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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 18, 2025

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What is your favorite candy / little snack?

It's summer so cucumber with salt can be really tasty and refreshing.

Popcorn, homemade bread with yogurt, grapes. Not that I snack very often.

My preferred desert would probably be ice cream, something minty. I don’t usually keep it in the house except for bluebell peppermint ice cream that I get during advent and then enjoy from Christmas until it runs out.

Someone mentioned TJs PB cups and they're insanely good.

Assuming some mass produced shit (not a homemade cookie) the runner up right now is Skittles Sour Gummies. Whatever Frankenstein concoction of psychotic food science flavoring is in the traditional candies made it intact into this spinoff. Instead of sandpaper citric acid crystals shaving your tongue to a pulp like the OGs, they're perfectly chewy, and so easy to eat on long bike rides when the rest of you is exhausted. The worst part is trying not to eat them when you haven't earned the calories.

Sour skittles are beautiful. The sour Mike & Ikes are my current tart craze.

Dark chocolate truffles for something sweet and Korean BBQ pork jerky for something savory.

Candy: Dark chocolate peanut butter cups from Trader Joes. Like Reeces, but better. Snack: Chips and salsa

Ooooh yes these are great. Simple and hopefully not full of evil chemicals.

With beer, something called Cratz. These are pretzel pieces with almonds and salty seasoning.

Otherwise something involving chocolate. I typically avoid these, though, love them as I may.

I like these. Also bigger pretzels dipped in beer cheese. Mmmm.

I love those old fashioned lemon drops! (Hard candy that's lemon flavored) They're my favorite treat when going to a movie. I always confuse them with lemonheads in the theater concessions (a lemon flavored jelly bean with a thick shell) and am disappointed in the latter once the shell dissolves.

Turkey jerky. I try to avoid candy / little snacks.

Actually, my kryptonite is a mixture of nuts in salty caramel. That's why I don't let my wife buy it.

I wish you didn't ask. I'm fasting.

Why??? This is the time to feast my friend. The fasting just ended. ;D

No one sent that memo to me. :/

I'm ... experimenting. For several reasons.

It's an interesting experience.

Hah I'm going off the Christian calendar. Even if you aren't a Christian, there are deep resonances in religious calendars with the seasons as to why the Lenten fast is when it is, etc etc

Yeah there should probably be a rule to avoid asking about food if anyone on the board is fasting.

I mean I stick to a public calendar ahaha.

Yup. Get the database going.

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