Hello and welcome. Hey y'all. Oh, we have missed you so much.
I've been you have been hold through a keyhole backwards, Tabitha. Goodness,
gracious mile mind. We would like to start right off the bat.
We apologize for the long delay and thank you for being so patient lating for
us to come. Thank you, you guys, you're the best for waiting.
You've just got the patience of a mule m. But I'll tell you
what And as a way of saying we're sorry, we're just gonna tell you
what's been going on in our lives. Let's do it now. Tabitha had
a beautiful, beautiful home and you had to move. You had to move
Tabitha out of that gorgeous house. And it's not your fault, you know.
I'd like to say it never is this time, it really isn't.
Yeah, and this was the zoning problem. I don't I don't want to
get into the specifics, but the mayor talked to me directly. I remember
when that when those gentlemen showed up, I was looking out the window saying,
what is going on? I didn't think the mayor maidhouse caused but he's
sure enough come to him my door and he knocked on it and I talked
to him. We had tea and chocolate. Oh, and I told him,
you know what was up. He told me I had to get out
of there. Well, I don't want to get into it. I had
to get out of there. But we got a nice little place now.
It is so nice. It's over on Evergreen time. I noticed that they
tore your house entirely down. Well, I don't want to get into it,
but they tore it, damn, because I mean, I just was
so shocked. It was such a beautiful home, and you know, it
had a nice long it's been there since the nineteen forty eight. I don't
even know. I suspect it's been there for a lot longer than that.
Really, Okay, Well, I mean you took more history classes in high
school than Well, it's just that I've never left this town. And I
have pictures of my aunt who it was I moved your houses behind her.
Yeah, and then she died in nineteen thirty seven. Oh, you know
what you're You're like a little cat detective. You're just so sneaky and you
jump in there nobody can hear you, and you find out what's going on?
I moved. I moved in Florida for a couple of years, so
I haven't lived here forever. But besides those two years I have, I
moved back and now I'm here and I've noticed that they are not building anything
new where your house was. No, they're not. Now why do you
think that is? I mean, did they give you any better reasons as
to why you had to suddenly lean about Native Americans? Because I'll tell you
what I heard, and I'm checking it with you. I was told that
it was determined that your house was on an Indian burial ground. I don't
know. I thought that was in Stephen King novels and not in real life
because I didn't think anybody could do anything but make that up. But they
did that. That's what happened. Your house was on top of the Indian
burial ground. I guess we'll see. That's ridiculous. But I love my
new house. I've got a blue theme going. I know, kitchens in
eggshell blue, and the living rooms in pecan blue, and the bathroom is
in can of paint blue, the living rooms in book spine blue. I
love it. Though I went to the home depot and I just spent too
much. It's so much fun. I'll tell you what. Sometimes I feel
like home improvements as much fun as candy. I don't believe that for a
minute I was bluffing. We'll not ever play. I see your poker face.
We'll never do it. No, Well, let's just get down to
the sweet deliver. It's just ninny gritty this week we're talking about choo choo
chocolate. And do we have a show for you? We do, indeed,
so many options we have. We've tried some things from as far away
as Europe, oh good. And we also tried to find some things that
maybe you've always just just that a little shop around the corner you just never
quite stuck your head into. You know, there may be some favorites in
here that you know about, but you didn't know. They had this as
part of their their offering offerings, as part of part of their repertoire.
Now I'm just gonna go through the list here from the Hershey Company. Oh
you know it, you love it. We have something they've changed up.
And I don't know if this is for dieters or if it's just going to
be really interesting, but it's air delight air rated milk chocolate. So it's
like a chocolate bar with a whole bunch of air in it. What what?
How how did that work? I have no idea. They probably use
computers. What what's the appeal to this? Well, it's just it's like
it's imagine, it's just it's not hollow. That that'd be ridiculous. I
mean, that'd be curious. Easter. Yes, if it's not that,
that's ridiculous. If that's a hollow chocolate bar. We are taking these things
right back to Pickley Dog and we are getting our money back because I do
not buy hollow chocolate bars. And I would make me curious if this was
a hollow damn chocolate bar. And now I've sworn. Now I've sworn.
I'm going to Betty. Betty so sorry. I just I just hate getting
tricked, Betty. Nobody's tricking us with the It's it's just something they pumped
a lot of air into, just like those news shows that you see them
studies. You are nasty. You know what we forgot to do? We'd
been away for so long? What's that? This moving ordeal has has just
got me all flip fopped Bugaboo. I'm Tabitha Hutchinson and I am Betty.
