Good Morning!
What should we talk about today?
Quote of the Day
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”
Ogden Nash
QoD 2 parts.
What’s your favorite candy?
And what candy do you find disgusting?
Me?
Chocolate.
And cotton candy. That stuff is nasty. You might as well just eat a spoon of sugar with food coloring in it. Yuck.
Wandering Views 
Good morning! QoD: My favorite candy is Godiva dark chocolate. I’m with AJ — I can’t stand cotton candy!
Youngest daughter is having a friend over to spend the night tonight. She is so excited, she got up at 5:30! We had some special snuggle time. She’s a great cuddler — I call her my little snuggle-bug. She lost her second front tooth yesterday. The first one came out two days ago. She looks adorable!
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Cinemark is showing a different classic movie at selected theaters each week. Last night we saw The Sound of Music. The wholesomeness of the movie was literally stunning. It was also truly amazing to see the way the Catholic Church was portrayed on screen in 1965.
Next week it’s Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief.
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I can’t separate the candies into like & dislike. I like all and dislike none.
We’re expecting snow this afternoon. If it snows, Elvera won’t go to Live Embers and I will have a plate of brownies to eat.
Not good news, that many brownies will make my pants shrink.
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We have a tape of Sound of Music. When Mary (middle GD) came to visit us. She would watch it every time. “The Sound of the Music”, she said.
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Kim, when are you leaving for Annapolis?
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I like “The Sound of the Music”.
Chas, You are close to something else that will make your pants shrink: The best candy I have ever had is the white chocolate from The Olde Smokies Candy Shoppe in Gatlinburg.
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I leave for Annapolis at 6am Friday morning. That means getting up at 3:30 or so tomorrow morning. We will arrive about 11 am local time. George is coming to get Amos tonight. I find it extremely handy to have an ex-husband to keep the dog. I have always laughed that we shared custody!
So far I have arranged a noon lunch date on Saturday. Wink wink.
I haven’t had it in years because of my jaw problems but I used to LOVE Bit O’ Honey –Do they still make it?
I am not much of a sweet eater but I have found that if I am trying to watch what I eat a bite of Godiva dark chocolate
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I like most combinations of chocolate and nuts. I hate anything with coconut.
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kBells is a woman after my own heart…
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(That may have come out wrong – I’m referring to the sweet stuff that she likes.)
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Good Morning all
I’m not a huge fan of candy…but…I make the meanest Hershey Chocolate Fudge you’ve ever tasted! I make it once a year…it melts in your mouth…sooooo good 🙂
And Kim..yes…they do make Bit O Honey…it is Paul’s favorite candy…Krogers carries it and of course Cracker Barrel has it as well 🙂 Praying for safe travels and I know you are going to be in heaven snuggling that precious little grandbaby.
Have not been around here much lately…I got a job!! I now work at the district’s High school in the cafeteria. My neighbor is the manager and she wants me to work a permanent part time position…I’m on day four and I am amazed what it takes to feed a couple of hundred kids and teachers….I am exhausted after a four hour shift! Have a blessed day everyone
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I ma off to Chacala Mexico for five days to train 85 high school kids in leadership. Pray for me.–Adios
QoD: Anything chocolate is fave, worst is the Japanese candy wrapped in seaweed. I love seaweed, just not with candy.Though I do like the Mexican candy with chile powder.
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I love most candy without nuts (allergy) except for those hard candies with the jam/jelly inside.
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Snickers is my favorite overall – unless I happen to be in the mood for an Almond Joy, or a Heath bar …
But I try not to eat any, because it just makes me want more. I keep a homemade mix of dark chocolate (60%) morsels, nuts (usually pecans, walnuts, almonds and sometimes Brazil nuts) and dried cranberries for when I want to snack on something. (I used to include cashews but then I ate too much at a time.)
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My daughters knew all the words to the songs from “The Sound of Music”. I knew them all, too.
