Everything And Nothing

It wasn't cheating. It was research...

I can't have candy, unless I've never tried it before and it's a review for this blog. And it's on sale. And last week, the coconut M&Ms were 2/$1 at Kroger. I had been avoiding them for a while. I'm not a big fan of coconut and I just couldn't even figure out how M&Ms could possibly taste coconut successfully.

But, luckily, I was wrong. These taste like mini Almond Joy bars. And they are much softer on the inside than the other M&Ms, so I'm guessing they would do well in baking and in ice cream. (I love mini M&Ms in ice cream but they do get hard as a rock!)

I think I'll have to try this Chocolate Coconut M&M Cookie recipe and report back!

Pretzel M&Ms

 
I love chocolate-covered pretzels, so I was looking forward to trying these. But it's not a similar experience at all. It's more of a malted-milk ball taste with a salty afterbite (rather than a sweet). And I'm not a malted milk ball fan, so needless to say... I will be reserving my chocolate calories for my plain and/or peanut M&M's!

Now put a candy-coated shell on a chocolate-covered pretzel... I'm in!
 

Big Mo'

Nascar Nextel Cup driver Dale Jr. recently launched a new candy bar, Dale Jr.'s Big Mo', through R.M. Palmer Company. The name Big Mo' is a play-off of Earnhardt Jr.'s hometown of Mooresville, N.C., and the longtime moniker used for him and his closest friends, the Dirty Mo' Posse.

The candy bar will come in two flavors - creamy caramel and peanut butter. It is scheduled to hit stores in January.

If you play in R.M. Palmer Company's "Big Mo'ment with Dale Jr." sweepstakes, you could be treated to a Big Mo'ment - lunch with Earnhardt and his JR Motorsports race team, a limousine tour of area race shops, suite tickets to a VIP weekend at Lowe's Motor Speedway and $250 spending money. Enter the sweepstakes by visiting www.bigmo-ment.com and typing in the entry code on the inside wrapper of a Big Mo' bar. (The sweepstakes begin Jan. 10, 2008, and will end on April 30.)

WWFD?

What would Freud Do?

He'd satisfy his oral fixation with these watermelon-flavored lollipops, I'm sure. ;)

$27.95 for a box of 24

Malone's Taffy available for Christmas

Malone's State Fair Taffy - as sold at the Mississippi State Fair each year - can be shipped out of town for Christmas. (And they ship just about anywhere.) You can get a 1-pound  bucket for $18 or three for $50, including tax and shipping. Boxes (shown above) are $12. For more information, call Abby Malone at (601) 238-4115. Get your orders in by Dec. 15th to insure Christmas delivery!

[ via Ask Jack Sunn, The Clarion-Ledger ]

The Dark Side

Photo via Candy Blog

I saw these in the grocery store and being the dark-chocolate fan I am, I just had to try it. It's odd, because when you first pop them in your mouth you think, "What's so different about this than the other?" But the more you eat, the more you can see the difference - and the better they taste. They seem to have a bit more chocolate on them than the regular Raisinets to me.

The Candy Blog says it is not really dark chocolate but darker milk chocolate - but they taste great regardless.

Nestle Crunch with Caramel

I'm a big Nestle Crunch fan. I like the original. I like the white chocolate. I like the mini pieces. And the Nestle Crunch with Caramel bars were on sale for 25 cents each at Kroger - so I decided to try it.

Very average.

The caramel and the crunch just don't go together. It's not a nougat-y caramel - it's the runny, liquid kind. And there's just no reason for it to be there.

Or as an ex-boyfriend of mine used to say all the time, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Jolly Rancher Rocks ROCK

When I took Quentin to see The Ant Bully in Orlando, I got my usual kids' movie deal. But they had an unusual candy treat tucked inside - unusual in Mississippi, at least...Jolly Rancher Rocks.

I was quite impressed with the renovation of the candy classic. The candy took all that was good about the classic Jolly Rancher (great sour taste) and fixed most of what was bad with it (lasted too long, stuck to your teeth). And it comes in a nifty container - similar to the M&M minis but oval instead of circular - that I'm sure will have a multitude of uses that I just have not thought of yet. So I'm keeping it nearby in the meantime.f

Only 120 calories in a container too. Not bad.