The Wisconsin Candy Dish

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Must There Be All These Colors Without Names: Hawaiian Punch Jelly Beans

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Jelly beans are a year round thing now (thank you Jelly Belly). Bags of beans start to fill the shelves like candy canes at Christmas when...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Just A Spoonful of Chocolate

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The NCA's Chocolate Council sent photos and a link to The Story of Chocolate in honor of American Chocolate Week, March 20-March 26. ...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Time Out With Magic Milk Straws

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I love milk , I love the product, the promotional campaign , and that Annie Leibovitz photo of Whoopi Goldberg (who did a got milk? ad as ...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Ice Cream Flavored Eggs

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Knowing that PAAS Splashed Assorted Malted Milk Eggs are ice cream flavored makes them more palatable.They're attractive enough and lo...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

Reese's Peanut Butter Egg Hot Chocolate

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The weeks leading up to Easter can be unseasonably warm or smack you upside the head with the kind of cold it's hard to ignore and not ...
Monday, February 28, 2011

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It's hard to go wrong with a gummi  (that's a very interesting link). These Trolli Gummi Bunnies, out long before Easter, are cute ...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Back To (Easter Candy) Basics: Cadbury Mini Eggs

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I was surprised at the response I got to this quick pic I took at the State Street Walgreen's on Saturday (friend the Dish on Facebook ...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

Chocolate Cream Hearts

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I love the idea of a Valentine's Day cookie. It's not as messy as chocolate and you can do a lot more with decoration. They work w...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Pastry Is Sugar Too

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Today's search for interesting and delectable Valentine's Day candy took me to a bakery. And not just any bakery, Clasen's Bak...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Why Not Ju Ju Hearts

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Don't make me drag out the Gummi Pyramid . It was nice to find candy outside a heart shaped box in the Walgreens holiday aisle today. W...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

My Funny Valentine

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Valentine's Day might not be the number one candy day in the U.S., but it's in the top three so where is all the fun and delicious...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Man Candy

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I thought the Valentine's candy season would be a good time to reacquaint The Dish with our friend, the cocoa bean. But there was no he...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Good Enough To Eat

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That's a weird and possibly disfunctional little saying when you think about it. If you can't eat it, it's not good enough? W...
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Monday, November 01, 2010

Another One Bites The Dust

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All the Jack-o-lanterns have been washed down the river (except the ones at my house which have a tendency to rot) All the scarecrow gho...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Favorite Costume

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A lthough I've been taking Halloween photos on State Stree for a few years now, this costume might be my favorite. It was pretty touchin...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Favorite Halloween Gross Out Candy

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O ne of my favorite gross out candies this year was a tray of Sushi Eyeballs with green apple dipping sauce. I was surprised how popular th...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Ritter Halloween e-Card and Candy Raffle

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A lthough the Off Color Things My Italian Family Said Contest on the Dish Facebook page is over, there's still plenty of Halloween fun ...
Friday, October 08, 2010

Brilliant! Blood Slide Candy

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When I followed the link from Sweet Obsessed to Waylou to forkable I found the brilliant mind and steady hand behind these Dexter insp...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

James J. Moves to Midvale

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One of my favorite candy stores, James J. Chocolate Shop , moved to their new location at 1310 S. Midlvale Blvd. last week (Monday was Day ...
Monday, October 04, 2010

Be Still My (Gummy) Heart

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So you thought I wouldn't eat it, did you? I tried to pass off this Monster Lab Gummy Heart With Candy Fluid on more than one occasio...
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