Favorite candy?

[Bossy Monkey]

Inspired by the fact that I no longer have to drive all over hell and gone to get mine: Jolly Rancher gummies. Used to be that only Kroger carried them, but Food Lion just started selling them, too. Yaaay! So what's yours?

[bertha katzenengel]

1. Milky Way bars.

:hi:

[Harley Quinn]

2. kit-kats

what's a Food Lion?

[Bossy Monkey]

4. It's a low-price supermarket chain in Va, NC, SC and possibly neighboring

states. Once famous for a news report that they dipped old meat in ammonia and resold it. I think they won a libel action against the network that ran the story (or slander-- is TV written or spoken?) so I'm unclear as to the truth of the story. They've been gradually improving their reputation ever since.

[Harley Quinn]

5. Ammonia?!

I hope they're improving everything, not just their reputation!

[Bossy Monkey]

8. Hopefully, yeah. Here's the poop:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Lion
In the 1990s, Food Lion gained a degree of notoriety when it was the subject of an ABC News investigation. ABC had received a tip about unsanitary practices at Food Lion. Two ABC reporters had posed as Food Lion employees, and witnessed the unsanitary practices at Food Lion. Much of what they had seen was videotaped with cameras hidden in wigs that they were wearing.

Food Lion was then featured in a segment on the news magazine Primetime Live, in which their unsanitary practices were exposed.

Food Lion responded by suing ABC for fraud, because the ABC employees misrepresented themselves; for trespassing, because the ABC employees came on to Food Lion property without permission; and for breach of loyalty, the ABC employees videotaped non-public areas of the store and revealed internal company information.

Food Lion was awarded USD$5.5 million by a jury in 1997. The award was later reduced by a judge to $316,000. Then the verdict was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. According to the court, even though ABC was wrong to do what they had done, they felt that Food Lion was unable to show that they had been directly injured by ABC's actions.
(slightly more about the case, and much, much more than you want to know about Food Lion, at the above link)

Personally, I've never bought meat from them and only once bought fresh fruit or vegetables. As that didn't end well, I've confined my purchases from them to packaged foods ever since.

[tonekat]

13. Ohhh, I always bought chocolate Kit Kats as a kid....

such a deal!

[NoSheep]

20. Banana Kits. Kit Kats?

[tonekat]

22. My error, I meant to say "Kits"....still choc though...n/t

[Deja Q]

3. John

[Broken_Hero]

6. those

little snickers bites, frozen...or snickers bars, frozen...

[Bossy Monkey]

9. You're a person after my own heart; I love frozen Baby Ruths

or anyway, very highly chilled Baby Ruths

[Mojambo]

7. Peanut Butter Mountain Bars

Chunkys come in a close second.

[Dangerously Amused]

10. Licorice Snaps.

When they're still soft. Not so much when they're old and hard.

[Left Is Write]

11. Pearson's Salted Nut Roll.

Second would be Almond Joy.

Unless, of course, we're talking specialty candy or homemade candy.

[cmkramer]

23. I love those too!

My favorite is the Payday bar. I also like Snickers and Heath Bars.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

12. Chocolate: Butterfinger

Hard candy: Peppermints (Brach's only, please), Peerless fruit slices (can't seem to find 'em in Texas, to my chagrin)
Chewy candy: Kraft caramels

[MiniMandaRuth]

14. My favorite candy is almond roka (sp?)

[grannylib]

15. Bounty Bars....FAR superior to Mounds...the coconut is so much better

but I can't find them here anymore! The last time I had any was when I was in Canada on business. Guess I'll have to go north of the border sometime this summer and stock up!

I do also love Dove chocolate. ANY chocolate, really, as long as nobody's fucked it up with raisins.

[DainBramaged]

16. Heath Bars

[mykpart]

17. Dark chocolate Milky Way

When I was a kid they were called Forever Yours.

[bumblebee1]

18. Three Musketeers bars

followed by Milky Way, Kit Kat, Nestle's Crunch, M & Ms, Etc.

[Nicole]

19. Reese's NutRageous

Homemade fudge is best though.

[Common Sense Party]

21. Frozen Charleston Chews. Or Argentine alfajores. nt

[Mutley]

24. Salt Water Taffy

[Reverend_Smitty]

25. Snickers bar...

that is pure candy perfection in bar form...throw it in the fridge for a little while before eating and it only gets better