Favorite Candy

[Rich84]

Dark chocolate covered raisins from a local chocolatier. They cost about a million dollars a pound. Once you eat their chocolate you will never eat another Hershey Bar. My wife says it aint worth the calories.

[Gotenntitans]

Fall always brings candy corn. I love it. Also, I'm a huge peanut brittle fan. There's a candy company in Arkadelphia, Arkansas called Juanita's that makes peanut, pecan, & cashew brittle. Gallon buckets of the stuff don't last long around my house!

[Big Kev-O]

The See's Awesome Nut & Chew Bar is #1 on my list. It makes all those Hersey & Mars candy bars seem like child's play.

But I will still won't pass up a Whatchamacallit, Heath, 100 Grand, Reese's Sticks or Chick-O-Stick.

[1slo64]

Originally Posted by Getter-Done

Has anyone seen a Zero bar lately

They were in the vending machines at work up until late last year when we swapped vendors.

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by lockdoc

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[1970 CST Short Wide]

Candy?? Yes, I like candy, ALL Candy, I even make my own. Partial to Frozen Snickers

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by Getter-Done

Has anyone seen a Zero bar lately

Originally Posted by 1slo64

They were in the vending machines at work up until late last year when we swapped vendors.

I checked at the grocery store this morning and didn't see any. They have cut back on the candy selections though.

LockDoc

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

I checked at the grocery store this morning and didn't see any. They have cut back on the candy selections though.

LockDoc

So there was zero available?

[kingsolver72]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

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I just had a bacon and lettuce sandwich for lunch.. no tomato unfortunately. Bacon is my favorite Candy.

My mom and grandma made some fantastic peanut brittle back in the day!!!
I sure do miss that stuff..so now my go to is peanut m&ms or almond m&ms.

[richard2717]

Originally Posted by special-K

Once you get away from all that sugar it becomes a bit too much. Not preaching, do as you like, just not for me.

Same here Tim, I gave up sugar and other things last Feb and have dropped almost 100lbs because of it. Changed all my eating habits and have been able to maintain the loss as well unless ........

Originally Posted by kingsolver72

I just had a bacon and lettuce sandwich for lunch.. no tomato unfortunately. Bacon is my favorite Candy.

......I get offered a bacon anything I would take bacon over any kind of candy

[FleetsidePaul]

Don't get me wrong. I love bacon as much as the next guy. Probably more.

But... It has it's place. The new trend seems to be to put it on anything and everything.

To me, It belongs next to a side of eggs or a BLT, or on a cheeseburger. Not on ice cream or something weird. Just leave it alone. It's fine the way it is.

I feel the same way about Bleu Cheese. They put it on everything now. It belongs in salad dressing. I don't particularly like Bleu Cheese but my favorite salad dressing is full of it. Just don't throw it on everything.

I guess that I'm stuck in my old ways.

[Getter-Done]

Originally Posted by 1slo64

They were in the vending machines at work up until late last year when we swapped vendors.

I am glad to hear they are still making them.

Originally Posted by LockDoc

I checked at the grocery store this morning and didn't see any. They have cut back on the candy selections though.


LockDoc

They don't even have M & M's at my Dollar stores


This is going to be A Great Thread

[Sheepdip]

Yep a while back the craze was bacon on a maple bar/donut so I tried one.....no thank you, way, way overrated. To me they destroyed a perfectly good donut and a perfectly good piece of bacon.

[Getter-Done]

Originally Posted by Sheepdip

Yep a while back the craze was bacon on a maple bar/donut so I tried one.....no thank you, way, way overrated. To me they destroyed a perfectly good donut and a perfectly good piece of bacon.

Agreed

A couple of Weeks ago they brought Doughts to work

Two of them in the boxes was Bacon something

[joedoh]

every christmas the local store has the tub of spice drops that is just green spearmint and red cinnamon. love em, and they are only available for about a month then gone so works well. my kids grew up on em too, one time we found one that was a perfect split between green and red, so we saved it. my wife found it a lot of years later and THREW IT AWAY, said we could just make another like we made that one. arrrrgh.

