Categories: Candy,Candy Reviews,Mint Candy,Novelty Candy
Putting words on candy isn’t a new concept. We’ve already mentioned conversation hearts, personalized M&Ms, and even chocotelegrams. For those who crave something different for their Valentines there’s even BitterSweets, with sayings like “SETTLE 4 LESS” and “PRENUP OKAY?”.
But, you say, those are just for Valentine’s Day. What if I need to send an edgy message after February 14th? Well, maybe Embittermints are for you. With words like “Bite Me” or “You Suck,” Embittermints are, according to the official website, “the perfect gift for sworn enemies, annoying door-to-door solicitors, and anyone who rubs you the wrong way. You can give them to the one you love, or at least the one you used to.” The words are clearly pressed into each mint, so each message comes in loud and clear.
I felt kind of weird popping one of these Pez-sized mints (“Idiot,” it read) into my mouth. Giving this to sworn enemies? Did something evil lurk beneath the strong, minty flavor? Would I keel over backwards? Would I be overcome with a sense of terror? But nothing like that happened. They’re pretty much standard mints: not chalky, and similar in texture and flavor to Certs. They’re good, but nothing spectacular.
I really like these mints as a concept, though. Goodness knows there are a lot of mint tins vying for people’s attention already, and Embittermints is unique enough to push past the rest. Get them for your favorite obnoxious individual, but I would first make sure that their sense of humor is still intact… or that you’re three states away when they open the tin.
Embittermints are available for $2.50 per tin at select New York specialty retailers or from the Embittermints website.
mints, humor, novelty
Categories: Candy,Candy Art,Lollipops
Candy bouquets taste better than flower ones. I suppose you could eat flower petals and leaves, but regular decorative plants are yucky. Heed my warning; I know this from personal experience. Candy bouquets, though, are a unique and sweet gift, and they’re surprisingly simple to make.
DIY Wedding Bouquet site Visions of Silk offers easy to follow instructions on how to create your own candy bouquet out of Chupa Chups lollipops (excellent choice of lolly, by the way), a few silk flowers and leaves, thin gauge wire, tape, and ribbon. It doesn’t look difficult at all, and could make a great keepsake for the Candy Addict in your life.
Or you can just have a great excuse to buy and eat tons and tons of candy.
lollipops, crafts, DIY
Categories: Candy,Candy News,Chocolate Candy
The rising price of corn has hit some farmers hard, so they need to get more creative with animal feed. Farmers like Albert Smith, from Sampson County North Carolina, has started to add trail mix with his pigs’ usual diet of corn meal. He says the pigs are quite fond of their new diet, adding that “they prefer trail mix with M&M’s.” (Who doesn’t, really?)
Now I’m curious about how this pork might taste. Sure the feed is only 5 percent trail mix (and only a part of that trail mix is made up of M&Ms), but chocolate-fed pigs might give rise to something unprecedented in culinary history: chocolate-flavored pork. Can you imagine apple-smoked bacon with a hint of chocolate? Or ham? (If you are interested in the chocolate and bacon combo, try chocolate-covered bacon or Pork Chocs).
Homer Simpson once dubbed the pig “a magical animal.” Amen, Homer. Amen.
mms, chocolate, animals, bacon, pigs, pork
Categories: Candy,Candy Art,Candy Photos,Candy Videos,Foreign (non-US) Candy,Lollipops
China is the world’s fastest growing economy, and the unfortunate source of problematic food exports lately. But no one can deny this country’s creativity when it comes to candy. Witness, for example, this simple street food vendor, who creates an elaborate fish lollipop (complete with detailed fins) out of sugar syrup. Using his cooking spoon as a brush, the vendor – though I’m more inclined to call him “artist” – pours the image of a carp onto the work surface, which cools the syrup solid. Add a stick and the snack/art piece is good to go.
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Categories: Candy,Gross Candy,Gummi/Gummy Candy,Hard Candy,Lollipops,Novelty Candy,Weird Candy
July is Harry Potter month. The new movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is coming on the 11th, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
, the final book in the series, is set for a July 21st release.
Candy is a huge part of the Harry Potter universe. Chocolate is used to treat the effects of the Dark Arts, and who can ever forget Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans? or the Chocolate Frogs? Of course, Candy Addict has focused on quite a few of the real-life equivalents of these candies, which give us lowly Muggles a taste of the Wizarding World. Here are the real-life Harry Potter candies we have covered here at Candy Addict:
Luckily, you don’t need to plan a trip to Honeydukes to get these, since they’re available the magic-free Muggle way: on the Internet.
Buy Harry Potter candies online:
harry potter, jellybeans, jelly belly, gross, movies, books
