“What are you doing?” my friend inquired, staring at me as I slipped my hand inside my bag.
“Nothing.” I had been caught exhuming a Skittle from the bottom of my purse.
“You’re the only adult I know that actually eats candy as food!” she said.
It’s not healthy to eat candy as food. We all know this.
But I also know that it’s pretty hard to make people soften with a selection of multivitamins. So, I am rarely without candy either in my handbag or scattered about in my office and house.
It’s become a little of an urban legend, me and my crazy eating habits and my apartment full of sugar. In truth, it’s not so sexy, but I stand behind the pragmatism of serving endless bowls of candy at a party. Does anyone really like passed hors d’oeuvres?
A typical night on my dining room table or ottoman includes hand bowls of hard taffy, sparkly frosted gummy peaches, pillowy sour apple rings, gelatin worms, pinwheel lollipops, and unidentifiable slabs with ancient wrappers and names like Slo Poke. On the bar top, there are snobby candied violets and those Italian boxes of Pastiglie Leone. Sometimes I will soak gummies in vodka or drop them in Champagne.
If you’re nervous about all this, Halloween is an easy excuse to experiment. How boring to buy those prepackaged mixes at the drugstore when you can visit Lower East Side hold out Economy Candy and create pretty, monochromatic bowls (Red Hots! Fireballs! Those ubiquitous Strawberry Bon Bons).
Candy is indulgent, naughty, and kind of ridiculous. It's a very silly, simple pleasure. Here, the nine best candies you won't find in that super-sized fun pack.
1. Slo Poke “Delicious Caramel” sister of the...
2. ... Black Cow Delicious Caramel (bars and bite-size).
3. Gilliam hard candy sticks, originated in Paducah, Kentucky and available in lovely colors and flavors. In particular, the clear with pastel green, yellow, and pink swirls (like on a carousel) is a must-try.
4. Abba-Zaba candy bars with yellow-and-black checkerboard packaging, with white taffy with high-protein peanut butter in the middle.
5. Satellite wafers with sprinkles inside. Little UFOs!
6. It’s a little taboo, but I can’t help myself: candy cigarettes.
7. Chick-O-Sticks are really gross: peanuts, salt, sugar, and coconut, and they are bright orange!
8. Choward’s Violet gum—perfect purple squares in a lovely silvery box with the be
“Nothing.” I had been caught exhuming a Skittle from the bottom of my purse.
“You’re the only adult I know that actually eats candy as food!” she said.
It’s not healthy to eat candy as food. We all know this.
But I also know that it’s pretty hard to make people soften with a selection of multivitamins. So, I am rarely without candy either in my handbag or scattered about in my office and house.
It’s become a little of an urban legend, me and my crazy eating habits and my apartment full of sugar. In truth, it’s not so sexy, but I stand behind the pragmatism of serving endless bowls of candy at a party. Does anyone really like passed hors d’oeuvres?
A typical night on my dining room table or ottoman includes hand bowls of hard taffy, sparkly frosted gummy peaches, pillowy sour apple rings, gelatin worms, pinwheel lollipops, and unidentifiable slabs with ancient wrappers and names like Slo Poke. On the bar top, there are snobby candied violets and those Italian boxes of Pastiglie Leone. Sometimes I will soak gummies in vodka or drop them in Champagne.
If you’re nervous about all this, Halloween is an easy excuse to experiment. How boring to buy those prepackaged mixes at the drugstore when you can visit Lower East Side hold out Economy Candy and create pretty, monochromatic bowls (Red Hots! Fireballs! Those ubiquitous Strawberry Bon Bons).
Candy is indulgent, naughty, and kind of ridiculous. It's a very silly, simple pleasure. Here, the nine best candies you won't find in that super-sized fun pack.
1. Slo Poke “Delicious Caramel” sister of the...
2. ... Black Cow Delicious Caramel (bars and bite-size).
3. Gilliam hard candy sticks, originated in Paducah, Kentucky and available in lovely colors and flavors. In particular, the clear with pastel green, yellow, and pink swirls (like on a carousel) is a must-try.
4. Abba-Zaba candy bars with yellow-and-black checkerboard packaging, with white taffy with high-protein peanut butter in the middle.
5. Satellite wafers with sprinkles inside. Little UFOs!
6. It’s a little taboo, but I can’t help myself: candy cigarettes.
7. Chick-O-Sticks are really gross: peanuts, salt, sugar, and coconut, and they are bright orange!
8. Choward’s Violet gum—perfect purple squares in a lovely silvery box with the be