Ever saw you are listening to Candy chant and we just love talking about candy.
And we love getting your letters. We love getting your emails. I
just got I can't figure it out, but but Betty's good at it.
I went to junior college for six weeks. Brag about it. Well.
She I'll tell you right now. Tab will not even watch Jeopardy with me
anymore. I am just Dickens. No potent potables for me. She knows
the names. You are a delight. I really think you could have done
well and Jor you should know I would not. Nope, sorry, I
can't do it. Let's see what else we have in our in our choco
train today. What else do we have? Well, from the Cadbury Company,
from um, jolly old England. I didn't know that. Um,
we have their dairy milk bar with its milk chocolate with creamy caramel. That's
gonna be a treat. That is going to be in the caramel. I
just live. I'm very excited to try that. We also have now this
is something I have seen. You got another Cadberry bar they're doing. Oh
my goodness, So I do. We got it the same thing, dairy
milk with roast almond. Now, did you notice how in Europe it's not
roasted. It's just a roast roast almond. It's like a roast almond.
It's like a roast pig, roast beef. What if they put roast pig
in a chocolate bar? I would never eat it? And you know what,
you know, it makes me mad. You know what makes me mad?
All those expensive stores have chocolate bars with bacon in them. Now,
oh my gosh, I don't even go in there anymore because who wants to
have bacon in a bar? I live bacon, I do, and they're
like seven dollars for it. It's for a piece of candy. It's not
even Hershey, it's ardiculous bar that seven dollars with bacon in it. I
mean, I will accidentally have bacon and chocolate on my plate if I make
chocolate chip pancakes, which I am famous for, thank you, because everybody
was thinking it and you just said it. But I will never put them
together on purpose. That's just that is a wretched road and it leads to
nothing but ruin and sin. So what else do we have? M Well,
we've also got now here's something that I have seen in the stores my
whole life, and I have never tried it. Is it? It's called
from our swell friends at Nestley. Oh, it's called chunky, Chunky chunky,
just just chunk chunky. In it is a big old brick of chocolate
with peanuts and brace yourself, tab raisins, raisins. I know, but
this is what the exploration's all about. Sometimes got to take the good with
the bad. And how do we know this isn't going to just be something
that just blows our minds? I guess I just thought that raisin. It's
had the market cornered on raisins and chocolate. I suppose. Now let me
tell you this chunky. Let me give you a little mental exercise. It
might help this whole thing go smoother. Okay, I'm gonna put two words
together. Tell me if they if they sound good, raising brand, lose,
lose. But it's delicious. It's one of my favorite breakfasts. You're
right. If I read it on a menua, i'd never order. You
always put it in perspective that I can understand, Betty. So that's what
we have today, So without further ado, I cannot wait to try.
I want to know what this Hershey's air chocolate is. I'm just afraid that
I'm gonna bite into it and then it's gonna be done. If it blasts
my teeth out of my head with some sort of air pressure explosion, I
will be furious, does it, and I will destroy everything within my grasp.
Does it have a rating on it? Like ps? I like,
I'm looking, I'm reading. I'm trying to read it now. It just
has all that gobbledegook with numbers and percentages. I hate. I don't ever
look at that. I mean neither. I mean, who can make heads
or tails of that? None of us came. All right, let's divvy
this up. I'm divvying it right now. You can hear that rapper crackling
there. You it's a little melting because it's so warm. I can see,
I can see, Oh, I see. It's like chocolate foam.
It's like eating styrofoam, but it's chocolate. All of our listeners tell us
how much they enjoy listening to us enjoy sweets. Well, get so many
emails about how much they enjoy hearing us chew just tastes like chocolate if it
were peanut butter. It's just true. You are right. It tastes like
sticky your chocolate in your mail. It's like a chocolate marshmallow that doesn't taste
like marshmallow at all. It tastes like chocolate. Now I'm surprising how much
that compresses down in your mouth. And so now usually we saved this for
a little while, but it's time, Tabitha, for me to tempt you
already, yeah, right off the bat, all right, look out.
