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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2020 20:21:15 GMT
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Post by mhynson27 on Sept 16, 2020 2:27:49 GMT
Don't really celebrate Halloween but anything chocolate is good with me!
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 16, 2020 2:32:08 GMT
Don't really celebrate Halloween but anything chocolate is good with me! I don't think anybody "celebrates" Halloween, but it's an excuse for kids to get candy. I'll never understand everybody's love of chocolate, though. Most overrated foodstuff in the world.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 31, 2020 23:37:53 GMT
Skittles, Starburst (and Starburst jelly beans), and Dum Dum lollipops are where it's at for me. I'm especially addicted to the butterscotch, cream soda, lime, and cherry flavors of Dum Dums. I like chocolate candy, but moreso around Christmas or Valentine's.
Not really a fan of any kind of sour candy.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 26, 2020 14:54:52 GMT
Galaktoboureko is perfection!!!! And we also have Toblerone, imported of course. Have you ever tried melomakarona? Sorry, I know, you don't want to talk about it... I had to look that up because I didn't know the name but yes I've had those - awesome - the Greeks get so much out dessert mileage out of honey and nuts! - like several desserts are slight variations on each other but taste entirely unique TerryMontana - This year for Christmas we found an open bakery that makes finikia which I think is the same thing as melomakarona iirc (or sort of close to it?) .......anyway - best Christmas eating ever.........total hitting the food jackpot.......whole trays of this stuff
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Post by TerryMontana on Dec 26, 2020 15:40:29 GMT
I had to look that up because I didn't know the name but yes I've had those - awesome - the Greeks get so much out dessert mileage out of honey and nuts! - like several desserts are slight variations on each other but taste entirely unique TerryMontana - This year for Christmas we found an open bakery that makes finikia which I think is the same thing as melomakarona iirc (or sort of close to it?) .......anyway - best Christmas eating ever.........total hitting the food jackpot.......whole trays of this stuff Yes, finikia is the same thing as melomakarona. Divine taste, right?? I suggest you should visit that bakery again and ask for kourambiedes!!! I could eat them all year long!
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 26, 2020 16:08:30 GMT
TerryMontana - This year for Christmas we found an open bakery that makes finikia which I think is the same thing as melomakarona iirc (or sort of close to it?) .......anyway - best Christmas eating ever.........total hitting the food jackpot.......whole trays of this stuff Yes, finikia is the same thing as melomakarona. Divine taste, right?? I suggest you should visit that bakery again and ask for kourambiedes!!! I could eat them all year long! They absolutely are amazing.......once in a while I used to go to a Greek Orthodox Church (pre-Covid) that has fund raisers and they sell these. For Americans they call them "dirty cookies" because you take a bite and it's powdered sugar everywhere
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jan 18, 2022 4:58:20 GMT
My sister-in-law gave me two giant bags of Starbursts for Christmas and I've been slowly making my way through them... Rankings of the flavors? (Just doing the original b/c I can't remember if I've ever tried the tropical flavors) Mine: 1. Strawberry - 10/10 - Always been my fav. I tend to prefer sweet flavors over tangy ones, so I usually reach for these first. I often have to stop myself from eating waaaay too many of them. Must be pretty popular since I've only ever seen single-flavor bags for strawberry at the grocery store... 2. Lemon - 9/10 - Not as addictive as strawberry, but still great 3. Orange - 8/10 - Maybe a little too much on the tangy side, but still pretty damn good. 4. Cherry - 7/10 - It's fine but it doesn't knock my socks off (It's my wife's favorite flavor and she thinks it's weird I don't like it as much).
