Hershey's milk chocolate with Reeses Pieces review

I've heard that reeses pieces are one of the most popular brands in some places in the world and I have always loved my peanut butter combined with some chocolate goodness. Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Reeses Pieces does just that but is it enough to please candy lovers?  Check out my review and see what you think!

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Oh Henry! Peanut Butter review

Today we've got a different shew for you of a Canadian standard, it's the Oh Henry! Peanut Butter.


Walking the Candy Aisle rates Oh Henry! Peanut Butter - 4 / 5

 For more on Oh Henry! check them out on the internets. Or head over to our Reviews Page and peruse our other reviews.

Reese Sticks review

Today we've got a fun sku of the Reese products, its time to check in with Reese Sticks.


Walking the Candy Aisle rates Reese Sticks - 4 / 5

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Reese Peanut Butter Cup review

Today we've got another big dog up for review. Let's look at the Reese Peanut Butter Cup.


Walking the Candy Aisle rates Reese Peanut Butter Cup - 4 / 5

Great stuff, and a must try for anyone who even has a passing interest in peanut butter. For more on the Reese's family of products you can visit them at their home on the web right here. For more reviews, please stay tuned to this blog, YouTube Channel, and Reviews Page. Thanks :)

The Big Bar Line Up - Wrapped

In case you missed it over the past month or so I posted an extensive look at some of the 'Big bar' chocolates available while walking the Candy Aisle here in Canada. I know it was more of a survey series but I liked all the pretty pictures and even just taking a closer look at them gave me a better understanding of what the various players are trying to achieve.

Does this mean I'll be eating more big bars down the line? I hope so. There are some really great offerings out there, especially from companies like Lindt and Ritter Sport. And hopefully that will translate here to the blog as well, in added reviews on some of the more interesting stuff.

For those who would like to check out the series of posts here they are in one handy dandy list:

Cadbury Dairy Milk

Hershey

Lindt

Ritter Sport

Dove and Godiva

Remainders

It seems like such a short list of posts but believe me it took a very long time to compile these lists with all the pictures involved.

I hope you do take the opportunity to go back and check out any of the posts you may have missed. They're fun looks at whats on the shelves right now. There's some great, and some definitely no so great looking stuff out there. Thanks for reading all :)

Almost Perfect Candy

I was out in Whitby, Ontario last week and my brother in law clued me into the Almost Perfect store.

This is the kind of store a lot of you may have seen if you live in or near an urban center. This is essentially an irregular food store. It's full of food that's been rejected, not over any health concerns but most likely because the food was discontinued, or possibly seasonal and the major retailers don't want it on the shelves anymore.

You can also find some of these items if you are the kind of person who goes on factory tours. I remember when I was a kid going with my parents to both the Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont (or maybe it was headquarters), and most significantly when I went to Hershey Pennsylvania. These factory tours of course ended at the gift shop, and both of these companies offered "irregular" food products there. As a kid this just fascinated me to no end. The products may be slightly off, but they're crazy cheap and just awesome.

Almost Perfect seems to offer more of the straightforward food items focusing on seasonal stuff, maybe with misprinted packaging, or remainders of limited editions. They specifically have a pretty decent candy section too, which was of course my main reason for wanting to go.

Some of the items like this entire stand of Allan candy was a bit weird. I'm not sure why any of it wouldn't be on the market. These are the guys who make "Big Foot" and I'm sure I'll get to their products sooner or later in reviews. These are weird flavors, so maybe they were just limited time or discontinued. Hard to tell since I'm not that familiar with their product lineup.

More likely is seeing something like this Imported Continental European Dark Chocolate. Seems fine and all, but nothing I would imagine anyone would buy, especially if its not an in house brand or some kind of off-shoot loss leader to get people into the store. Without a good brand name behind it why on earth is anyone buying it? My guess is they are not. And that's why it's at Almost Perfect.

Here is a very interesting one, and something I wish I could've reviewed. But I wouldn't feel right reviewing something from Almost Perfect when I really don't know why its there. Most likely this unique variation on the classic Hershey bar didn't sell and was discontinued, but I don't know.... maybe it was awful, or maybe its still in development. Whenever the reason its not sticking around I don't think Hershey wants it representing them.

Do you suppose these Reese Eggs were sitting around in a warehouse since Easter? My guess is yes. The sure tasted great though, I bought a bunch of these!

Here are some great looking Red White and Blue M&Ms. I suppose these are from this past 4th of July. We'll see if they turn up again next year.

I love the idea of Fierce Cinnamon Hot Tamales. Do you think maybe they were too fierce for the public? Are these still available in real life?

Here's another one that I'm not sure of. Don't these exist on the market now? Why is this one here? Could it be because it has the "New" label on it?

Finally a simple question. Whats wrong with all these Jolly Ranchers???

This is totally a store that's good and bad at the same time. I mean how cool is it going to a store to get something no one else has? BUT then the truth sinks in, maybe other people don't want this stuff. for a reason...

I'll have to keep my eye out for more 'irregular' candy, or off the beaten path kind of stuff. Let me know in the comments if you've ever been to a store like this and what your impression has been.

