Sweet BS: Candy

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Burke
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 07:26 PM

Mallowcream sounds really odd to me, but then Marshmallow is pretty weird as well. So I looked it up & there's a reason for it.

Marshmallow:
1 : a pink-flowered European perennial herb (Althaea officinalis) of the mallow family that is naturalized in the eastern U.S. and has a mucilaginous root sometimes used in confectionery and in medicine
2 : a confection made from the root of the marshmallow or from corn syrup, sugar, albumen, and gelatin beaten to a light spongy consistency

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: GUEST,Ely
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 08:27 PM

I don't know if they still make Sugar Daddys or not. I once pulled out a loose tooth on a Sugar Daddy.

Oh, damn--I forgot about mallowcreams (aka candy corn). They have to be Brach's, though; the cheap ones just aren't the same.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Burke
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 07:05 PM

Anyone remember Sugar Daddys? I'm surprised I had any fillings left. I haven't seen them in years, but then I haven't looked either.

Notice those ads? Fresh Dark Chocolate, Lake Champlain Chocolates & Candy at discount prices - given the prices a the other place. I think I know where I'm stopping next time I'm in Burlington, VT.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:46 AM

Ah'd break the lang-jump record if yez laid a' the goo metioned abune in a lang line-- jist tae get tae a bar o' Coo Candy. Oh, aye ye CAN get it in North America. Nae Scots amang yez?

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: GUEST,Ely--where the Hell is my COOKIE?!?
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 11:06 PM

As a general rule--chewy is better than crunchy, and dark chocolate beats all. I've never cared for very fatty, smeary, chocolate, though--I'd rather have plain old Hershey's than the sticky stuff they had in Norway.

I love those Goetze's caramels with the tooth-pulling sugar cream centers.

My dad has always been a black licorice and horehound man, although I can't say "horehound" and keep a straight face.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 10:27 PM

You can have a lot of fun with chocolate-covered peanuts. Act like you found them along a deer trail, and tell your companions that they're fresh -- then pop one into your mouth and say, "Yup, just a couple of hours old."

Malted milk balls will work for bear.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Burke
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 09:59 PM

MMario, LOL!!!

Homeless, Seafoam - sponge candy is what I was thinking of. Heavenly!

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 01:07 PM

I think you will find chocolate chip cookie dough in the freezer of every member of my family. we *all* do this... in fact several of us have been known to *make* chocolate chip cookie dough specifically to freeze.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Homeless
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 12:53 PM

I gotta agree with Clinton about chocolate being overrated.
And candy is for wimps - you gotta go right to the source. If you want sheer flavor, nothing, but nothing, beats a big tablespoon full of black strap molasses dumped straight on the tongue. And if you gotta have sweet with it, a spoonful of dark brown sugar is a distant second. (being said by a man who can't do sugar in any form anymore)

Limiting oneself to candy, Seafoam (a.k.a. sponge candy or spun molasses) is tough to beat. Texture and consistancy of malt balls, slightly burnt flavor of toffee, and chocolate coated. If it weren't for the chocolate, Seafoam would be my number 1 choice, but that designation has to go to Maple Nut Goodies.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Carly
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 12:45 PM

Padre, we may have to come visit by way of Lexington to try crickets...

Almost any chocolate will speak to me, but a really good dark, plain bar (drop, cube, etc.) is my idea of bliss.Team it with real caramel and, o my... then there's ice cream... did I mention I'm eating low carb these days? Sigh.

Although I'm not overly fond of most hard candies, a childhood memory still lingers of huge, flat polka-dot-wrapped lollipops at the movies that were slightly sour and lasted through the show. They were a great investment at a nickel. I cannot recall the brand name... are they still out there?

Of course, I will forever think of my friend Jonathan Eberhart when I see a Snickers; I slightly prefer Mars bars myself ( almonds instead of peanuts.)

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 07:06 AM

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs!

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: nickp
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 05:40 AM

Well, despite being in the UK with it's native Cadbury's, I'm one of those strange people who prefer Hershey.... I blame a trip to Hersheyworld in 1980!

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 02:17 AM

Anyone else out there addicted to Chris & Larry's Clodhoppers?

www.clodhoppers.tv

I think chocolate is the single most over-rated flavour in the world, but thier chocolate clodhoppers I could eat 24/7...

Give me Black licorice in any form but "Allsorts"... There are a few "heathfood" stores I visit from time to time casue I can get a 6 foot rope of it for a buck or 2...

Jelly beans in general, I'll eat... I prefer the black ones... Or a handfull of Bertie-Botts "Grass" ones...

