Back in early 2009, Butterfinger, clearly hoping to jump on the energy drink bandwagon, introduced Butterfinger Buzz, a Butterfinger candy bar with”as much caffeine as the leading energy drink.” And then? Well I don’t know what happened then. Do you? The product was released with not enough fanfare for me to originally notice. They launched [...]

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It’s been more than 40 years since Tootsie Roll Pops first posed the question: “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?” Since then, countless children (and college students) have attempted to answer this question, with mixed results. Have any of you had the patience to find [...]

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Okay, so I was going to do a poll on how you eat your Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but these early ’90s TV ads led me to realize the truth – there’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s!

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With Halloween just a few days away, I thought today would be the perfect time to post about the best selling candy products/brands in the United States.  As I’ve learned in the past when compiling best selling soda and best selling beer lists, this information can often be notoriously hard to track down.  Fortunately Business [...]

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Catching a movie in my pre-teens was an incredible experience.  The smell of horrible two-day-old popcorn at the Sangertown Mall, the crunchy disgusting carpets…and the candy.  Oh the candy. I preferred to forgo the traditional box of candy and went for the wall of sugar.  You remember those gargantuan plexi-glass shelves containing your darkest desires.  [...]

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A new Cadbury Caramilk ad relies on the hilarious old stand-by of interpretive dance: Uh…..why was that so long? I feel like I could have got the message in 15-20 seconds. Via AdFreak.

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Fling is the new chocolate bar from Mars. With its pink wrapper and website that opens with the words “Ladies, life is short” there is no secret that this product is being marketed to women as the target audience.  Each Fling “finger” contains only 85 calories, and it is pitched as “naughty…but not that naughty.” [...]

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Some website called Grassshopper.com, which is for “advanced phone numbers” or whateves, sent me a package of chocolate covered grasshoppers last week.  In my never ending quest to make going to my office more and more like competeting on the TV show Survivor, I held a little tasting in our office kitchen. They were tiny, [...]

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Wow. This one totally slipped past me. I was reading the AdAge Viral Video chart for last week and noticed that a video from Cadbury called “Cadbury Eyebrows” was #3.  Apparently the video already has more than 3.3 million views on YouTube, but since it’s not airing on television here in the U.S. it’s probably [...]

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