Candy

The Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular

Yao's Dragon Beard Candy: For When You Need Some Sweet Holiday Snacking

Lauren ShockeyA dragon's beard is similar to Santa's beard. Promise.​Candy canes and gingerbread men might get all the love when it comes to sating your sweet tooth with Christmas candy, but it's worth heading down to Chinatown to discover the tasty traditional Chinese sweet that resembles wi ... More >>

Mr. Jelly Belly Searches for a Candy Comeback

​Planning on giving out Jelly Belly jelly beans tonight to the trick-or-treaters? If so, you're probably making David Klein even more depressed. The Associated Press profiles Klein, the confectioner who was once king of candy land but who fell into obscurity after selling his jelly bean brand ... More >>

Licorice Is Tasty, But It Just Might Kill You

Niznoz / FlickrTrick-or-tachycardia?​Here's some depressing news from Food Consumer, just in time for Halloween: Licorice can cause irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia, and now the FDA encourages only moderate consumption of the jet-black candy.

The 10 Greatest Trick-Or-Treat Halloween Candies

​With nothing between you and the sugar and artificial flavoring, lollipops have long been a Halloween favorite. Halloween is America's number one candy holiday -- way ahead of Christmas, and slightly ahead of Easter. Kids dream about it for weeks beforehand, and spend weeks afterward parsi ... More >>

Evil Parent Tells What She Does With Her Kids' Halloween Candy

In this disturbing video, a parenting "expert" explains to a "newsman" the strategies she uses for getting rid of "unhealthy" Halloween candy. A couple of her suggestions: Throw some away every night, break up the candy and bake it in fiber-bearing muffins, send it to the troops in Afghanistan -- ... More >>

Halloween Is On A Monday This Year!

​And that's even more of a nightmare than the day is supposed to be! It means that, after an entire weekend of dressing like Sarah Palin and scaring little children while untangling yourself from all the cheap faux spiderwebs from all those house parties you crashed in hopes of finding an app ... More >>

A Brilliant Way To Lose Weight

I've discovered two of them, actually. For one thing, I've cut french fries from my diet. Nowadays they come with everything, so I simply substitute a salad or just go without any side dish at all. You'd be amazed at how the pounds fly off like messenger pigeons!

Method Man Raps About Sour Patch Kids Gone Bad

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Method Man rapped about Sour Patch Kids as CGI candy ran around causing havoc in a nicely appointed kitchen? Of course you haven't, but, for some reason, it's happened anyway in a new spot labeled "World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids)." Let's take a look ... More >>

What Swedes Really Do With Their Used Candy Canes

The window display of the Swedish candy canes called polkagrisar I like to keep careful track of what goes on at Sockerbit, the Swedish candy store on Christopher Street. The bins of candy form an anatomy of the northern European sweet tooth, and the stock has been expanded to include other Swedis ... More >>

Battle of the Fancy Madison Avenue Chocolate Bars: Ladurée vs. La Maison du Chocolat (Plus Some Macaron Porn, Too)

Lauren ShockeyCalling all chocoholics​If you're going to spend $10 on a chocolate bar, it had better be a damn good one. Or so you'd hope. But what do you do when the market becomes flooded with overpriced chocolate bars? How can you know how to best blow your weekly paycheck on cacao? Wel ... More >>

Liddabit Has a New Sweet at New Amsterdam Market

​Liz Gutman, co-founder of Liddabit Sweets, fishes around in her new infernal contraption. Founded in 2009 by Liz Gutman and Jen King, Brooklyn's Liddabit Sweets brought the local and sustainable ethos to candymaking. It also brought us habit forming, individually wrapped sea-salt caramels. A ... More >>

'Wavy Gravy's 75th Birthday'

​Liz Gutman, co-founder of Liddabit Sweets, fishes around in her new infernal contraption. Founded in 2009 by Liz Gutman and Jen King, Brooklyn's Liddabit Sweets brought the local and sustainable ethos to candymaking. It also brought us habit forming, individually wrapped sea-salt caramels. A ... More >>

Driggs Pizza in Williamsburg Offers Nutella Pie. Is Dessert Pizza the New Frontier?

