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Friday, March 8, 2013

Easter Candy Spotting 2013

Easter is that special time when seasonal favorites return to the shelves. Information technology'south our final candy holiday before the long hot summertime, and so stock up while yous can.

I've been visiting the stores to look at what's returned on stores shelves and of class seeking out new items.

Hither's a rundown of what I've spotted or heard that other readers have seen again at stores this year. Let me know if at that place's something I missed, or something you're looking for.

Hershey's
Hershey's Candy Coated White Chocolate Flavored Eggs
Hershey'south Candy Coated Milk Chocolate Eggs
Reese'southward Peanut Butter Eggs (foil wrapped)
Reese'south Peanut Butter Eggs (single serving)
Reese'southward Pieces Pastel Eggs (candy coated)
Cadbury Creme Eggs - Caramel, Classic & Chocolate. Both regular size and the minor "cartons" of a dozen.
Cadbury Mini Eggs - Milk Chocolate
Cadbury Mini Eggs - Dark Chocolate
Cadbury 3.5 ounce White Foil Hollow Rabbit (New!)
Whoppers Robin Eggs
Hershey'southward Kisses Coconut Creme
Jolly Rancher Jelly Beans
Jolly Rancher Wild Berry Jelly Beans

Nestle
Nestle Crisis NestEggs
Nestle Butterfinger NestEggs
Nestle Creamy Caramel NestEggs

Wonka (role of Nestle)
Hoppin' Nerds
Laffy Taffy Jelly Beans
Spring Chewy Spree
SweeTarts Ducks, Chicks & Bunnies (2012 version)
SweeTarts Bunnies Gummies
Gobstoppers Egg Breakers

Mars
White Chocolate One thousand&Ms (Target Only)
Carrot Cake flavored White Chocolate M&Ms (Walmart But)
Snickers Eggs
Milky way Caramel Eggs
Twix Eggs (new!)
Pastel Yard&Ms - Milk Chocolate, Peanut, Peanut Butter, Almond & Pretzel
Dove Coconut Eggs
Dove White Chocolate Eggs
iii Musketeers Marshmallow (minis simply)

Wrigley'due south (part of Mars)
Life Savers Spring Mix
Life Savers Jelly Beans
Life Savers Pastel Jelly Beans
Life Savers Gummi Bunnies & Eggs
Pastel Skittles (still has Lime non Green Apple tree)
Starburst Jelly Beans
Starburst Sour Jelly Beans
Starburst Crazy Beans
Starburst FaveReds Jelly Beans

Ghirardelli
Milk Chocolate Foil Eggs
Milk Chocolate Crisp Foil Eggs
Ghirardelli Easter Chocolate Squares

Cadbury Adams (part of Kraft)
Sour Patch Bunnies
Swedish Fish & Eggs
Swedish Fish Jelly Beans (New!)
Sour Patch Jelly Beans

Ferrara Processed (now includes Brach'due south, Trolli & Ferrara Pan)
Trolli Gummi Bunnies
Brach's Classic Jelly Bird Eggs (large & modest) - made in Mexico
Brach'due south Classic Spice Jelly Beans - Made in United mexican states
Brach's Jelly Chicks & Rabbits
Brach'due south Marshmallow Chicks & Rabbits
Brach'southward Pastel Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs (real milk chocolate)
Brach'due south Bunny Basket Eggs (marshmallow)

Russell Stover
Maple Cream Egg
Strawberry Cream Egg
Caramel Egg
Big Bite Pecan Egg
Caramel Creme Egg (similar Cadbury)
Vanilla Creme Egg (like Cadbury)
Chocolate Creme Egg (egg shaped)
Peanut Butter Egg (egg shaped)
Cerise Velvet Egg
Cookie Dough Egg (new!)
Credibility Egg
Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter Egg
Vanilla Creme Egg
Cookies 'n Cream Nest
Kokosnoot Nest (jelly beans have returned)

Individually Wrapped in Bags: Caramel Eggs, Marshmallow Eggs, Coconut Cream Eggs

Tootsie
Easter Dots
Pastel Egg Tootsie Pops
Spring Color Sugar Babies
Junior Mint Pastels

Merely Born
Peeps Peepsters
Peeps of all colors
Peeps XL
Peeps Milk Chocolate Egg (pictured)
Mike and Ike Jelly Beans
Hot Tamale Beans

Also:
R.Thou. Palmer Quax
R.M. Palmer My Lilliputian Bunny
Dum Dums with Jelly Bean Centers
Haribo Gummi Bunnies (of special annotation considering they're made in Federal republic of germany, not Turkey or Spain)
Real Eggshell Filled with Hazelnut Truffle
See's Orange Cream Lollipops
Milka Lil Scoops

You lot can prowl back into the review archive of Easter candy by viewing all the candies tagged for Easter.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Cinnamon Purple Hearts

One of the few candies that seemed to be in our house regularly when I was a kid were Cinnamon Imperials. Perhaps it was because they were considered "baking products."

Around Valentine's Day each year they're available in footling heart shapes. (Actually, lately this is the just manner I can find them unless I'yard willing to purchase the stupidly expensive packages from the cake decorating companies, teensy boxes of Ferrara Pan Red Hots or in huge quantities via the spider web.)

They're the perfect little processed and a rather elementary construction. The center is a tiny pressed hard processed in the shape of a eye. They're then tumbled in a panning machine and given several coats of red flavored sugar syrup and and then shined up with a piffling edible wax.

