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acquiring new tastes

Filed Under food, holidays 

This being Halloween, I figured I should share something about candy.

I find it encouraging that I am still learning about new foods at my age. A few months ago, a co-worker of mine shared a portion of his Baby Ruth candy bar with me.

I never thought I liked them for some reason, but I was immediately won over. My only recollection of Baby Ruth candy bars growing up was the reference in the movie Goonies (a movie I loved). I don’t generally enjoy a lot of chocolate, especially when nouget gets added to the mix. However, the nut flavor is very strong, and for that I’m a sucker.

It’s too early to give it an exact ranking among my favorite bars, but I certainly put it in that group, along with Butterfinger, Twix (is that a candy bar, per se?), and Snickers.

As I polish off a mini-Baby Ruth tonight, I send out my thanks to Brian for pushing me to expand my food horizons.

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4 Responses to “acquiring new tastes”

  1. Topher on November 1st, 2006 7:38 am

    Goonies rocked. I’m looking forward to my kids being old enough to not be scared by it. :)

    Baby… roof?

  2. Andy on November 2nd, 2006 12:40 pm

    Aw, man. My parents wouldn’t let me watch Goonies when I was a kid, and now I suspect it’s a little too late to really get in on all that 80s goodness. I *did* play the Goonies Nintendo game an awful lot; it somehow slipped past the parental radar…

  3. brian on November 3rd, 2006 11:30 pm

    The Baby Ruth was definitely in the Halloween basket this last week. Along with Almond Joy, Butterfinger, and Kit-Kat - all my favorites. So you gotta ask yourself, now that you know the joy of the Baby Ruth, if you were presented with the “BR” or a Snickers, which would you choose?

  4. bcp on November 5th, 2006 6:21 pm

    Aw, man. My parents wouldn’t let me watch Goonies when I was a kid, and now I suspect it’s a little too late to really get in on all that 80s goodness.

    Andy, I feel I failed you as a college roommate. I never realized you had missed out on Goonies. If only I had known …

    The Baby Ruth was definitely in the Halloween basket this last week. Along with Almond Joy, Butterfinger, and Kit-Kat - all my favorites.

    So Brian, aren’t you a bit old to be going door-to-door with a Halloween basket?! :-P

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