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Kids Eating Warheads Is Easily the Most Painful Supercut Ever

TheFW Staff — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:20:46 +0000

We’ve previously shared with you videos of poor kids making adorably sour faces while tasting the deceptively delicious candy Warheads. These kids are expecting something sweet, and what they get is punch of sour right in the face. Now comes a cute supercut of kids reacting to their first taste of Warheads. It’s sure to [...]

The Oddest 'Hobbit' Moments in Pop Culture

Kevin Maher — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:16:24 +0000

J.R.R. Tolkien published ‘The Hobbit‘ in 1938 and for decades fans have obsessed over Middle-Earth. Here are just a few highlights of “Hobbit fever” throughout pop culture. Led Zeppelin — ‘Ramble On’ Robert Plant and Jimmy Page co-wrote the song and included more than a few references to ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ mentioning Gollum [...]

Nine-Year-Old Spends Parents' Life Savings on Candy

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:03:14 +0000

What does a nine-year-old do with $4,000? Buy candy. A lot of candy.While a kid with four grand worth of sweets paints a humorous picture, there’s a couple in the Ukraine who aren’t laughing. That’s because it was their nine-year-old who found their life savings hidden in a couch and went for the ultimate sugar rush. The [...]

10 Easy Ways to Make Candy Corn Awesome

Cameron Simcik — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:45:14 +0000

There’s one single treat in the history of all candy deliciousness that makes us feel so torn. Candy corn -- we hate to love it and love to hate it. How is it possible it can taste so bad, yet be so irresistible? It’s a Halloween trick AND treat. (See what we did there?)

Halloween Candies That Need to Come Back

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:25:43 +0000

It’s that time of year again when we apologize to our pancreas and then eat until we're sick -- Halloween candy season! Everywhere we turn, we’re bombarded with chocolate and gummies and sour things and those peanut butter taffies in the wax paper wrapping that no one ever eats. Somehow those things have survived the ages but our favorites have gone by the wayside. It’s bittersweet heaven on earth.

6 Kids Having Hilarious Reactions to Eating Warheads Candy

Cameron Simcik — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:18:26 +0000

We can’t quite figure out what it is about super sour candy that keeps us wanting more. For starters, most of these treats are enough to make our tongues tingle and cause our faces to go into full-on spaz mode. Last time we checked, that’s not exactly what we call ‘fun’. But when you’re a kid, it’s all about the insanely sour experience-- the fighting a rough-and-tough candy battle, making it through those few precious seconds of physical pain in order to get to a deliciously sweet candy center.

You Can Now Buy 'Breaking Bad' Blue Meth Candy

Amanda Ferris — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:45:38 +0000

The creators of the prop used for "Blue," the blue-dyed meth sold by characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman on the hit AMC show 'Breaking Bad,' are branching out. Debbie Hall of The Candy Land, who originally created the prop for the show, decided to create candy replicas after witnessing star Bryan Cranston mention the fake meth and offering some in his interview with David Letterman.

Candy Thief Steals $600 Worth of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Donald Deane — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:43:44 +0000

We love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups as much as the next guy, but a robber in Ohio has taken his love of candy to a whole new thieving level by stealing between $400-$600 worth of Reese’s over the past few months. The “Peanut Butter Cup Bandit” has been targeting a Sunoco in the town of [...]

10 Awesome Videos of Marshmallow Peep Torture

Danny Gallagher — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:51:23 +0000

Whether you’re a devout church-goer or just someone who enjoys hunting for eggs way too much, there is one Easter tradition that can bring all of humanity together: Marshmallow Peeps. These colorful blobs of gooey, cute deliciousness have stolen the hearts and minds of every future diabetic. They are so cute and cuddly that we [...]

Comedian Nathan Barnatt Produces Homemade Skittles Commercial

Paul Ciampanelli — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:08:51 +0000

When Skittles sent Nathan Barnatt a free candy-covered boom box, they asked only that he post a YouTube video featuring the gift. But clearly Barnatt is a man who does nothing halfway. Instead of just a lazy video blog showing off his new toy, what Skittles got was a homemade commercial more mesmerizing and more [...]

