ENTER! Misc. Av Contest:Candy From Around the World

[auntiehill]

This week's contest works well with Halloween--candy from around the world. What's your favorite candy? What's popular in your neck of the woods? No candy being shown in TV shows or movies please, but I will accept advertising for the real-life item. Thanks to Owain Taggart for the idea.

Standard BBS avatar rules apply. The poll will go up on Sunday.


Here's mine:

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, thought it might be a good one for this time of year

Anyway, this is mine, an iconic Canadian staple:

 

[Zulu Romeo]

This could well be my favourite avatar contest topic ever.

Keeping the Scottish end up is this entry:

 

[Locutus of Bored]

 

[Ghost07]

yummy subject, indeed...

 

[auntiehill]

OK, I really NEED some candy right now.

*eyes Halloween stash*

 

[JiNX-01]

 

[Owain Taggart]

Would that be a Crunchie bar, Jinxed? Love those

 

[JiNX-01]

Would that be a Crunchie bar, Jinxed? Love those

Nope. Sponge candy.

 

[Owain Taggart]

The reason I'm asking is because there's a Candy bar in Canada that's essentially sponge candy covered in chocolate with that name that looks exactly like that.

 

[JiNX-01]

The reason I'm asking is because there's a Candy bar in Canada that's essentially sponge candy covered in chocolate with that name that looks exactly like that.

Oh. Then it just has a different name.

 

[Leviathan]

....<realizes thread intention>....<deletes the picture of stripper named Candy from NL>

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

You left out the mint ones.

mmmmmmmm....the mint ones

 

[Owain Taggart]

The reason I'm asking is because there's a Candy bar in Canada that's essentially sponge candy covered in chocolate with that name that looks exactly like that.

Oh. Then it just has a different name.

Quite likely, though I do notice that upon looking at Wikipedia that the bar with that particular name was started in the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchie

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I love Baumstamm.

Don't know if it's popular around the world. Basically, it's a nougat core in marzipan coated with chocolate.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Hmm. Candy and Halloween. Two great tastes that taste great together.

 

[trekkiedane]

That MM-candy, isn't that what we call "Smarties" in Europe???


Anyway, Salty licorice pastils from Denmark:




(I actually still have the matching backpack )

 

[rhubarbodendron]

LOL by reading this thread I just regained all the pounds I shed the last 2 weeks with hard gardening work. And I'm afraid they brought a few friends..
I'll post my av tomorrow - must go on a shopping expedition first since I actually have not a single candy bar in the house.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

That MM-candy, isn't that what we call "Smarties" in Europe???

According the their website, M&Ms are still called M&Ms throughout the various parts of Europe where they're distributed, and are the same chocolate with a hard candy shell.

In the US, "Smarties" are tiny, very sweet fruit-flavored wafers:

Anyway, Salty licorice pastils from Denmark:



(I actually still have the matching backpack )

So, given the saltiness and that it sort of looks like it comes in a condom box, I'm assuming the double entendre of the name is intentional? And if it is, eww.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spunk

 

[Owain Taggart]

That MM-candy, isn't that what we call "Smarties" in Europe???

What we call Smarties in Canada and around the world is different to what it is in the US. I don`t know about the slogan for the smarties elsewhere, but here it was Don`t forget to eat the red ones last, and they aren`t at all the same as M&M`s. The Smarties the U.S gets, we call Rockets.