Posted by: diychica on: October 20, 2009
The candy you’re always excited about finding in your trick or treat basket, even though it actually, when you think about it, doesn’t really taste that great.
Source:http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/10/top_five_nostalgic_halloween_c.php
Posted by: diychica on: September 18, 2009
A group of enterprising students at Obama Fisheries High School (located in the Japanese town of Obama no less!) have brought together these disparate phenomena by developing a sweet and salty caramel made out of sugar, starch syrup, and jellyfish powder, which is produced by boiling jellyfish into a paste and grinding it into tiny [...]
Posted by: diychica on: June 12, 2009
En route to a patient’s house, “Bob” whips out a sack of candy that smells like pot.
The plastic bag contains chocolates wrapped in fluorescent foil, along with a tiny clear cup of caramel all infused with the active ingredients of marijuana. As a medical marijuana patient, Bob treats pain caused by a past [...]
Posted by: diychica on: May 4, 2009
A California-based food distribution company is recalling candy imported from Mexico because it contains high levels of lead.
King Midas Inc. said Friday it is warning stores to stop selling Hola Pop, a caramel lollipop with a salted apricot in the center. The candy also comes in other fruit flavors.
From:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30530838/
Posted by: diychica on: April 18, 2009
Nuns at a Hollywood convent famous for its pumpkin bread are living on a prayer at the 75-year-old Monastery of the Angels in Hollywood before they are evicted and their site is converted into a mall or condo.
They have lived for years on proceeds from their homemade pumpkin bread and candy. Now worried neighbors [...]
