Sweet treats
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009I have always had a love/hate relationship with candy. When I was younger, I ate candy in moderation. I guess it was because my parents kept giving me the bitter dark chocolate, telling me it was delicious candy. Well, I don’t like dark chocolate at all! There’s a reason it’s called “bitter” and that’s because it’s nasty! Why else do they think the phrase “bitter feelings” means “bad feelings!” Now milk chocolate, and semi-sweet chocolate is a different story! Those chocolates are sweet, and I like sweet!
That’s probably largely my mother’s fault, whenever she tried to get me to eat vegetables as a child, she would sprinkle some sugar on it. So it was only natural that I would gravitate towards sweet treats! And I can remember my mother showing us how we could make our own Rock Candy, using a nail, string, water and sugar. I don’t remember if she put anything else in the water! I should look that up sometime and maybe show it to my kids!
When we would go trick-or-treating, my favorite candy was the Snickers Bar candy; my sister’s favorite was the Clark Bar. So when we got home we would sort out our treats and trade with each other. We always got more candy than we could possibly eat! Oh, for the good ol’ days, when we could go from door to door and get candy!