My daughter and I recently made marshmallows for the first time. They were so good. These were just vanilla flavored. They were wonderful in hot chocolate. I am looking forward to trying some different flavors—perhaps coffee, cherry and chocolate dipped ones.
I inherited my sweet-tooth from my dad, which is like Chas’. Chocolate, the darker the better, is what I will have, if nothing else. I do work to control my intake of sweet.
Yes, my pants have all mysteriously shrunk lately. I blame my thyroid. 😉
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My microwave stopped working this morning. It heated water for my tea, but then wouldn’t start to cook my egg. All the buttons work except Start and Add 1 Minute – those are the two I use most, and the only ones that make it actually start cooking. We’ve had it 8 years, which is not bad for a $39 appliance, but it’s still annoying to have to replace it when the only thing broken is (I think) the membrane switch.
The over-the-range microwave that came with the house quit on me years ago, not long after we moved in, and since we had the countertop microwave already, I never bothered doing anything about the over-the-range one. Now I’m wondering which one I should replace. It would be nice to free up some counter space, but the over-the-range ones cost more.
Anyone have any particularly good or bad experiences with certain brands or types of microwaves?
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I used to love just about every kind of candy. One of my favorites as a kid was candy cigarettes (who thought of that idea, anyway?).
I hardly ever eat candy anymore, for a couple reasons. First, I crave sugar hardly at all anymore since going gluten-free. The other is because of the effects it has on me: headaches, cavities, and after eating chocolate (which became my favorite kind of sweet as an adult), chest tightness and sudden extreme black mood, which made me feel like I would fly into a rage if I didn’t retreat from everyone immediately.
Needless to say, whatever chemical reactions were going on in my body after consuming things like that, it scared me enough to work really hard at avoiding those things.
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I’ll take all the coconut Tychicus and KBells won’t eat.
I’ll have to stop by the Old Smokies Candy Shoppe sometime.
We always make a trip to Gatlinburg when we go to Pigeon Forge.
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I’m not a big candy eater either, but usually anything with chocolate and coconut (hold the nuts) or caramel. And I loved cotton candy as a kid, but it really is a very weird substance. Sticky and messy, too.
I don’t often keep candy around the house nowadays, though — I can plow through a bowl of simple M&Ms in no time. 😦
We sang all the Sound of Music songs (along with music to Mary Poppins, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, Music Man — all those long-running musicals popular in the mid to late1960s, when I was in high school chorus).
I remember going to see Sound of Music years earlier when it debuted at a very ornate movie theater in Hollywood, our whole Girl Scout troop went for a weekend matinee excursion. We sat in the balcony as I recall. And some friends of mine have enjoyed using the book for their nightly family reading time.
Congratulations on the new job, Nancyjill, it sounds like good, hard physical work which can be refreshing. I’m sure the hours fly by fast. I’m so tired of sitting so much.
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I love candy, which could explain a few things. Most kinds. Not overly fond of the fruit kind or chewy unless it is cinnamon. I am more of a straight sugar type. Out of the bowl or sweet tarts or candy cigs or cotton candy or chocolate of all kinds. Which is why I don’t shop!
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Chocolate is the best–of course. That’s a given. And cotton candy–yuk! I was the only one of my five sisters, I think, who never liked cotton candy even as a kid. But aside from those, I love tart candies. I eat a couple of small rolls of Smarties almost every day to satisfy that sweet/tart craving. Only about 25 calories a roll, and so satisfying. (Just hope they’re not eating the enamel on my teeth too much.)
I grew up just a few miles from the NECCO company (which made way more kinds of candy than just those weirdly, yet surprisingly (in a kind of nostalgic kind of way) good Necco wafers so I still like a lot of those old candies. Mint juleps and banana splits (little square bite-sized taffies) were childhood favorites. Also, like Kim, I liked Bit-o-honeys and Mary Janes (which were similar only peanut butter flavored, I think). I almost never eat any of those old favorites except when I got to visit my family in Massachusetts each summer and I see them in the “penny candy” bins in the supermarket. Then I usually pick out a bagful of favorites and nurse them for a few weeks. I actually see them out here in California in random stores occasionally (like at Michael’s crafts stores, of all places) but I’m never tempted to buy them here. The nostalgia factor isn’t quite the same as when I’m visiting my childhood home, and I wouldn’t want to eat them any more than once a year or so anyway.