You never know where I'm gonna come at you, I guess can't. Temptation
can come out of nowhere, and so can Betty ever salt. So I'm
gonna hand you because good news at Pigley Dog they had Hershey's air to lights
two for one deal free chocolate. Yes, please please, I'd like you
to shove this whole thing in your mouth. What yep, here you go,
all of it, the entirety of it. All right. I think
it's cute that you thought about it for a second, as though you had
a choice. That's adorable. So it says the Hershey's milk chocolate you love,
gently blended for a light airy texture that melts effortlessly in your mouth.
Well, we're gonna we're gonna put that to the test because I suspect there's
gonna be some effort involved. Just shove it in your mouth. Tab,
Okay, here we go, don't drop it. That's expensive free chocolate.
Look at her go. You know sometimes I go to the zoo and I
bring bring crackers for the giraffe and they got that long purple tongue and just
slack just snatches it right out of my hand. And I'd like to believe
if I had a chocolate bar in your your mouth, your tongue would come
out and grab it like a cartoon shape, like a little hand. What
do you think, Tab, do you think your tongue could be prehndsile for
chocolate? I can't think. Also a cat's crew? Well is it?
Is it melting effortlessly in your mouth? It is delicious, though, I
mean I just tried it myself. Come up with the bust challenges, Well
they're temptations and so you know, and just think about this next time.
You're like, maybe I'll have a whole loaf of cheesebread before I go to
bed. No, No, I won't do that. I love cheesebread,
though. Oh you know what, I wish we could have that on the
podcast, but I'm afraid it's not cheesebread chat, it's candy chat. Oh
okay, Well, once again, Tabitha, you prove yourself stronger than candy.
Candy won't beat me. I won't let it. You're sweating a lot
all the sudden, Tabitha, are you okay? I'm fun. Let's just
keep going. Okay. I think the aeration helped me a lot. Oh,
I can't imagine if you just shoved a solid chocolate bar that big in
your mouth. Oh my goodness, what a problem that would be. I
gotta get I gotta get that chocolate. The ran down but China using that
giraffe tongue of yours. Well, let's not lose any time. I do
have to say my eyes. Well, you just thought you just did three
rounds with the champ and you're the winner. I wish I had a belt
with donuts on to it I could give you, which I had a napkin.
So now moving on, it's time to try cad berries, dairy milk
with caramel, dairy malk. Good. Here's a big old chunk for you.
I was seeing you just ate the square. I just put like five
of them in my mouth at once. I like eating it very symmetrically.
I'll square at a time, or maybe two at a time. The caramel
is very gooey, and it makes it difficult to chew, and it is
all up in my bridge work. My dnchers are getting stressed right now.
No one said it was gonna be easy, tab, but we must persevere.
It's good. It's got a nice soft sweetness to it. It's a
good shoe. You know. If we had more time in the podcast,
I'd like to let this sit and simmer in my mouth. I just can't.
We just we gotta chew it. We gotta chew through on this one.
We've got business to do now. By means up palate cleanser, because
I don't want to do all of our cadberries at once. What say we
try chunky next? You are terrible? Well, I'm just I'm telling you.
When when you're on the Choco trains, are either on the trainer,
you're on the tracks. You're right. I can't believe how much I'm sweating
this episode. I think that I think that you might be in actual medical
distress. No, I'm okay. Let's let's dive into this chunky mess.
All right, Chunky, Look out here comes Tabitha and Betty. I haven't
seen this thing before. You've seen it. I've grown up with it,
and I've avoided it because of the raisins. Here's your giant chunk. Clean
your fingers with your mouth. That's what I did, and now I'm handing
you. That's okay. We're like sisters now. First thing that I noticed
with Chunky is a pungent chocolate. This is like the stinky cheese of chocolates.
Yeah, it better be GOODA, you are wicked. All right.
Look out here comes Chunky. All right, chocolate and raisins together again.
I'm getting sort of a pop corny flavor, like I feel like I'm watching
Bridges of Madison County right now. Oh my goodness, it is pungent and
unpleasant. You remember that time I fell asleep on the park bench and I
woke up with that hobo's foot in my mouth. This is like that,
really, you know, I'm not getting too much of the raisin in there.
I'm getting a lot of the peanut, which is good. With chocolate.
