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Halloween is one of the greatest days of the year. When you’re a kid, there’s nothing better than being encouraged to go out and stuff your face with as much candy as you can get your hands on. Halloween is fun for adults too, as handing out candy is a nostalgic reminder of our youth. [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Filed under Food, Holidays, Humor · Tagged accountant, aerospace engineers, burns, candy, Candy Jewelry, cent, chocolate, Confectionery, dangerous industrial chemical, Dubble Bubble, food and drink, Gobstopper, halloween, halloween fact, Liquorice, Necco Wafers, otherwise delicious food, Smarties, surgeon, Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Roll Industries, Tootsie Rolls
Halloween brings out the kid in all of us. Although for the adults, it’s really about dressing up in wild costumes for a fun party or decorating the house to scare the bejeebus out of any visitors. For kids, Halloween is still all about the candy. It’s quite a unique holiday that, over time, has [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Health, Holidays · Tagged Bertie Botts, Bertie Botts Every, box of boogers, ca ca, candy, Candy Tube, chocka ca-ca, chockacaca, chocolate, Confectionery, crime scene candy, culture, dessert, disgusting food, ear wax candy, food, gross food, Gummies, halloween, Hard Candy, human behavior, Jelly bean, lick your wounds candy, Lollipop, nose hose, Personal life, Rick Bitzman, scorpion lollipops, scorpion suckers, sour flush toilet candy, zit poppers
What is film noir? Are they films about hard boiled detectives and seductive femme fatales? Are they about troubled heroes with soiled pasts that keep catching up with them? Are they all about black and white chiaroscuro lighting, dark offices with light shining in through the blinds, and cigarette smoke that takes on a life [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 12:01 am
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Mark ups are the small profit margins that retailers gain when an item is sold. It is the fundamental of business; it’s the reasons that the amount we pay is not what the item is actually worth. It’s the small amount of money the business owner tacks on to cover expenses and overhead costs such [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Business, Shopping · Tagged beverage machines, Bottled water, brand name clothing, candy, Competition, cosmetics, Costco, diamonds, eyeglass frames, furniture, Gemological Institute of America, glass frames, greeting cards, jewelry, makeup, marketing, mattresses, Medicine, movie candy, movie popcorn, overpriced food, overpriced products, Pharmacology, popcorn, prescription drugs, Prescription Medicine, Price, Pricing, Prozac, restaurant drinks, retail price, soda, Suggested retail price, uneducated buyer, unsold car, water, wine, Xanax
It may seems like we are focusing on myths lately and maybe we are, but myths and urban legends are fun to read and it is more interesting to discover their origins. Just about every topic has a myth or legend behind it, even something as harmless as candy. Take off the wrapper and bite [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 12:05 am
Filed under Food, Humor · Tagged Bubble Yum, candy, candy myths, Clarence Crane, Confectionery, DOCUMENTED CASE OF HALLOWEEN CANDY DEATH OR INJURY, food, Gum, halloween, halloween candy, legend, microwave, myth, Tootsie, Tootsie Pops, Tootsie Roll Industries, top 10 candy myths, top 10 candy urban legends, urban legends, yadda conglomerate
