First, if you haven’t already, go enter our huge Candy Addict birthday giveaway. I’ll wait here for you to come back…

Wow - I can’t believe it! My candy-coated little baby is now three years old! What began as a website I started on a whim three years ago has grown into something bigger than I could have ever imagined. I’m amazed at how many other people there are out there, people like you, that love candy as much as I do.

There are so many things I could mention as I wax nostalgic… the amazing amount of free candy I’ve received; attending the All Candy Expo (twice); talking with the president of Jelly Belly and a V.P. at Mars (in person); being mentioned in newspapers, magazines, radio, and even appearing on national TV as a candy expert! It just blows my mind when I stop and think about it. I’m no different than many of you reading this, I’m just a guy who likes candy but I happen to have a candy website to prove it.

I was thinking about listing a bunch of interesting/noteworthy things that have happened to me and the site in the past three years (guess what site is #1 on google if you search for gross candy?) but I’m not sure that would interest anyone (maybe it would - Idunno). So here’s what we’re going to do instead…

Let’s do an interview. I’ll be the interviewee. You be the interviewer. Ask me any question you want about candy, candy blogging, running a website, things I’ve learned, etc. Pretend you’re interviewing me. You’re Katie Couric and you have me for a one-on-one interview. Pick my candy-filled brain. If there was ever a question about me or the site you have had, ask it now.

Put your question(s) in the comments below. Depending on how many questions I get, I’ll either answer all of them or if there are way too many, I’ll pick maybe the 20 or so best ones and answer them. The best question, as judged by me, will win a free Candy Addict t-shirt (and maybe some candy too). This is open to people anywhere in the world - I’ll pay for shipping.

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UPDATE: No more entries are being accepted!

October 3rd will be Candy Addict’s 3rd birthday! Three years of Candy Addict! To celebrate, you, our loyal reader, get a chance to win candy presents! I have loads and loads of candy and prizes to give away to three lucky readers (and maybe more).

A small sampling of the candy that will be given away:

• cases of Twix Java
• cases of Snickers Rockin’ Nut Road
• Jolt Gum
• Eat It! Trivia games
• Toxic Waste Candy
• 5 Gum
• Great Bites Mints and Sours
• an M&Ms Premiums martini glass
• IQ Elements Mints
• Candy Addict t-shirts

and the list goes on and on and on and on.

“Brian”, you might say. “How can I win this wonderful candy goodness?” Easy, my dear Candy Addict… make sure you’re a registered Candy Addict then login and leave a birthday wish in the comments on this post and mention your favorite candy and/or favorite page on Candy Addict. You have til midnight (EST) Sunday night, October 5th, to leave the birthday comment - only leave one please - be fair. I’ll pick three people (the best comment and a few random ones) to win big candy prize packs. Be sure and use an email address that you actually check and make sure you can receive email from candyaddict.com in case you win.

Good luck!

THE FINE PRINT
Prizes can be sent to US addresses only. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. One entry per person, per email address. Offer void where prohibited. Not responsible for lost, misdirected, or unread e-mail or postal mail. If you don’t reply to the winning email in 2 days, your prize will be forfeit and we will choose another winner. Entries must be received no later than midnight EST on October 5, 2008. Don’t tear mattress tags off. Don’t swim for at least 30 minutes after consuming candy. Don’t run with scissors. May contain tree nuts. Does anyone read this?

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To announce the unveiling of the NEW DOVE® Chocolate Center of Excellence, Mars Snackfood US and Candy Addict are giving away 20 limited-edition packages of DOVE® Brand chocolates made in Elizabethtown, PA. No purchase necessary!

Full details are below, but here is the quick summary: Send an email to dovegiveaway@candyaddict.com with a subject of:
Dove Pure Chocolate. In the email, include your first name and last name, your e-mail address and date of birth. That’s it! Limit one entry per person. The first twenty qualified entrants win. See full details.

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Not too long ago, we reviewed the EAT IT! Snacks & Sweets Trivia Game, and now we have 15 of them to give away to Candy Addict readers! Starting this month (September) we’re going to give away three of them per month to random commenters (on ANY article, not just this one) on Candy Addict. At the end of each month, we’ll draw three random comments and they will win!

