Confections for Consumption
Today my office officially broke out the Easter candy. Jelly beans, Peeps, and malted eggs. I’ve always enjoyed Easter candy more than Halloween candy.
For one, you never get anything as soft as a Peep in your Halloween sack. Secondly, there is no greater candy than a malted easter egg (when I was a kid I used to lick the colored outside and use it as lipstick. I’m aware of the ridicule this might bring, so SHUT IT!!!). Black jelly beans are always a favorite and the Cadbury eggs are good once a year.
Not sure what this has to do with Easter, but it’s a great time for candy! What are your favorites?
March 23, 2005 in Pop Culture |
I much prefer chewy candy to hard candy. And I have to eat a small box of peeps every Easter. Marshmallow bunnies coated in sugar. Yum.
I also love black licorice flavored anything … including the jelly beans.
Comment by danithew — March 23, 2005 @ 12:13 pm
Sumer loves the Peeps, lets them sit out until they get good and hard. Reminds me, I’ve got a LOTD coming tomorrow on peeps…
Comment by Steve Evans — March 23, 2005 @ 12:50 pm
Try putting the peeps in the microwave. They explode! It’s really fun.
Comment by D. Fletcher — March 23, 2005 @ 12:59 pm
Ok, EWW! to anything like black licorice.
Comment by D. Fletcher — March 23, 2005 @ 1:00 pm
Steve:
Sumer is a true connoisseur — stale Peeps are the best. They reach their perfection when they’ve developed a crust, and are a bit chewy on the surface but still have a soft center. I prefer the bunnies to the (classic) chicks because the bunnies have a uniform thickness to them. And while I know that it’s just colored sugar, I swear that the violet and pink bunnies taste better than the yellow ones.
Rusty:
When you say malted eggs — are these the eggs that have a Whopper-like center? Because I’m not really into those. However, the Cadbury eggs that are chocolate and have a candy coating that has a subtle malt flavor to it — those are the best. You can get a big bag of them at Costco.
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Every year my mom makes (small) bowl-sized easter baskets out of rice krispie treat mixture (mixed with nonpareils [sic?]). She then color shredded coconut green. The bowls then get filled with a handful of chocolate eggs (of various types) and a scattering of jelly beans. She (and, yes, I still get a basket if I visit) then places a couple of Cadbury eggs and a Reese’s peanut butter egg next to the basket.
I think that this year, my wife is going to make candy sushi for Easter. If she does, I’ll be sure to report on the results.
Comment by William Morris — March 23, 2005 @ 1:18 pm
Easter candy made its first appearance at my workplace today too! I think I have to agree that Easter candy is the best. I love those little Cadbury eggs William mentions. I love Starburst jellybeans (they might be available year-round now, but in my mind they’re still Easter candy). And Reese’s peanut butter eggs are good.
But I hate peeps. yuck. The rest of you can have them. And I also don’t like the big Cadbury eggs, the ones with the goopy white and yellow center.
Comment by Heather P. — March 23, 2005 @ 1:56 pm
Hmmm, you make a persuasive case for Easter candy, Rusty. But with candy corn (or–even better–those little candy pumpkins) at Halloween, the Easter bunny’s gonna have to try a little harder to get my vote.
Comment by Rosalynde — March 23, 2005 @ 2:10 pm
I’m diabetic, and I consider myself a recovering sugar addict. I was raised on junk food. My parents used to go to Costco and buy Ding Dongs and Kit Kats in bulk.
Man do I miss it. The horrible thing is, once you stop eating sugar, you lose your taste for it. It doesn’t taste that great anymore. But the smell…man the smell is something else.
My kids have been raised without cookies and candy in the house very often–because for a long time, if it was in the house, I’d eat it. I’m not so bad about it anymore, but my kids don’t really care for it much now. My son never even has birthday cakes on his birthday–doesn’t like them, too rich. They do go bananas over donuts, though. Once I made the mistake of buying an uneven number of donuts and a ruckus ensued that we still to this day refer to as The Donut War.