I'm just getting raising vapor. Maybe you just got all raisin on your
half and I just got all peanut on mine. I suppose I'm just lucky,
she said sarcastically. That isn't good. They need to check their equipment
or something, because they're mixing. Isn't just right. Well, when you
call it chunky, it should be a regular with large pieces of everything you're
advertising. And I'm not seeing that. M It does have a soft sweetness
to it, kind of like that caramel bar. Well, it's because it's
like a million degrees in this in this garage, and everything's gonna be soft.
Oh, I do not care for chunky. I would not feed this
to a hobo with a foot fetish. If it got warm enough, i'd
probably eat it, But if I hadn't my choice, I probably wouldn't.
I'm gonna put this down as an ever saw pass all right now to clean
my fingers. We get so many letters and emails. People love how into
this we are. They love that we just draw them into every aspect of
enjoying candy. Now I'm gonna have to take a time out to get a
paper towel because I am sweating from all this chock. You would be these
if you got me one as well. Okay, thank you tab Well.
Right now that we're all cleaned up and ready for our last go around on
this chocolate merry go round, I'm riding the line of chocolate. It's time
for Cadberry dairy milk, the horse roast almond. Oh. I love the
sea horse. It's whimsical. When would you ever get to ride a sea
horse? And real life? Never? But I want a chocolate mirror around.
There you go, dab, there's where's the chocolate for you? I
noticed that that our chocolate selection is getting smaller and smaller. Yeah, it's
because I can eat very little chocolate by the time we're done with this,
because we've just been eating chocolate for a long time. M roast almond.
Mm. Now, if we had time, I just have the chocolate my
mouth and let it all melt and just kind of sieve out with my tongues
that almonds and then eating them separately to see how the flavor profile works out.
We don't have time for that. It's a more mature flavor than a
similar offering from Hershey, I'll say that it's kind of like a cave flavor.
Like with chunky you get like hole in the ground, real narrow flavor.
With this one, the roast almond, it opens up your taste buds
a lot. Feels like your mouth is just a big old cave and this
flavor is just flowing through it. At the bot it's just a It's a
rich, voluminous flavor. Voluminous. You went to college with junior college six
weeks. It was difficult. You know, if I had my choice,
I probably wouldn't take chocolate with any kind of nut in it. Oh.
Really, I like straight up chocolate. I enjoy the variety of having nuts
and chocolate. You got the smooth, rich, smooth, smoothy chocolate and
then you've got crunchy nuts, and I just enjoy that combination. I can
see your point. But what I like is that smooth salted caramel taste.
Oh I understand if you ever had a salted caramel. That's something new that
fancy people are eating. And I tried it once at a fair and it
was delicious. See salt, it's crunchy salt that put on top and it
is a delight. See. I can't do that. It messes up my
Dentcheres. I was just gonna say, it's a murder on my bridge work,
which is why I do not purchase it. I would like to.
I'm very curious, but oh my goodness. So I guess let's just look
back on what we have done this evening. We started with Hershey's Air Delights.
I considered it to be a monument to waste of time. Oh wow,
I mean that's kind of harsh. Well, I mean I thought it
was good. It was just a little chewier than regular Hershey's. I mean,
if I'm gonna eat chocolate, I'll eat chocolate. But putting air and
chocolate don't make it different. It's just still chocolate. You're right, I
feel like our victim of marketing. If we had more time, I think
we would enjoyed it a lot better. That's true. But I'll tell you
what I enjoyed watching you wolf down a whole bar at once and try to
get through it with your dignity intact, which you did. Oh yeah,
I hope you enjoyed it because somebody had to remember when the chocolate was running
down your chin. I let's move on to the next one. We'll just
call that an Indian burial ground issue. Moving on to Cadbury's caramel, I
just thought it was delicious. The caramel had an interesting consistency, not too
firm, not too soft, but it really had a nice salty flavor to
it. If you chew on it now, it still works for you.
I think they're designed to let it sit and just melt in your mouth,
but if you chew on it, it still works. So it's a it's
a double threat. When whatever your personal style of eating is, whether you
just put food in your mouth and leave it there until it's gone soak,
or you actually use your teeth and just mush it into a pull, Well
this you'll get paid. Either way, You're gonna just will you'll enjoy it.
Now, I'm afraid I have to turn a little negative Nancy on this
because it's time to talk about Chunky, the judgment of Chunky. There's a
reason why my life, my soul has told me to avoid this treat,
because it is a large block of chocolate. Why on earth would I walk
away from it? How on earth could I rectify in my own mind the
thought that I regularly deny it? And tonight I found out why, Because
deep in my heart. I knew it was terrible, oh stinky chocolate.