Your comments must be relevant, non-spam, and more than 5 words long (no comments that just say “Cool!”). Only the first comment per article will count. You also must be a registered Candy Addict. The more good comments you make on our articles, the more entries you have for the giveaway each month.

If you can’t wait to see if you win a copy of the game, they are available right now at your local Target store.

NOTE: I can only send the games to U.S. addresses. Candy Addict doesn’t have a massive postage budget!

UPDATE: Only the first comment per post will count.

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We recently reviewed Loud Truck Gummies and found them to be quite tasty and full of vitamins and energy. As a special treat for our Candy Addict readers, Loud Truck has given us some great Loud Truck items to give away. We have some Loud Truck Gummies, a green Loud Truck ballcap, and a green long-sleeve Loud truck t-shirt. (The hat and t-shirt are AWESOME and I wish I could win them.)

So here’s the deal - we’ll have two winners - one will win Loud Truck Gummies and the ballcap, one will win Loud Truck Gummies and the t-shirt. To enter, email us at DELETED with a subject of Loud Truck Gummies Giveaway (if you do not use the correct subject, your entry will not be counted). In the email, put your Candy Addict username (if you don’t have one, register to be a Candy Addict user), the email you used to register on Candy Addict, and the name of the country that the guarana used in Loud Truck Gummies comes from (you can find this on the Loud Truck Gummies website).

Send this email to us by midnight EST on Sunday, June 29th. Two winners will be chosen at random from all correct entries.

The fine print
Prizes can be sent to US addresses only. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. One entry per person, per email address. Offer void where prohibited. Not responsible for lost, misdirected, or unread e-mail. If you don’t reply to the winning email in 2 days, your prize will be forfeit and we will choose another winner. Entries must be received no later than midnight EST on June 29, 2008. Two random entries will be chosen as winners from all correct entries.

• Loud Truck Gummies website
• Candy Addict review of Loud Truck Gummies

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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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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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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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Today, March 26, is my birthday. I won’t tell you how old I am but I don’t feel nearly as old as my driver’s license claims. To celebrate, I am giving you some candy. Two lucky readers get a package full of candy each. Candy companies have been sending us so much candy, I have to give away the extras or I’d be toothless and as big as a house.

So, to enter, you must be a registered Candy Addict user. Login, and post a comment on this post and wish me a happy birthday. That’s it. The best birthday wish will win a package full of good candy and a Candy Addict t-shirt. I’ll also choose a random comment to win a package full of candy (no t-shirt though).

Entries are only accepted for the 24 hours of March 26 (EST). Sorry, only open to residents of the United States (shipping is expensive).

UPDATE: Entries are no longer being accepted. Comment #66 was the last one to make the cut.

UPDATE #2: The winner was oakling for the ASCII art - I’m an old school computer geek at heart. The other winner was jessleighj

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Good news Candy Addicts! Our friends over at Wrigley are showing the holiday spirit and want to share some of their great products with Candy Addict readers! We’ve decided to have a Wrigley Trivia Contest to determine who gets the free goods!

There will be 5 winners, each will receive 3 Wrigley Heritage Tins (Juicy Fruit, Doublemint and Spearmint) and 3 Life Savers Orn-o-mints (in red, green and blue). The first person to submit the correct answers will win one prize pack and the other four winners will be randomly chosen from all correct winners.

Here are the details on the prizes:

Wrigley’s Heritage Tins are decorated as your favorite Wrigley’s flavor, Doublemint(r), Spearmint(r) or Juicy Fruit(r) and contain (12) five-stick packs of gum; four of each of these well loved brands. The vintage inspired tins fit wonderfully in a stocking or add flavor to any holiday coffee table or countertop. Post holidays when the gum has been chewed, the tins can be re-used to organize and store small household or office items.

Life Savers Orn-o-Mints are the perfect holiday gift or entertaining accent and are filled with iconic Life Savers candy. When decorating a tree or your home for the holiday, Life Savers Orn-o-Mints are a perfect compliment. Available in three colors, blue, red and green, the ball shaped “orn-o-mints” are a fun edition to any holiday setting. They can also be used to spice up any holiday gift when tucked next to a gift tag.

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