I got an email today from the producer of the CNBC TV show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. They wanted me to appear in their Minutes to Millions segment as a “candy expert.” So, I’m flying to NY on Monday to film it! How awesome is that? And… one of the other panelists is Kevin Nealon from SNL! I’m not sure if I’m more excited about being on TV or meeting and sitting on a panel with Kevin Nealon!

Hmmm… I just checked Kevin’s website (I just called him Kevin, like we’re all buddy-buddy) and he says he’ll be there at 1:00 AM - I hope his site is wrong because I was told taping starts at 2:00 PM. His first book “Yes, You’re Pregnant but What About Me?” just came out. I should get a copy and ask him if he’ll sign it for me, though I don’t want to appear to be a huge fanboy.

I’ll take lots of pics to show everyone and I’ll post the air date as soon as I find out!

UPDATE: Just found out it will air the same night, Monday, May 19th, 10PM EST.

• The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
• Kevin Nealon

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The emails have gone out to the winners of the Sandy Candy Giveaway so if you entered, check your email! Make sure emails from candyaddict.com aren’t flagged as spam. It will seem spammy since it has phrases about you winning and asking for your address. We ended up giving 13 prize packs to 48 entrants - so more than 25% of those that entered won! Those are some good odds.

• Sandy Candy Giveaway (contest is closed)

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Being the uber computer geek that I am, I can’t help but love these Ctrl-Alt-Delete candies, despite the fact that they are made with black licorice (YUCK). I’m sure Caitlin, our licorice expert would LOVE these. If they only made these in red “licorice” I’d definitely have to get some.

Unfortunately, they are all sold out right now and there is no indication of when/if they will be back in stock.

• Ctrl-Alt-Del licorice candy

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It’s not often I find a candy maker in my neck of the woods. North Carolina isn’t exactly exactly the candy-making capital of the world. One of my wife’s co-workers found out about Candy Addict and convinced his friend, who has a business making chocolate truffles, to get a batch to me to review. This friend runs Azurelise.

The story of Azurelise is an interesting one and well worth a read at the Azurelise website. Basically, a tenured associate professor in Philosophy abandons teaching and decides to make chocolates (there’s more to it than that, but that’s the basics). What I have before me now are Azurelise chocolate truffles, made by this former Philosopy professor.

The truffles aren’t your ordinary fancy, embellished truffles. These look, in fact… ordinary. They are approximately 1.25″ x 1.25″ x 0.5″ - they have no fancy flowers on them or swirly-q or anything else. Just a simple plaid pattern and the word AZURELISE diagonally across them. I received five dark chocolate truffles and four milk chocolate truffles.

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Today, April 12 is National Licorice Day! So go out and get yourself some licorice and celebrate! If you’re not into the real stuff (the black licorice), I heartily recommend some Red Vines - man they’re good.

If you are into the hard stuff, drop by Licorice International - they can hook you up with some good stuff. Take a browse through our licorice category for lots and lots of licorice reviews so you can find something really good.

So, what’s your favorite way to celebrate National Licorice Day?

• Red Vines
• Licorice International

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Red Vines is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Red Vines Original Twist Trays by bringing back its drawing contest with lots of great prizes, including an educational scholarship or a vacation for four and the chance to have winning drawings featured on the Red Vines tray packaging.

Just create a Red Vines themed piece of art and you could win some great prizes! Take a look at the full contest details and reviews. You can also see some past winners’ artwork in the Red Vines gallery. There is some amazing artwork in there.

• Red Vines

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Bertie Bott and Beanboozled have nothing on these beans.

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Remember sand art? Bottles and shapes filled with layers of colored sand? It always looked good enough to eat… and now you can with Sandy Candy aka Edible Sand Candy. Our friends over at Sandy Candy want to share their fun and tasty Sandy Candy with Candy Addict readers so they have donated 12 (yes, twelve) Mega Paks of Sandy Candy (each a $50 value) for us to give away! What’s in a Sandy Candy Mega Pak you ask?

Fifty 6-inch straws with caps and twenty small candy bottle full of Sandy Candy. Flavors of Sandy Candy included are:

• Black Cherry
• Blue Raspberry
• Bubble Gum
• Cherry Cola
• Cherry Crème
• Cotton Candy
• Fruit Punch
• Grape
• Green Apple
• Lemonade
• Lemon Lime
• Orange Crème
• Root Beer
• Strawberry
• Sweet Lemonade
• Tangerine
• Tart Apple
• Watermelon
• Wildberry
• Wild Cherry

That’s enough Sandy Candy to have a great birthday party activity!

So, what do you have to do to get yourself a free Sandy Candy Mega Pak? This one’s easy… just compose an original poem about Sandy Candy and submit it as a comment on this post. Make it cute, funny, sad, or whatever you want (it doesn’t have to rhyme either - haikus are okay too). The 10 best Sandy Candy poem authors will receive a Sandy Candy Mega Pak. For those with less than stellar poetic skills, we’ll give two Mega Paks away to two random entrants - so enter even if you can’t figure out what ryhmes with “orange”. Be sure and use a real email address you check regularly so we can contact you if you win.

Contest ends May 8, 2008.

The fine print
Prize packs can be sent to US addresses only - no P.O. Boxes. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. Offer void where prohibited. Not responsible for lost or misdirected e-mail. If you don’t reply to the winning email in 3 days your prize will be forfeit and we will choose another winner.

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I was dying to own a Candy Addict t-shirt of my own so I finally did it. I had some t-shirts professionally screenprinted and they look fabulous. They are a nice grape-y/purple color with yellow text (the middle pic above is a better representation of the true color - the purple isn’t as dark as the outer pics make it look).

The front of the shirt simply says “I want candy.” It’s not yelling, or asking for attention, it’s just a plain statement of fact. I want candy. The back says “CandyAddict.com” in the nifty Candy Addict font. They are professionally screenprinted on Hanes tagless 100% cotton t-shirts. We currently have adult sizes S, M, L, and XL available. After keeping a few for myself and friends and family, and giving some to the staff, we only have about 35 shirts total so these could be considered “limited edition”.

Price is $15 each (this includes shipping to US addresses). We can take payment by credit cards (via by Paypal), and general Paypal payments also. If you can’t (or don’t want to) pay by Paypal, email me directly and we’ll see what we can work out. Also, email me directly if you are not in the US and want a t-shirt.

Oh yeah, one more thing - you’ll get free candy shipped with every T-shirt. Seriously.

After you order, email me and give me your address and desired shirt size via email. The payment form doesn’t let you enter that info.

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We’ve had candy forums here at Candy Addict since about February of 2006 but I started them back before we had any traffic so they really didn’t take off and I removed the link to them. For a while now I’ve been toying with the idea of relaunching them so I ran the idea by the Candy Addict Staff a few months ago and they were all for it. Last night I finally figured I would do it so I upgraded the forum software and put a link to the candy forums back in the top navigation menu.

Use the candy forums to ask general questions about candy, tell everyone about a candy you love (or hate), reminisce about candy from your childhood, let us know if you found a great new candy, or even if you found a candy at an incredible sale price.

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