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Nov 1, 2022 3:20:52 GMT
So for this October I decided to sample as many different candy bars as I could find and rank them. Half of these I’ve had before, and half I’ve never tried, so it was a fun thing to do as someone who doesn’t eat much candy in general (except around this time of year and during the holidays). I spaced it out over the course of the month and tried two at a time about 3 times a week and split them all with my wife so that I wouldn’t feel awful about what I was doing to myself. I mostly limited it to just the original versions of the candy bars so that I wouldn’t go crazy trying every single variation (like the Snickers brownie thing, the chocolate-covered Payday, etc.). I made an exception for Hershey’s Cookies and Creme since that’s kind of its own thing. Some notes: - Take 5, Payday, Zero, and 5th Avenue are criminally underrated candy bars - Hershey’s Cookies and Creme is vastly superior to classic Hershey’s - Caramello is good, but it’s probably the messiest of all candy bars - Milky Way is best in small doses... like I’d much rather eat the little squares than an entire candy bar’s worth of it because it’s soooooo sweet, it becomes a little much after a while - I’m with Quagmire... Mounds is the worst candy bar ever. Why anyone enjoys eating bland coconut shavings drenched in chocolate is beyond me... Almond Joy is slightly more tolerable though. My ranking: 1. Take 5 2. Butterfinger 3. Payday 4. Reese’s Fast Break 5. Zero 6. 5th Avenue 7. Snickers 8. 100 Grand 9. Twix 10. Heath 11. Skor 12. Hershey’s Cookies and Creme 13. Milky Way 14. Caramello 15. Baby Ruth 16. Kinder Bueno 17. Kit Kat 18. Toblerone 19. Crunch Bar 20. Whatchamacallit 21. Hershey bar 22. Mr. Goodbar 23. Charleston Chew 24. Three Musketeers 25. Almond Joy 26. Mounds Time to hit the treadmill now!
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 1, 2022 3:51:18 GMT
My list of awesome candies:
1. Pass Pass Pulse (Hard mango candies from India filled with a salt and sour powder mixture once you've sucked through them - AMAZING) 2. Tamarindo (Hard tamarind candies from Mexico) 3. Japanese Kit Kats of assorted flavors (strawberry and raspberry are the best, but even wheat is pretty good) 4. Take 5 5. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
And as a special trick, I got some durian soft candies this year. Okay, I got them for me, but I didn't like them very much. They're... fine? But the important thing is that they they STINK UP THE WHOLE ROOM and people can smell wet dog decaying on hot rubber from twenty yards away. It would be hilarious to give these out if any kids actually came to my door, but... that hasn't happened since I've lived here. I'm not on a main street, I guess.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Nov 1, 2022 14:15:25 GMT
Reece’s Pumkins...no contest. Still accurate. #1 by a wide margin
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 1, 2022 17:38:34 GMT
still Starbusts. Got too much candy for the trick or treaters this year and still have a solid half-bag of these damn things left god help me
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Nov 6, 2022 3:11:23 GMT
There’s Reese’s, and then there’s everything else.
Least favorite is Mounds. Ugh.
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 6, 2022 3:55:48 GMT
I have an unhealthy obsession with Reese’s. It’s become pretty much the only candy I eat. I have never tried the big cup with the potato chip pieces in it though. That’s excessive even for me
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2023 19:22:01 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 10, 2023 20:07:55 GMT
Does this redirect to the Onion?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 23, 2023 22:34:08 GMT
Does this redirect to the Onion? Update: Classic dumbfnckery.......showing they never really cared about the lesbian candy community in the first place .........um.........
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 23, 2023 22:40:12 GMT
Does this redirect to the Onion? Update: Classic dumbfnckery.......showing they never really cared about the lesbian candy community in the first place .........um......... It's times like this that I think those people going "we live in a simulation" may be right. This is an attempt by our machine overlords to paper over that they screwed up and have no idea what humanity is really like - a move which ironically seems even less human and more suspicious.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 25, 2023 19:36:02 GMT
Has anybody ever eaten these old candy bar updates from Cadbury? This one is pretty good but I'm not sure why - it's just chocolate and caramel intertwined - so it kills your teeth........I don't know whether to finish the box or experiment on the children next week and let their parents deal with it This the OG descrption and a pic of this version is below: The Marathon Bar was a full eight inches of braided caramel covered in milk chocolate. Mars introduced it in 1973 and thanks to its bright-red package and extra long size, it stood out among the competition. Inch markings printed on the wrapper showed just how long it actually was.
The length was the result of its braided shape but it didn't actually weigh more than standard candy bars of the time. When sales didn't meet expectations in 1981, Mars discontinued it.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 26, 2023 21:23:34 GMT
Reece’s Pumkins...no contest. Still accurate. #1 by a wide margin Rinse and repeat
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