Mama Kat's Writers Workshop - Sweet Tooth vs. Candy


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This Week's Prompt: Do you have a sweet tooth? List your top five favorite candies!
I have not had a zero bar in 20 years, but I can remember the very last time I had one! It was at summer camp, in Desoto Missouri, and I selected it from the canteen cabin. There is something about the way the candy bar tasted, that just reminds me of summer, and summer camp! For one week out of the year, I could eat one every day at snack time, and I did not have to feel guilty about it!

As a teenager, I always had Jelly Belly Beans at home to snack on. I loved combining the flavors to see if I could create a peanut butter sandwich or lemon meringue pie. I would look forward to the seasonal or holiday flavors that only came out at special times of the year. I wanted the special "gum ball machine," dispenser, but could never find one other than the ones I saw at the stores. The Jelly Belly Beans, just reminds me of my youth, and indulging in their sweetness.

When I was in grade school, there was a girls who's church was always having some kind of fund raiser, and nearly every day I would find her at lunch time, and buy a 100 Grand bar from her. I loved the crunch, caramel, and chocolaty goodness in each bite. This past Halloween I secretly ate all of these candy bars from my kids haul...they never noticed!

Any time I go to the movies, and buy theater candy I buy raisinets! I love them, and can easily polish off a box, if I don't pace myself! Some where in the back of my mind I tell myself that raisins are healthy, right? (Darn, they just happen to be covered in chocolate...oops.) 

For as long as I can remember, Rolos have been available in the super market isle, and I can remember my mother buying them for me. I would eat them very slowly, and make the little package last a few days by only eating one or two! I would open the gold foil as if it was real gold leaf, and find other uses for it once, I had eaten all of the caramel candy. Funny how candy brings back so many fond memories!

What is your favorite candy? If you could eat candy at any time and not feel guilty for eating it, what would you buy? Does candy remind you of your youth?

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  1. Liz MaysAugust 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM

    When you start talking chocolate and caramel, you are speaking to ME! I love 100 Grand Bars and Rolos. Did you ever try Marathon bars? They were braided caramel dipped in milk chocolate and they were sublime. Super messy because the chocolate fell off in pieces, but oh so nom nom. I also love Milk Duds...basically anything with chewy caramel.

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    1. Jenny FortnerAugust 9, 2012 at 11:31 AM

      Liz, I can not believe I forgot Milk Duds! Chocolate and caramel are just delish!! You are a gal after my own heart!

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  2. EstherAugust 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM

    How could I forget Raisinettes and 100 Grand? Yum.

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    1. Jenny FortnerAugust 9, 2012 at 11:32 AM

      Thanks Esther for stopping by! Happy to see a fellow sweet tooth fan!

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  3. NatteringNicAugust 9, 2012 at 9:00 AM

    1000 Grand is the best! I'm Canadian and we don't have it here so when I'm in the US, I stock up!

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    1. Jenny FortnerAugust 9, 2012 at 11:34 AM

      Ive never given much thought to not being able to get a hold of my favorite candy...the world just might stop spinning! No, I would just find new candy to fall in love with native to the country I was in! :)

      Thank you for stopping by!

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  4. MelanieAugust 9, 2012 at 9:39 AM

    Snickers bars hands down! I would eat them all day if I could. But then again I really love Reese's Pieces. We didn't eat much candy growing up. But my dad always got a Russell Stover Sample box at Christmas and I loved digging through to find just the right piece.

    Thanks for stopping by my place. I don't feel productive at all so thanks for the compliment!

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    1. Jenny FortnerAugust 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM

      Wow, the memories are flooding back! My Grandma always had a Russell Stover Sampler at her house, my cousins and I would spend forever trying to guess what fillings were in the chocolate, while grandma hid the lid with the details. Sadly we got to choose one piece of candy from the box...and I never got caramel, always some kind of fruit creme!:) Thank you for reminding me of that sweet memory!

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  5. Jamie MilesAugust 9, 2012 at 10:02 AM

    Favorite candy? I'm not a candy person....not that I won't partake every now and then but can say that's not my weakness. But I do have this funny thing of craving Peanut M & Ms when I am away with hubby in a hotel room. If we've gone out for a great meal, had a glass of wine or two -- I love to hit the hotel vending machine and that is what I always get.

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    1. Jenny FortnerAugust 9, 2012 at 11:36 AM

      I too eat the strangest things when standing in front of a vending machine...I choose thing I would not normally select from the candy isle! Thanks for the reminder! The vending machine at the bowling alley used to have little GEMS, sugar coated fruit jells...havent had those in years!

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  6. MadamdreamweaverAugust 9, 2012 at 10:45 AM

    ooooh Zero bars! I haven't had one of those in like 39 years! We went thru a Zero Bar stage when I was a teen, because we could buy them at the public park where we swam. My Mom, too. I keep meaning to put one in her Christmas box.

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    1. Jenny FortnerAugust 9, 2012 at 11:41 AM

      I would love to have one again, are they still sold in stores? Never thought to put them in xmas stockings! What a great idea! Im happy to hear someone else knew what a Zero Bar was, I wasnt sure if it was just a Midwest thing! Thanks for stopping by!

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  7. UnknownAugust 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM

    Rolo!!!! I completely forgot about that one. I can't even remember the last time I had one. And jelly beans are also a fav.

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    1. Jenny FortnerAugust 9, 2012 at 11:42 AM

      Thank you so much for stopping by! Funny how candy tells a story! Im loving the comments on this post!

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