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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65740 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
I actually do not care for candy corns, although I know many people think they are great. I will admit to using them as a garnish though. One candy corn atop each dark chocolate frosted cupcake on a platter turns your cupcakes instantly Halloween. The display looks festive and each guest can easily remove one candy corn if this candy is not a favorite. |
scruff35 Send message Joined: 14 Feb 01 Posts: 17 Credit: 282,905 RAC: 0 |
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soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
Fortunately these are from Canada, and so not readily available. Janice |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19048 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Dark chocolate and candied ginger - yum!!! They have plenty more flavours, https://www.greenandblacks.co.uk/ |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Say what you will, these are the most evil, |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Yes, there is something special about the peanut butter they use. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
Fortunately these are from Canada, and so not readily available. While I haven't looked for this one specifically; if Amazon.com can sell Bassett's Jelly Babies in America, I'm sure that one may find this one there, too... ;-) (Amazon sells EVERYTHING!!!!! :-O ) TL TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Fortunately these are from Canada, and so not readily available. He he. Maybe it's time for another petition for selling Coffee Crisp in the US:) After six long years of petitioning Nestle they have finally seen the light. In late July, 2006 Nestle began to market Coffee Crisp nationally, treating it like any other of the many candy bars they sell in the U.S. For the first time, Americans will finally be exposed to what had previously been an exclusively Canadian delicacy.https://web.archive.org/web/20071222052109/http://coffeecrisp.org/ Request form https://web.archive.org/web/20071021015020/http://www.nestle-coffeecrisp.com:80/RequestForm.aspx |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65740 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Fortunately these are from Canada, and so not readily available. And if Amazon doesn't have something, and they don't have everything, ebay might have it. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
My sister-in-law doesn't let her kids eat much candy. She lets them trick-or-treat, but they only get to eat one tiny piece of candy out of their treat bags every few days, and then ONLY if the kids have been well behaved, eaten all their vegetables, tidied up their toys etc. My sister-in-law ends up throwing away lots of the candy her kids get, because the candy gets stale before the kids can eat it all. This breaks my candy-loving heart. So, with this in mind, I told my nephew Nico and my niece Claire that I would buy all the Almond Joys they wanted to sell me out of their trick-or-treat bags at 50 cents per fun-sized bar. I told them that I would not buy any Almond Joys that had not come from honest trick-or-treating. No fair getting mommy to buy a giant bag of 100 Almond Joys, and then re-selling them individually to Auntie Angela at a nice little profit! I am trusting the kids to only sell me what I like to refer to as "locally sourced, sustainably harvested ACTUAL trick-or-treat candy". After school yesterday, Nico's class was invited to pre-trick-or-treat at some businesses near their elementary school. Today I paid the little seven year old tycoon a whopping $3.50 for 7 squished and partially melted Almond Joys. (They were delicious. I regret nothing.) |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Are your masked bandits preferential to any particular candy? |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20243 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Are your masked bandits preferential to any particular candy? My best guess would be a Payday bar. |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Are your masked bandits preferential to any particular candy? That would be a very good guess, since they like peanuts and since Payday bars are without chocolate. I've never fed Halloween candy to raccoons. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20243 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Are your masked bandits preferential to any particular candy? Not sure how theobromine would effect raccoons. Effects of animals eating chocolate. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65740 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Are your masked bandits preferential to any particular candy? I've read that Chocolate is lethal to dogs, cats, and horses, so I wouldn't feed it to any animal, humans have the needed enzyme in order to metabolize chocolate. Why do humans have this enzyme and other animals don't? I don't know. Do other primates have this enzyme? I still don't know. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Why do humans have this enzyme and other animals don't? I don't know. I don't know either, but if you understand natural selection, you can hazard a pretty decent guess. A small population of our ancestors probably got really, really, really hungry and tried to eat cacao beans. The ones who died from cacao ingestion did not have any more babies. The ones who merely got sick from it lived to have babies. This went on for many generations... as did hunger as a driving evolutionary force. Over time, this small group of our ancestors evolved into a population who did not die from eating cacao, but maybe still got sick from it. We all metabolize things a little differently, so presumably some of our ancestors got really, really, really sick when they ate cacao and some of our ancestors got mildly ill, but were still able to benefit from the calories they ingested. Those with the benefit of greater caloric intake had more babies. Those with worse caloric intake had fewer babies. This went on for many generations...as did hunger as a driving evolutionary force... as did human migration. So, over time (...lots and lots and lots of time...) this favorable adaptation for digesting cacao was passed on into larger and larger human populations. Fast forward to today: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65740 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Slight problem there with the cacao beans Angela, they're native to the Americas only. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Slight problem there with the cacao beans Angela, they're native to the Americas only. Not a problem at all, Vic. Assume that my hypothetical group of ancestors originated in South or in Central America. Adaptations can happen in any point in history. In fact, they're happening right now, even as we speak!!! |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Alternatively, our ancestors could have developed an enzyme that helped them digest the fruit of a plant that wasn't cacao, but that maybe shared a distant plant ancestor with cacao. Then, when our ancestors encountered cacao by migrating to the Americas, they were more than half way there, "evolutionarily speaking", in terms of tolerating and eventually benefiting from cacao-calories in their diets. Wikipedia is a fine tool, and I'll admit to using it both early and often, but it is only that - a tool. When it comes to hypothesizing, theorizing and offering possible explanations for things that are not yet scientifically "known", I vastly prefer to stand on the shoulders of the great thinkers of our species. So in this case, thanks Charles Darwin!!! |
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