Sugar Savvy

Have you ever heard a new word only to hear it time and time again within the next few days? Unless it was gibberish or your attempt at creating a new word, most likely it’s not that the word came into being the moment you heard it. More so the word, or even thing, was […]

First off, I love the size of this Dolfin bar. As someone who is frantically trying to eat as wide a variety of food as possible in the next two months, I really appreciate the 30g size as I can happily eat it in one go before moving onto the next treat in my pantry […]

If my hands get on a bag of one of the best chocolate creations, known as plain M&M’s, there is no stopping me. All over my mother and stepfather’s house there are a variety of the adorable M&M candy men riding in a car, in a fire truck, and sitting on a sofa chair. If […]

In line at the checkout at Target this weekend, my eye fell upon the latest offering from Orbit, which seems to churn out new flavors every other day. And that’s fine with me, since it keeps the time I spend in the checkout lane — a inordinately large chunk of my life it would seem – interesting […]

This little cherry ménage a trois all began when my friend Tripp came across a Twin Bing in Seaside, Oregon, at a candy store specializing in retro and off-beat products. We had both read and about the Twin Bing in Steve Almond’s book, Candy Freak, a few years ago, and try to keep our ears […]

The Cadbury Picnic is a UK bar composed of milk chocolate with toffee, wafer, peanuts, sultanas, and a crispy cereal centre. You can tell it’s British not only from the spelling of centre, but also from the “toffee,” which in British vernacular is actually what we would call caramel. That is, cooked sugar that is […]

Ah the elusive Skybar; a nostalgic bit of American candy history that is often talked about, but difficult to track down today.
According to the Necco website, the Skybar was introduced in 1938 through a dramatic skywriting campaign. Apparently it was the first, and only, molded chocolate bar of its kind to have four distinctly different […]

Feeling under the weather?  Eat some chocolate!  Who needs chicken noodle soup or Gatorade when there are health benefits to chocolate? You see, according to WebMD, dark chocolate helps to lower blood pressure and is rich in antioxidants. 
I had heard the benefits before, but I haven’t personally tested its authenticity since I can’t eat chocolate. Then, one of my […]