10 Unusual Candies & Treats To Give Out On Halloween
Categories: Sweet, Sweet Sweets, Wacky Snacks
3. Caplico
Origin: Japan
The texture is like freeze dried ice cream foam -- porous and melts as soon as it hits your tongue. The flavor approximates that freezer burned stuff that sticks on the side of the ice cream carton. Yeah, it's like that, but better. What really sells it is that the cone is a real cake cone. You won't see this ever going up on the space shuttle, though. Everything is a bit too crumbly for the weightless environment of space. Plus with the budget cutbacks at NASA, astronauts would have to fight over who gets the last one.
2. Meiji Meltyblend
Origin: Japan
These are the closest thing to little truffles shaped into cubes. And in your mouth, it does exactly what the name says it does: it melts. And it does it cleanly. After a minute, there's no trace of the candy, making you reach for another immediately. The strawberry in particular tastes like strawberry milkshake distilled in a cubic centimeter. Silken, not-too-sweet, and dusted lightly in cocoa powder so as to emulate a chocolate-dipped strawberry. The chocolate flavor is just as good, with a malty finish.
1. Crunky
Origin: Korea
These dice-sized milk chocolates have crunchy rice krispie-like bits inside each ball. Imagine nuggets of Nestle Crunch Bars. That's what they approximate (although the ingredients do not list any rice). Since they're buffed shiny with carnauba wax, they melt in your mouth, not in your hand. Yes, Crunky is also like an M&M--an M&M and Nestle Crunch Bar hybrid that you eat out of a flip top lid.
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| Edwin Goei |
Origin: Japan
The texture is like freeze dried ice cream foam -- porous and melts as soon as it hits your tongue. The flavor approximates that freezer burned stuff that sticks on the side of the ice cream carton. Yeah, it's like that, but better. What really sells it is that the cone is a real cake cone. You won't see this ever going up on the space shuttle, though. Everything is a bit too crumbly for the weightless environment of space. Plus with the budget cutbacks at NASA, astronauts would have to fight over who gets the last one.
2. Meiji Meltyblend
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| Edwin Goei |
Origin: Japan
These are the closest thing to little truffles shaped into cubes. And in your mouth, it does exactly what the name says it does: it melts. And it does it cleanly. After a minute, there's no trace of the candy, making you reach for another immediately. The strawberry in particular tastes like strawberry milkshake distilled in a cubic centimeter. Silken, not-too-sweet, and dusted lightly in cocoa powder so as to emulate a chocolate-dipped strawberry. The chocolate flavor is just as good, with a malty finish.
1. Crunky
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| Edwin Goei |
Origin: Korea
These dice-sized milk chocolates have crunchy rice krispie-like bits inside each ball. Imagine nuggets of Nestle Crunch Bars. That's what they approximate (although the ingredients do not list any rice). Since they're buffed shiny with carnauba wax, they melt in your mouth, not in your hand. Yes, Crunky is also like an M&M--an M&M and Nestle Crunch Bar hybrid that you eat out of a flip top lid.
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