For movie-going... it's gotta be popcorn... in the biggest container they have... with as much butter on it as they'll dole out... and an Oh-Henry bar... And is that the biggest drink you've got? But it comes with a refil right? cool... I'll take it!

When I was a kid I recall being very dissapointed when we tried to make 'Cool-aid' with the powder from a pack of "Lick-A-Stick" (I just sttruck me what a RUDE name that is for a candy!! LOL)

M&Ms....   Blue... red... green... whatever... they all taste like waxy plastic to me... I'll take Smarites over M&Ms any day of the week...

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: KT
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:47 PM

There ought to be a dangerous thread warning prefix....


I've just finished off a package of caramel toffee that hadn't even entered my mind 'til I opened this thread!! (Picked it up on a recent trip to Ontario where we used to get it when we were kids)

On a recent trip to the east, I found an old candy store that carried all of the old stuff from the good ol' days......Beemans, Blackjack and Clove chewing gum and Scented gum, Mallo Cups and Old Fashinoned Rock Candy, those candy buttons on long strips of paper....etc, The best find in the store, though, was $10.00 worth of Crystal Beach suckers! Crystal Beach was an amusement park in Ontario that sold these suckers. Nothing great, really, but as kids we LOVED them and the park has long since been torn down. Someone is making the suckers again, and this sucker bought $10.00 worth!! (of course that was only 6 of them)

The candy itself isn't really all that good, but the nostalgia is delicious!!

As for currents favorites, i'm with the orange dark chocolate lovers!

KT

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Padre
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:20 PM

Bill, I just tried your suggestion - dark chocolate and Laphroaig - nirvana.

Padre

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:09 PM

Oh, by the way...one of the most amazing treats known to man is to suck on good piece of dark chocolate, while sipping a good single-malt Scotch! I don't know exactly why those flavors work so well together....but....wow!

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: RangerSteve
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 08:20 PM

I'm heading to Kentucky and the Carolinas on Friday, and this thread just reminded me that I'll be in the land of Goo-Goo Clusters, one of the official Ranger Steve approved snacks for long-distance trips.

Moon Pies and Slim Jims are the other two.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Burke
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 07:48 PM

The dark chocolate with raspberry sounds heavenly.

I like dark chocolate but can't stand American Milk Chocolate. What I really like is anything with burnt sugar like toffee's or Heath Bars. I love Brach's candy corn, but just a few pieces & my stomach is upset.

When I visit my sister at Christmas, she always has this honey-comb candy, covered with chocolate. I finish it off, but I don't know where to buy it. That's just as well.

Spaw, I'm with you though, give me the raw cookie dough! I actually went through a short period of buying the refrigerator dough that comes pre-formed to just break apart & put on a cookie sheet. Kept it in the freezer & broke off one section to eat at a time. I've seen the error of my ways & given it up.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Micca
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 07:15 PM

A few years ago, here in the UK, Terrys made a Christmas Chocolate Orange, dark chocolate orange with spices like cinnamon and nutmeg etc. it was truly amazing, if you come across it try it!

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 07:01 PM

I have to carefully ration myself on good dark chocolate...YUM! You can have my share of almost all of the stuff they sell in movies, and I can't stand mint in/on chocolate.....

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Amos
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:25 PM

I still enjoy Charleston Chews after all these years, and a dark Milky Way makes me forget my hard-earned maturity. Sigh. Snickers, too.

But they make me fart.

A

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Padre
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 10:46 AM

In no particular order:

Mallo Cups with the oozy center that you could wear on your shirt.

In Lexington, VA there is a candy store [The Cocoa Mill] which makes a variant of the turtle called a cricket - the one covered in DARK chocolate is worth driving many miles for. (Perhaps too exotic for this thread?)

Raisinets and Goobers at the movies - trying to make them last through the serial, two cartoons and two features. (Never happened)

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Peg
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 10:17 AM

Here in Boston, where the New England Confectionary Company is located, (when you walk by the big NECCO building the fragrance is heavenly), you can buy a packet of Necco wafers in ONE flavor as well as mixed. So far they only do licorice (grey) and chocolate (brown).

The Hallowe'en candy has been on the shelves in CVS now for several weeks. I will be out of town that weekend, so I wil probably wait and buy some on sale after the holiday.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Partridge
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 08:46 AM

I love Turkish Delight and all the soft centres in a box of chocolates

Pat x

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Mr Happy
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 07:03 AM

We love Kendal Mint Cake- MMMM Yummmy!

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Kim C
Date: 16 May 01 - 01:08 PM

I think it's Terry's that's still making them. And you're right, Alex, the raspberry wasn't quite as good as I had hoped. The orange is FAB, though. I get them in the candy section at the grocery store.

