Prices are a complicated motivator. It’s easy to be drawn to a cheap bag of treats, but it’s also almost just as easy (at least for me) to be entranced by a candy that is strangely expensive for what it […]
Candy
Review: Brookside Merlot Grape and Black Currant Flavours chocolates
I’ve already reviewed a different flavour of these little candies from Brookside (“A Division of Hershey Canada,” for what it’s worth), and I both liked them and found them misleading. They show fruit on the bag in a way that […]
Review: Neilson Jersey Milk chocolate bar
Jersey Milk is a functionally abandoned chocolate bar. Yes, it still exists. You can find it without any difficulty in Canada at theatre concessions, in corner stores and in supermarkets. But despite its existence, it’s like nobody wants to talk […]
Review: Ikea’s Bulk Candy Bar (Lordagsgodis)
When Ikea added a bulk candy section to their Swedish food store, I was both excited and perplexed. Why, of all things, would Ikea sell bulk candy? They’d long been supplying the world with Daim chocolate bars and other imported […]
Review: Cuban Lunch Chocolate Bar
I first heard about the Cuban Lunch chocolate bar on CBC Radio last year, then read about it again in Janis Thiessen’s Snacks (Indigo affiliate link!), a definitive history of the early years of the Canadian snack food business. People […]
Review: After Eight mint wafers
As a child, After Eight mints seemed like a very adult sort of candy. Classy packaging, strange format and the cryptic lure of the “After Eight” name. Because what happens after eight, exactly? That would have been after my bedtime, […]
Review: Candy Cane Hershey’s Kisses
White chocolate is polarizing, I know. But I love these Candy Cane Kisses from Hershey’s, and I’ve been meaning to highlight them here for what must be three years. They’re my favourite type of Kisses, and I instinctively buy oodles […]
Review: Carnaby Sweet Candy Corn
I’ve always found it odd how candy corn doesn’t particularly resemble corn. If anything, it’s more like a diseased tooth that’s been yanked from someone’s mouth, root and all. Or possibly a tiny little guitar pick. Corn kernels just aren’t […]
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