See, I didn't have that bad of an experience with it, probably because
I got a lot of nuts in there. I would wish that I could
have lived in your world. It would have been like a mister goodbar.
Now you would. You would have gotten tired from the moving. See.
I didn't get a lot of raisins in it. I got a lot of
nuts, and it was a real soft, soft flavor, real soft,
sweet, sweet flavor. But I think if i'd have gotten a lot of
raisins in there, yeah, I probably would have put it in the old
let's leave it at the store bucket. Oh. Absolutely, this is a
total path. This is a this is an ever saw. No thank you
because I can tell you one reason, and that reason's raisins. Raisin reason,
m m. They don't belong in candy. They don't belong in cookies.
Quick trying to sneak him into me because I don't like it. I
don't like to have to be a goalie about cookies. I don't like to
perform surgery on baked goods. So please stop cooking with raisins everyone. I
will agree with your message Betty, thank you, I thank you for bringing
it to everybody's attention. That was just, that's just, that's just one
woman trying to make a difference for everybody because we are held captives by the
horrible people who keep trying to put to put raisins and eat goods and candies,
raisin pirates. They don't like I like to think that I'm I'm hold
up in the bottom of ship that's captain by a raisin captain and he is
he's just got a cutlass. He's got a cutlass that's saying nope, you
are gonna eat dried, old, withered up fruit and got a tear it
on his shoulder to keep saying cake, fruitcake. I hate that pirate.
I hate him too. And you know what, we escape tonight, tonight
we escape. And I would write my congressman, but you know, the
raisin lobby is so powerful they'll just they'll just crush it and they'll probably come
to my house. They have so much money you couldn't even hope to change
any of that. Well, moving on to a finally we can end on
a sweet note. Cadberry's milk chocolate with roast almonds. It just seems so
much classier to say it that way. Roast almonds. That d just makes
it sound like something dirty people do. Yeah, you know you have to
make it pause in your breath when you say roast almonds. And you know
what, it gives it the importance it's due. It is a rich,
complex, earthy, cave like flavor. And it doesn't think like grim death
and raisins. Nope, so doesn't doesn't feel like you've been holed up in
some bottom of a ship getting disease and scurvis and you're free to explore and
spelunk all you want. It's wonderful. So I'll say for this episode,
my favorite, hands down is going to be the Cadberry roast almonds. Betty,
I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to go with the Cadberry caramel.
Well, you know what, they are kissing cousins and looks like we're one
of the family, all right. Second up would probably be the Hershey's errated
m I understand it. It's delicious Hershey's chocolate. I'll I'll never turn my
back on Hershey's chocolate. But there's just no reason to go through all the
hullabaloo of putting little bubbles in it? Why why? I mean, I
swanny. You don't need bubbles in chocolate for it to be good. What
if the air with flavored and you would get carmel or with a delicious aroma
of cherry. So there's no cherry flavoring, but there's cherry scented air.
Because, as we both know, your old factories, that's your smellers.
Your old factories are a big portion of how you taste. So why put
just regular air in when you could put hibiscus? Oh how exotic would that
be? Goodness? I don't know. I would be too scared to try,
Betty. Dear mister Hershey, we're just waiting here for you to offer
us jobs. Oh Miami, I would like some aerated caramel flavor. Oh
my goodness, that would just be so delicious. Well, I will tell
you what. I am starting to get a screaming headache from all of the
sugar in my blood. Well that's too bad. Yeah, that's I probably
got twice as much as you because I eat a whole chocolate bar. Well,
it's my fault for tempting you, you know what. I am up
to the challenge, though, every single time every time. I am just
so impressed by you. Tab Well, I do my best. Well,
thank you once again for joining us on this amazing culinary adventure. We didn't
even have to say that Chunky is third on the list. At least the
Chunky shall never come into my house again. I will slam the door in
its face like it was a Mormon. No, thanks Chunky well for this
episode of a candy chat. I have, I Tabitha Hutchinson, and I
have as always Betty, ever Saul, thank you for joining us. Please
continue to send us your emails, your questions, your concerns, and if
there's a candy that you've had on your mind for a while, won't you
let us know Maybe we'd like to explore that with you now, you all,
you all be good to each other, all right, God bless,
God bless. Goodbye, bye bye