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Friday, March 8, 2013

Easter Candy Spotting 2013

Easter is that special time when seasonal favorites return to the shelves. It'south our final processed holiday before the long hot summer, and so stock up while yous can.

I've been visiting the stores to look at what'southward returned on stores shelves and of course seeking out new items.

Hither's a rundown of what I've spotted or heard that other readers have seen again at stores this year. Allow me know if in that location's something I missed, or something you're looking for.

Hershey'south
Hershey's Candy Coated White Chocolate Flavored Eggs
Hershey'south Candy Coated Milk Chocolate Eggs
Reese'southward Peanut Butter Eggs (foil wrapped)
Reese'due south Peanut Butter Eggs (single serving)
Reese's Pieces Pastel Eggs (processed coated)
Cadbury Creme Eggs - Caramel, Classic & Chocolate. Both regular size and the small "cartons" of a dozen.
Cadbury Mini Eggs - Milk Chocolate
Cadbury Mini Eggs - Dark Chocolate
Cadbury 3.v ounce White Foil Hollow Rabbit (New!)
Whoppers Robin Eggs
Hershey's Kisses Kokosnoot Creme
Jolly Rancher Jelly Beans
Jolly Rancher Wild Drupe Jelly Beans

Nestle
Nestle Crunch NestEggs
Nestle Butterfinger NestEggs
Nestle Creamy Caramel NestEggs

Wonka (part of Nestle)
Hoppin' Nerds
Laffy Taffy Jelly Beans
Spring Chewy Spree
SweeTarts Ducks, Chicks & Bunnies (2012 version)
SweeTarts Bunnies Gummies
Gobstoppers Egg Breakers

Mars
White Chocolate M&Ms (Target Only)
Carrot Cake flavored White Chocolate M&Ms (Walmart Only)
Snickers Eggs
Galaxy Caramel Eggs
Twix Eggs (new!)
Pastel Chiliad&Ms - Milk Chocolate, Peanut, Peanut Butter, Almond & Pretzel
Dove Coconut Eggs
Dove White Chocolate Eggs
3 Musketeers Marshmallow (minis only)

Wrigley's (part of Mars)
Life Savers Spring Mix
Life Savers Jelly Beans
Life Savers Pastel Jelly Beans
Life Savers Gummi Bunnies & Eggs
Pastel Skittles (still has Lime not Green Apple tree)
Starburst Jelly Beans
Starburst Sour Jelly Beans
Starburst Crazy Beans
Starburst FaveReds Jelly Beans

Ghirardelli
Milk Chocolate Foil Eggs
Milk Chocolate Crisp Foil Eggs
Ghirardelli Easter Chocolate Squares

Cadbury Adams (part of Kraft)
Sour Patch Bunnies
Swedish Fish & Eggs
Swedish Fish Jelly Beans (New!)
Sour Patch Jelly Beans

Ferrara Candy (now includes Brach's, Trolli & Ferrara Pan)
Trolli Gummi Bunnies
Brach'southward Classic Jelly Bird Eggs (large & small) - made in Mexico
Brach'southward Classic Spice Jelly Beans - Made in Mexico
Brach'due south Jelly Chicks & Rabbits
Brach'due south Marshmallow Chicks & Rabbits
Brach'south Pastel Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs (existent milk chocolate)
Brach'due south Bunny Basket Eggs (marshmallow)

Russell Stover
Maple Cream Egg
Strawberry Cream Egg
Caramel Egg
Big Bite Pecan Egg
Caramel Creme Egg (similar Cadbury)
Vanilla Creme Egg (like Cadbury)
Chocolate Creme Egg (egg shaped)
Peanut Butter Egg (egg shaped)
Blood-red Velvet Egg
Cookie Dough Egg (new!)
Brownie Egg
Actress Crunchy Peanut Butter Egg
Vanilla Creme Egg
Cookies 'northward Cream Nest
Kokosnoot Nest (jelly beans have returned)

Individually Wrapped in Bags: Caramel Eggs, Marshmallow Eggs, Kokosnoot Cream Eggs

Tootsie
Easter Dots
Pastel Egg Tootsie Pops
Spring Color Saccharide Babies
Junior Mint Pastels

Just Born
Peeps Peepsters
Peeps of all colors
Peeps XL
Peeps Milk Chocolate Egg (pictured)
Mike and Ike Jelly Beans
Hot Tamale Beans

Likewise:
R.Yard. Palmer Quax
R.One thousand. Palmer My Little Bunny
Dum Dums with Jelly Edible bean Centers
Haribo Gummi Bunnies (of special notation because they're made in Frg, not Turkey or Spain)
Real Eggshell Filled with Hazelnut Truffle
Run across's Orange Cream Lollipops
Milka Lil Scoops

You tin can prowl back into the review archive of Easter candy by viewing all the candies tagged for Easter.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Cinnamon Royal Hearts

One of the few candies that seemed to be in our house regularly when I was a kid were Cinnamon Imperials. Maybe it was because they were considered "baking products."

Around Valentine's Mean solar day each year they're available in little center shapes. (Actually, lately this is the only way I can discover them unless I'grand willing to buy the stupidly expensive packages from the block decorating companies, teensy boxes of Ferrara Pan Cherry-red Hots or in huge quantities via the spider web.)

They're the perfect piffling processed and a rather uncomplicated construction. The center is a tiny pressed hard candy in the shape of a heart. They're then tumbled in a panning machine and given several coats of red flavored sugar syrup and then shined up with a little edible wax.