Camille Dodero​Thanks to Camille Dodero for spotting this sign in the window of Williamsburg stalwart Driggs Pizza.

Teacher Faces Lawsuit After Friends Mock Student's 'Jolly Rancher Hairdo' on Facebook

via​Have you heard of the Jolly Rancher Hairdo? This is a hairdo in which Jolly Ranchers are tied to the ends of the hair. How could any kid, or candy fanatic, not love this hairstyle? When a seven-year-old student at a Chicago school excitedly sported it for picture day after seeing the style ... More >>

Ask the Critics: Where Can I Get Chocolate for Valentine's Day?

MarieBelleSeduce her with sugar.​Brian G. asks: I want to get my foodie girlfriend some chocolates for Valentine's Day, so I can't get Godiva or anything too mass market. Where can I find a nice assortment of chocolates? Dear Brian: What a good boyfriend you are, thinking so far in advance! ... More >>

Xocolatl de David: World's Most Expensive Caramels

​My fingers were itching to open the box and see what was inside... Fork in the Road's Lauren Shockey has already written about Meadow, the twee little shop on Hudson Street likely to be one of the foremost foodie gift destinations of the holiday season. A Portland, Oregon import, the store s ... More >>

Our 10 Best Halloween Trick-Or-Treat Candies

​The girl on the Mary Jane wrapper looks totally baked, and is that a short skirt she's wearing or a rubber flotation device? Who can forget the thrills of trick-or-treating? Schlepping from door to door with the largest bag you could find in the kitchen, scoring treats from shopkeepers if yo ... More >>

How Halloween Became About Candy

juushika/FlickrCandy country.​ Candy on Halloween is as American (

Canadian Candy: 11 Sweets You Can't Get this Side of the Border

Canada's Crunchie bar: not for Yanks?​For Canadian expats living in the U.S., Halloween can be a painful reminder of all the sweet snacks of their youth that remain largely unavailable this side of the border. Some of them stock up when they go home and smuggle their favorite goodies back. Oth ... More >>

Early Annals of Science Chefdom: Cotton Candy

​A lonely cotton candy vendor in Richmond Hill, Queens. Cotton candy has been with us since at least the Middle Ages, when Persian and Turkish versions were available at great expense, made by a labor-intensive method. The invention of a cotton-candy machine by Nashville candy makers John C. ... More >>

Fat Pants Friday: T.E. Key Lime Caramels

​ Everything, including possibly the staff, is tattooed with Todd English's name at the chef's lavish new food hall in the Plaza Hotel's basement. There is no escaping Todd English, whether you're contemplating a sandwich, a salad, a coffee mug, a tote bag, or, somewhat unnervingly, the chef ... More >>

Smarties Versus M&M's: An England-USA Rematch

​Now that its been decided who has the better goalkeeper (if nothing else!), it's time for England and America to go head-to-head in the candy-covered chocolate division.

Warren Buffett Backs Goldman Sachs, Eviscerates Peanut Brittle Bag

Here he is, eating something else.​Third richest person in the world Warren Buffett spoke in support of Goldman Sachs at a press conference on Sunday, saying that the bank didn't do anything to warrant the public fury that has ensued, and also that things are getting better, ya'll!

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Here he is, eating something else.​Third richest person in the world Warren Buffett spoke in support of Goldman Sachs at a press conference on Sunday, saying that the bank didn't do anything to warrant the public fury that has ensued, and also that things are getting better, ya'll!

