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Kids Eating Warheads Is Easily the Most Painful Supercut Ever

TheFW Staff — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:20:46 +0000

We’ve previously shared with you videos of poor kids making adorably sour faces while tasting the deceptively delicious candy Warheads. These kids are expecting something sweet, and what they get is punch of sour right in the face. Now comes a cute supercut of kids reacting to their first taste of Warheads. It’s sure to [...]

Amarillo Pediatric Dentistry Halloween Candy Buy Back

Lori Crofford — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:34:37 +0000

OK so today is Halloween and rest assured if your child is going Trick or Treating they will come in with a ton of candy. Do you really want them eating all that candy? If not then keep reading to find out how to make some money off your leftover candy. Amarillo Pediatric Dentistry is [...]

10 Easy Ways to Make Candy Corn Awesome

Cameron Simcik — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:45:14 +0000

There’s one single treat in the history of all candy deliciousness that makes us feel so torn. Candy corn — we hate to love it and love to hate it. How is it possible it can taste so bad, yet be so irresistible? It’s a Halloween trick AND treat. (See what we did there?) We [...]

Halloween Candies That Need to Come Back

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:25:43 +0000

It’s that time of year again when we apologize to our pancreas and then eat until we're sick -- Halloween candy season! Everywhere we turn, we’re bombarded with chocolate and gummies and sour things and those peanut butter taffies in the wax paper wrapping that no one ever eats. Somehow those things have survived the ages but our favorites have gone by the wayside. It’s bittersweet heaven on earth.

Candy Thief Steals $600 Worth of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Don Deane — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:43:44 +0000

We love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups as much as the next guy, but a robber in Ohio has taken his love of candy to a whole new thieving level by stealing between $400-$600 worth of Reese’s over the past few months. The “Peanut Butter Cup Bandit” has been targeting a Sunoco in the town of [...]

Kid With Sweet Tooth Gets Arm Stuck in Gumball Machine

Don Deane — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:45:53 +0000

In an extremely literal example of how candy is bad for you, a two-year-old Arkansas toddler got his arm stuck deep in a gumball machine on Monday and had to be rescued by firefighters. Stick to veggies next time, kiddo. video platform video management video solutions video player While shopping with his father, two-year-old Terrell [...]

Now That Easter is Over…The Candy is Left [POLL]

Lori Crofford — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:45:51 +0000

So Easter has finally passed and the Easter Bunny has hopped back up the bunny trail, the one thing left is candy and empty eggs. Baskets full of candy just screaming “EAT ME!” I was joking with Ethan Saturday about how he better hide his Skittles from Mommy. The kid took me literally. I was [...]

Strawberry Quik-Dangerous Drug or a Social Media Frenzy Revived

Lori Crofford — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:46:35 +0000

I have seen several posts from friends on facebook in the last few days about a drug called Strawberry Quik. It is said to resemble Pop Rocks candy and is a flavored form of crystal meth. As I have been reading the warnings, it dawned on me that this isn't the first time I have heard about this drug.

Mars Cuts King-Size Candy Bars

Althea Fung — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:58:46 +0000

Mars Inc., makers of Snickers and M&Ms, announced Thursday it will phase out the king-size version of its candy bars, the Chicago Tribune reports. The candymaker will stop shipping bars that contain more than 250 calories by the end of 2013. The company’s chocolate brands include Snickers, Twix, 3 Musketeers, Milky Way, M&Ms and Galaxy. [...]

Peppermint the Flavor of Christmas – Lori's Top 5 Peppermint Treats

Lori Crofford — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:30:50 +0000

I love peppermint. Anything peppermint makes me happy. Since Christmas brings us the Candy Cane, it also brings us some really awesome peppermint treats. Here are my top 5 favorite peppermint treats that you can get during the holidays. Flickr/LabyrinthX 5 Candy Cane Candy Canes are the epitome of peppermint. I love sucking [...]

Top 5 Uses for Leftover Halloween Candy

Lori Crofford — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:30:07 +0000

If your child or children had a night like mine then you easily have 2-5 pounds of candy in your house right now. Obviously you don't want your child consuming that much candy, (and if we are being honest, you probably don't want to consume that much candy. Yes, I know the chocolate is tempting), [...]

9 Things You Didn't Know About Candy Corn

Danny Gallagher — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:00:01 +0000

Every year, it hides in some dark, dank corner of even the most raucous Halloween party, waiting for some unknowing fool to stick their hand in its clutches of doom. It entices its prey with colorful designs and the promise of sweet joy, only to fill its victims with a familiar sense of bland, flavorless dread. T

Marijuana Candy Showing Up in Stores

Lori Crofford — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:59:30 +0000

Apparently there is a new candy showing up in stores. It is call Potheads and it is in the shape of marijuana leaves. The candy doesn’t contain actual marijuana nor will it get you high. What are your thoughts. Do you think this should only be sold in specialty stores or should this candy maker [...]