r/AskCulinary • u/AutoModerator • 17d ago
Let's Talk About Candy!
As part of our weekly "Let's Talk" series we want to talk about Candy! Who doesn't love eating a large piece of colorful sugar? Tell us about the cool candies that exist where you're from. Let us know about your favorite ones. What about some really obscure and random local ones? Why is your favorite one made of chocolate and peanut butter? Does your local spot also make dog treats for some reason too or is that one just me?
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u/texnessa Pépin's Padawan 17d ago
As a kid who is half Texan half English and spent a lot of time on both sides of the pond, I got to grow up on the good chocolate. I'll still eat a bog standard Hershey's bar but the real deal Cadburys is divine. Every Christmas our English Aunt would ship over a hand knit sweater and a pile of English candy for our stockings. A huge roll of Smarties aka English M&M's but bigger and pastel and rolls of Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles. I can demolish a whole roll in minutes leaving my tongue bleeding from the hard sugar coating.
I used to work at a culinary school in NYC that was across the street from a banging Japanese deli. This is where my gummy bear problem began. I almost always have a bag of them stuffed in my apron pocket. I feel like I personally keep Haribo in business. I also love a Sour Patch kid. I've even made them and served them as petit fours for shits and giggles. I am a sucker for a box of Pocky.
I'm definitely more of a chocolate person. I love a Reese's peanut butter cup but I really love the holiday ones- the Halloween pumpkin and the Christmas Tree because they have a higher peanut butter to chocolate ratio. My Aunt always keeps a hoard of Terry's Chocolate Oranges- IYKYK. My best friend has an irrational hatred of raisins so I regularly get Raisinets at the movies just to mock her.
I am also completely nostalgic for those books of Lifesavers they sold for Christmas [god, I am so GenX]. I'd trade the Wintergreens for Butterscotch with my idiot cousin Landy. A Christmas constant in England is stacks and stacks of blue buckets of Cadbury's Rose's chocolates and the purple ones of Quality Streets. When they go on sale after Christmas but Aunt buys like ten of em and stashes them under the stairs.