As for candy cigarettes–I used to like to get those as a kid occasionally. Great for playing grown up. They were around before we knew just how deadly cigarettes really are. They were probably invented by Phillip Morris, though.
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Here’s an interesting little piece of trivia. (Interesting to me, anyway.) When I spent a half a year in India when my kids were little there was a vendor who came around the neighborhood most every day selling cotton candy (in a very small quantity–nothing like the obscenely giant things you get here at fairs and carnivals). My sister in law would often give her son and my kids a few paise to buy some. But the interesting part, I thought, is what they call it. The name they have for cotton candy, when translated, means “doll hair.”
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“4 out of 5 dentists recommend this WordPress.com site”
Yeah, I’ll bet they do–today anyway! We’re drumming up a lot of business for them.
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I love dark chocolate, with or without nuts. And Almond Joy or Mounds are two good non-dark chocolate candy bars; though my favorite candy bar is PayDay. funny since it has no chocolate in it.
As for what I cannot stand- anything with black licorice, especially jelly beans.
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Pauline, sorry about the microwave, that’s pretty much an indispensable appliance for me. They usually last many years, but I suspect like all newer appliances, the later models maybe are being made not to last so long. At least the prices are reasonable, generally speaking.
You might do some comparison shopping online for the built-in model, seems like that would be nice to replace if it’s not outrageously more expensive than the counter top. The real downside of microwaves is that they do take up a bunch of valuable counter space, especially for those of us living with relatively small, older kitchens.
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LOL Ree! 🙂
My homepage is set to Minnesota Public Radio, which I like to listen to while I’m online. All this talk about sweets here made me think the word “Fugue”, as in A Fugue and Two Preludes by Dmitri Shostakovich, which was just played on MPR, said “Fudge” 😀
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Oh, I love black licorice!
And how about Reese’s? No one’s mentioned those.
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Ree,
I grew up about 10 miles from the M+M Mars plant in Hackettstown NJ. We took a field trip there once. To a 10 year old, that’s as good as it gets.
🙂
And I can be in Hershey Pa. in an hour or so.
🙂
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Reese’s–yum! Black licorice–yuk! My dad, I think, was the only one in our family who liked black licorice. People seem to either love it or hate it. I’m sure they’d be able to isolate a black licorice gene if they put their minds to it. There’s just gotta be one.
Did you eat Good & Plenty candy, Donna? I used to love Good & Fruity and hate Good & Plenty. But actually, when I think back on the taste, Good & Fruity was kind of gross. Mike and Ike’s are much better, I think.
Whenever I see the color combination of bright pink and white and black, it reminds me of Good & Plentys. My daughter bought a coaster bike in those colors when she went away to UC Santa Barbara, and that’s what it reminded me of.
I never really thought about how many strong memories and associations I have with candy till now. Sheesh! I feel like my whole childhood was just about candy. Come to think of it, I think it was.
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the real AJ,
To a ten-year old? That’s about as good as it gets at any age! (Except maybe a trip to the See’s Candy factory!)
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love Good and Plenty. And black licorice. But it seemed to give me a headaches so I quit eating it.
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Good and Fruity I detested, just like Mike and Ikes.
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Licorice I can take or leave. Reese’s peanut butter cups: yum. Reese’s Pieces, I never really cared for. They do remind me of ET, though, which I loved. 🙂
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I like black licorice, but I rarely get it because I don’t want a whole bag and there would be no one else to share it with. At Easter it’s nice when someone has black jelly beans they want to get rid of and I can get a few.
