The Candy Bully

Well, there was no suspenseful ending here. No halfcourt shot at the buzzer, no bases-loaded bottom-of-the-ninth drama, no ball sailing through the uprights as time expires, no unknown candy from some small town riding in on a licorice train to shock the candy world. No, this was an old-fashion ass-kicking; the big kid on the block pushing around a bunch of kindergarteners. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups has been crowned champion of the Best Candy Ever Tournament, and while there were some sweet performances by some unlikely treats, it wasn’t really very close.

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Cavity Search

The original Life Savers flavors: Pep-O-Mint, Wint-O-Green, Vi-O-Let, Choc-O-Late, Cin-O-Mon, Cl-O-ve, Lic-O-Rice.

-O- how clever. -O- how delicious. -O- brother! Life Savers are tasty. Wild Cherry’s good, wintergreen can hit the spot, Pep-O-Mint burns the inside of your mouth. They used to have a pack called Fancy Fruits – delish; there was a grapefruit-flavored one in there. I’ve eaten thousands and thousands of packs, always using my fingernail to push the next candy to the top of the pack, so that at pack’s end I’d have a perfectly hollow, intact package. That’s how the professionals do it.  

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