June is National Candy Month! What is your all-time favorite candy?

[ajrsmom]

Let's kick of National Candy Month a little early!! :D

There are so many candies that I really like:

just about anything chocolate
Good N Plenty
coconut bars--striped pink, white and brown
M & Ms --especially the dark choc.


Many more too, I just have a brain block right now. lol!

[cat lover]

OMG! What a great topic! My 1st :p favorite is : anything Russell Stover!
And then peanut butter M & M's, Bob's Sweet Stripes ( a peppermint semi hard candy that melts in your mouth! Oh I could go on and on here!:D

[joyann]

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

[sweetnell3]

I like to much candy to choose from . lol

[MAMA3]

Me Too! That Was The Biggest Problem When I Was Pregnant; My Cravings For Candy Get Worse!!!

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Millionaires!:D

[lghtheart4]

My favorite is hard red and white peppermint candies.

Elaine

[cat lover]

The Bob's Sweet Stripes are very close to a hard white and red peppermint candy except they almost melt in your mouth!

[cat lover]

Malted Milk Balls, Malted Milk Balls; how could I have forgotten Malted Milk Balls! LOL

[DeBora4BobbyL]

I also like dark chocolate!

[cat lover]

Is there a special "brand" of dark chocolates you like? My favorite is Russell Stover.

[DeBora4BobbyL]

You will know how picky I am now. I am not real fond of Russell Stover. Once in awhile I find a dark chocolate that I like. It has to be fresh or I won't eat it. I will special order it or buy it in a specialty store. Thus far, I have found dark chocolate covered expresso beans that my DH gets me from TX. They are wonderful!

[cat lover]

I've seen those, and even though I LOVE coffee and I LOVE chocolate, I just haven't been able to try those! Can you describe the flavor?!?!

[DeBora4BobbyL]

If you get the milk chocolate flavored expresso beans, then it may taste similar to toffee. However, I think the dark chocolate ones have their own flavor! I LOVE them. I'm not supposed to have sugar, but I like to have an occaisonal handful during exams in early morning classes.

BTW, I heard on the news today that chocolate helps boost the immune system and has all sorts of other health benefits.

[ajrsmom]

If you get the milk chocolate flavored expresso beans, then it may taste similar to toffee. However, I think the dark chocolate ones have their own flavor! I LOVE them. I'm not supposed to have sugar, but I like to have an occaisonal handful during exams in early morning classes.

BTW, I heard on the news today that chocolate helps boost the immune system and has all sorts of other health benefits.

I heard the same thing today. :)

I also love choc. Espresso beans!!

[DeBora4BobbyL]

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who likes these. People see me eating these and tell me how gross it is when they find out what it is. LOL

[cat lover]

Yeah; now when I eat chocolate I can tell whoever is giving me a hard way about it that I'm eating "healthy"! LOL

[Fish3711]

Ahh another chocolate lovers thread. I too heard that chocolate is good for you, especially dark chocolate. I love the Dove's brand of dark chocolate. As far as favorite candy bar goes, I love so many... reeses, york peppermint pattie, snickers [i just recently read what they make snickers of but I won't ruin it for the rest of you.], almond joy, malt balls, whatchamacallit's, twix, kitkat, dove bars, cadburys.... the list could go on forever.
fish3711

[cat lover]

snickers [i just recently read what they make snickers of but I won't ruin it for the rest of you.]
fish3711

Okay now! You can't say something like that and leave us hanging! LOL What in the world is in the stuff? :eek: Pleasssse tell us!:)

[Coll]

I lvoe GUMMY BEARS. The softer the better.

Coll

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Coll, I LOVE them too. When I used to be able to eat sugar, I used to eat them all the time!

Funny story. My then small children, DH, and I were camping. It was dark. I heard this "bug" fly into my hair. I went to grab it out of my hair and it would not come out. In fact, it felt like it was getting closer and closer to my scalp. I panicked and screamed as if I were being murdered. Everyone from the camp area came to rescue me. Guess what? It was a gummy bear!!! The lesson was that you should beware when you have Gummi Bears around children in the dark! :D

[apricot]

My favorite is Almond Joy, then Nestle's Crunch and lots of others.

[DeBora4BobbyL]

I wish they made Almond Joy with dark chocolate. Mounds has dark chocolate, but there are no almonds! Bummer.

[cat lover]

Coll, I LOVE them too. When I used to be able to eat sugar, I used to eat them all the time!

Funny story. My then small children, DH, and I were camping. It was dark. I heard this "bug" fly into my hair. I went to grab it out of my hair and it would not come out. In fact, it felt like it was getting closer and closer to my scalp. I panicked and screamed as if I were being murdered. Everyone from the camp area came to rescue me. Guess what? It was a gummy bear!!! The lesson was that you should beware when you have Gummi Bears around children in the dark! :D
That is toooo funny of a story! LOL:D

[trekmom]

anything chocolate, dark chocolate mostly but if I had to choose then my favorite would have to be midnight/dark chocolate milky way.

