February 15, 2008 at 10:22 am
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Happy Friday! Are you all coming out of your chocolate induced comas yet? Me, I’m enjoying a few Hershey’s Kisses with my morning cup of coffee.
What is behind our candy addictions? Brian Pipa has this amazing site that is dedicated entirely to candy called, Candy Addict. If there was ever a candy you wanted to try, find or just read about it, chances are it’s there. My personal favorite is his list of the 10 Grossest Candies and the Top 10 Candy Legends.
So, let’s talk candy today! What are your favorites? Most unique candy you have ever had? Do you even have a sweet tooth? Dark chocolate or milk chocolate? And of course the regular Friday talk - how was your week, what are your plans for the weekend, and anything else you want to discuss.
PS - If you want to stump the kids, challenge them to figure out all the answers on this Candy Store Word Scramble.
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homemom3 wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 10:51 am
First, thanks for listing my Daddy bloggers post. Vday was good, hubby came home the night before as he’d be in college all day vday with giant stuffed bear, frog and two boxes of chocolates. My favorite chocolate is dark chocolate, this has changed over the years as I use to only like milk chocolate. I still hate white chocolate though, something about car trips and car sickness so I won’t eat that now. Oh favorite would be coconut filled or turtles, I just discovered turtles yesterday. Yummy, kind of tastes like snickers though.
Oh would love it if ya’ll entered my giveaway. 
It’s for an infant carrier. As far as movies, I watched a bunch this past week, I’ll list those on my blog but lets just say No Reservations and Martian Child are both great movies to watch, with or without children.
Char wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 10:58 am
homemom3 - congrats on the new Babylune gig. You’ll love writing for b5. When it comes to chocolate, I prefer white or dark but will rarely turn down milk chocolate either. At this time of the year Necco Sweethearts are my guilty pleasure though.
Good morning ladies! Chocolate… SW-EET subject! I’m a dark chocolate girl all the way. Several years ago, I worked for a German based company and served as the U.S. based secretary to a German. About once a month he’d send me authentic German Chocolate Truffles. I really miss those days.
Apart from that, one of my dearest friends lives in England and she’s always bringing us English sweets when she visits.
If I’m going to grab up a candy bar from the counter, I generally grab up a Snickers or Reeses and aside from Chocolate, Sweet Tarts are my necessary evil.
Brian wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Thanks for the link love! I have that word scramble on my TODO list to send some link love back your way. Another fun quiz we have at the site is the Candy Wrapper Quiz;
http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy-wrapper-alphabet-quiz/
Took me ages to make
Char wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Gayla - My best chocolate memories are from our visits to my Grandparents in Ireland. I would walk down to the corner store and pick up a Cadbury’s Caramello - the best ever!
Brian - That quiz is tough and I can see why it took so long to make! Wow.
Katelyn wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Oooh, I love Godiva dark chocolate caramels.
Lisa-Marie wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
How cool it is to discover that all the Cadbury I couldn’t find in the US is here on the shelves of the grocery stores - although slightly overpriced as is everything in the Bahamas. My hubby brought me home a $5.78 bar of Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut yesterday when he went to pick up a $7.29 gallon of milk…ouch! Happy Friday Char - we have a house guest this weekend so I am hiding my chocolate!
Char wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Katelyn - anything Godiva works for me.
Lisa-Marie - Cadbury Fruit and Nut is one of my favorites that I so rarely find!! Whoa those Bahamas prices are high!
Sheesh… now I’m craving chocolate and there’s absolutely none in the house. Maybe Brian could send me some… hint, hint. Give me a plain old Hershey bar any day, and maybe a jar of peanut butter to go with it!
Char wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Randa - you are definitely entitled!
Like others I find new tastes when I travel and our overseas relatives often want us to bring over emergency food parcels of stuff like Polo mints, mars bars, cadburys dairy milk, pear drops, etc. The strange thing for me is how the worlds candy tastes are so different, why are these things not universal when the whole world seems to have a starbucks and a mcdonalds (even Guantanamo!).
Pickel wrote @ February 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I am a sucker for milk chocolate with peanut butter or caramel. Throw in ice cream and I’m a gonner.
I have a think for UK Cadbury milk bars and their fruit & nut bars. I’d probably be able to happily exist without then, but my hubs brings them home from his office from time to time and dammit if I don’t get sucked right back in each time. Thank god I can find the UK ones at Cost Plus.
Rose wrote @ February 16th, 2008 at 3:18 am
(Posting a little late… life’s been very up side down the last couple of weeks.) Chocolate is just what I need to treat myself to right now. My favorite was when I worked for a few weeks before one Christmas in a little gourmet chocolate shop in Santa Cruz, CA. Here’s the website: http://www.donnellychocolates.com . The always brought on extra holiday help and I wanted to learn some of the trade since my great grandfather was a chocolate maker. It was awesome! The owner believed everyone should understand the product so it was free samples all the time as long as you didn’t eat the last couple of any flavor. I forget any particular flavor but they were sinful!
For my plans for the week / week-end. My MIL passed away last Friday from stage 4 uterine cancer. (If you’ve been a slacker on the Pap department please consider this a kick to the dr.) Saturday is her memorial service so I’m in the process of keeping stuff organized for the rest of the family.
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