They're not super hot, but a pleasant spicy cinnamon. These characteristic the devilish Red #forty, but for some reason the cinnamon flavor masks information technology well enough for me to go along eating these. Of course anybody knows I've been eating them because my tongue has been red for the past calendar week.

They're a fun candy to share and great for putting in a covered jar for everyone to enjoy. Definitely something to put on your list of items to pick up when they're wildly on sale afterwards Valentines.

I've never noticed much departure between the brands. I've had Ferrara Pan & Necco and probably a bunch of other brands that I never managed to effigy out. The Nutrient Network'southward Unwrapped show did an episode on Valentines processed last weekend and showed a company named Primrose in Chicago also making them.

I'g fairly certain these were produced after Brach'southward was taken over by Farley's & Sathers concluding fall. The coding on it is the Farley's & Sathers style. This item bag has a code of 7332CYP5, using a Julian date system for the first four characters which means that it was produced on the 332rd solar day of 2007. That'd be November 27th, 2007. I'm guessing that a panned hard candy similar this is good for at to the lowest degree 12 months. Tasted pretty fresh to me.

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Name:	Cinnamon Imperial Hearts	RATING: SUPERB YUMMY TASTY WORTH IT TEMPTING PLEASANT Beneficial UNAPPEALING Appalling INEDIBLE
Make:	Brach'due south (Farley's & Sathers)
Place Purchased:	RiteAid (Vermonica)
Price:	$.99
Size:	8.25 ounces
Calories per ounce:	113
Categories:	Hard Candy, Cinnamon, United States, Brachs, Farley'southward & Sathers, Valentines

POSTED BY Cybele AT ix:00 am

Monday, October 2, 2006

What does that Hershey's code hateful?

Here's how to decode the lawmaking on a Hershey's wrapper. Hershey uses a two digit alpha-numeric code to denote the month and year of the expiration date. Here'southward what the Hershey'south site says:

There is an ink stamped code on Hershey's products. Within that code, usually at the finish, in that location is a two grapheme code that represents the twelvemonth and the month until which the product is expected to be inside its peak freshness. The first character is a number, (0-9) that represents the year. The 2d character is a alphabetic character, (A-Fifty) that represents the month. A=Jan., B=Feb., etc. For case, a lawmaking of 7D is best before until April 2007.

My Hershey'southward Twosomes Almond Joy (Limited Edition) bar has a code that'south on ii lines:
1BE
7C K2

I'm guessing the 7C is the i I desire, then that ways that the bar is considered fresh until March 2007.

My York Peppermint Patties:
13NYU
6K

This would expire in Nov 2006, then I got in just under the wire.

A Heath bar:
14HR2
D 6L

This ane would expire in December 2006. Just remember, L is the LAST month!

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Sunday, October ane, 2006

What does that Nestle code mean?

Following upward on decoding the Mars lawmaking, hither'southward the Nestle lawmaking, thanks to Reader Dave.

Nestle uses something called the Julian code. The kickoff four digits of the code on the wrapper will give you the appointment the product was manufactured.

Julian code is rather difficult to read on the fly, but here goes: the first digit represents the terminal digit of the year. The next 3 numbers correspond the day of the year.

My Baby Ruth bar says:
602557471 D/A

That means that it was fabricated on the Jan 25, 2006. (That was an easy i.)

My Nestle Crisis bar says:
52941211 A5 7A

Hmm, annihilation that begins with a five sounds kind of bad in October. This ane was fabricated on Oct 21, 2005. Almost a twelvemonth one-time.

My 100 K bar says:
5334574823 6L

Again with the 2005 ... but at least the 2nd number "334" is pretty large. That'd be November xxx, 2005.

A quick way to summate the month is to divide the three digit number by 30. If you can't practice that in your head, try dividing by 10 (moving the decimal place in one case slot) so by 3. For the last one it gives y'all the approximation of November ... which is probably all you lot really wanted to know anyway.

For the tape, the true Julian twenty-four hours number is a lot more complex and tracks the number of days since 4713 ... kinda like stardates!

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Friday, September 29, 2006

What does that Mars code mean?

As I'1000 often found eating expired (or at least past prime number) candy, it was a wonderful annotate on the Skittles Fresh Mint post that breaks the code on the package of Mars products. Reader Dave posted the code in the comments and I'm putting it here for everyone to apply.

Here's how practise effigy out when that candy was made:

The engagement of packaging is within the first three digits of the code - the showtime digit is the last number of the year and the next two are the week of the yr.

So, the Milky Way bar I have in front of me says:
620AB02

That means information technology was fabricated in the 20th week of 2006 - or erstwhile betwixt May 14th to the 21st. Pretty fresh.

The Milky Way Nighttime I accept says:
614EFELZ02

That means it was made in the 14th calendar week of 2006 - or old between April 2nd to the 9th. Bully.

This seems to work with Canadian Mars products besides, as this is what the Mars Night says:
535CFELZ03

That ways information technology was made the 35th week of 2005 ... hmm, sometime between August 26th and September second. That'southward a piffling erstwhile. Just I it must have been stored properly every bit it was yet fresh and tasty.

The week of the twelvemonth thing is a little tricky unless you have a payroll agenda nearby, so a quick and easy way to gauge the month is to divide the week past four (information technology gets less reliable the higher the number because there's commonly a fraction of a calendar week left in the month).

The United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Mars bar I have just has an expiration date on information technology (12-xi-06). I'yard non sure if that'southward the European date mode (November twelfth, 2006) or the American (December 11, 2006) but at to the lowest degree neither of them take passed withal.

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