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I've started a new blog I'd love for you to visit. It's called The Giraffe Spot and will be featuring the many, many giraffes I've collected over the years and any future giraffes that may come my way.

DID YOU KNOW?

Even though giraffes have extremely long necks, they have the same amount of neck bones as humans!

Michael Jackson owned three giraffes at Neverland Ranch - their names were Kareem, Abdul & Jabar.

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?