Friday, November 23, 2007

This Week in Candy - Thanksgiving

DSC01436A little belated Thanksgiving to all my readers. I’m so pleased that you come by and visit and leave such great comments. I enjoy sharing my candy and I’m thankful that I’m not alone with my passion.

Last week I had the opportunity to share lots of my candy with some wonderful and dedicated writers who spent part of National Novel Writing Month raising money on our behalf. Though I missed my fundraising targets, I’m so happy that everyone else was able to hit theirs. I hope I more than made up for it with a super-duper-deluxe Candy Buffet.

I took about 100 pounds of candy with me (though not all of it was on display) and put it in a variety of vases and glass containers I’ve gathered over the years. The individual candies included: Brach’s Orange Slices, Brach’s Butter Toffee, A&W Root Beer Barrels, Butterscotch Disks, Ice Blue Mints, Cinnamon Disks, Filled Strawberries, Milk Maid Caramels & Milk Maid Royals, Brach’s Salt Water Taffy, Koppers Chocolate Covered Almond Jewels, White Chocolate Pearlescent Almonds, Koppers Milkies and Koppers Mint Lentils and finally some mini Gummi Bears (the most popular of all).

It’s an odd relief to get rid of so much candy all at once. Especially to folks who actually want it.

I’ll have more, probably in the New Year, about what I’ve learned about candy buffets, including how to present them, ideas for packaging and design and how to figure out how much candy you’ll need.

While I’d love to go on about the trip or do a review today, it’s late and I’ve been visiting with family and friends from out of town (and still trying to get back in the game on my novel).

So here’s the week in review, short as it was:

Monday: Brach’s Soda Poppers (6 out of 10)

Tuesday: Ice Cubes (5 out of 10)

Wednesday: Hotel Chocolat Crostini Fruit & Nut Slab (7 out of 10)

Thursday: Licorice Assortment (7 out of 10)

Average for the week: 6 with 25% chocolate content.

POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:27 pm Tracker Pixel for Entry     CandyFeatured News

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  1. Damn those Ice Cubes! They brought down the weekly average!

    Comment by Rus on 11/24/07 at 7:24 am #
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