UPDATE: CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED

Our friends over at Hershey’s have given us a great little prize pack to give to our readers to help promote their summer s’mores giveaway… the package includes: a six pack of Hershey’s chocolate, a bag of Jet-Puffed Marshmallows, a box of Honey Maid Graham Crackers, four telescoping S’mores skewers in a branded Hershey’s case (I have a set of these and they are awesome), and Rascal Flatts’ newest CD “Unstoppable.”

HOW TO ENTER: Just leave a comment on this post before Friday, April 30th, 2010 at midnight EST. Leave a comment about s’mores – make us laugh, make us cry, make us smile. Anything that has to do with s’mores and evokes an emotion. The winner gets the prize pack! Be sure and use your real email address when commenting and make sure emails from candyaddict.com don’t get labeled as SPAM. While you’re at it, go visit PureSmores.com!

Offer open to U.S. residents only and prize must be shipped to a U.S. address. Limit one entry per person. Winners must be 18 years or older to win. Void where prohibited by law. If the winner does not reply within 48 hours to us when we send the winning email, the prize will be forfeit and another winner will be chosen.

Nothing says summertime fun like country music and the classic combination of pure Hershey®’s Milk Chocolate, graham crackers and marshmallows. Hershey®’s brand and Rascal Flatts have partnered to help fans celebrate summertime S’mores with the release of “Your Day to Get Away,” an exclusive downloadable song. For a limited time, the first 350,000 fans to visit PureSmores.com can download the Rascal Flatts’ song specially crafted for Hershey’s S’mores.

Drop by PureSmores.com to find S’mores recipes, the Rascal Flatts download, and a bunch more S’mores stuff!

• PureSmores.com

Did you know that houses with black shutters are 77 percent more likely to hand out Kit Kats than other houses? Yeah, me neither. Weird. If I had a black shutters (or even a house, for that matter), I’d be compelled now to ensure that I didn’t hand out Kit Kats. That’s just how I roll. But that and other rather odd facts can be found in a press release issued by Hershey’s.

They’re also happy to announce that this year will also see a variety of new snack sized candies (including Hershey’s Kisses) for trick-or-treaters. Apparently nobody bothered to read my scientific (ahem) study of smaller sized candies. But I will admit those Reese’s pumpkins are really darn cute.

• Hershey’s Dresses up Halloween with Frightfully Delicious Treats Press Release

I don’t know what it is with me this spring – first I reviewed Barbie chocolates, and now I’m chowing down with Disney. Courtesy of the All Candy Expo stash, I got to try these whimsical little chocolates before they hit the market.

As it turns out, you get a three-tiered Disney bonanza with these babies.

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The last few Twizzler spin-offs haven’t really been anything special for me. Despite the popularity of the cinnamon variety, they just weren’t my thing. The same holds true for the less popular Rainbow Twizzlers. Actually, I don’t really care for any Twizzlers that aren’t the strawberry or cherry flavors.

At the All Candy Expo, I was given a complimentary tote bag to lug around all the goodies I would be receiving, and it happened to be already filled by an assortment of products, including those donated by Hershey’s. I guess they were trying really hard to make sure no one in press missed any of their new products.

It wasn’t until I began cataloging my hoard that I even noticed the red and yellow Twizzlers in my bag. “New Twizzlers Sweet and Sour Filled Twists” the wrapper advertised. I wouldn’t have every picked these up at a store, but since I was given them it couldn’t hurt to try them.

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