They're not super hot, merely a pleasant spicy cinnamon. These characteristic the devilish Red #twoscore, only for some reason the cinnamon flavor masks it well enough for me to go on eating these. Of course anybody knows I've been eating them because my tongue has been ruby for the past week.

They're a fun candy to share and slap-up for putting in a covered jar for everyone to enjoy. Definitely something to put on your listing of items to pick up when they're wildly on auction after Valentines.

I've never noticed much departure between the brands. I've had Ferrara Pan & Necco and probably a bunch of other brands that I never managed to effigy out. The Food Network'south Unwrapped show did an episode on Valentines processed terminal weekend and showed a company named Primrose in Chicago also making them.

I'1000 fairly certain these were produced subsequently Brach's was taken over by Farley's & Sathers final fall. The coding on it is the Farley's & Sathers mode. This detail pocketbook has a code of 7332CYP5, using a Julian date system for the first 4 characters which means that information technology was produced on the 332rd twenty-four hours of 2007. That'd be November 27th, 2007. I'g guessing that a panned hard candy similar this is adept for at least 12 months. Tasted pretty fresh to me.

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Proper name:	Cinnamon Regal Hearts	RATING: SUPERB YUMMY TASTY WORTH IT TEMPTING PLEASANT BENIGN UNAPPEALING Bloodcurdling INEDIBLE
Brand:	Brach's (Farley'south & Sathers)
Place Purchased:	RiteAid (Vermonica)
Price:	$.99
Size:	8.25 ounces
Calories per ounce:	113
Categories:	Hard Processed, Cinnamon, United States, Brachs, Farley's & Sathers, Valentines

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Monday, Oct 2, 2006

What does that Hershey's code mean?

Here's how to decode the lawmaking on a Hershey'south wrapper. Hershey uses a two digit alpha-numeric lawmaking to announce the calendar month and twelvemonth of the expiration appointment. Here'due south what the Hershey's site says:

There is an ink stamped code on Hershey's products. Within that code, unremarkably at the cease, at that place is a two grapheme code that represents the year and the month until which the product is expected to exist within its peak freshness. The start grapheme is a number, (0-9) that represents the year. The 2d grapheme is a letter, (A-L) that represents the month. A=January., B=Feb., etc. For case, a lawmaking of 7D is best earlier until April 2007.

My Hershey's Twosomes Almond Joy (Limited Edition) bar has a code that's on two lines:
1BE
7C K2

I'yard guessing the 7C is the one I want, so that means that the bar is considered fresh until March 2007.

My York Peppermint Patties:
13NYU
6K

This would expire in Nov 2006, and so I got in just under the wire.

A Heath bar:
14HR2
D 6L

This 1 would elapse in December 2006. Just remember, L is the Concluding calendar month!

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Sun, Oct ane, 2006

What does that Nestle code mean?

Following up on decoding the Mars code, here's the Nestle code, thanks to Reader Dave.

Nestle uses something called the Julian code. The first iv digits of the code on the wrapper volition give you the engagement the production was manufactured.

Julian lawmaking is rather difficult to read on the fly, but here goes: the kickoff digit represents the last digit of the year. The next three numbers represent the day of the year.

My Baby Ruth bar says:
602557471 D/A

That means that it was made on the January 25, 2006. (That was an piece of cake one.)

My Nestle Crunch bar says:
52941211 A5 7A

Hmm, annihilation that begins with a 5 sounds kind of bad in October. This i was made on Oct 21, 2005. Well-nigh a year old.

My 100 One thousand bar says:
5334574823 6L

Once more with the 2005 ... but at least the 2nd number "334" is pretty large. That'd be November 30, 2005.

A quick way to calculate the calendar month is to divide the three digit number by 30. If you can't practice that in your head, try dividing by ten (moving the decimal place once slot) and and then by iii. For the final ane it gives you the approximation of November ... which is probably all you really wanted to know anyway.

For the record, the true Julian twenty-four hour period number is a lot more complex and tracks the number of days since 4713 ... kinda like stardates!

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Friday, September 29, 2006

What does that Mars code mean?

As I'g often found eating expired (or at least past prime) candy, it was a wonderful comment on the Skittles Fresh Mint mail service that breaks the code on the package of Mars products. Reader Dave posted the code in the comments and I'yard putting it here for anybody to use.

Hither'south how practice figure out when that candy was made:

The engagement of packaging is within the first three digits of the code - the get-go digit is the last number of the year and the adjacent two are the calendar week of the year.

So, the Galaxy bar I have in front end of me says:
620AB02

That ways it was made in the 20th week of 2006 - or sometime between May 14th to the 21st. Pretty fresh.

The Milky way Nighttime I take says:
614EFELZ02

That means it was made in the 14th week of 2006 - or sometime between April 2nd to the 9th. Bang-up.

This seems to piece of work with Canadian Mars products as well, as this is what the Mars Dark says:
535CFELZ03

That ways it was fabricated the 35th week of 2005 ... hmm, sometime between August 26th and September 2nd. That's a little quondam. But I it must have been stored properly equally it was still fresh and tasty.

The week of the year thing is a little tricky unless you have a payroll agenda nearby, so a quick and easy manner to approximate the month is to divide the week by four (it gets less reliable the higher the number because in that location's usually a fraction of a calendar week left in the month).

The UK Mars bar I have simply has an expiration appointment on it (12-11-06). I'one thousand non sure if that's the European date style (November 12th, 2006) or the American (Dec 11, 2006) but at to the lowest degree neither of them accept passed however.

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Source: http://www.candyblog.net/blog/category/expiration

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