The Wisconsin Candy Dish

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Thursday, July 05, 2012

Popped Corn

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It was 104ยบ today so I said "What the *$@!," and did a movie two-fer. From top to bottom:Carmel & Cheddar, CrazySweet, Un...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Candy Contest: Darrell Lea Liqourice

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The good people from Darrell Lea want to give you free licorice, or "liqourice" if you will (written with an Australian accent). ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Great Grape, Welch's Filled Licorice

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I got two packs of warm Welch's Filled Licorice through the mail and they perked up like a wilted potted plant after cooling off in t...
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Friday, June 22, 2012

Floating Into Summer: The Dish Summer of Root Beer, Test One

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Tall Culver's Rootbeer Float The funny thing about the shade when it's still 95° in it, the point is moot. Especially on con...
Friday, June 15, 2012

A Fistful of Taffy

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.87 Cents Worth of Salt Water Taffy From Shopko I was looking for more Welch's Filled Licorice to shoot before I posted, but e...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

More Toxic Waste: Sour Smog Balls

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You may know it as candy you'd eat after the last cough drop is gone.  Toxic Waste  usually comes in a teeming yellow drum of green ...
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Thursday, June 07, 2012

Triple Lic-ables, Kiss Your Fillings Goodbye

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One of my favorite places to get candy is the video store. For one thing, there aren't many video stores left so "huzzah...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Election Tuesday

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All we can do now is pray and eat Mac and Cheese pizza from Ian's. Wordless Wednesday can be found on the Ched Curtain here .
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Blood and Popcorn

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Clary's Flavored Popcorn True Blood Season 4 came out on DVD and Blu Ray yesterday and it seems I've waited longer than Sookie a...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Better Ate Than Never: Candy 1 to 20

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Pick a holiday. I think Halloween, not represented, is most appropriate. I won't bore you with why I'm posting this now. But i...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Roll Me In Chocolate And Call Me In The Morning

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The Burlington ChocolateFest starts this Friday, a 25-year-old event that somehow slipped my mind the last few years. But it's all co...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

Ice, Ice, Maybe

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It was 86 before it dropped 25 degrees yesterday, but these didn't look all that tempting. On a more exciting note, the Walgreens on the...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Fart Bombs

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Farty Bombs From Syttende Mai Hey These were inexplicably littering Main St. tonight. Glad I wasn't there when they went off. Sa...
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Friday, April 06, 2012

Pimp My Peeps

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It was surprising enough to see how early spring has sprung, but imagine my surprise when I found Peeps blossoming in the trees.
Thursday, January 19, 2012

White Hot Red Hots Jelly Beans

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I kept thinking of Jefferson Airplane's Wooden Ships ("You must try some of my purple berries...") when I was shooting ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

My Crumby Gummi Valentine

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I could not eat them with popped corn. I could not eat them with a Gorn . I could not eat them in a car. I could not eat them in a...
Monday, January 09, 2012

Heavy Hearts

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Sweetarts Hearts Gummies smell as good in the package as Junior Mints do in the box, but the tangy aroma permeates the plastic bag and ...
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Friday, January 06, 2012

Have A Heart

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Sometimes I think  mainstream candy isn't  really trying to come up with new holiday twists. When I started buying Valentine'...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Pigging Out On Candy Canes

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Normally I'd shop for my criminally insane bacon products somewhere like stupid.com , so I was thrilled to look no further than the Urb...
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

A Fistful of GrapeVines

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Coke or Pepsi, Twizzlers or Red Vines, I like all four, but now I love GrapeVines  more. You can almost taste the smell of grape. No, I...
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