There are certain things each of us associates with the holiday season. For some, it’s a great big old Christmas tree. For others, it’s crowded malls with a costumed Santa sitting in a photo booth dead center. For me, it’s a big gluttonous glob of chocolate. It’s not Christmastime until Hershey’s once again blesses our fair planet with the end-all, be-all of sugary indulgences: The Super-Sized Hershey’s Kiss.

I can’t say when Hershey’s got the bright idea, but certainly, super-sized Kisses have been around for many years – perhaps longer than a decade – and lest you think it’s impossible, rest assured, this is a precisely crafted and perfectly solid Hershey’s Kiss, just like the little ones. Standing nearly four inches tall and even longer in width, it’s a marvelous display of chocolate that nobody could possibly eat in a sitting. Wrapped in the same colored foil as their smaller cousins, the super-sized Kisses are likewise topped with little “Hershey’s” banners in crumply paper. If you’re groggy and someone puts one in your palm, you’ll swear you got a lot smaller overnight.

One of the topics X-Entertainment has covered in this very space over the past few weeks has been stocking stuffers. What to buy, where to find it, who to give them to, yadda yadda. Well, for those ends, you really can’t go wrong a mighty fist-sized Hershey’s Kiss. The foil wrappers come in silver, green and red, because let’s face it, trivial as it may be, everyone has their favorite Hershey’s Kiss wrapper color. We’re a simple society, and we love our chocolate. If desired, these magnificent bulbs of dark magic can be found at most pharmacies. Why pharmacies? I have absolutely no idea. Some things are better left unexplained.

Oh, and the Advent and Advert Calendars have been updated. (Advent a bit more updated than the Advert…) Will finish those up either tonight or in the morning.