When I was little, my father always bought Callard & Bowsers candies for our Christmas stockings. My favorite flavors were the licorice and “creamline” toffee. For a while when I was a teenager they came in “single-serving” rolls, rather than the larger boxes my father had always bought, but then they disappeared altogether. As best as I can tell from searches on the internet, they are no longer made. Too bad, they were really good candy.
Good and Plenty are OK, but there’s too much candy coating and not enough licorice. Black jelly beans are much better, though not nearly as good as Callard & Bowsers.
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“Licorice I can take or leave.”
What?! There goes my black licorice gene theory.
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O boy, who can choose? Most chocolate, with or without nuts. Black licorice, yup. I liked Good n Plenty as a kid, but tried some recently on a nostalgie binge and didn’t like them much. Loved cotton candy when little, but would rather just eat sugar with a spoon now. Haven’t thought about candy cigarettes in many years, but sure loved them back when. (They never tempted me to smoke.)
The funny thing about Reese’s is that I love chocolate and I love peanut butter, but never cared for them together. Am I heretical to not like Reese’s?
And I prefer soft and chewy to hard candy.
Man, this is making me hungry, and I just ate lunch…
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Sorry, Ree 😉
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I see Dear Abby, aka Abigail van Buren, aka Pauline Friedman Phillips has died. Pauline was her real name. She was 94.
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Red licorice was a passion for years. I haven’t seen it, nor eaten it, in a long time.
Hands down, M&Ms, why bother with anything else? I especially like peanut butter M&Ms, but I don’t like peanut butter without the chocolate.
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Here’s my Sound of Music story.
When my daughter was about 8, I realized she had never seen the movie. So, I went to Blockbuster to rent it for a weekend. I couldn’t find it amid all the musicals and other garbage in the store, and went to the counter to ask.
The young man asked, “How do you spell that?”
Incredulous, “music? Sound?”
“Yeah.”
I spelled it out, but then paused. “Wait a minute. You’ve never heard of The Sound of Music?”
He shrugged. “Nope.”
“But everyone’s heard of The Sound of Music.” I turned to the man beside me and asked him.
“Sure. Chick flick.”
What?
I began to sing, “Doe, a deer, a female deer.” The young woman at the cash register joined me while the kid at the counter looked like one of those deers caught in the headlights.
Alas, this is what I’m ashamed I did next. I returned to the young man (resisting the temptation to dance around the store), and said, “you should tell your mother she did a poor job raising you if you’ve never heard of The Sound of Music.”
I then left and bought the movie at K-mart.
My daughter loved it.
So did my 20-year-old niece–who had never seen it before!
Humming madly . . . 🙂
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Mmmm, Good and Plenty.
My friend brought some in a bag for us to share when we saw Lincoln.
Michelle’s clerk story reminded me of the kid at the Apple store who asked me if Beach Boys (an answer to a security question) was 1 or 2 words.
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Peter, Mounds are dark chocolate, the main reason I prefer them to Almond Joy. (But they’re ofren hard to find anymore.)
Anything dark chocolate is great. Dove Promises or Ghiardellii raspberry are high up there in favorite. Lindor (Lindt?) truffles in the blue bag, also. (My husband prefers the black bag, since they’re darker.) But I’ll take chocolate-covered cherries, chocolate with nuts, chocolate mints, pretty much anything as long as it’s dark chocolate, and I’m also willing to eat some that isn’t (Snicker’s, peanut butter cups).
I also love licorice. An Easter tradition is looking for black jelly beans; I usually buy two bags. Last year I bought a bag for my older stepdaughter as well. Once she finished her bag, she proceeded to eat all the black ones out of the “mixed” jellybeans in the candy dish. (I like the other flavors too, but having no black ruins them for me, so this year if she’s home I’ll hide them!) I got to where I couldn’t get black jellybeans in Nashville anymore, or any Brach’s ones, so I was delighted to find out one can still get Brach’s here, and black ones as well. (Brach’s are the only jellybeans worth eating, unless you want to spend big bucks and buy Jelly Bellys.)
