One thing that’s just great about Easter coming so early this year is that it marks the end of the “candy” holidays, until Halloween rolls round again. I still haven’t finished the Christmas candy! Oh, I don’t mind throwing out candy canes and gumdrops when they get old, but people who know me (several of them) gave me gifts of fine chocolate, which I enjoy very much. The kids also make sure I get the best chocolates out of any goodie bags they receive at holiday or birthday parties. Then yesterday I noticed the grocer still had some chocolate bunnies... at 60% discount! Yes, I’m guilty. I bought one. I HAVE to start a regular exercise regimen, if only in order to keep eating my precious chocolate.



JAPP Chocolate Energy Bar (via Bits and Pieces)

Survival of the Fittest M&M.

Can you believe a 99% cocoa bar? That might be too much of a good thing.

A closer look at chocolate addiction, including the many happy chemicals it contains.

Ten reasons to eat more chocolate. As if you needed them. (via Look at This)

A study links the type of bacteria living in people's digestive system to a desire for chocolate. The study took a long time to complete because it was so hard to find enough people who didn’t eat chocolate!

Chocolate-Covered Jeep.

Candy Love

Four-year-old Sam loved candy almost as much as his mom Sally did. He and Daddy had given her a beautiful heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentine's Day.

A few days later Sam was eyeing it, wishing to have a piece of it. As he reached out to touch one of the big pieces, Sally said to him, "If you touch it, then you have to eat it. Do you understand?"

"Oh, yes," he said, nodding his head. Suddenly his little hand patted the tops of all the pieces of candy. "Now I can eat them all."

NUTRITION

According to a recent article I just read on nutrition, they said eating right doesn't have to be complicated. Nutritionists say there is a simple way to tell if you're eating right. Colors. Fill your plates with bright colors. Greens, reds, yellows. In fact, I did that this morning. I had an entire bowl of M&M's. It was delicious! I never knew eating right could be so easy.

Van Halen’s M&Ms

by  Candy Addict 
No matter how many blindfolded taste-tests I ace, I just can’t seem to convince people that I can taste brown M&M’s. They just taste… brown. When I first heard about Van Halen’s backstage rider, I thought at last I’d found some simpatico supertasters. Their tour rider used to require that there be a bowl of M&M’s, but that all of the brown ones be removed. If they found a single offending brown M&M, they supposedly trashed the place and/or refused to play. There are even newspaper articles detailing riotous tantrums resulting from improper candy screenings.

What’s interesting about this urban legend is not whether it’s true (it is) but why. Turns out, it had nothing to do with flavor, or aesthetics, or even rock-star-ego demands. No, it’s actually just a test to make sure the promoters had read the contract.

In a nutshell, Van Halen had a lot of heavy equipment that required strong cables, a stage that could withstand so much weight, and so on. They feared for the safetyof their fragile little bodies if the very specific contract went unread, so in the middle of a lot of technical instructions, the little devils threw in a clause forbidding brown M&M’s backstage. If they found the bowl they’d requested to be unsorted, they’d know the contract hadn’t been scrutinized, and hence the following hissy fit. It’s all perfectly reasonable. (By the way, for your convenience, I’m just paraphrasing a beautifully reported story from Snopes.com. For the full story with quotes, you should totally check out this wonderful site).

Oh, and in this litigious age in which we now live, Van Halen no longer finds it necessary to mess with the minds of concert promoters– they just straightforwardly ask for a dozen Reese’s cups.

Read about more Candy Urban Legends at Candy Addict.

Previously at Miss Cellania: Chocolate, Chocolate and Coffee, and Coffee and Chocolate.

Thought for today: Flowers wilt, jewelry tarnishes, and candles burn out, but chocolate doesn’t hang around long enough to get old!

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