Finally found the Strawberried Peanut Butter M&M’s today, which are out to promote the new Transformers movie. I’ve been sorta looking for them since I heard about them, but couldn’t find them. I did see a whole box of them at Sam’s Club, but didn’t want to buy a whole box in case I didn’t like them. To me, they don’t sound very appetizing, but I hear people like them. I haven’t tried them yet. (more…)
Nestle has teamed with KaBoom in a new contest that helps the kids. KaBoom is a national non-profit organization that builds community playgrounds. Play in the Cause for Play sweepstakes for your chance to win a ready-to-assemble playground for your backyard, $3,500 cash, and the opportunity to help designate a $30,000 KaBoom playground grant to a local community. (more…)
Took today off from work and decided to update the comments page. This is the most I’ve been caught up in quite some time.
Every year in Chicago, they have the All Candy Expo. This is something that I really want to go to. But unfortunately, it’s not open to the public. Candy type people get to go and I know other bigger blog type people get to go. I really wanted to try to get in this year and was going to look into it, but then I actually forgot about it until it was too late. (more…)
I like the idea, but am not crazy about the grand prize. The NECCO people are looking for 80 new expressions for their 2010 Valentine’s Day Sweethearts. You know, those little candy hearts with the sayings on them. If you think you got a winner, go to the contest website and enter your saying(s). You have to be at least 13 and this is open to residents of the US. (more…)
Just wanted to mention that Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
I recently bought a Snickers bar that had a”Feeding America” logo on it. Also, you may have noticed Snickers putting different slogans on the bottom of their wrappers, like the Peanutopolis on this one. Well, this particular wrapper said “BAR HUNGER”. Of course, I bought it for the web site and was curious what it was about. So I did some Googling. And that lead to finding out even more coming from Mars this summer. (more…)
I did have time over the weekend to update the wrapper page. 24 new wrappers! Enjoy!
Just a quick update about the free chocolate that Mars is giving away each Friday. See this post for the details of my first try last week when I had to give up and let Laurie do it from her work. This week, much different story. I waited about 55 minutes before even trying and got through right away. No server issues, no ‘page not found’ errors. Free candy on the first try. I don’t know if the Mars people were ready for the rush this time or if less people tried, but it was a much smoother process. Unfortunately, there is a limit of four per household for the run of the promotion and I’m up to two already.
Also, I have scanned about 25 new wrappers and am in the process of getting them ready for uploading. Hopefully by the end of next weekend, they’ll be up. I’ll shoot for this weekend, but crap happens.
Stayed home from work today and did some errands. Included in my errands was a candy run, where I hit up various stores looking for new wrappers. I did pretty well today, finding some new (to me) ones at Big Lots. But the main reason for the candy run was to find the Dark Chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. (more…)