Today was the first day here in North Carolina that it was cold enough for a coat. I pulled my two coats out of the closet and lo and behold, BOTH coats had candy in the pockets from last season. One had half of a movie-size bag of Skittles from when we went to see [...]

Today I came across an interesting candy website: The Candy Wrapper Museum. It’s a purely online creation of Dawn, who began collecting wrappers as a teenager and has now brought them to the masses. Her collection ranges from the commonly available to the oddest finds imaginable. I personally enjoyed the Mr. T Bubblegum; I bet [...]

Cybele over at The Candy Blog has come across another oddly-named candy for us to add to our collection. This one is a chocolate bar called Pigall and is made by Marabou which is part of the Nordic division of Kraft Foods (so don’t expect to see it in U.S. stores). In general, naming a [...]

I first found out about Fizzies a few months ago when I saw that Old Time Candy was announcing that “Fizzies are back!” I’d never heard of Fizzies – should I be happy that they are back? What are they? Why did they leave? They sound fun! With a little investigation, I found out that [...]

Over at Mom-o-matic, she has found some great gross candy at the Oriental Trading Company (that company that sends out thosecatalogs full of neat/fun stuff). Here are some of my favorites: Barf Bags – Orange-flavored gummy and liquid candy that looks like vomit   Flesh Fries – Five watermelon-flavored 2.5″ Gummy Flesh Fries   Blood [...]