My bold.
It is indeed of Canadian heritage, as shown in this power of hypnosis video.
::tears open greenish package of those peculiar Bottle Caps::
Nothing says “I totally forgot (anniversay/birthday/valentines) and all that was open was Walgreens” like a box of Russell Stover chocolates.
Or you’re a cheap ass.
I love to get candy for a present. I hate, hate destination gifts (out to eat, or to a show). I don’t want anyone picking clothes for me. So candy is my fave. Particularly chocolate!
ETA, jewelry in fine, also.
Also, when you’re wanting s’mores, you really can’t swap in any other chocolate.
There’s an unwriteable portmanteau that may be mine. Closest I can come to spelling it is nasety. We’re talking foods that are simultaneously nasty and tasty, like a Big Mac or Twizzlers or Cheez Wiz nachos. Hershey’s is on the tasty end of the nasety spectrum.
Occasionally Trader Joe’s sells the kind with alcoholic liqueur inside, imported from Hungary. Those are good.
This is true. But if you dissolve it in vodka, it’s not bad.
I think I chime in every time someone says something along these lines, but…
The quality of white chocolate varies just like the quality of milk or dark. I’d agree that it is more difficult to find GOOD white chocolate but it certainly exists. Green & Black’s is my personal favorite but there are others out there, El Rey or Valrhona etc.
His “slightly going from the bar thing” meant “getting a bit off topic from actual candy bars…”
The Dutch like it too. Apparently the ammonium chloride started out being the important part - it was supposed to help with coughs, and it was only drugstores selling this type of candy. I’m not sure if the liquorice was meant to soothe the throat, or if it was just the best thing they could find to cover the taste of sal ammoniac. (=“salmiak” in Finland)
I like the Dutch liquorice that has only a tiny hint of “zout” and is mostly sweet.
I find the Idaho Spud disagreeable. Not because it has potato flavor–(it doesn’t)–but because the whole thing is just so poorly conceived.
I suspect the only reason they’re still produced is because Idahoans eat them out of pity for the company that makes them.
Did you just explain to a poster what his own post meant?
Yes. Yes you did.
Heh - kinda scratching my head over that one too. Where I did err, however, is neglecting to elucidate my previous link with this annoyance, despite the fact that admittedly the Canadian heritage of the Crispy Crunch bar is no further illuminated in the second link, either.
BEST brownie mix ever! Especially the one with chocolate chunks in it.
I bought one one morning, simply because I’d never seen it before and the young lady at the checkout couldn’t tell me anything about how they were. In fact she asked me to let her know what I thought next time I saw her.
So the next time I saw her, I advised her to have someone to share it with when she tried one. Not horrible, or even unpleasant, just way too sweet.
“Created in 1923, this candy bar is a Midwestern favorite!” There’s your trouble, right there. Not to malign an entire region but ‘gourmet’ and ‘midwestern fare’ is not something that readily comes to most Americans’ minds.
Really!? Russell Stover is great!
For me any Twizzler, non-chocolate candy and cheap chocolate candy is unappealing. The only exceptions: Cadbury Eggs and candy corn. The exceptions are consumed only at the appropriate season. I’ve always preferred dark chocolate and am very grateful that good quality dark chocolate is readily available.
Cocoa narcosis is the opposite of suffering.
This reminds me of a recent chocolaty discovery I’ve made. I found at the local supermarket chocolate coconut water. That is, coconut water with cocoa added. It tasted, well, really weird. But my foodie mind knew something was missing: vodka. And, yeah, it’s awesome.
Aldi sells a really good white chocolate bar with coconut and crisp flakes.
NO, it’s NOT. I am in the mid of the midwest, and eat any chocolate I can find. And I’m old, I can tell you about SevenUp Bars and Sugar Babiesand every other way to ingest sugar… but I had never heard of “Twin Bing” until I saw one marked down to 50¢ at a drug store.
True, although things are changing… even the Frozen Tundra is catching up with the rest of the world. Looking out the window, I can see a Poké Bowl lunch spot, a vegetarian “brunch all day” place, an upscale Alsatian restaurant with 40 German tap handles. Oh, and two food trucks! (I think one’s gluten-free/pig-free/taste-free … nothing but hipsters in line, but the other’s Carolina-style BBQ)