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Pam, I am glad I am not the only onw who likes dark chocolate. I cannot find the regualr candy bars like Milky Way or Hersheys dark chocolate anywhere! :confused: I've seen a dozen commercials for the dark chocolate candy bars, I have found none anywhere.

[ajrsmom]

Funny story. My then small children, DH, and I were camping. It was dark. I heard this "bug" fly into my hair. I went to grab it out of my hair and it would not come out. In fact, it felt like it was getting closer and closer to my scalp. I panicked and screamed as if I were being murdered. Everyone from the camp area came to rescue me. Guess what? It was a gummy bear!!! The lesson was that you should beware when you have Gummi Bears around children in the dark! :D

OMG! They always say beware of the bears!!! ROFL!!!:p

[ajrsmom]

Pam, I am glad I am not the only onw who likes dark chocolate. I cannot find the regualr candy bars like Milky Way or Hersheys dark chocolate anywhere! :confused: I've seen a dozen commercials for the dark chocolate candy bars, I have found none anywhere.

Have you tried the new Hershey's Special Dark Choc. bars? They are pretty good.

Betsy Ann's Choc. from Pa. still has the best dark choc. truffles that I have ever had. You can check out their website to see them. They are huge--and expensive--but worth every $$$ to me!!

[ajrsmom]

Okay now! You can't say something like that and leave us hanging! LOL What in the world is in the stuff? :eek: Pleasssse tell us!:)


You HAVE to tell us!! PPPLLLEEAAASSSEEE!!! My husband just talked to someone who used to work in a Rice Krispies plant---after those stories, there wont be any more in my house. :eek:

Now my mind is racing about Snickers!! ;)

[DeBora4BobbyL]

For some reason, I cannot get dark chocolate here or at least I have not found it. I have looked at convenience stores and grocery stores! I have to go to a specialty store to get the fine dark chocolate.

As for the gummi bears, I felt so foolish when several people came to rescue me from the gummi bears! I was so hysterical that it was difficult to keep me still to remove the "bug" out of my hair! None of my children ever fessed up, but I am sure it was my DS!

[cat lover]

You HAVE to tell us!! PPPLLLEEAAASSSEEE!!! My husband just talked to someone who used to work in a Rice Krispies plant---after those stories, there wont be any more in my house. :eek:
;)
I know this is a candy thread, but you mentioned rice krispies so if we have too, we can change that to rice krispie treats and maybe then it will count as a candy! LOL Anyway pleasssse don't leave us hanging about the rice krispies either!:eek: :confused:

[DeBora4BobbyL]

I count Rice Crispie Treats as candy. I made some for our camping trip this weekend.

[joyann]

Debora, your story is hilarious, but I have to tell you what I heard. My husband swears that this actually happened in Knoxville.

A woman was stopped at a red light and when the light turned, she wouldn't move. A girl in the car behind her jumped out and asked if she was all right. The woman said she had been shot in the head. She was holding the back of her head and the girl asked her to move her hand so she could see. Long story short, the woman refused to move her hand b/c she said her brains would fall out-she could "feel" them. Police and paramedics are called to the scene and a medic finally talked the woman into moving her hand so he could take a look. The woman's groceries were in the back seat and a can of biscuits had blown up and one struck her in the back of the head and she was sitting there holding that biscuit to her head insisting that she had been shot. I've often wondered how many police and medical personnel were called out to take care of that biscuit.

[DeBora4BobbyL]

OMG! That is WAY more embarrassing than what happened to me! :eek: I can only imagine the stories like this that police and EMTs could tell about situations like this!

[dval]

My favorite is Reese's Penut Butter Cups!

[cat lover]

My favorite is Reese's Penut Butter Cups!

I love them too! When I feel the "need" and there aren't any around, I go grab the peanut butter jar and a Hershey bar and..... dip that bar right into that peanut butter, but still not as good as peanut butter cup! LOL:D

[Fish3711]

What snickers are made of... I read this in this book called Stiff by Mary Roach. I will have to go back and find it and post her exact words but for now, anything made of nugget has crushed bone in it and something else. I can't remember the something else so I am looking in the book. When I find it I will post her exact words. This is a great book btw, but not for those faint of heart because it is about cadavers. [dead ppl who donate their body and what happens to their bodies] and pretty much how a body decomposes. It was on the best sellers list so I guess I am not the only warped person to read about it.
Fish3711

[cat lover]

Okay , now you have me waiting before I eat any more candy like that! LOL

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Felicia, I am anxiously waiting as well!

[Fish3711]

Here is what it says, According to the Kind & Knox Web site, other products made with cow-bone and pig-skin bases gelatin include, nougat-type candy bar filling, liquoorice, marshmallows, gummi bears, caramels, sports drinks, butter, ice cream, vitamin gel caps, suppositories and that distasteful whitish peel on the outside of salamis.