Respite for Ray's

The embattled Ray's Candy Store.​Neither More Nor Less brings the happy news that, following threats of eviction, Ray Alvarez was able to pay the January rent on his 36-year-old candy store. On Saturday, he should get a further boost from the benefit being held in his honor at the Sidewalk Caf ... More >>

He Sleeps With the Pringles: 'Tommy Shots' Gioeli, Colombo Crime Family Big, on Killer Diet

​Being charged with five gang land murders that could lead to the death penalty would make anybody nervous. So it's little wonder that Colombo crime family big Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli has been craving a little comfort food while awaiting trial. But, as the Daily News' John Marzulli reports ... More >>

A Parody of "Jersey Shore"!

​Yes, it was as inevitable as the fact that the pomade on my teenage hairdo would eventually grow into a separate person. So here comes Greg Scarnici's spoof of Jersey Shore, complete with wacky characters like Mike "The Situation," "Snickers," and "Snickers' Motha."

Battle of the Dishes: Candy Canes from CVS and Papabubble

Papabubble's hulking candy cane menaces its CVS competitor.​ Aside from their red stripes, candy canes have changed remarkably little since the 17th century, when, as various sources have it, a German choirmaster took straight white sticks of candy and bent them into hooks to hand out to child ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World: Weird Holiday Candy at Dylan's Candy Bar on the UES

This bizarre Peep wants you to be happy​ Dylan's Candy Bar, a three-level sugar emporium on the Upper East Side, has broken out the green-and-red foil wrappers, chocolate Santas, and just about everything else you can think of that's holiday-themed and will rot your teeth. It's a good place to ... More >>

Limelight to Turn Into Mall With Upscale Foodcourt

​ After sitting empty for eons, save for the occasional sample sale, the Limelight will become the Limelight Marketplace in early March.

For Liddabit's Jen King and Liz Gutman, Life Is Sweet

Jen King (left) and Liz Gutman tackle a batch of caramel.​ On a recent Thursday afternoon, Liz Gutman and Jen King were in the eye of a salted caramel storm. "Now's the time that everyone wants to buy candy," King said, reading the thermometer that sprouted from the large pot of hot caramel sh ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World: Tired of Bacon Yet? Try Bacon Breath Mints and Bacon Jelly Beans!

​No foodstuff of the last decade has been more talked about--and obsessed over--than bacon. While previous generations of food fanciers may have eaten it with eggs, laid it over burgers, and lovingly made BLTs out of it, we've taken bacon into an entirely different realm. In fact, over the la ... More >>

Trend Alert: Fancying Up Fast & Junk Food

Emilie Baltz​ When Erik Trinidad started Fancy Fast Food, it was deemed clever. His deconstruction and reconstruction of Happy Meals and Value Menu items offered at once a glimpse into what goes into the mechanically assembled meals of fast-food chains and an astute commentary on our eating h ... More >>

Paul Rudnick Lives on Candy, Picks Best Sugary Treats

A New York Times article today revealed that playwright Paul Rudnick lives on candy--virtually nothing but candy, plus the occasional handful of Cheerios. He's been repulsed by most regular food for his whole life, and has always craved refined sugar. Incredibly, he's not fat, still has his teeth, a ... More >>

Battle of the Dishes: Yuppified Versus Old-School Candy Corn

Left: Brach's, Right: Dean and Deluca's​ When New York parents want to spare no expense for little Jimmy while still indulging his craving for corn syrup, they might traipse over to Dean and Deluca's, where a six-ounce silver bag of candy corn can be had for $3. The rest of us surreptitiously ... More >>

Had Your Fill of Cupcakes? Stuff Yourself Silly With Cannolis at Stuffed Artisan Cannolis

​For those of us who have been longing desperately for the end of the cupcake reich, salvation may have finally arrived in the form of a crispy, fried, tubular pastry shell stuffed with a sweet creamy filling. Cannolis have landed on the Lower East Side in a small, unassuming shop on Stanton ... More >>

"The King of Pop's Going To Lick Your Lollipop"

​No, that's not a threat. That's part of a quote from the new book about Michael Jackson in which a male actor is quoted as saying, "The very first time he blew me, he said 'The King of Pop's Going To Lick Your Lollipop'." And the actor was a grownup! The book--thrown together in two days the ... More >>

