Never Buy any Candy

[ergative]

My class ate most of the left over candy today, but I held back the really good stuff (peanut butter cups and peanut m&ms) for my lab, where I can also raid them (but they will not last long, even though one of my grad students inexplicably doesn't like chocolate).

It never ceases to amaze me how peanut butter cups are so head-and-shoulders superior to all other kinds of candy.

[Juvenal]

My class ate most of the left over candy today, but I held back the really good stuff (peanut butter cups and peanut m&ms) for my lab, where I can also raid them (but they will not last long, even though one of my grad students inexplicably doesn't like chocolate).

It never ceases to amaze me how peanut butter cups are so head-and-shoulders superior to all other kinds of candy.

What peanut butter cups offer is offered by fewer other confections,  Here we have sugar, salt, fat, ground peanut, nicely blended, and then enrobed in chocolate.  They are not so much sweet as savory.

[AmLitHist]

I was shocked on Tuesday when stopping at my local Walmart: they had an entire aisle of Halloween candy, with display boxes on both sides of the aisle, all marked half price.  And the boxes were nearly all half full, or more.  This was the good stuff: nearly all chocolate and brand name (not the nasty off-brand or junky candy that nobody wants). 

I was proud of myself:  I only bought one bag for ALHS (Reese's pumpkins) and one for Kid #2 (Snickers).  None for me, though I'd have loved to dive right in!

[ergative]

When I went to my local grocery store on Tuesday, the Halloween candy was gone and the Christmas candy wasn't up yet! I felt enraged and cheated. Still do.

[Puget]

My class ate most of the left over candy today, but I held back the really good stuff (peanut butter cups and peanut m&ms) for my lab, where I can also raid them (but they will not last long, even though one of my grad students inexplicably doesn't like chocolate).

Gasp!

I KNOW! I'm trying not to let this disturbing revelation affect my general view of her. I suppose I should be happy that this leaves more for the rest of us.

My class ate most of the left over candy today, but I held back the really good stuff (peanut butter cups and peanut m&ms) for my lab, where I can also raid them (but they will not last long, even though one of my grad students inexplicably doesn't like chocolate).

It never ceases to amaze me how peanut butter cups are so head-and-shoulders superior to all other kinds of candy.

What peanut butter cups offer is offered by fewer other confections,  Here we have sugar, salt, fat, ground peanut, nicely blended, and then enrobed in chocolate.  They are not so much sweet as savory.

They really hit all the hedonic points. The dark chocolate TJs ones are the best, but I'm unlucky/lucky that I don't have one super nearby. 

[ergative]

The dark chocolate TJs ones are the best, but I'm unlucky/lucky that I don't have one super nearby.

Gosh, I remember those. There was a TJs I'd pass every day to get to campus when I was a grad student, and I would stock my office with those dark chocolate cartons. Then I would eat them too fast and regret it for a week or two, before succumbing again. No TJs around here, alas, not for many many leagues and an ocean. But there's one not too far from my parents' house. I might make some pointed hints about Christmas gifts.

[AvidReader]

The dark chocolate TJs ones are the best, but I'm unlucky/lucky that I don't have one super nearby.

Gosh, I remember those. There was a TJs I'd pass every day to get to campus when I was a grad student, and I would stock my office with those dark chocolate cartons. Then I would eat them too fast and regret it for a week or two, before succumbing again. No TJs around here, alas, not for many many leagues and an ocean. But there's one not too far from my parents' house. I might make some pointed hints about Christmas gifts.

Lidl US--if you are lucky enough to live near one, which we do not--has a very affordable version of these dark chocolate ones, as well as a knockoff candy bar (can't recall which) with a spectacular name, something like "chocolate caramel cookie bar in hydrogenated fatty oil." Spouse and I were such fans of the truthful advertising that we bought one for everyone's Christmas stocking one year.

AR.

[Liquidambar]

Lidl US--if you are lucky enough to live near one, which we do not--has a very affordable version of these dark chocolate ones, as well as a knockoff candy bar (can't recall which) with a spectacular name, something like "chocolate caramel cookie bar in hydrogenated fatty oil." Spouse and I were such fans of the truthful advertising that we bought one for everyone's Christmas stocking one year.

I love that!  If I run into it at Lidl, I will also buy it for everyone's Christmas stocking.