Mmmm, Snickers are the *best!*

[Cindy C.]

Jo wrote:

>::Stiffly:: I'll have you know that I wait all year for
>those "things"!<g> They are peanut butter kisses and they are
>*heaven*. I'm going to the movies in a few minutes and my purse is
>full of them.

Oh, dear!  There is no greater sin than dissing someone else's
favorite treat.  Sorry, Jo.

But now that I've already sinned, I might as well finish the evil
deed.  <g>  Those black-or-orange paper things fall into a very
special and unique class of candy:  the type of candy where you pop it
into your mouth and then immediately find yourself casting about for
the etiquette rules on the most polite way to spit something out.  Can
you hawk it into the bushes?  Can you spit it into a napkin, or must
you retrieve it with your fingers?  How close to the trash can must
you put your face actually be so as not to offend?  And if you choose
not to spit it out, how finely must you chew it so that you can
swallow it without requiring the Heimlich maneuver?

::ducks blows from Jo::

There are a few other candies that cause the same reaction for me.  I
think the only type of candy I wouldn't eat if I were marooned on a
desert island is a chocolate-covered cherry out of one of those boxes
of mixed chocolates.  You hold this beautiful thing in your hand and
admire it in the light, anticipating a wonderful experience with, say,
chocolate and nougat and nuts if you are lucky, but failing to notice
the tell-tale *leakage* on the bottom.  You pop it into your mouth,
and this sticky liquid explodes into the back of your throat, leaving
you with a deflated cherry to chew.  Yum.

Yeah, I'd rather eat the peanut bomb chews than a chocolate-covered
cherry!  ;-)


> No, the worst type of candy is that pink bubble gum that comes in
>blue amd yellow wrappers.  I've never met a single person who
>actually liked it, but it was inevitably one of the more common
>candies to receive (probably the cheapest).  


I think this gum is called "DubbleBubble" in the U.S.  I actually do
like it well enough (if it is fresh and soft, it is OK), but it is
strangely lacking in depth and character; it is just sweet.  

I would never eat it around Halloween time, though.  I think they must
manufacturer that stuff in February and store it in a dehumidifier for
months for distribution at Halloween time.  As you say, it is
rock-hard and impossible to chew.  So ya gotta always buy it from a
supplier with high turnover of inventory so you know it is fresh, and
you'd never want to buy a huge bag of it in the Halloween section.  

You know what vintage candy really is overdue for a comeback, though?

Well, there are lots of them, but I used to like those little Brach's
toffees with different flavors inside:  vanilla, chocolate, mocha.

Also overdue for a resurgence are "Red Hots." I like all cinnamon
candies because you can customize the intensity depending on how many
you put into your mouth at one time.  Kind of like wasabi.  ;-)

And Pixie sticks.  These kids today don't even understand how to eat a
Pixie stick properly.  My kids somehow managed to *clog* the end of
the tube.  

*Rookies.*

Cindy -- who played "Scrabble" with the kids while we gorged on
Halloween candy and who thinks her daughter probably cheated when she
came up with "organic" for a triple word score, but who decided to
praise daughter's genius rather than check her pockets for extra tiles