Tropical M&M's for Summer

Coconut M&Ms​ We're a sucker for seasonal candy--red and green M&M's taste better, as do egg-shaped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. So we snatched up this packet of coconut M&M's. The package shows one of the green candies (always the sexiest one) lounging under a coconut palm, and inside the pac ... More >>

Grrrrrr....Snickers

Oh boy! A new candy bar named after an iconic Japanese dormant volcano (click to erupt). Note that the Lafayette stop on the C has also been inadvertently renamed. Am I the only one annoyed by the relentless advertising campaign being waged in entire subway cars and on subway billboards by the to ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World: More Mexican Candy

Maybe I'm craving sugar because of the recession, but I'll go with Mexican candy over Twizzlers and Kit Kats any day (try Pulparindo and see if you're not a convert). Mexican confections tend to be more inventive (like a mango-shaped and flavored lollipop), but really it's the spicy-sour-sweet flavo ... More >>

Recession Causing Sugar Cravings

While almost every other industry is seeing a drop in revenues, the candy industry is bouncing happily along. So says a front page story in the Times today, which finds that candy is not only recession-proof, but also recession-friendly--Cadbury, Hershey's and Nestle all reported big jumps in profit ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World: Mexican Candy

Sweet-salty-spicy Mexican candy was way ahead of us and our salted caramels. This mango flavored (and shaped) lollipop, above, called Vero Mango, is coated in salt and chile powder. It kind of feels like licking sandpaper, but much tastier. You can buy them at MexGrocer, or at some bodegas, includi ... More >>

For Your Weekend Snacking Pleasure

 I've got to admit to being a big fan of gummy candies, especially the super-sour type developed a decade or so ago. Nothing like a big hit of citric acid to set your teeth on edge. I know, of course, that gummies are not vegetarian--the gelatin in these gentle treats often derives from anima ... More >>

More Food Blogging Coming Monday

Starting Monday, writer Hailey Eber will begin blogging for Fork in the Road as a regular contributor. You might remember Hailey for the guest blogging she did in December--she of the chocolate candy cane cookies and incisive coverage of Top Chef's scallop-gate. You'll know it's Hailey talking if, w ... More >>

A Very Special Message from the Apple Council

Starting Monday, writer Hailey Eber will begin blogging for Fork in the Road as a regular contributor. You might remember Hailey for the guest blogging she did in December--she of the chocolate candy cane cookies and incisive coverage of Top Chef's scallop-gate. You'll know it's Hailey talking if, w ... More >>

On The Red Carpet #3

Starting Monday, writer Hailey Eber will begin blogging for Fork in the Road as a regular contributor. You might remember Hailey for the guest blogging she did in December--she of the chocolate candy cane cookies and incisive coverage of Top Chef's scallop-gate. You'll know it's Hailey talking if, w ... More >>

"Laffy Taffy" is the Number One Song in the Country

Starting Monday, writer Hailey Eber will begin blogging for Fork in the Road as a regular contributor. You might remember Hailey for the guest blogging she did in December--she of the chocolate candy cane cookies and incisive coverage of Top Chef's scallop-gate. You'll know it's Hailey talking if, w ... More >>

Is That Spiritual Enlightenment, Or Just My Breakfast?

Starting Monday, writer Hailey Eber will begin blogging for Fork in the Road as a regular contributor. You might remember Hailey for the guest blogging she did in December--she of the chocolate candy cane cookies and incisive coverage of Top Chef's scallop-gate. You'll know it's Hailey talking if, w ... More >>

The Elfin Man Takes Manhattan, Faces the Wrath of Caan

Starting Monday, writer Hailey Eber will begin blogging for Fork in the Road as a regular contributor. You might remember Hailey for the guest blogging she did in December--she of the chocolate candy cane cookies and incisive coverage of Top Chef's scallop-gate. You'll know it's Hailey talking if, w ... More >>