That's what she says is in all that stuff above. Haven't gone to the website to check it out but I probably will.

For now I'm gonna go eat another snickers and like it.

Fish3711

[DeBora4BobbyL]

LOL Felicia, I was afraid that you were going to say human stuff. I knew that the sausage stuff was made with intestines of animals and I still eat those. This isn't so bad! After today, no candy until October except for a few dark covered expresso beans during early morning classes. I'm going on a diet.

[Fish3711]

DeBora, it doesn't bother me either. I mean we eat animals anyway.. so what's a little chopped bone and pig skin?? [well okay it doesn't sound too appetising but you know what I mean] There is a part in this book about how eating ppl will make you healthier and supposidly one guy got better eyesight from eating human flesh. There is other stuff too about how the egyptians [i think] would have a person who is dying eat just honey. Then when he dies they injected honey in him, and put him encased in a coffin of honey and mark the date. A hundred years later they open it and eat it. It's some kind of healing thing.. they had some disgusting things the chinese ate for healing purposes like poop. YUCK. Sorry but if it has no nutritonal value and your body excretes it out, why oh why would you want to put it back in and think it'd heal you?
Fish3711
sorry if that one totally grossed you ladies out!!

[DeBora4BobbyL]

I personally don't think humans eating humans is healthy. I think that it has been proven that cows eating cows causes mad cow disease. The ONLY time I understood ppl eating humans was when those sports team (forgot which sport) were stuck in a blizzard on the side of a mountain and people were dead. Eating the dead was the only way to survive.

I think people would be surprised to know what all was in their food. Sometimes it's better not knowing. LOL

[cat lover]

Oh wow, I have to get that book and check out that web site! Yeah we probably shouldn't know on most things! LOL

[ajrsmom]

Here is what it says, According to the Kind & Knox Web site, other products made with cow-bone and pig-skin bases gelatin include, nougat-type candy bar filling, liquoorice, marshmallows, gummi bears, caramels, sports drinks, butter, ice cream, vitamin gel caps, suppositories and that distasteful whitish peel on the outside of salamis.

That's what she says is in all that stuff above. Haven't gone to the website to check it out but I probably will.

For now I'm gonna go eat another snickers and like it.

Fish3711


Ok, I'm now sitting here with cold chills running through me! YUCK! I hope that I dont remember reading this, lol!! I like Snickers too and the ingredients haven't hurt me yet! ;) :p

[Fish3711]

The chopped up cow bones don't bother me. Either does the pig skin too much. It does have nutritional value. But eating humans and human excriment does bother me and I can't see how or why they thought that was healing. It had a lot of stuff in there about what they used to do for healing purposes. You see cadavers are used to learn about medical science so that is why she was talking about it. It is a good book though, just at times, hard to swallow, you think omg how disgusting.

Okay back to candy

give me a milky way
fish3711

[trekmom]

definitely, back to candy!;)

I find my Midnight Milky Ways at Food Lion Grocery Store here in NC, we are finally carrying some at Walmart, but they're the bite size and I really want full size bars. I keep asking them to get in the dark chocolate ones again-but they have no answer to that. I have tried the Hershey's Dark Chocolate Bar-great!
I like Reese's PB Cup too-but now with caramel-that is the best!
Have you tried the Mounds Tropical flavors-one is key lime, can't remember the other-actually it might be kind rightly remember right now.

[DeBora4BobbyL]

We don't have Food Lion here as Albertson's bought out all the store possibilities.

[cat lover]

Have you tried the Mounds Tropical flavors-one is key lime, can't remember the other-actually it might be kind rightly remember right now.

Oh that sounds good, I'll have to look for that next trip to the big city! We don't get new things here very fast . Thanks for telling us about that one! Is it available in the dark chocolate?

[Fish3711]

When i was a kid i loved charleston chews, chocolate ones. Now I wonder if my teeth could stand it..... LOL Although I don't have any cavities after 40 years, so maybe they can.
Anyone else like/love those? Or eat one since they were little?
Fish3711

[DeBora4BobbyL]

I vaguely remember those. I don't think I've seen those in years!

[dval]

Charleston Chews are my Mom's favorite. She keeps them in her freezer all the time.

[cat lover]

The only time we seem to be able to get them is at Halloween in one of those mixed bags of candy.

[Fish3711]

My husband loves Laffy Taffy. The long sticky kind and grape flavored.

Fish3711

[trekmom]

remember the other-actually it might be kind rightly remember right now
actually I meant to say it might be almond joy instead of mounds, but I couldn't rightly remember...

Charleston Chews are great, my kids always loved Laffy Taffy too...

[cat lover]

Haven't heard anyone mention Laffy Taffy in years! I guess I didn't eat much of it, I really can't remember the taste of it! Does that mean I'm old! LOL