How to Fill A Sweet Tooth; At the Candy Expo, Meet the New Treats

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 18, 1995| Author: Joel Glenn Brenner | Copyright information

Candy. The word itself is magic. A sweet invitation to childhood. To days of hide-and-seek and stickball and Willy Wonka and sugarplums that dance like fairies in your head.

Never mind that you've never tasted a sugarplum. It's the fantasy that counts. That mystical, mesmerizing pull of licorice and lollipops, peppermints and chocolate drops. They beckon from the shelf like children from the playground. And Americans are eating more of them than ever before.

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