Monthly Archives: December 2005

New Candy from JunkFoodBlog

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Skittle Ice Cream Flavor

The Junk Food Blog has found a BUNCH of new candies coming out:

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candy, skittles, chocolate, new+products, snickers, mms, twix

Chocolate Elton John

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Chocolate Elton John

You know you’ve made it big when your likeness has been done in food. Earlier this year, Darth Vader and Yoda were made from butter at the Tulsa State Fair and today I found out that on June 14 of 2005, Elton John was done in chocolate. Quite a likeness too!

Madame Tussauds crafted the statue from 126kg of Dairy Milk, after Elton John was named in a Cadbury survey as the most favourite choice to be cast in chocolate.
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and it’s lifesize – that’s a whole lotta chocolate Elton!

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The history of chewing gum

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Chewing Gum
(photo by Flickr user “sometimes rains in JUN”)

While poking around online today, I found a number of webpages that talk about the history of chewing gum. Some interesting facts:

  • The ancient Greeks chewed mastiche – a chewing gum made from the resin of the mastic tree.
  • The ancient Mayans chewed chicle which is the sap from the sapodilla tree. (that’s where Chiclets must get their name)
  • Thomas Adams first tried to change chicle into automobile tires, before inventing a chewing gum that tasted good.
  • In 1848 John B. Curtis developed and sold the first commerical chewing gum called The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.
  • On December 28 1869, William Finley Semple became the first person to patent a chewing gum – U.S patent #98,304.
  • By 1888, an Adams’ chewing gum called Tutti-Frutti became the first chew to be sold in a vending machine. The machines were located in a New York City subway station.
  • The very first bubble gum was invented by Frank Henry Fleer in 1906. He called it Blibber-Blubber. Fleer’s recipe was later perfected by Walter Diemer, who called his product Double Bubble.

For more facts, read the history of chewing gum at:

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New Web Host

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If you are reading this, then our move to a bigger, better webhost (BlueHost) has succeeded. Our previous webhost (whom I would not recommend if you want reliability) was down a day or two each month and I finally had enough.

Bear with me as I get the site all moved in to the new host. I think the only thing not back up yet is the forums and I’m working on it. If you find anything else not working, please drop me a line and tell me.

And….if you ever need a web host and do sign up with BlueHost.com, use this link to signup and I get a kickback (helps me pay for candy) :) !

Thanks!
Brian (aka The Candy Kid)

Candy Review: Japanese KitKat – Noir and Wine flavors

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I’ll admit it….before I started this site, I had no idea candy companies made their candies in different flavors in other countries. Well, they do. Recently, Hershey’s has come out with multiple new flavors in the U.S. – Extra Creamy, Coffee, White Chocolate, Orange Creme, and Mint. In Japan, Kit Kat is made by Nestle and now also comes in Noir, Wine, Strawberry, and White Maple Syrup. The reviews for Strawberry and White Maple Syrup are coming next week. For an amazing full list of Kit Kat flavors (with pictures), check out the Wikipedia Kit Kat page.

The Reviews:


Kit Kat Noir

Noir: Both the Noir and Wine flavors come in small boxes containing 16 mini Kit Kat bars which are so freakin’ cute. The outside of the Noir is covered by a dark, bitter chocolate, there is a nut cream between the wafers, and it is dusted with a rich cocoa powder. The Noir Kit Kat is good…really good. It tastes expensive and decadent – not two words I usually associate with Kit Kat. If you like Kit Kat and dark chocolate, you should love Noir Kit Kat.

Kit Kat Wine

Wine: I don’t like red wine at all, so I was expecting to dislike this flavor, but I was pleasantly surprised. It didn’t taste like wine to me or my wife. It’s a super-creamy, slightly strawberry-ish flavor that tastes really good. The description of it says it has a distinct wine aftertaste, but I didn’t taste it at all. Despite (or because of it) the fact that it didn’t taste like like wine to me, it was quite good if not a bit sweet – almost too sweet. Definitely worth a try though.

Buy Japanese Kit Kat at Jbox.com
Wikipedia Kit Kat page
breaktown.com (Japanese Kit Kat site)