Today is National Gummi Worm Day. The worm was spawned by the success of the Gummibar, a small affordable fruit-flavored gum candy created by a German confectioner in 1922. He was inspired by the trained bears seen at street festivities and markets in Europe. Today the gum candy treat can be enjoyed in an array of flavors and shapes
Is Halloween your excuse to grab that sugar rush? Eating candy on Halloween is a tradition you don't want to give up? Then this might be a wake-up call!
This year, some children in Fargo, North Dakota may get a bigger trick than treat when hitting the streets for trick-or-treating. That's because a woman in the city has decided to take a stand against childhood obesity, which on its face it's a noble effort. However, the method in which she is doing it is turning heads.
There’s one single treat in the history of all candy deliciousness that makes us feel so torn. Candy corn -- we hate to love it and love to hate it. How is it possible it can taste so bad, yet be so irresistible? It’s a Halloween trick AND treat. (See what we did there?)
It’s that time of year again when we apologize to our pancreas and then eat until we're sick -- Halloween candy season! Everywhere we turn, we’re bombarded with chocolate and gummies and sour things and those peanut butter taffies in the wax paper wrapping that no one ever eats. Somehow those things have survived the ages but our favorites have gone by the wayside. It’s bittersweet heaven on earth
Candy corn. We love it. It’s delicious and is the cure to all the world’s problems. Aside from those irrefutable facts, we know nothing about the confectionery delights. Perhaps we should know more. But how, HOW can we learn more?!? Oh interwebs, you’ve rescued us once again!
Every year, it hides in some dark, dank corner of even the most raucous Halloween party, waiting for some unknowing fool to stick their hand in its clutches of doom. It entices its prey with colorful designs and the promise of sweet joy, only to fill its victims with a familiar sense of bland, flavorless dread
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Here are some of our favorite candies that are only available from roughly the second week of January to February 15th, when they are wonderfully half price!