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Nine-Year-Old Spends Parents' Life Savings on Candy

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:03:14 +0000

What does a nine-year-old do with $4,000? Buy candy. A lot of candy.While a kid with four grand worth of sweets paints a humorous picture, there’s a couple in the Ukraine who aren’t laughing. That’s because it was their nine-year-old who found their life savings hidden in a couch and went for the ultimate sugar rush. The [...]

Prices Of Halloween Treats And Other Fall Goodies Going Up

Keith James — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:18:54 +0000

Gas prices aren’t the only thing on the rise this fall and the jump couldn’t have come at a worse time for us consumers. If you think you may’ve already noticed that the apples and apple cider at Price Chopper and all the area cider mills has seen an increase, you’re not going crazy. This [...]

10 Easy Ways to Make Candy Corn Awesome

Cameron Simcik — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:45:14 +0000

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?) We [...]

Mars Cuts King-Size Candy Bars

Althea Fung — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:58:46 +0000

Mars Inc., makers of Snickers and M&Ms, announced Thursday it will phase out the king-size version of its candy bars, the Chicago Tribune reports. The candymaker will stop shipping bars that contain more than 250 calories by the end of 2013. The company’s chocolate brands include Snickers, Twix, 3 Musketeers, Milky Way, M&Ms and Galaxy. [...]

Top 5 Worst Candy Of All Time

Dave Wheeler — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:05:29 +0000

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, men all over the planet are under a world of stress to find the perfect gift. Sometimes the simplest gift can be candy. But, we all know men aren’t simple. They tend to make mistakes, and that could include getting the candy. They would skip getting you the Reese’s [...]

Worst Candies For Teeth

Dave Wheeler — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:24:11 +0000

It always seems like the good things in life are always unhealthy, and totally bad for you. Of course Halloween must be a nightmare for parents, and leave it to dentists to give us something more to be concerned about. In their eyes, all candy is bad, but there are some candies that cause so [...]

9 Things You Didn't Know About Candy Corn

Danny Gallagher — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:26:01 +0000

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. T

Scandybars Blog Shows Gooey Cross-Sections of Yummy Candies – How Many Can You Recognize?

Andrea Rosen — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:15:06 +0000

In the tradition of Scanwiches, a new Tumblr blog has emerged that combines the beauty of fine foods with the technology of the scanner: Scandybars. In it, common and obscure candies are halved and scanned, giving us a good look at the innards of our favorite sweets. See how many scandies you can recognize below [...]