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Wow, Cheryl, that’s weird. I thought the black jelly beans were just for tossing in the garbage so one could eat the rest of the bag undefiled.
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No, Ree, the black are by far the best. Red is probably second (in Brach’s–red are inedible in other brands).
You know, I still like cotton candy, but I don’t like Reese’s pieces. And as a child I liked a lot of varieties of hard candy (butterscotch, root beer barrels, and some others); today I’ll occasionally but a bag for old time’s sake, but I end up not eating them.
The candy I really “can’t stand,” though, is toffee. Whether it’s Skor or something else, I really have to “pass” on it. I do like caramel apples and popcorn balls, though.
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Snowed here, was pretty for about an hour then turned to mush.
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Michelle, that reminds me of a problem I have. For the Kid’s birthday I’d like to do a home movie night for him and his friends. It would be impossible to get a movie new enough that some of them hadn’t already seen so I think I need to find a classic that most would not have seen. Anyone have any suggestions on a classic movie that a group of mostly boys between the ages of 6 and 11 haven’t seen and would like. I’ve got until May.
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KBells, How about Disney’s Savage Sam? My son also liked The Vikings, but it did include Kirk Douglas having an eye pecked out, Tony Curtis having his hand chopped off and Ernest Borgnine jumping into a pit of wolves.
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Candy corn, anybody? I used to love to sink my teeth into that stuff. 🙂
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KBells,
For 6 to 11, I might suggest “Belle Starr”; Randalph Scott & Gene Tierney.
Also, anything by the young John Wayne. Not a war movie though, they wouldn’t understand it.
The vaunted classics, e.g. “The Third Man”, “Casablanca”, would be too heavy for them.
Tarzan and ordinary westerns are b&w, and they wouldn’t be impressed.
Gene Autry & Roy Rogers are good for the younger, but at eleven, they are growing out of that.
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Danny Kaye in “The Inspector General” might be a good selection.
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Good news – my microwave is *not* broken. It worked for my son this afternoon. Then it didn’t work for me again. But this time I noticed something didn’t sound quite right when I closed the door. It turned out that a corner of a sheet of paper from the phone pad I keep on the microwave was sometimes (only when I use it, apparently), getting stuck in the door and I guess blocking some sensor.
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You reminded me there was some Ghirardelli chocolate in the dining room left over from BG’s Christmas stocking. hmmmm…
I am packing my suitcase that I have travelled with for years. It meets airline regs for a carry on on is on wheels with a handle. I have been a lot of places with that bag and for many of them it was the only bag I packed. Tonight all my stuff won’t fit. I have BG packing hoping I can put some things in her bag. I may have to hide a few things in Mr. P’s bag. He is determined that we are travelling light. Poor man, he was single for 18 years and raised boys! I have to have contingencies. What if I look fat in my favorite jeans? What if the turtleneck doesn’t look as good with the jacket when I put it on as it did on the hanger when I was planning what to pack? I’m thinking I will have to wear all the jewelry I want to take but will that mean I will set off security?
BG is excited to be going with us but I have explained that flying these days is about like riding a bus. 😉
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I never realized how much candy I don’t like! I am with you, Kevin, on the chocolate and peanut butter. I don’t like any candy with peanut butter in it. Nor do I care for licorice. My husband gets all the licorice jelly beans. I am not real crazy about soft candy, anyway. I do like the Smartie type. I liked candy cigarettes very much. One could play a grown-up with those and then get to eat them, too. I don’t think they were meant to draw children into smoking anymore than candy lips were made to draw children into lipstick. It was all fun and tasty.
How I miss the days when we just ate and appreciated yummy things, without worrying about every calorie etc! Is it about responsiblilty or our thinking we are gods and can control all things? I wonder?
