Sugar Savvy

On Tuesday May 13th, participating Haagen-Dazs Scoop Shops offered a free scoop of their Limited Edition Vanilla Honey Bee Flavor Ice Cream. This flavor will be available through December; however, the company has also recently released Vanilla Honey and Granola Frozen Yogurt as part of its permanent frozen yogurt line.
The release of these two honey-flavored ice […]

M&Ms has a history of movie tie-ins — at least, I know they’ve done tie-ins with Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean in recent years. The Star Wars campaign brought us the Dark M&Ms, which are now part of the permanent lineup. The white chocolate Pirate Pearls didn’t fare quite as well.

This year, the […]

Not too long ago I was standing in the danger zone — read: checkout lane — with my family, trying to figure out the best way to arrange my groceries on the conveyor so that the checkout lad could pack them in such a way that we’d get 12 out of 12 eggs intact at home […]

Amano is one of less than 20 chocolate makers in the United States actually making their own chocolate. This is to say that they begin with raw beans, roast and grind them, and then create small-batch, high quality chocolate bars. Hence the he name “Amano,” which translates to “by hand.” Chocolate savant David Lebovitz spells […]

I have to start by saying that I was rather disappointed in the Limited Edition “Razzberry M&M’s” that Mars recently marketed. I just couldn’t get past the overwhelmingly artificial smell and taste of the raspberry flavoring. So when I heard that they were coming out with a new “Wildly Cherry” flavor I didn’t have high […]

A couple weeks ago I had a run in with yet another limited edition Hershey’s Kiss. My wife received a couple of them decorated with red hearts on the silver foil. The plume read: Dark Raspberry. I wish I had a chance to snap a pic of these little candies, however I’m sans-camera for the […]

Brace yourself (and your children, if applicable) for the sugar rush that the International House of Pancakes, a.k.a. IHOP, has dreamed up. The breakfast-centric restaurant chain has paired with 20th Century Fox for a special cross-promotional menu to celebrate the opening of its film Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Jim Carrey voices the elephant […]

I think the Twix is a tease. It offers a perfect combination of ingredients — shortbread cookie, caramel, and chocolate — but each ingredient shirks its job. This doesn’t make for bad candy, but it’s displeasing when you think about what the bar could be. I feel cheated every time I bite into one. Somehow, […]

With their limited edition Razzberry M&M’s, Mars has further added to an already fairly expansive line of M&M varieties. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! These guys were tasty. I brought them to a party, and they disappeared in about ten minutes.
If Mars had made the packaging and the M&M’s a pale pink […]

Ever eat so much that it feels like you’re pregnant with a humpback whale, you’ve been filled up with cotton and polyester like a soft toy, you can’t even move because you’re so stuffed but can’t remain sitting up straight due to the strain on your back from that bloated belly hanging past your knees? […]