The Candy Man Can

I’ve got a sweet tooth.

I like candy. Chocolate is my favorite. I’m not a licorice eater. Everything I eat and really enjoy is chocolate.

I like regular chocolate, some dark chocolate, and white chocolate with chocolate chips because it’s sweet. I get the urge to eat a little bit of chocolate, but not all the time-- I don’t go crazy with it. Chocolate makes me happy. It gives me energy, but does it make me hyper? No!

Reese’s and Kit-Kats, Nestle’s Crunch… I know I like to get these. But my favorite growing up was regular M&M’s. Sometimes I would eat the different types of M&M’s like Easter and Fourth of July-- all the different colors and flavors. I know I like the peanut butter in the red bag, the dark chocolate in the dark blue bag, I don’t think I’ve had the coffee-flavored, but I KNOW I like to eat mint candies-- I haven’t had the M&M mint flavor, but I know I’d like them too because I love having mints after I eat my meals.

Candy Bar-- If I had to pick… Hershey’s Cookies and Cream Bar is my favorite.

Oh yeah, I like ice cream. It’s sweet and tasty and delicious. I like chocolate ice cream-- like chocolate chips, the Oreo cookie kind-- Cookies N’ Creme. I like putting sprinkles and sometimes cherries and the hard crackle shell. Bryer’s is tasty. I like the flavors with chocolate in it like mint chocolate chip, rocky road, but I had plain chocolate before I tried all those others, so it’s my favorite because it pretty much tastes the same and it’s always in stock wherever you go!

I like cookies: All cookies… mostly Oreos and Chocolate Chip Cookies-- Chips Ahoy! or Tollhouse soft-batch. But I prefer the hard ones with a crisp to them. Nabisco’s white fudge chunky Chips Ahoy! is good-- it has chunks of all the chocolates in it. But, Pepperidge Farm’s Sausalito and Tahoe in the white bag are my favorites-- both have the macadamia nuts in them with chocolate-- either regular (Sausalito) or white chocolate (Tahoe).

Things I don’t like?

I’m not a licorice eater. And, I don’t really care for those candies that are sour.

Although mostly everything I really enjoy is chocolate... I eat jelly beans and gummy bears too.

I like trying new things-- my friends, Brandon & Kristen, take me to World Market and I get to pick out new things-- European chocolates. I’ve tried the Aerated chocolates, Milka Bars with Chips Ahoy!

Speaking of the World… I will travel for sweets.

Once, I went to Hershey’s Park. They had a Hershey’s stoplight-- like a Hershey’s bar, the street lights are the shape of a Hershey’s Chocolate Kiss, the streets are named after chocolate too. It smells good-- the whole entire place smells like chocolate. I got a postcard from there with different candies names like Hershey’s and Reese’s and different ones on the front. It’s beautiful. There was a boat ride there.

Downtown Disney-- Ghirardelli-- our trip isn’t complete without stopping here. They give you free samples. It smells like chocolate and it’s really good. I like to get the Brownie sundae. I get a Cherry Coke there. It’s not on the menu, but it’s the best.

I also like gingerbread. The Gingerbread House in the Grand Floridian at Disney at Christmastime was beautiful and smells good. The house was life-sized and I got to walk into it. Would I like to live in it? No. It’s good to look at and visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.

There’s a sweet for every season:

Easter-- Bunny Candy: Hershey’s Chocolate bunnies or Reese’s pieces in the shape of a carrot.

Birthday-- Chocolate Ice Cream. Only 1 scoop. But, topped with caramel and chocolate chips.

Christmas-- Fudge

Halloween-- CANDY! Well, I say candy because there are a lot of different kinds of candies and I get to go a little crazy. Hmmm… only 1?!? Nestle’s Crunch!

If you’ve never tried candy-- you should try the different tastes of sweetness. Some are good and very sweet, not sour. See what you like, there are a lot of choices and always something else to try!

~John Joyner