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Tuesday Update?!

I'm getting pretty tired of seeing the blog updated only during the weekends, so I can imagine how some of you might feel. So look! Tuesday update! Don't really have much to say, but...TUESDAY UPDATE! Oh yeah, I updated the Kool-Aid Section with a shortie on Kool-Aid Kool Pumps, a Sharkleberry Fin-flavored treat offered at Burger King restaurants in 1991. TUESDAY UPDATE!

I hate to be a redundant broken broken record record, but I'm reallllly getting psyched for the Halloween season. I do this to myself every year. Trust me, it's a lot different when your holiday seasons are spent writing about holiday seasons everyday. I'm toying with the idea of doing the Halloween Countdown every other day this year, but I hate to break tradition like that. We'll see how it goes. Actually, this is a good question to ask -- which would you prefer? Updates every other day, or updates on every weekday with the weekends off? Perhaps the latter makes the most sense. It would be ideal for me to have Sats and Suns to write the following week's worth of entries. It's a lot to do in a weekend, but I'd rather have the extra time and have them come out the way I'd like than write them all when I get home from work. We'll see. I may still end up doing them everyday, because in my mind, that's the tradition and it should stay. Especially because I've already collected better loot for this year's extravaganza than the past two years combined.

Also on that note, I may need a good hand to help out with a few graphics for this year's Countdown. Nothing too fancy, but if you've got serious skills, send me an e-mail. You'll need to be able to do stuff as funky as what's on the main page of the site. Haven't thought about what this would pay. Not much. Consider it a labor of love.

Surrrrvey Sez! If you could only have one candy bar for the rest of your life, what would it be? I'm going with Snickers.

Posted by Matt on 08/30/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 157 comments

Purplegirl, sounds like you could be referring to the "Strawberry Shortcake" bar, and its cousin, "Something Named After Chocolate."

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/31/2005 10:11 AM

Purplegirl: Sounds like you’re describing something that is still being made here by Blue Bunny. It was either strawberry or chocolate ice cream on a stick that had something in the center ans is coated in those crunchy bits. Wish I knew what it’s called.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 08/31/2005 10:24 AM

I hate to be a conformist, but Snickers all the way. That’s mainly because they don’t make Bar None anymore. I’m not much of a candy eater, and I appreciate chocolate bars that aren’t sickeningly sweet, or at least have enough stuff in them to create a complex flavor. My three runners up? Mounds, Pay Day, and Chunky.

Purplegirl, I absolutely know that ice cream. Good Humor makes them (Chocolate Eclair and Strawberry Shortcake respectively). Cute story – when I was in middle school, I’d never had a strawberry one. My school didn’t sell them, but the elementary school did. One day my well-intentioned little sister got some money and decided to buy me one and keep it in her bag all day long until she got home (plus the 90 extra minutes it took for me to get home.) To its credit, the thing was completely melted and not a drop got out of the wrapper. She felt so sad that I refroze it and ate it. It actually still tasted pretty good.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 08/31/2005 10:25 AM

Hey Matt,

Guys and Gals of XE please pray for all of the people displaced by the hurricane. It is worse than what you see on TV. I live in the north part of the state and the number of people that have evacuated here is astounding. Me and the wife are going to volunteer time and resources for the next few weeks to do what we can. Please pray for us all.

On another note, I am now jacked about Halloween, like you Matt, I live and die for Oct. 31. I have spent the better part of the summer after work and weekends building huge props and getting ready to make those kids earn their candy as they enter my grave yard.

Also, snickers is the best all time but twix have to be a close second!

Chestnuts roasted by Tigerfan (Praying for New Orleans) @ 08/31/2005 10:29 AM

Here’s a link to what I think you’re talking about. Check at pages 2 and 3.

http://www.bluebunny.com/Main.aspx?productcategoryid=38&productpagenbr=2

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 08/31/2005 10:30 AM

Simpley a Hersey’s Dark Chocolate. All I need is a slab of chocolate.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 08/31/2005 10:51 AM

Another idea for weekend off entertainment is using the "wayback machine" to point us to a past Halloweenish article.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 08/31/2005 10:59 AM

I’m one for the weekends off routine. Then, Mr. C can just come up with Hallow-themed Saturday Survey questions for us.
Count me as seconding the love for Zero, the original "Inside-Out Candy Bar." Of course I hope the question means that it would be the only obtainable confection for the remainder of my lifespan. Otherwise, it have to be one hhuuuuugge Zero bar to last the rest of my days.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/31/2005 11:47 AM

I’d have to choose Kit-Kat bars. Man, those things are good!

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 08/31/2005 12:05 PM

5th avenue bars all the way. i guess i am in the minority here.

i think whatever is easiest for matt is fine with me regarding the updates.

Chestnuts roasted by jessica_76 @ 08/31/2005 12:16 PM

One candy bar? Snickers Cruncher!

