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03 April 2006

What, in your opinion and/or basket, is the best Easter candy? →[More:]I'm hosting my family's Easter lunch for the fifth year in a row. I serve a really varied and satisfying lunch but the chocolate I provide has been pretty unexceptional - usually just those foil-covered mini eggs.

So I'd like some ideas for more interesting candy. What's delicious? What's disgusting but in a good way? What will provoke comments and/or laughter?

post by: Orange Swan at: 13:10 | 42 comments

Valomilk cups rock, and Gummi Brains and Teeth are neat. An all 'Limited Edition' basket with Caramel Reeses Cups and White Chocolate Twix would be a cool twist.

posted by jonmc 03 April | 13:12

The Cadbury Cream Egg.

posted by sciurus 03 April | 13:14

This is coming from someone who has never eaten a Peep, nor a Cadbury Cream Egg, so feel free to suggest the obvious.

posted by Orange Swan 03 April | 13:16

Don't know if they still make them, but hollow sugar eggs with a plastic window you look in to see a scene of candy bunnies and flowers.

At some point the plastic window became just a hole, and the candy scene became cut out paper things, but they were still cool.

posted by StickyCarpet 03 April | 13:20

For unusual candy, try to find a local middle eastern/Mediterranean food store. I recently had some chocolate and banana candy from one that tasted like... dirt. But kept me coming back for more. The banana flavor was really real.

As for novelty candy the Kinder Surprise is good.

posted by interrobang 03 April | 13:22

I really like the Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs ... they taste different to me (creamier! softer!) than the RPB cups, maybe because they have a pleasingly rounded edge rather than a hard edge.

Also, the Cadbury Egg comes with a caramel filling (though I am partial to the original).

posted by initapplette 03 April | 13:23

second cadbury creme egg.
I too have never had a peep. It's my candy goal this year.
I really like marshmallow eggs, but the ones I like you can't get in the states. mmmm marshmallow eggs.

posted by gaspode 03 April | 13:23

Cadbury *Caramel* Egg.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 April | 13:24

Cadbury Deviled Egg.

posted by jonmc 03 April | 13:27

My Easter favorites are the Cadbury Mini Eggs (chocolate with candy shell), the Milky Way Creme Bunny (a Milky Way in rabbit form), and the Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs (peanut butter with candy shell).

Cream Eggs are good, but incredibly rich, and can be cloying after the first two bites. They make a miniature version which is slightly different, but safer.

posted by wimpdork 03 April | 13:29

What is this "Easter" you write of?

posted by Hugh Janus 03 April | 13:34

it's a spring festival day in which people break out their pagan impulses.

glowing easter brains would be nifty.
light the basket!
also, snowballs by hostess can come in any color, as apparently, m&ms

posted by ethylene 03 April | 13:37

go for one of those obscenely oversized apples covered with dark chocolate and nuts and caramel, etc.
or a white chocolate covered pretzel cruxifix

fill crosses with raspberry filling

posted by ethylene 03 April | 13:40

I'll definitely be going with the mini versions of whatever candy I buy. No one will have that much room for that much candy.

Here's the menu:

coffee
banana bisque
orange raspberry punch
devilled eggs
potato chips
Bugles
salmon and cream cheese wrap cuts
roast pork
sweet and sour meatballs
sourdough biscuits
mashed potatoes
peas
vegetable pastries
Irish whiskey cake
strawberry roll cake
ice cream
fruit platter with cream cheese dip

posted by Orange Swan 03 April | 13:40

I saw at walmart an easter basket with a lineup of the best wonka stuff: nerds, bottlecaps, runts, gobstoppers

But I will tell you, if I was ever a rock star or vice president with my own rider and could do a "take out the brown m&ms thing" i would ask for runts with the bananas taken out.

posted by poppo 03 April | 13:40

A Thornton's Easter Egg with my name written on it. Thornton's do some groovy Easter stuff.

posted by essexjan 03 April | 13:59

i would ask for runts with the bananas taken out.

Send them to me. I like the bananas.

posted by jonmc 03 April | 14:00

Holy awesome spread!

I always liked Jordan almonds and Jelly Bellies.

posted by me3dia 03 April | 14:00

Peeps, duh!!!

posted by Lola_G 03 April | 14:01

Oh, and I'll also be serving a salad with the main course. Though my family would just as soon I forgot it as only a few people out of 25 will have any. But I've got some nutritional principles, damn it, and I'm determined to find a salad they'll eat.

posted by Orange Swan 03 April | 14:09

I too have never had a peep. It's my candy goal this year.

Far be it from me to deprive you of the experience, Gaspode, but ...