Thanks for joining me, later all.

Love is in the Aisle

Its only a few scant days away from Valentines and there are some delicious goodies in the candy aisle.

Personally I'm not so much of a fan of simple changes to packaging, I really like it when candy and chocolate companies go out of their way to make something unique for the holidays.

Mixed in with the Valentines stuff there were a few early Easter items. Specifically Check out these egg shaped Lindors! Nice packaging on that :)

Also this 3 pack of Creme Eggs, has a To / From spot on the packaging. Since we don't usually give presents for Easter, or at least not that much... Do you think they are trying to get people to give Creme Eggs for Valentines?

I wish they would do a Valentines CReme Egg. Maybe strawberry flavored... it would be pretty good :D Anyhow, I'll have one or two Valentines reviews for you over the next week or so, just keep it locked right here.

Reese Clusters Pralines review

Today we've got our last Christmas 2012 review for you. Again, this was from the remainder candy found on sale after Christmas.. so please don't blame me for it being almost February :) Let's all just kick back and enjoy this look at Reese Cluster Pralines.


Walking the Candy Aisle rates Reese Clusters Pralines - 4 / 5

For more reviews please check out the entire reviews page. And of course Reese's is a Hershey's product and you can find out more about them at their site - http://www.hersheys.com/ This marks the end of our twice a week reviews (for now), please expect regular once a week reviews to post on Fridays. Thanks :)

It's Begining to Look A Lot...

Like Christmas Candy time!!!

I was of course wandering down the aisle this week, and my goodness the Christmas stuff is out already!

There's some good stuff out already, but I expect more to be hitting the shelves around town soon. I picked up a few select goodies for review here, and you can expect some great stuff coming down the pipe for the holidays here at Walking the Candy Aisle. Starting most significantly with double reviews from now until Christmas. One regular and one Holiday themed (at least through November). Then I may switch over full time to Xmas candy.

A few specific Holiday treats jumped out at me that I thought I'd share.

Nice Kinder packaging here.  I'm thinking about kicking off the new year doing some stuff on Kinder here on the blog. Maybe now's the time to dig in.

I've been seeing these 3-Dees all over the place lately, but they just seem so dumb that I've been trying to avoid them. I mean fruit gummies come and go every day... are these so different? Anyhow, these certainly got the licenses.

Now here's a gift box I'd like to receive!

You knew it had to happen right. I mean the Angry Birds are EVERYWHERE!

I get that Mini Eggs are everywhere now, but why exactly are they Christmas themed??? What animal lays its eggs in the middle of winter?! That seems totally reckless for both chickens and rabbits.

Hooray for alcohol chocolates! Both Lindt and Baileys themselves have gotten into the game. Awesome. I can't wait to try (and review) these for the blog!

Something that could surely only be made and sold in Canada, the Reese Half Pound Peanut Butter Cup!!! Holy Moly that's a big peanut butter cup!

Zami launching into competition with Kinder comes out swinging with these holiday themed Winne the Pooh ornaments inside milk chocolate eggs! Is this a good idea or a terrible one?

And holiday themed Kit Kats. These are essentially just Kit Kat minis (the same size as the 2 stick ones) but they've got a picture of jolly old Saint Nick on them. I picked one of these up immediately.

 Very cute. I like the smile, and the mittens.

Weird thing to break a kit kat across the middle... but that's how this was designed. Still tastes just as good though :)

I'm looking forward to a great Christmas here on the Candy Aisle blog. I hope you'll stick with me and enjoy the festive season!

Reese's Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cup road review

A real treat for today's road review, the very awesome Reese's Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cup.


Pretty great stuff here!

Walking the Candy Aisle rates Reese's Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cup - 5 / 5

For more goodness from Reese's, which we all remember is an imprint of Hershey please check out http://www.hersheys.com/reeses.aspx

Marvelous Muffins!

I was walking through my local Target the other day and what should appear but some absolutely AMAZING new muffin mixes.

 Betty Crocker must be some kind of mad genius, because these look great! Cereal muffin mash-ups; why hasn't this been done before?!?! And thank goodness they went for the fun cereals, can you imagine the Grape Nuts muffins, or the Wheatabix muffins... blech.

When I was a kid my parents never let me have sugar cereals, so I never got to know the joy of Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Cocoa Puffs when I was little. Oddly, now that I'm grown up and have kids of my own I don't eat or let them have it either.

What's your favorite of the bunch here? I think I'd have to go for the Reese's Puffs. A chocolate and peanut butter muffin sounds pretty damn great.

Walking the Ice Cream Aisle

Sidestepping the candy aisle today I took a stroll down the ice cream aisle today at my local Target.

Let me tell you there are a lot of candy and chocolate bars to be found in ice cream these days. Here's some of what I came across.

YUM!

 

The Girl Scouts would be proud :)

 

These are GREAT!

 

I don't think these Popsicle flavors would work in regular ice cream but they seem a good fit here.

A classic

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This is a San Francisco delicacy!

Ice cream for DOGS!!!

Ok, so I threw a few others in there too but wow, it's pretty awesome to see so much chocolate and candy in the ice cream aisle!