Yes we are still working through the Halloween candy at the Kane house. Not that there’s a lot left, but it is still hanging in there in a bowl on the kitchen island counter. The chocolate is mostly gone now, except for the mysterious chocolate Skittles. No one seems to want to risk them. I can fully understand this. We don’t trust chocolate Skittles. I mean, are they still gooey-chewy inside like regular Skittles only instead of fruit flavored they are chocolate-ish flavored? Or is this a shot over the bow of M&M’s with an actual chocolate in a candy shell type of brand extension? No one has had the curiosity yet to find out. But as there’s only one Milky Way left in there right now amidst a lot of suckers and Smarties, I suspect someone (Mrs. Kane) is gonna break down soon and give those Skittles a try.
Another candy we have left are Sweet-tarts. As a childhood favorite of mine, I thought I knew what a Sweet-tart looked like. Apparently I’m out of the loop. I found three distinct shapes of Sweet-tarts in our Halloween haul. Two of the different styles, if you will, were in basically the exact same packaging. Now, rummaging through the candy (after the photo above was taken) I see that there’s actually another type of Sweet-tart packaged like Smarties.
I guess it’s smart to deliver your product in whatever form your customers will buy it in in enough numbers to make it viable. And in the case of Sweet-tarts, they do all really taste the same.
But forced to choose, I’m still a classic smooth, almost medicinal like pill shaped Sweet-tarts fan (in the foreground in above photo). Though I used to like when some had the scripty S and others said “bite’em.” Call me old-fashioned.
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This exact same script is playing out, almost identically in the Firefly household. Very funny! Must be the national norm. I believe the chocolate skittles are gooey-chewy inside and, consequently, not good.
Mrs. Firefly give the Little Fireflies about two weeks alone with their personal candy haul and then one day, with no warning and no advance notice, she grabs their bags and dumps them into a communal bowl. My children literaly decry her behavior as communist.
Oddly enough, I just learned last night that the oldest Firefly is staging a protest against his mother’s Marxist tendencies by refusing to eat any candy from the communal bowl. I went to his room to help him solve a few geometry problems and on the way up I grabbed two “fun size” bags of m&ms. I asked him if he wanted one. He refused and that’s when he told me of his stand.
Power to the people!
As long as there is no Goo-lag involved, he should be OK. Way to raise a capitalist!
Thanks for the tip on the “chocolate” Skittles. I’m staying away.
We went right to the communal bowl. Maybe we’re being influenced by the new presidential regime.
Of course, we withhold all candy until the geometry is completed! Correctly!
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