I’m not that big on Easter candy however. I never really liked straight chocolate that much. Or marshmellow stuff either. Give me Halloween and Sweet Tarts anyday!
Comment by Susan Malmrose — March 23, 2005 @ 2:20 pm
Throwing together different flavors of Jelly Bellys is always a fun experiment. Has anyone had those noxious Harry Potter jelly beans with flavors like vomit and pepper something or other? Those are pretty disgusting.
Comment by Dallin I — March 23, 2005 @ 2:34 pm
Yes. I thought those were so cool.
Comment by Susan Malmrose — March 23, 2005 @ 2:44 pm
I hate Peeps. They’re not even food. Maybe that’s why I love this site where they torture Peeps in the name of science. Be sure to check out the effect of smoking on Peeps.
I have to admit that nothing at Halloween can touch Cadbury Mini Eggs. However, Cadbury should really fire the person who first though, “yes, let’s make the inside of a Cadbury egg look like egg yolk!”
Comment by NFlanders — March 23, 2005 @ 2:59 pm
I completely disagree with the Cadbury egg-hatas.
They are works of genius. The caramel and chocolate creme eggs are also good, but the originals are unique in the world of candy and should be treasured (but consumed).
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Ned:
I think you scooped Steve’s LOTD for tomorrow. But that’s his fault for not adding the link as soon as Peeps were mentioned — with the Web you just don’t have the luxury of sitting on content [of course, I'm a total hypocrite to say this, but...].
I have engaged in Peeps microwave jousting, and I have to say that it is quite fun, but at the same time kind of sad.
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The Bertie Bott’s Jelly Bellies are quite disgusting. I think the worst flavor is sardine. One of the flavors isn’t actually that bad. I can’t remember which — maybe the grass one.
Comment by William Morris — March 23, 2005 @ 3:19 pm
But what conclusions can be drawn about humanity, that we ALL seem to want to torture poor peeps?
Comment by D. Fletcher — March 23, 2005 @ 3:22 pm
WM, not to worry: Flanders has barely scratched the surface of tomorrow’s oeuvre.
Comment by Steve Evans — March 23, 2005 @ 3:58 pm
Reese’s Peanut-Butter Cups. (They come diabolically in Easter-egg form this time of year.) Anything chocolate and peanut-butter based is my downfall.
Comment by R.W. Rasband — March 23, 2005 @ 8:05 pm
Cadbury mini-eggs. Ambrosia! Like M&Ms with amazing chocolate in the middle and a subtle crackly candy crust.
A poem:
Mini-eggs!
all year I Await your arrival
and become sick with gluttony
upon our re-acquaintance.
Why do you torture me?
Comment by Karen — March 24, 2005 @ 10:02 am
R.W.
I’m a huge fan of all the holiday-themed Reese’s — their appeal is simple — the peanut butter to chocolate ratio is better than with the original cups.
Comment by William Morris — March 24, 2005 @ 11:38 am
Steve:
Wow. You weren’t kidding. I mean, I’m a big fan of Peeps, but mainly, you know, as things-that-are-good-to-eat.
Comment by William Morris — March 24, 2005 @ 3:47 pm
Some people take their consumption of Easter confections to its lowest level — combine, smush and devour. When you hit the link, scroll down to see the various stages of Easter consumption in this man’s life:
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/03/25/eating_in_easter_superfun_candy_balls.php
Comment by danithew — March 25, 2005 @ 10:12 am
Somebody needs to bring up Passover Coke. That somebody is me. For those of you outside of the US, don’t worry, you get Passover Coke all the time, but it probably isn’t kosher since I would guess that the production machinery isn’t blessed. Us in the US, we only get it a few weeks a year and only in certain areas. It is Coke with sugar instead of corn. Tastes like the Coke you drank as a child.
Comment by a random John — March 26, 2005 @ 9:10 pm
The Peeps, they are a curin’!
Comment by William Morris — March 28, 2005 @ 3:49 pm