And oh boy do I ever remember Chocolate Raspberry Truffle. I think they ended up keeping that one for good but it's been awhile since I was in a Baskin-Robbins. Although last night I dreamed I went back to work there, and the place was a mess. Sheesh.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Les from Hull
Date: 16 May 01 - 12:42 PM

Oh Oh Aniseed Fisherman's Friends for the flavour but proper Fisherman's Friends for the effect. I even bought some in Belgium once - I thought it was great that the packet was in Flemish (Phlegmish!). Yes Fisherman's Friends, one of the few good things to come out of Lancashire, like the road to Yorkshire.

And this chocolate raspberry flavour thing - I'm sure that Terry's of York, who made the original chocolate orange would have had nothing to do with it. It's a pity they got taken over by a mega-corporation.

Les

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Grab
Date: 16 May 01 - 12:17 PM

Raspberry chocolate orange?! Where?! Where?!

I vote aniseed balls. The proper ones with a seed in the middle and layers of sugar coating built up around it, not the boiled-sweet imitations. And aniseed mint imperials are good too.

Pink shrimps. Again, the proper version - you can get some rubbery imitation ones which aren't the same.

And Parma Violets rock! The small ones (in little thin rolls) taste better than the big Refresher-sized ones, for some reason.

But I'm really a mint freak - I once gave a lift to a guy, said "there's some sweets in the cubbyhole there", and found all I had was 5 different types of mints! Sugar-free Fisherman's Friends are good and very refreshing, but the title has to go to the Altoids mints. Avoid sugar-free Polos - they taste good, but the artifical sweetener is a laxative! Sugar-free Fisherman's Friends are the same, but you can't eat as many of those so that's self-limiting.

Time to coin a new word: "sugaholic". Definition: anyone who posts to the thread here, showing their dedication to the cause of self-enlargement...

Graham.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: mousethief
Date: 16 May 01 - 12:01 PM

Back when I was a Baskin and Robbins afficionado, they had a flavor called Chocolate Raspberry Truffle. Deep, dark chocolate ice cream with raspberry ribbon and chunks of gooey candy. Heaven on a cone.

Raspberries and dark chocolate were meant for each other. Like Lucy and Desi, like Mike and Ike, like -- well, like things that really go well together.

Don't know about the orange, but the raspberry flavor in the chocolate ball thing is artificial. Bleh.

Alex

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Les from Hull
Date: 16 May 01 - 10:14 AM

I will admit to being unable to resist Coltsfoot Rock, an olde tyme English confectionary not easily obtained these days. No wonder I don't have too many teeth.

Gummy from Hull

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Kim C
Date: 16 May 01 - 09:58 AM

I wanna go! I wanna go! (jumping up and down wildly) When I was in kindergarten we got to go to the Lay's Potato Chip factory in Louisville. That was a day or two ago.

When I worked at Baskin-Robbins we had this flavor called Mandarin Chocolate Sherbet. Just what it sounds like. A chocolate/orange sherbet. It actually was quite good and had a few devoted fans, but it didn't stay around long because I think it was really more for the adventurous, and some people just want their two scoops of vanilla on a plain cone, thank you very much.

Speaking of fruit and chocolate... nobody's mentioned the Chocolate Orange yet. It's a ball of chocolate with a hint of orange - it's presliced and when you whack it on the table, the slices fall apart neatly. They make a raspberry one now too. Comes in milk chocolate or dark chocolate. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: GUEST,Karen
Date: 15 May 01 - 10:38 PM

Oh my gosh, Spaw! Do they need chaperones????

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 May 01 - 10:36 PM

Well, I can hardly wait for tomorrow night because my first-grader, Michael, is going on a field trip to the Anthony Thomas Chocolate factory in Columbus tomorrow. They have only had a few really crummy field trips and he is SOOO excited about this one..........A long bus ride (he's a townie), a chocolate factory, AND lunch at Mickey D's!!! Hog Heaven when you're 8!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: sophocleese
Date: 15 May 01 - 10:25 PM

I just want you all, BELCH, to know that I am not going to read this thread again. My sugar cravings are running at a dangerously high level and it's all YOUR FAULT. Sniff, whine, whine, where's that last package of licorice gone?

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Peg
Date: 15 May 01 - 08:41 PM

oh yes!

I worked as a cake decorator for a bit, too; the sugar consumption was dangerous!

We had one special cake I loved: a dark chocolate layer cake frosted with raspberry frosting (a rich vanilla buttercream with frozen raspberries added); oh boy was it good!