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 08/31/2005 12:42 PM

I’m not a huge candy bar eater, but I’d have to go with Coffe Crisp as my number one choice. So I guess I’m another person who’s in the minority. Hey, I’m unique! ;) As far as the updates go, I vote for the weekends off option. That way we have something to look forward to each weekday, and can then do our own thing on the weekends.

Chestnuts roasted by aint_baroque @ 08/31/2005 12:56 PM

So, weekdays it is! Seems to be pretty unanimous.

I’m excited about that. Seems more logical and realistic considering the jobby job thing. Can’t wait to get started!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/31/2005 12:58 PM

I’d be happy with updates every other day since a) I work full time in NYC as well and don’t want to look at a computer screen when I get home and sure you feel the same way and b) sometimes I don’t get to your site everyday anyway so then I have a backlog of countdown days to go back to…BUT this is just my opinion and do whatever’s best for you…and regarding the survey? Nestle’s Crunch or Mr. Goodbar

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y. @ 08/31/2005 1:01 PM

The best candy bar ever is Hershey’s Symphony with Almonds and Toffee Chips. Not the little ones, the HUGE ones that are the size of like 5 normal bars. It’s even better straight out of the freezer and smashed into little crunchy, frozen bits. Aww yeah.

Chestnuts roasted by Annie @ 08/31/2005 1:23 PM

Have to go with Snickers as well. It’s got everything you could possibly want in a candy bar, but it is by no means a "jack of all trades, master of none" situation. Snickers has got everything, but it’s a GOOD everything.

Chestnuts roasted by Jen @ 08/31/2005 1:28 PM

You know, I put WAY too much thought into it, and I can’t think of a better "deserted island" candy bar than Snickers. It’s got it all. Peanuts, chocolate, caramel. I do like my variety, but if it’s gotta be just one, you’ve got to go with ‘ol reliable.

Chestnuts roasted by tanta07 @ 08/31/2005 1:45 PM

Matt,

Your (Halloween – Thanksgiving – Christmas) run is the time of year I most look forward to logging on to X-entertainment. Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in and suggest that you update every day. It doesn’t have to be a full article – if you are short on time – just post some spooky music – or a scary story. Anything. It will be worth it. Thanks.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 08/31/2005 2:30 PM

Even if we end up with a weedays-only run, the blog will definitely be updated on weekends with more spooky stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/31/2005 2:35 PM

I gotta go with the Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. You get two in every pack, so you can always save one for later if you didn’t inhale the first one. Sometimes I get all Hannibal Lechter with it and cut the peanut butter cup like a little pie and eat it slice by slice.

I’ve tried the inside out ones, and the balance of the tastes is wrong for me.

The Big Cup I like, but they only give you one of those.
It’s my theory somehow they merge them, with MAD SCIENCE that Humans were not made to mess with. But I know there are two peanut butter cups in every big cup. I can feel it. It’s a gut hunch.

As for Halloween updates, you don’t have to do them every day.
It’s not a job. This is for fun. If you want to put a little something up every day and take the weekends off, that’s cool. If you want to just make a mega post on a Saturday or Sunday that’s fine, too.
If it’s not stalkery, let us know if you went to a haunted house or found a neat costume website. Or bought a dremel to carve a pumpkin or something.
Halloween rocks, and the season oughtta be two months long. Every year it’s like a race and I’m straining at the starting line for the pistol to go off.

Thanks for having such a great site!

Chestnuts roasted by M.C. Creepypants @ 08/31/2005 2:55 PM

Well I’ve always been a big fan of Paydays (both the candy bar and the actual thing..haha, aren’t I a hoot!) And as usual, I’m happy that I could help clear up any mess. God, I’m so lonely….

Chestnuts roasted by Jim Harvey @ 08/31/2005 3:30 PM

This year, I’m going to carve me a Trogdor Jack O’Lantern.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/31/2005 3:45 PM

I guess fried candy bars are an Iowa thing, although I did see some made on the food network before.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 08/31/2005 4:49 PM

JLAJRC, thanks for the link. I don’t think it ever occurred to me that I could ever have the chocolatey goodness as an adult (or pseudo-adult as the case may be).

Lori, your story about your sibling is classic.

And finally, while I’m being chatty, I agree that updates are precious and should be savored…unlike candy bars, which apparently we all wolf down like animals! I’m a big fan of the Reese’s Cup, as well as its sister, the Pieces. I also love Heath bars but they tend to get stuck in your teeth, and that always slows down the enjoyment factor.

Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 08/31/2005 4:55 PM

I think Matt has decided but I like the idea of M-F with weekends off. For a CHOCOLATE bar to have with POP would have to be a Cadburys brand, Im thinking a Flake bar, they are the best when they are actually from England tho!
Oh and someone talked about Smarties bar, yeah I love smarties just in general better than M&Ms, makes me proud to be Canadian!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 08/31/2005 5:23 PM

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