I was visiting George in Ohio last year and we called in on some friends. There was an open pack of Peeps (pink ones) on the table (probably left over from Easter). I'd never seen them before and was SO excited, after reading about them for four years on the net, that I asked if I could have one.

"Hell, yeah, have them all" came the reply. That should've been all the warning I needed. But I didn't listen, and I put one in my mouth.

I did the polite thing and chewed and swallowed the Peep instead of obeying my first instinct and spitting it right out again.

Someone once described them as being like a mouthful of shaving foam covered in grit. Yep, that's what they are like.

Plus, they leave this horrible coating of I-don't-know-what inside your mouth. Yeuch!

Don't say I didn't warn you when you're rinsing your mouth with chlorine trying to get rid of the taste!

posted by essexjan 03 April | 14:11

I heard there was a thread where Mechazens talked about what was in their baskets. So I showed up here. I'm feeling a little disappointed, now.

posted by matildaben 03 April | 14:18

Well, tilda, remember when poppo mentioned what he wanted removed from his Runts?

posted by jonmc 03 April | 14:20

I'll keep that in mind, essexjan. I also have mr. g looking like he's going to hurl when I say I want them, and that's not enough to put me off...

/me is relentless in pursuit of new candy experiences

posted by gaspode 03 April | 14:23

/me is relentless in pursuit of new candy experiences

me and you need to go to Dylan's Candy Bar and the basement of Jas Mart on St. Marks and the candy stores of Chinatown and Economy Candy on Rivington, and keep a running commentary while someone takes digital video and upload it.

posted by jonmc 03 April | 14:26

Oh I know all about economy candy don't worry jon.

And I've had one trip to Dylan's which nearly sent me into a diabetic coma.

posted by gaspode 03 April | 14:28

pode, I was in Dylan's downstairs with a buddy once, and out of the 'party room' in the back came (no joke) a conga line of about 25 pre-pubes going cha-cha-cha-Yeah! like strockbrokers on a freebase bender.

posted by jonmc 03 April | 14:30

Yes, Peeps are teh grody.

posted by mike9322 03 April | 14:31

I don't think we have comparable stores in Toronto.

Given that earlier this month I had an incredibly unpleasant two-hour $548 dental visit earlier this month, this is probably for the best. And I'll just say this - if you've never had your palate frozen, you are one of those fortune loves.

posted by Orange Swan 03 April | 14:33

Nose candy?

Does Toblerone make anything special for Easter?

/not into sweets, overly

posted by porpoise 03 April | 14:35

Creme Egg McFlurry. Creme eggs + ice cream = so good

posted by flopsy 03 April | 14:37

Don't dis the Peeps! I consume one peep a year, on Easter. I'm not saying that's not plenty, but it's a tradition.

In recent years, I've had more fun showing other ostensible grownups how to enjoy microwave PeepGiants and Peep Jousting.

My ideal basket contains: Reese's Peanut Butter eggs, malted milk balls (another thing you only really see at Easter) and a Perugina chocolate egg. If there is to be a bunny, let it be solid.

posted by Miko 03 April | 14:50

malted milk balls (another thing you only really see at Easter)

actually I just ate a carton of NEW! Vanilla Milkshake Flavored Whoppers brand malted milk balls just last weekend.

posted by jonmc 03 April | 15:04

mmmmmm.

I particularly like them with milk. What you do is you bite halfway through, then take a sip of milk and let the malted milk ball pop and sizzle in your mouth until it dissolves into a delicious grainy paste in a chocolate shell.

posted by Miko 03 April | 15:12

miko, that's sort of a confectionery version of bathtub meth. my hat's off to you.

posted by jonmc 03 April | 15:17

The best Easter candy of all is Jesus' own special butt chocolate.

Melts in your mouth, and cures leprosy!

posted by loquacious 03 April | 15:25

Peeps are even better if you leave them out a few days to get stale.

Yummmm, pure sugar goodness!

posted by Lola_G 03 April | 15:35

Black licorice jelly beans are the king of all Easter candies. For an adult get-together, might I suggest making jelly-bean-shaped Jello shots? Don't forget to make a few Sambuca ones!

posted by eamondaly 03 April | 18:06

Eamon, that is a brilliant idea. I salute both you and your basket!

posted by matildaben 03 April | 18:11

I tried a peep, it was just about as essexjan described. I'm not sure why I liked them as a kid.

As for best Easter candy: Lindt's chocolate bunny.

posted by deborah 03 April | 18:48

Cadbury Cream Eggs are a good time, and so are those coated-malted-milk-ball deals, Robin Eggs I think they're called.

posted by box 03 April | 20:08

The woman who ran the stable where I used to ride LOVED peeps, but I think she died before they started making them for different holidays.

I haven't seen the Cadbury fudge center eggs this year.

posted by brujita 03 April | 22:42

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