Girl Scout Cookie Season Means a Candy Bar and a New App

Kathy Landin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:32:14 +0000

That glorious season is upon us again. The sweetest time of the year...Girl Scout Cookie time. It’s time to find those helpful little scouts and have them hook you up with the seasonal deliciousness that is probably one or two too many boxes of cookies.

New M&M 'Ms. Brown' Debuts In 2012 Super Bowl Commercial [UPDATED VIDEO]

TheFW Staff — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:52:43 +0000

Recently, we told you about M&M’s plans to debut a new female M&M, “Mrs. Brown,” in their 2012 Super Bowl commercial. Well, she’s finally here and… …she looks a lot like every other M&M, only with librarian glasses and high heels. (And voiced by Vanessa Williams.) So the Sarah Palin of bite-sized candies, basically. Also, [...]

New 'Sassy' Female M&M Mrs. Brown to Debut During Super Bowl, Creep Everyone Out [IMAGE]

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:56:17 +0000

You may not know this, but Mars has given each of its signature M & M's candies a personality. The blue ones are cool, red is somewhat of a control freak, green is a sexy lady, yellow is funny, and orange suffers from paranoia.

Until now, brown -- the classic color and scourge of Van Halen -- hasn't been assigned a personality. That's going to going officially change during the Super Bowl, when Brown will be introduced in a new ad as a sassy "female" character. Well, as female as something that is a pair of legs attached to a piece of candy can be.

Take a Bite Out of the Frozen-in-Chocolate Han Solo [PHOTOS]

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:43:02 +0000

The famous frozen-in-carbonite pose that poor scoundrel Han Solo was forced to spend a chunk of the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy stuck in is now a candy bar, thanks to the folks at Think Geek. The 4.5 ounce gourmet dark chocolate treat cost $11.99 (Princess Leia clone not included) and could be the perfect stocking stuffer for any ‘Star Wars’ fan [...]

Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch Tastes the Skittles Rainbow After Touchdown [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:05:24 +0000

After scoring a touchdown in his team’s 31-14 romp of the Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawk running back Marshawn Lynch was spotted by NFL Network cameras being rewarded for his effort with some Skittles. It’s a tradition that dates back to when Marshawn was a kid and his mom was the one doling out the rainbow [...]

82-Year-Old Grandma Has Her Mind Blown By Pop Rocks [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:30:22 +0000

Never in her 82 years had YouTube user Ryguymedia's grandmother had the unique experience of eating pop rocks.

So, with his camera rolling, he gave a package of the fizzy treats to her. While it's a bit difficult to decipher exactly what grams is saying when she first puts the carbonated candies into her mouth, the sounds she emits through all the popping pretty clearly suggest pure joy.

Watch a Cute Music Video Created With 288,000 Jelly Beans

Chip Sandalwood — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:52:08 +0000

If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops, oh what outdated candy rain it would be. Seriously, who eats lemon drops anymore?

That's why singer-songwriter Kina Grannis used not only used jelly beans to animate the rain in her new music video for, but also to animate the entire backdrop.

9 Things You Didn't Know About Candy Corn

Danny Gallagher — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:26:01 +0000

Every year, it hides in some dark, dank corner of even the most raucous Halloween party, waiting for some unknowing fool to stick their hand in its clutches of doom. It entices its prey with colorful designs and the promise of sweet joy, only to fill its victims with a familiar sense of bland, flavorless dread

Sweet Celebrity Portraits Are Made Out of Licorice

Dylan Schenker — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:51:11 +0000

These licorice portraits look good enough to eat. Artist Jason Mercier is known for his celebrity mosaics made of candy, food, pills and make up and even celebrity's own junk. For his latest project, called 'Licorice Flix: Edible Movie Mosaics,' he took scenes from some of his favorite movies and recreated them with pieces of black and red licorice in startling detail.