Candy Ville

There's a myth that European chocolate tastes better than the ones you can purchase at CVS stateside (it's arguably true since European chocolate has a higher fat and cocoa content), but is there other European candy that's better than American sweets? Why does it all taste so damn good? We set out to investigate and found 10 European sweets that have our American offerings beat every time. Don’t be mad at us — we still love American treats! We’re just giving you another reason to take that end-of-summer Euro trip you’ve been dreaming of. 1. Aero It's simple, but positively scrummy (as former Great British Bake-Off judge Mary Berry would say). Aero is just milk chocolate (and air pockets - and nothing else. Still, it's light, tastes perfect, and provides just the right amount of pick-me-up when you're sleepy.   2. Smarties In the U.K., Smarties are small chocolate dots that are coated in a crunchy, colorful, sugary shell. Sound like M&Ms? Pretty much, but t...

How can Britain hope to govern the waves if it no longer rules chocolate ? Cadbury is no longer in business, having been taken up by meat-packing, Kool-aid-making, fake-cheese-loving, all-American behemoth Kraft. We've always done things a little differently over here when it comes to sugary, milky goodies, so before we turn Dairy Milk into Awesome! Bars, let's have a look at how things are done sweetly on both sides of the pond and see who's better at it. DAIRY MILK  (UK) The "milk" portion of the product (and, I assume, the "dairy" because milk is dairy) was always hammered home in Dairy Milk advertising. The bar was advertised as "heavy in cream" in early advertisements. This technique would probably be as acceptable nowadays as labelling a packet of butter with the words "full of lard and fried dicks." Like Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes, Dairy Milk was thrown into the brave new meme world with the gorilla playin...

Trick-or-treating is a beloved childhood tradition. When kids dig through their pillowcases or plastic pumpkins after a long day of going door-to-door, it seems like everything is a treat. With Halloween just around the corner, we wondered: What are the most popular Halloween candies in Canada?     Here is the list>    1. Milk Duds   Halloween is no dud with Milk Duds. It is packaged in adorable little boxes of three or four and given out to tens of thousands of trick-or-treaters each year. During Halloween, about 9,732 pounds of these chocolate-covered caramels are sold.   2. Life Savers   Life Savers have been around for more than a century. It's an oldie but a goodie, with an average of 11,987 pounds of Life Savers sold during the holiday season.   3. Almond Joy   There are times when you feel like a nut, and there are times when you don't. It is estimated that 32,744 pounds of Almond Joys will be sold on average this Halloween. A...

  It is not clear what it says about people that we have always found something to chew on, but at least we are consistent. Ancient Greeks chewed tree resin, as did Mayans and Native Americans. Archaeologists have found tree resin with teeth marks in it that date back more than 5,000 years in Finland and Sweden. Early settlers were taught how to chew gum by Native Americans, and the Curtis family in Maine began harvesting spruce resin and selling it for a penny each in 1848. The Curtis family invented the modern form of chewing gum, which they named "The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum," by adding flavor to make it tastier and paraffin to make it softer. Dentist William Semple got a patent for his chewing gum formula in 1869, which consisted of rubber, sugar, licorice, and charcoal. Yummy. However, he never sold his gum on the mainstream market, leaving New Yorker Thomas Adams plenty of room.    With the start of the American importation of chicle, a sap harvested from the...