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: GUEST,Karen
Date: 15 May 01 - 08:16 PM

Dark chocolate and raspberries.....to die for.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Peg
Date: 15 May 01 - 07:53 PM

Godiva IS junk compared to really good chocolate. The price of it is mostly mark-up for the fancy packaging. It is is not really all that superior to those Whitman's samplers you get at the drugstore...

I used to sell the stuff for a living alongside imported Belgian truffles and chocolates; no comparison...

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Kim C
Date: 15 May 01 - 12:53 PM

Lindt balls are only like 30 cents apiece. They're every bit as good as Godiva and not nearly as expensive.

GooGoos have got smaller too. I think I mentioned that on the eminems thread. Anyway, if you get an urge to have a GooGoo, nothing, and I mean NOTHING else, will do. For those of you who don't know what these are - I think they have a limited distribution area - the basic GooGoo is a chocolate covered mass of marshmallow, caramel, and peanuts. They also have a pecan version, and a peanut butter version.

Man, I'm gonna have to go get me one.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 May 01 - 12:44 PM

Hey fiddlebum, I'm with you! What the hell happened to Chunky anyway? It not only got smaller, but the raisins and peanuts are about non-existent. I suppose you can't get too many in a midget little thing like that, but it used to be solid with them and only held together with the chocolate. What a sad thing.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: mousethief
Date: 15 May 01 - 12:31 PM

Kim, I think the technical word for that stuff is "caramel goo." Good, ain't it?

I dunno, though, Kim; when you pay for candy like Godiva's Chocolates, the prices you pay make it hard to call it "junk."

Alex

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Kim C
Date: 15 May 01 - 12:28 PM

Peg, all candy is technically junk! ;-)

I used to really like the Chunky bar with peanuts and raisins. That's another one of those things that's got smaller with age.

Alex, I like a Caramello bar once in awhile. Is it really caramel? I'm not a caramel expert.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: gnu
Date: 15 May 01 - 12:14 PM

What was the name of the candy that John Biner used to advertise where, when calling out the candies or ingredients, he would say, "Caraaaaameeeelll, you old smoooothy, you." ?

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: mousethief
Date: 15 May 01 - 11:25 AM

CARAMEL RULES!

Thank you.

alex

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Peg
Date: 14 May 01 - 08:05 PM

BTW this is just about "junk" candy; no fair bringing Belgian truffles etc. into the discussion...

But if anyone has access to Trder Joe's and likes caramel, the milk-chocolate covered caramel patties, and the dark-chocolate covered caramel squares, are DIVINE!

I am an ice cream purist generally but I do also love Ben and Jerry's Triple Caramel chunk...Caramel Ice cream with caramel and chocolate-covred caramel bits....

mmmmmm....

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 14 May 01 - 07:39 PM

Gosh all fish hooks, Sandy!.... Purple eminas and edible chocolate farts? These folks are pretty spooky!..........?OLIVER?!!....DADDY WARBUCKS!!??

Spud

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: gnu
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:23 PM

If you like cheese, try this. Take a piece of old cheddar, or whatever suits your fancy, and eat it like a hard candy... slowly - don't chew. A piece 'twixt cheek and gum is a delight.

OK, Spaw.... go ahead.

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: mousethief
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:03 PM

Obviously a wrapper with exquisite taste!

The one that really bugs me is "time is a river without banks."

A river without banks is --- a flood! Augh!

Alex

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Kim C
Date: 14 May 01 - 04:47 PM

I like those Dove candies, too. I have a Dove rapper on my bulletin board that says, "you are the star for which all evenings wait." ;-)

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: mousethief
Date: 14 May 01 - 12:38 PM

Tan eminems rule. Best colour ever. Blue eminems are devil's spawn. I've all but stopped eating eminems since they came out. Bleh.

Raisinets are awesome. Great taste combo. If only they used real chocolate it would be even better! (Yeah sure they look like rabbit droppings, but oh well!)

(BTW, Spaw only WISHES he could find the edible manifestation of a fart. Keep searching, old man!)

Rolo's don't taste like caramel. Don't know what they use in there, but it isn't caramel. My favorite chocolate-covered caramel candy is the Carmel Easter Eggs by Cadbury. Yum! The local grocery is almost out of them; I shall have to bid a sad farewell until next March.

I like Spree. Sorta like sweettarts, but with a crunchy candy coating. Sweettarts meets eminems, sorta.

Some of the best reasonably-priced chocolate in this country is in the form of those little individually-wrapped Dove "Promises." Both the dark and the milk chocolate varieties are very tasty.

Alex

Subject: RE: Sweet BS: Candy
From: Kim C
Date: 14 May 01 - 12:23 PM

I knew somebody would come up with that! ;-)