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

So there was zero available?

I guess you could say there was zero zero available.... Had there been one I could have said there was one zero but you probably would have thought there was 10, and if I had said there was two zero you would have thought there was 20, and if.... NEVER MIND!!!!

LockDoc

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by joedoh

every christmas the local store has the tub of spice drops that is just green spearmint and red cinnamon. love em, and they are only available for about a month then gone so works well. my kids grew up on em too, one time we found one that was a perfect split between green and red, so we saved it. my wife found it a lot of years later and THREW IT AWAY, said we could just make another like we made that one. arrrrgh.

Holiday candies are a weird phenomenon. You can only get them on specific holidays. You can't get Peeps unless it's Easter, you can't get Ghiradelli peppermint squares until Christmas. I for one would eat them all year long. I suppose that I could get them on Amazon for a small fortune.

I can't even find cranberries in the market until the holidays. I like cranberry sauce on a lot of stuff all year long. And the canned stuff isn't nearly as good as I make it.

And whatever happened to the toasted coconut marshmallows? I loved them as a kid. Haven't seen them in years.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

I guess you could say there was zero zero available.... Had there been one I could have said there was one zero but you probably would have thought there was 10, and if I had said there was two zero you would have thought there was 20, and if.... NEVER MIND!!!!

LockDoc

Sorry Leon. I misspoke. I should have said zero zero.

I looked for them today too. I got zero.

I don't even remember what they were. Never had one. Apparently I'm not the only one.

I don't think that Zero was the best choice to name a candy bar. It insinuates that you get nothing. They need to reserve that name for taxes.

[kingsolver72]

I’m wondering if there was candy in the safe?
Zero is not a number. It’s a placeholder or candy.
Zip,zilch,nada,nothin’,zero…goose egg.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Holiday candies are a weird phenomenon. You can only get them on specific holidays. You can't get Peeps unless it's Easter, you can't get Ghiradelli peppermint squares until Christmas. I for one would eat them all year long. I suppose that I could get them on Amazon for a small fortune.

I can't even find cranberries in the market until the holidays. I like cranberry sauce on a lot of stuff all year long. And the canned stuff isn't nearly as good as I make it.

And whatever happened to the toasted coconut marshmallows? I loved them as a kid. Haven't seen them in years.

What about fruit cake? Does anyone eat those or are they all the first batch ever made recirculated? I see and hear about it less these days. I suppose that's due to the few that actually get opened, sampled, spit out, and tossed in the trash. Slowly they will go the way of the dinosaur. I think they are about that old

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by special-K

What about fruit cake? Does anyone eat those or are they all the first batch ever made recirculated? I see and hear about it less these days. I suppose that's due to the few that actually get opened, sampled, spit out, and tossed in the trash. Slowly they will go the way of the dinosaur. I think they are about that old

They can't go away fast enough to suit me.

[LockDoc]

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That's because you have never eaten Sister Ludmilla's fruit cakes....

When I was on the Davenport Fire Department Sister Ludmilla made Fruit Cakes for all of the department members that had to work on Christmas day. Only problem was that she put so much Brandy in them that we weren't allowed to eat them while we were working. We had to take them home...... If you weren't a drinker those things would knock your socks off.

LockDoc

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

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That's because you have never eaten Sister Ludmilla's fruit cakes....

When I was on the Davenport Fire Department Sister Ludmilla made Fruit Cakes for all of the department members that had to work on Christmas day. Only problem was that she put so much Brandy in them that we weren't allowed to eat them while we were working. We had to take them home...... If you weren't a drinker those things would knock your socks off.

LockDoc

Sister Ludmilla sounds like my kind of gal.

I suppose that you could possibly make a good fruit cake. But I've never come across one.

[Steeveedee]

I guess if you squeezed all the brandy out, you could drink it and run the rest through a saw for door stops.

[FleetsidePaul]

I had a fruitcake around for about 20 years.

But I divorced her.

I saw a TV show that showed a place making fruitcakes and believe it or not they actually looked pretty darn good. Maybe you really can polish a turd.