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Subject: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Peace Date: 11 Nov 04 - 08:19 PM There is a gummy candy out called Dinosours. Man oh man are they good. Especially the green ones. There are four colours which loosely correspond to certain flavours: Green, Yellow, Red and Orange. They are the colours; I guess the flavours to be green, yellow, red and orange. My all-time favourites used to be jujubes--tough call between them and jelly beans--but these thangs are really gooooood. I seek the informed and enlightened opinions of others, figgering while we chew the fat we might also provide others with the idea of something else to chew. For folks who restrict their sugar intake for one reason or other, have you found something that is really good and doesn't contain sugar? That's it. Thought folks might like to forgit about politics and war for a while. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Padre Date: 11 Nov 04 - 08:25 PM Got to be Goldenberg's Peanut Chews. Made with DARK chocolate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 11 Nov 04 - 08:29 PM If it has sugar in it and is an un-natural shade of anything, it's good in my books. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Nov 04 - 08:30 PM There used to be some candy in the rations we got in the Army...just jerking your chain, brucie! No matter how hard I try, I do sometimes break down and buy a Rocky Road bar (fresh, not stale). Chocolate over cashews and marshmallow. Mmm-mmm-good! I'm also partial to white chocolate Reese's cups and those caramels from Alice in Montana. But I'm supposed to be on a sugar-free diet 'cause of insulin resistance. Aspertame gives me headaches, saccharine leaves a bad after taste, and the sorbitols upset my stomach. No, I haven't found anything in the way of candy, yet. But I have found Splenda sugar substitute. Can't tell the difference between it and sugar (maybe because it's supposed to be made from sugar). It's delicious on berries! Really. I've often wondered: if I ate equal quantities of "invert sugar" and regular sugar, wouldn't they cancel each out? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Alice Date: 11 Nov 04 - 08:39 PM 'those caramels from Alice in Montana' Thanks, Rapaire! We were judged one of the best tasting products at the New York Fancy Foods Show in June 2004... chosen from many thousands of companies from around the world. I'm trying to avoid sugar, so I make treats at home with stevia (all natural and no calorie sweetener herb). Alice |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Nov 04 - 08:45 PM I don't eat candy. Well... When I go to the Dollar General store I hit their 25¢ storebrand candy rack for one chocolate bar with almonds and one peppermint patty thing. But that's all. And I only go there, oh, as often as I can find some feeble-assed excuse to do so. But I'm not addicted or anything. No, not me. I'd love to stay and chat some more but I think we're down to only three or four gallons of laundry detergent. Need to run down to the Dollar General store and pick up a couple more. Hope they've restocked the peppermint patty rack today. It was lookin' kinda low this morning. Well, the peanut butter patty things are pretty good too.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 11 Nov 04 - 09:33 PM Ear-Wax, simply, just.... ear-wax.
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: mack/misophist Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:14 AM Back when I could still have it, it was chocolate covered cherries or anything with cherries. Peppermint patties came a close second. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: fat B****rd Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:01 AM Big slab bars of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: chris nightbird childs Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:06 AM Chocolate!! Lots of chocolate! That's my weakness! Chocolate cake, chocolate bars, chocolate ice cream, hot chocolate... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST,noddy Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:30 AM EYE CANDY |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Ellenpoly Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:37 AM Chris, you ARE a guy, aren't you? Just wondering...that kind chocolate devotion usually (but not always I guess) comes from us wimmenfolk. Anybody at MC willing to see that I'm buried in a vat of chocolate?... Preferably BEFORE I die? ;-D ..xx..e |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:38 AM Orange chocolate truffles, available at Trader Joe's. Good stuff, especially with a nice, strong cup of coffee. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Alice Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:49 AM yum Good one, Joe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: MBSLynne Date: 12 Nov 04 - 09:02 AM Yep..got to go with peppermint patties..and also pink penny sticks called musk sticks that we used to get in Oz when I was a kid. Anything made by Green & Blacks but particularly Maya Gold, Thorntons Oriental Ginger bars and Thornton's chocolate covered ginger...I've got to stop.....and I'm not supposed to have sugar either! Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Alice Date: 12 Nov 04 - 09:30 AM All you folks near a Whole Foods Market, especially in California, you can probably get our made in Montana all natural gourmet carmels in the bulk section. Look for the logo name "Béquet" or just ask the staff. Alice |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 Nov 04 - 09:41 AM I'm also fond of the Brach's "Rich & Dreamy Assorted Cremes" sold from bulk racks at many grocery stores. What I like about them is that samples are 3/25¢, but there's no way the security cameras, or even a nearby store employee, can tell whether you're really putting a guarter in the coin box or just a nickel. Sure, it's shoplifting, but it's shoplifting with a subversive edge. I figure that if everyone were to stiff WalMart for 20¢ on candy samples every time they go in the place, WalMart would go bankrupt in about 75,000 years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST,donuel Date: 12 Nov 04 - 09:55 AM Royal Crown black cherry candy But I xcan't get it in the States |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: muppett Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:36 AM Pontifract cakes, liquorice allsorts (have to be Bassetts), midget gems (have to be Lions), Colts foot rock, Judy Barretts, Yorkshire all sorts, Poor Bens, Liquorice tablets, Fuse bars. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: SINSULL Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:52 AM Churchill's (UK hint hint) makes the most incredible fruit gels. They come in a three dimensional, small round tin with all the fruits printed on it. I found them once in the States at TJ Maxx. Someone had gone out of business and there they were. I would kill for some... Chocolate doesn't do it for me. It sits here until it gets furry and then I throw it out. Dark chocolate is more likely to get eaten but only when I crave it. But those sugar coated intensely good fruit gels...SIGH! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST,Sooz (at work) Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:01 AM A Cadbury's slab of chocolate any time any variety! Special treat though, Bings Bongs and Blues (chocolate covered semi dried apricots, blueberries and cherries) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Once Famous Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:05 AM A Butterfinger bar. Many others of the old standards. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:40 AM Thornton's toffee. Plain, with brazil nuts, with raisins, treacle, whatever, I love it all. Mmmmmmm-mm! Nuthin' better. Sure wish I could buy it over here in the US. Then there's Cadbury's Fruit and Nut bar. Can't get chocolate like that over here. There's Cadbury's of Canada, and that's pretty tasty, but it just isn't the same as the "real thing." |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:47 AM GUEST, Donuel Are you by chance meaning "Regal Crown" hard candy, individually wrapped and sold in rolls? They make fruit sours in several flavors, including black cherry. I love 'em too. I used to get them up in Michigan at the Rexall Drug Stores. Can't find them anywhere nowadays. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:40 PM Terry's Chocolate orange. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Ellenpoly Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:46 PM OMG! I agree with Martin Gibson about something!! Maybe the end of the world IS at hand! Someone give me a Butterfingers QUICK! ;-D ..xx..e |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Nov 04 - 01:54 PM Black Licorice, but not allsorts... those gross me out... Jelly Babies are good from time to time... as are "Scotch Mints"... I eat enough of them, Fishermans Friends must count as candy for me.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:02 PM Once when I was about 4 my father took me along to the "family tavern." He sat at the bar, drinking his 7-Up and talking with family. I was pretty much left to myself, and I remember finding a Butterfinger bar! Yes! Right their within my reach...in the spitoon...an empty wrapper.... I've never felt the same about spitoons since. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Emma B Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:20 PM Uncle Joes Mint Balls and chocolate,of course! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Myrtle Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:27 PM Liquorice in any way shape or form....pontefract cakes, Lakeland soft eating liquorice, liquorice gums, and aniseed ditto...aniseed twist, blackcurrant and aniseed, and of course pernod!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Peace Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:28 PM Y'ever had those really salty liquorice things, Myrtle? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: emjay Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:39 PM Cadbury Fruit and Nut bars, and Milka Sahne Creme. Mmmmmmmmm. First time i ever gained weight from reading, this thread is dangerous. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: rumanci Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:41 PM Wilkinson's black and white mints (non-coloured version of liquorice allsorts), Wilko mints (giant torpedo hard shelled with liquorice centre) and mint imperials ...........all of them a dentist's nightmare ..........big sigh p.s. I can't get them for love or money down south apart from just one location miles away and I aint naming it in case others get there before me and clear out the stock :-P |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST Date: 12 Nov 04 - 07:47 PM Alice, how can we ask for those caramels when we have NO idea how to pronounce Bequet? I keep getting visions of Hyacinth Bucket (no, it's Bu-KAY)! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: mg Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:27 PM Good news for the insulin resistance crowd..you can, as Alice said, make very good things out of stevia. Just take your standard fudge recipe, and use stevia instead of sugar..like..1/3 teaspoon instead of a cup of sugar..honest. That is of the white powder. You can also make very good cheesecake with stevia. Don't think of baked goods because you shouldn't be eating them anyway. Unless it is like a chocolate decadance or brownie like thing, which I think you could make with stevia and almond powder or something low-glycemic. Bad news is that a fair percentage of people find stevia has a bitter aftertaste. But lots don't so try it. It is a herb, you can grow it yourself, and it is actually supposed to be beneficial to diabetics in regulating blood sugar. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Alice Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:28 PM Guest, it is French... yes, sounds kind of like bu-KAY. The owner is Robin Béquet. Alice |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Alice Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:35 PM Béquet... Imagine the best home made caramel you've ever had and then some. Real butter, cream, vanilla... no preservatives, no artificial anything. Like no other commercial caramel I've ever had. Definitely gourmet. In fact, we say our pronunciation guide for Bequet is "gourmet". mary garvey is the person who turned me on to stevia over a year ago when we were chatting in Mudcat chat room. I had never heard of it. I found it at my local food co-op in the white powder, the powdered leaf, and in liquid drops. I tried them all, and the white powder is definitely the best in my opinion, with no aftertaste, just sweetness. It has excellent health properties aside from being a concentrated natural sweetner with no calories. If I ever get cravings for a soda, I use a tiny amount of stevia powder mixed into club soda with a few drops of cola or ginger extract (the flavoring you buy to make home made sodas). Alice |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Alice Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:37 PM An easy home made stevia treat: melted baking chocolate, stevia to taste, nuts and/or cocoanut or dried fruit |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Cluin Date: 13 Nov 04 - 02:48 PM Mike & Ikes Spearmint Leaves |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Cluin Date: 13 Nov 04 - 02:54 PM And Toblerone. Thanks, Billy |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: MBSLynne Date: 13 Nov 04 - 06:07 PM Oooh! Spearmint leaves! And jaffas, minties and spearies, ripe raspberries..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Nov 04 - 07:05 PM This past summer we enjoyed fresh raspberries and blackberries, sweetened with Splenda, served over scones and topped with whipped cream or creme fraiche. On the porch, as the sun disappeared behind the mountains and the golfers made fools of themselves on the second fairway.... Lovely. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Scoville Date: 13 Nov 04 - 11:59 PM Mallowcreams (candy corn), especially the pumpkin-shaped ones that come out every year in October. Caramels, especially the Goetze's ones with the sugar centers. Tootsie Rolls, both the ordinary chocolate ones and the fruit-flavored ones. Cream drops Almost anything involving dark chocolate |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 14 Nov 04 - 08:06 PM maynards Wine Gums...the green ones |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST,Boab Date: 15 Nov 04 - 02:13 AM "Coo Candy"!! For the non=scots and even those Scots under the age of about fifty, Coo Candy got its name from the picture of a Highland cow on the wrapper. When I was a mining engineer and on shift I was invariably found ,just before starting my afternoon shift, in one of the local shops buying my bar of "Coo Candy". It's still around, even here in Canada. I'll bet more than one of the Scottish catters will back me on this one. The best of the best! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: RangerSteve Date: 15 Nov 04 - 06:02 AM Snickers, Mars Bars, M&M's (all varieties), Reeses Pieces, Kraft Caramels, Butterfinger, Goldenberg's Peanut Chews, and GooGoo Clusters. It's really hard to have one favorite. And a few that I'm not sure they still make: Chunky, Zagnut, and Clark Bars. And Mallomars, which may actually be a cookie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Paco Rabanne Date: 15 Nov 04 - 06:05 AM Lager. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: LilyFestre Date: 15 Nov 04 - 07:04 AM When I am being a good diabetic, I really like the Baskin Robins Chocolate Chip Mint hard candies. They are sugar free, but alas, not calorie free. Now....for a VERY occasional treat (and my sugar is under good control), I LOVE LOVE LOVE Lindt Chocolate, especially Lindt (and ONLY Lindt will do) white chocolate!!!!! YUMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Myrtle Date: 15 Nov 04 - 11:40 AM Brucie, now that maybe rings a distant bell...I once had something called bitter liquorice which was wonderful, but I'm not sure whether thats what you mean...so go on...tell me about this salty liquorice...drool drool!! :o) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: John MacKenzie Date: 15 Nov 04 - 12:58 PM McCowans Boab. However as a Glaswegian there is only one candy for me, 'COULTERS'! Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Carly Date: 15 Nov 04 - 02:13 PM As an unrepentant chocoholic who is trying to give up sugar, I have made a recent study of sugarless chocolates. I have never met a chocolate I didn't like, but dark is my favorite, and at the moment I would have to give top honors to Carb Safe's DARK Chocolate, in a black wrapper, available at Trader Joe's. Belgian DeLite bars(I can't help the silly name!) are also very good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: freda underhill Date: 15 Nov 04 - 07:40 PM crystallised ginger, turkish delight, dried pineapple, dried mango. dark chocolate covered liquorice, aniseed rings (soft jelly aniseed rings covered with dark chocolate) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: DebC Date: 15 Nov 04 - 08:32 PM Mozart's Balls |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: dianavan Date: 16 Nov 04 - 01:26 AM Hand-dipped, chocolate covered cherries from the toothless, old candy-maker down on Main. Those very special, home made Marshmallows wrapped in wax paper. Mom's divinity fudge (also known as 'white death'). Pontefract cakes! What are those???????????????????????????????? Anybody here from Quebec that wants to describe a Mae West? d |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: GUEST,Boab Date: 16 Nov 04 - 02:22 AM McCowans it was ,John "giok"---but "Coulters"I think has its hame in Dumfries! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: John MacKenzie Date: 16 Nov 04 - 04:24 AM Potefract cakes are a flattish circular liquorice cake, made with a nice soft sweetish liquorice. Giok Available stateside Here |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: kendall Date: 16 Nov 04 - 07:13 AM Reeses peanut butter cups Anything made of chocolate |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Crystal Date: 16 Nov 04 - 07:26 AM L'artisan du chocolate Earl Grey tea chocolates and Sea Salted Caramel. Heaven Wrapped in very good chocolate! Unfortunatly at about £12 for a box of 12 it's a little out of my range! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Essex Girl Date: 16 Nov 04 - 08:51 AM Belgian chocolates,Butter brazils,fudge, Reeces peanut cups - but where can you get them in the UK?,and cinder toffee. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your favourite candy? From: Crystal Date: 16 Nov 04 - 09:19 AM You can get Reeces Peanut cups in "Globally Sweet" In Aberdeen. Admittidly this is not terribly helpful for anyone not in Aberdeen! |
