Wonka Runts

I've always been a big RUNTS fan - I like all the colours and shapes. I buy them from time to time from Dollarama 'cause they're two for a buck. And they don't contain hydrogenated oils.

This picture shows the original issue Runts - banana, strawberry, cherry, orange, lime. They later scrapped the lime and added blueberry and watermelon (which was too strong a flavor - kind of hit you in the nose somehow). I bought some yesterday and guess what - they changed again! Watermelon and blueberry were ditched for pineapple-it's even a cute pineapple shape. I didn't see cherry either but there is some new red one in the shape of the old watermelon - I don't know what it is (other than the box showing that candy SCUBA diving), maybe kumquat?

The bananas are the hardest ones on the teeth. As teenagers, during a late night get together, a friend was asleep on the couch while we ate all the Runts except the bananas. We'd wake him up with handfuls of banana candies which he then proceeded to dump into his mouth, crunch crunched them down, then went back to sleep. I always think about that when I eat Runts.

COOL

My blog seems to only get quarterly attention!



We've been seeing a lot of bamboo fibre on the market, especially in socks. One of the properties of bamboo is it's cool hand feel. That got me thinking about one of my favourite chocolate bars -ZERO.
Yes this pic comes from Canadian Delicacies (so if you're reading from a foreign country check it out!). This is the coolest chocolate for some reason - but it's not minty. I think that since it's "cool filled" it would be a great choice for anyone who feels like a loser.

Just wondering if anyone remembers this drink? I understand they are a bit of a collector's item now. Just not the same as bubble tea...I remember - I drank it!

Garbage Can-dy - Literally

Here is some Garbage CAN-dy that I bought at Dollarama. It's made by Topps I think, didn't they make Garbage Pail Kids?

I used to love this candy - so portable in the little brightly coloured can that snaps shut. It offered much sugary enjoyment and was like a mini castonette (the shake-a shake-a thing). This plastic can is taller than the one I recall from childhood - I figured it was worth the $1, even just for nostalgia purposes.

The shapes are exactly the same (soup can, shoe, bottle, fish bone-not shown). The candy tasted gross but I ate almost all of it 'cause I'm stupid. It's not how I remember it at all. The old stuff was powdery - and easy to bite, noticably grape, cherry and orange flavored.

This tasted like bitter chemical limon talc and was the consistency of school board chalk. I chose it special and it failed me - or did it? After all, maybe garbarge candy is supposed to taste like garbage. Actually it was made in China - I don't think they indulge in these types of things...

I'm planning on using the hotpink garbage can as a holder for cotton balls to go with my new hotpink manicure set - can anyone say cute?

Fun Dip

Who likes Fun Dip? I do! But I've always called it Lik-m-aid since I was a kid. So when I found these on the internet I realized why. How my parents ever let me eat the stuff I have no idea. Now that I think about it they didn't - but my young aunts did. Pure sugar. Crazy...

Now it's called Fun Dip and the stick to dip (also made of sugar but more like a sweet-tart) is the Lik-m-aid! I used to think that this stuff was the essence of what all candies were made from - that it was Lik-m-aid who determined what flavors candy grape, orange & cherry were. I think by this point in our lives we've just learned to accept flavors such as purple, orange and red. But these new exotic flavors are throwing us for a loop - is it mango or canteloupe, kiwi or green apple and why is raspberry always blue?

That makes me think of Freezies - I knew that blue was my favorite but never really knew what "flavor" it was. Do you remember the Kisko freezies with the straw? They were so big I had to eat them with an oven mitt they were so cold. They don't make those anymore - at least as far as I know.

I'm off to Florida for a bit of a bachelorette party this week and I will search for some candy to feature here. I will also look for some socks. Maybe I will find some sock candy!