I'm going to go eat some chocolate now to see if I can get rid of the taste......

should have just started on the chocolate in the first place...what I wouldn't do for a nice Cadbury whole nut chocolate bar right now! Hmm...now I'm hungry!

Is it the same though? I thought Cadbury over here was made my Hershy--but if you'll endorse it, I'm on my way to Walmart tonight...it makes sense, Walmart just bought out Aldo--it's weird going into the grocery store over there and seeing the happy rollback faces! A little too much sharing of cultures if you ask me!

Yuk, that sounds really nasty, will definately be avoiding that stuff. Cadbury's is absolutely gorgeous, way way better than Hershey's. It's sooooogood. mmmmmm...I found it in Publix down in Florida .

-Scarlett x

No way. Hershey's rules! It's the Great American Chocolate bar. Some people just aren't up for it. Hershey's with almonds is as good as it gets.

Cadbury is obviously lower in cocoa and higher in fat and sugar. It's like starter chocolate, strictly for babies.

Does Cadbury have it's own amusement park? Didn't think so.

Sorry Dharma--didn't mean to turn your blog into a debate on the merit of Cadbury vs. Hershy...

but we are in complete agreement...Cadbury is a far superior form of chocolaty goodness!

Sorry Dharma--didn't mean to turn your blog into a debate on the merit of Cadbury vs. Hershy

It's ok, I'm actually enjoying it!

Anyone who considers Hershey to be superior has either 1) not tasted Cadbury's or 2) has defective tastebuds.

 

I'm glad you have an idea of how it tastes, Emma!  It's truly yukky.  My newly 8 -year-old Jake said it tastes "worse than liver and onions", so you know it has to be particularly bad for a kid to say that!

It's very, very nasty.  Trust me.  Are you nursing?  Because I sure wouldn't want your Alysia getting any of it passed on to her!

Well the nastier things taste now the more the kids like them. I hated how blatantly they were plugging the damn jelly bean thing in the last HP movie. How about making a movie and not a fucking two hour commercial?

So is it as bad as it is in the books

Yes. There are sardine, booger, vomit, black pepper, grass, horseradish, earwax....sardine is particularly nasty. The first sardine one I had was whilst I was driving and I ended up pulling over to pick it out of my teeth. Earwax was one that I didn't recognize the taste of at first...it wasn't until i had chewed a couple of times that it dawned on me what the flavor was. Here's what I don't understand: how do they make those flavors? Do they have someone to taste real earwax and then compare the jellybean taste to the real deal? On the nice side of the house, there are buttered toast, marshmallow, and the usual jelly-belly flavors. I still don't like Shrek candy though. The color is enough to put anyone off......

And this just helps my theory that chocolate is an adequate solution to ANY problem, ANY where, ANY time

Yes, chocolate...the ultimate panacea, the balm that will soothe all wounds....I believe that if we all ate more chocolate we'd all be much happier.  Fatter, but happier.

There is some nasty candy out there. I've seen candy dirt, sold within a small bucket with complete with a little rake. Inside, it looked like brown powder. With it being aimed at kids, marketers try to come up with some absurd forms of candy. There is also candy bubblegum crayons sold like the traditional box. It looks gross and because it appeals to kids, they want to try it.

Then again, I'm happy with 3 Muskeeters! Now, that's what I call good candy.

Wonka brought back Bottle Caps, but they aren't as good as I remember them. I think the novelty of cola and root beer flavored sweet tarts is dwarved in comparson to the extreme candy that's out now. Reisen is pretty good. I thought the peanut flavor would seem cheap, like almost all peanut enhanced candy, but it's actually quite good. A local candy shop - Van Otis - makes a product they call Swiss Chocolate Fudge, which is really quite amazing. It's a really high butter fudge with a very subtle chocolate flavor. Imagine the Cadbury philosophy taken to absurd extremes. I like sour gummy cola bottles and the occasional atomic fireball. All told, I rarely get around to eating candy. Save my calories for beer.

I have a recipie for milk caramel that is fantastic, but you literally have to stand over the hot stove for an hour. You have to stir in evaporated milk really slowly to avoid scalding it or cooling the batch too much. It you rush it, you get a sort of clotted texture. There's no way I'll make them until summer is over. Even then, cutting and wrapping them is a major pain. It's hardly worth it, even though it's better than anything you can buy. I'll post it if anybody has any interest.