Our Massive Candy Giveaway is still in progress – you can enter until October 1! We’ve had a bunch of entries, but your chances of winning are still pretty darn good! (hint – currently, your best odds of winning are in the “link contest”) We’ve had a couple more companies jump on the bandwagon and [...]

Cherry Bombers are a new gummi candy from Trolli that I found at my local Walgreens for a mere $1.29. The package said “New,” so I had to have it. Like always, I opened them in the car and started to eat while I drove. They have a very fragrant cherry cough drop smell to [...]

Atomic Fireballs … who can forget them? Red, round, and wrapped individually in cellophane or a bunch of mini ones in a little yellow box, and HOT! HOT! HOT! These were medieval torture devices when I was little. When I was 6 years old, my 10 year-old brother offered me one of these deceptive red [...]

All of us have probably read about the health benefits of eating both almonds and dark chocolate, and the marketers of CocoaVia Chocolate Covered Almonds take full advantage of our health concerns when promoting their product. I bought a box of five individually wrapped packages for around $5 at CVS. CocoaVia claims their candy is [...]

On my recent (working) vacation I took the opportunity to visit a few candy stores in Cape Cod and stock up on goodies for the foreseeable future. While I was browsing, I noticed that they offered nearly identical licorice buttons in both regular and sugar-free varieties. I thought this might be a good chance to [...]