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20 Awesome Candy Items from the 80s

Meredith Chambers — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:27:06 +0000

With Halloween just around the corner, what a perfect time to combine our favorite era with our favorite sweets! Even though you can still find many of them today, sweets like original candy bars, Bottle Caps, Good & Plenty and Abba Zabba were some of our favorite treats in the 1980s.

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Halloween Candies That Need to Come Back

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:25:43 +0000

It’s that time of year again when we apologize to our pancreas and then eat until we're sick -- Halloween candy season! Everywhere we turn, we’re bombarded with chocolate and gummies and sour things and those peanut butter taffies in the wax paper wrapping that no one ever eats. Somehow those things have survived the ages but our favorites have gone by the wayside. It’s bittersweet heaven on earth.

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Peep Attack

Jeff Deminski — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:08:38 +0000

The week leading up to Easter, we found out about Bill Doyle's irrational hatred for the greatest East candy ever devised...the marshmallow Peep. Then I found this video. Someday, someone HAS to do this to Doyle's front lawn. The guy who not only loathes Peeps,

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Halloween Candy + No Kids = Fail

Jeff Deminski — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:32:35 +0000

We had this conversation on air just yesterday. I bought very little Halloween candy to dole out to kids because I'm back to living in a condo complex. My theory has been parents tend not to send kids trick or treating in apartment or condo complexes

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