sweet dreams
I bought a candy bar today. It was a Whatchamacallit. As I stared at the shiny wraper on my way back to work, I wondered who gets to name candy bars. Whatchamacallit is a great candy bar name. Butterfinger, however, is a horrible candy bar name. I always thought it was a chocolate covered stick of butter. I never got close to one, even if it wound up in my halloween booty as a kid. Who wants chocolate covered butter!? Not this consumer of confectionary creations. I’ve been told Butterfinger is filled with peanut butter, not dairy butter, but I suspect this is a trick to get me to eat a chocolate covered bar of butter. I used to work with a woman who was from Idaho and she would return from trips back home with a candy called the Idaho Spud that she handed out to us all. Chocolate covered potatoes are not my idea of a magical treat. Idaho, please take that one back to the drawing board.
July 7th, 2005 at 8:22 am
If you find yourself next Halloween with a bag full of Butterfingers just let me know and I’ll come by and gladly take them off of your hands. I love ‘em. Probably because I started eating them when I was too young to bother making sense of the name. In terms of names, I always like the One Hundred Thousand Dollar bar; I always felt like I was getting deal when I only paid a quarter for it (this was the 70s, after all.) Apparently their marketing dept disagreed with me and it’s called something like One Grand now.
July 7th, 2005 at 11:45 am
I still love Snickers & Big League Chew. Though the latter is not a candy bar, it should qualify as one based sheerly on sugar content.
Another all-time fav: those fake candy cig’s. The inside was just a cylinder of pink bubble gum. They were wrapped in paper just like real cig’s, and made “smoke” when you blew on them thanks to powdered sugar. Remember those?! Oh if only I had some of those!!! Yum…
July 7th, 2005 at 11:45 am
P.S. Eli — those chocolate covered lips look disgusting. YUCK!
July 7th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
My favorite candy bars have multiple parts. You know, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Twix, Kit Kat. You open the package, take one out, eat it and then think, “that was so good I want to do it again”. And guess what? You can, because there’s another one waiting in the package. Genius!
July 9th, 2005 at 11:14 am
First of all, I would love a chocolate covered stick of butter! That sounds delicious. Second of all, I mentioned this in my blog but butterfinger crisps, the new butterfinger, is soooo good!! It’s all the beauty of butterfinger without getting stuck in your teeth.
I resent this entry though because I am giving up sugar and now you’ve made me want to go to the deli and load up on candy.
I also think those lips are disgusting.
July 11th, 2005 at 2:20 am
Judging from the last time I had a look at Eli’s Internet Explorer history file I’m pretty sure that it isn’t chocolate on those lips…
July 12th, 2005 at 1:30 am
*sniff* I miss Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups… just can’t seem to find them here
Thinking about buying some Kit Kats now though 
And… I don’t think that’s chocolate on those lips either (the picture looks familiar)
July 13th, 2005 at 6:26 pm
Let me tell you, it took me a while to find that picture of an adult mouth smeared with chocolate. Chocolate mess mouth pictures are almost always kids. If your mind is in the gutter about the chocolate, now imagine if it was a child’s mouth.