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The Ultimate Candy Search Engine

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candy search engine

Today, February 1, 2011 marks a big day for Candy Addict. We can now reveal to you something we have been working on for a bit – our new candy search engine. We loaded up the contents of 14 different online candy stores (soon to be more) and made their stores all searchable in one place. We currently have 18,512 items in there but that will be growing all the time as we add more stores and candy. The database will be kept up to date so that if you find it in a search, it should be available to buy.

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Name That Candy: Pineapple Knight’s Jousting Weapon Lollipop

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Question Marks

Recently, we had another reader who was stumped about a candy she remembered and came to us to help figure it out. Here is what Rosario said:

Can’t find this lollipop. It has three flavors the largest flavor was pineapple,then sour apple and the smallest amount of cherry. and it was cone shaped.

Ok, that’s not a lot to go on so I interrogated her and got this in the next email and then it was clear what she remembered:

  • Approximate year you had the candy?1988-91
  • Was the candy purchased individually or in a pack/bag of multiples? individually
  • What was the wrapping like? Colors? Designs? Paper? Foil? etc…… i think that it may be clear wrapping, plastic.
  • What was the size of the candy? Individual pieces? a bar? etc. If i remember right it was about as long as a regular size snicker bar, and the circumference of the end with the paper stick was about the size of a quarter, the other end was smaller then a pencil’s erasers. It was shaped like like a knights jousting weapon.
  • The the main flavor was pineapple, then something green and down by the paper stick it was red.

Has anyone else figured it out?

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Jelly Belly Wants You To Eat Your Peas and Carrots

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jelly belly peas and carrots mellocreme

Next month, Jelly Belly will be launching a new Peas and Carrot mix designed to look like the ever (NOT) popular vegetable side dish. The candy peas and carrots will not be jellybeans but will be mellocremes in apple and orange sherbet flavors (which is MUCH better than candy that actually tastes like peas or carrots – blech!). Look for these on store shelves in February of 2011.

jelly belly peas and carrots mellocreme bag

Free Tic Tac T-shirts for Canadian Candy Addict Readers

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Tic Tac guyI heart small fun
Remember Tic Tac’s Small Fun Revolution Campaign? Tic Tac has now picked their Small Fun Champion! The winning video is “Not Just a Mint” – a video full of Tic Tacs and claymation goodness!

Now that the contest has ended, Tic Tac would like to offer our Canadian Candy Addict readers a chance to wear the Small Fun Revolution. The first 50 Canadian Candy Addict readers to email tictac@noisedigital.com before August 15, 2010 with:

  1. The name of the winning video
  2. Preferred t-shirt design (“Tic Tac Guy” or “I Heart Small Fun”)
  3. Preferred t-shirt size (Sizes are S, M, L or XL)
  4. Their Canadian mailing address

will receive a free Tic Tac t-shirt! (how cool is that?!?!?) What are you waiting for? Send that email! (If you don’t have a Canadian mailing address, you cannot get the free tee)

Hershey’s Wants To Share the Love With You (aka Hershey’s Candy Giveaway!)

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hersheys basket

Did you know that every time you buy Hershey’s part of the proceeds go to support the Milton Hershey School? The school began 100 years ago as a dream and vision shared by Milton Hershey and his wife Kitty. Unable to have children of their own, they took their wealth and created a home and school for orphaned boys in 1909. After his wife died, Milton Hershey gave his entire fortune to the School. Mr. Hershey has been quoted as having said, “The School was Kitty’s idea. If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile.” One hundred years later, Milton and Kitty Hershey’s legacy lives on and has educated thousands of students. You can read more about Milton and Kitty’s story and the school at www.thehersheylegacy.com.

THE GIVEAWAY
To celebrate 100 years of giving, Hershey’s wants to give two lucky Candy Addict readers a gift basket like you see above full of things like Kisses, Twizzlers, Whoppers, Reese’s, and much, much more. To enter, post a comment below sharing your own story of uncommon love in general, a story about favorite Hershey’s candies from childhood or adulthood, or a story about how a (your?) child loves Hershey’s candy. We will pick our favorite as one winner and the other we will choose randomly from all valid entries.

Be sure and use your REAL email address (it will not be shown on the site) when you post a comment and make sure you do not auto-mark na email from candyaddict.com as SPAM. You can’t win if you can’t receive the winning email!

Offer open to U.S. residents only and prize must be shipped to a U.S. address. Limit one entry per person. Entries accepted until midnight EST, May 14, 2010. Winners must be 18 years or older to win. Void where prohibited by law. If the winner does not reply by email within 48 hours when we send the winning email, the prize will be forfeit and another winner will be chosen.