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I love Reisen candy. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Riesen-Chocolate-Caramel-Candies-10-oz/10448115 Love any chewy, chocolate candies. 🙂
I do not like cotton candy, nor do I like peeps, nor candy corn … at all. I tend to prefer soft candies, and have let hard candy sit so long untouched that it has gotten soft and had to be thrown out!
But, I haven’t had any candy for 10 months now. I miss it sometimes, especially on threads like this one!!
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Kathaleena,
I think the “worrying about every calorie” is somewhat of an overreaction, but it’s a reaction to the overindulgence that so many of us have been guilty of at times.
When I was growing up, there was no need to worry much about the candy we ate because we got so little of it. These days a lot of kids have access to more “junk food” (not just candy) than to fresh fruits and vegetables.
I try not to go overboard in restricting what I eat or my family can eat, because I think it was my mother’s extreme restrictions that made me want the forbidden foods so much and go overboard eating them once I was able to.
But I also find that eating certain foods seems to make me want more of them, so it’s best to avoid them altogether. It’s easier not to eat the first chocolate chip cookie than to stop after the first one.
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Peter, Mounds are dark chocolate… Is it more than 50% cacao? If not, than it is not dark enough. The ingredients list doesn’t mention a percentage, so it is most likely less, which makes it not a true dark chocolate. Most Hersheys “dark”, even their “Special Dark” have only 45% cacao at most. Give me at least 60% cocoa, with 70-75 ideal for flavor.
Karen- Try one of the old black and white Disney classics, especially one with Fred Macmurray. The original flubber movie (I think it’s called “The Absent Minded Professor”) is one I enjoyed as a boy. Robin Williams’ version from the 90s isn’t as good, but then, remakes rarely are.
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57!!!
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Hey all,
In the ongoing saga of my life ….
I have a rule. All my daughter’s friends on FB or Google Plus have to be my friends too. I do this to help watch her account. I realize that they *can* post without my seeing it still, but it is one thing I do. (I also have free access to her account — and my son’s — at any time. They know that they have no expectation of privacy.)
Well, the girl involved in the whole mess we’ve been talking about “unfriended” me today from Google Plus (she is not on FB). Or, maybe I should say that she “de-circled” me. At any rate, the question …. do I make an issue of this? Do I send an email to her mother reminding her of my rule? Do I just ignore it and check my daughter’s account once in awhile? Do I require my daughter to unfriend the girl?
Good heavens! Mean and vindictive people. Makes my tummy hurt again. 😦
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Oh, btw, those of you who are friends with me on FB. I hardly ever post on Google Plus. So, it’s not an issue of over-posting. It is the sour grapes thing again, I’m sure.
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Tammy, I don’t remember how old your daughter is, but if you trust her discernment, perhaps remind her of your rule, and she can then choose whether to unfriend the girl or talk with her (or let you talk to her mom).
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I’m smiling to think of Kim going to meet new people tomorrow and, for the youngest one, she’ll be the only grandmother on that side of the family he’ll ever know, so no problem.
But for the rest . . . I’ll be praying for a lovely visit. Just make a fuss over the baby and everyone will love you!
We’re eating cauliflower crust pizza for dinner–right now, Tammy! 🙂
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KBells, what about some of the 60’s Disney comedies like Love Bug or Apple Dumpling Gang? My kids loved those movies at that age (and still do).
Another funny thing about candy — though I don’t care for chocolate and peanut butter, I do love chocolate and peanuts. Vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup and peanuts on top, or a Snickers bar — mmm! But I’ll skip the Reese’s.
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Great Escape according to my boys.
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They also suggested Happy Days and Hogan’s Heroes and the ilk. They, the boys, also suggested The Sound of Music.
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Great Escape is a great film. 🙂 I think I even had a poster of Steve McQueen and his motorcycle from that film hanging on my teen-aged bedroom wall for a while.
🙂
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We girls probably liked that movie for whole different reason … 😉
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…and I am off to see adorable grandchild…
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