt Lemon is the newest chocolate bar in Lindt’s Excellence line-up, billed as “dark with citrus pieces and almond slivers”. I received a free sample from Lindt for review. Alas, the overnight shipping, cold pack, and insulated bag couldn’t stand up to the North Carolina heat, so my sample arrived melted and not as photogenic…
Bocandy sample – ROM Cel Mare from Romania
Bocandy is a new subscription treat service (those seem to be popping up all over the place!) that specializes in international candy. I love trying international treats, but they can be hard and/or expensive to come by, so I was super excited to get a free Bocandy sample to see what they’d send. I got…