http://www.coocooforcocoa.com/candy/candies.html Candies range from hard candies to chocolate. What's your favorite? en-us Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:15:31 EST Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:15:31 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 Halloween is over, so most stores are depleting their supplies of various candies that they stocked up on before this popular candy-giving holiday. What kinds of candies did you give out this year? Hard Candies vs. Chocolate Candies Each Halloween, little kids come home and dump their stash to see the various kinds of candies they will be allowed to indulge in over the course of the next few weeks. (Most parents won't let them have it all at once and put a limit on the number of candies from the Halloween stash they can have each day.) Of course, most kids hope for chocolate candies, but they are sometimes disappointed when they get non-chocolate hard candy. That's almost cause for the "trick" in "trick-or-treat"! But you can't do that because the giver satisfied his end of the deal by providing the trick-or-treater with candy. Blast! However, all is not lost. There are some non-chocolate candies that are good. For example, who hasn't enjoyed Gummy Bears or Sweet Tarts? And those little butterscotch candies aren't bad either. It all depends on your personal preference. Some people actually prefer hard candy to chocolate. (Yes, there are people out there who don't like chocolate, as unbelievable as that may seem. Are these people aliens? We don't know. Maybe.) For the majority of us, those little miniature chocolate candy bars are the score of the night. Even Tootsie Rolls are a favorite. But some people are even picky about their chocolate bars. Mounds and Almond Joy realize this and have made their confections work around it. Remember the commercial? "Almond Joy's got nuts--Mounds don't. Because, sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't!" The same can be said for a basic Hershey bar. You can get a milk chocolate Hershey bar or a milk chocolate Hershey bar with almonds. A Milky Way bar is basically a Snickers bar without nuts. We could go on and on...but by now, you've got the point. When it comes to candy, there's no wrong answer. Just go with what you like! Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:15:31 EST