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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Candy BloxI dunno why I bought these, but I’ve seen then online a few times and when I was at Munchies a few weeks ago, I just had to give them a try.
They’re a compressed dextrose candy (what I call chalk candy) shaped like Lego building blocks. They’re about the same size and work the same, only without the firm snap to keep things together. Some of my little candies were actually missing their nubs, but they had enough to build little walls and stuff. They were actually different flavors:
White - Pineapple - tart and a little bitter, but really tasty.
They were very hard and very dense, so crunching on them wasn’t really that easy. They were more for sucking, but of course they’re kind of pointy. I know I don’t sound excited by them, but I actually liked them quite a bit. I would buy them again, but probably only for a project. Or maybe just because I want something to play with on my desk. If I got them from a bulk bin I’d probably pull out just the yellow, white and orange ones. I think by the pound they’re cheaper than Lego. How cool would it be if they made candy Lego-ish mini-figures?
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Candy Blox are indeed made by Concord Confections. It is listed on page 11 of their bulk products catalog which is available as a PDF at:
http://www.concordconfectionsinc.com/product/product.html
I would love to find a local source of these for birthday party bags! (I know someone in Florida who got them for that purpose.) And you’re right, $4.50/lb is cheaper than bulk Legos, especially if you buy direct from Lego, but not if you manage to find an auction that sneaks by without getting noticed… :^)
I actually found eggo waffles that were built like lego. They didn’t work at all. The candy looks a lot more fun, but I think the waffles beat chalk candy for taste.
Hello!
I love your blog. I can spend hours looking at candies and dreaming about them…
I am french but I live in the United Stats now.
I found out that there are a lot of candies you don’t have around here (:"(((()
Here are some candies I LOVE and I think you could try (easy to buy online)
-Krema Batna (chewy licorice candy)
-Haribo Dragibus (little fruit flavored chewy balls)
-Haribo tagada (the best strawberry flavored candy ever)
-Kinder Schoko Bons (little chocolate-hazelnut- milk eggs)
Here we go… Since your life is all about candies I thought you might want to give them a try sometimes, they are pretty popular around europe.
Cpntinue our awesome blog!!!!
Ohh, I’ve had these before, a long time ago. I love the white ones!
Hey Cybele! Love your blog! I really enjoyed the little lego candies, specially the green one. The blue ones didn’t have much of a taste, did they?
These look so dang cool. I could see myself building little lego candy forts on my desk
We buy these every year for our Themed gingerbread making. This year was White Trash, so you KNOW each trailer had to be propped up on these!
I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually eaten one, though!
I LOVE these candy’s I used to get them at the bulk-food store all the time when I was younger.... My favorites were definitely the yellow and red ones.... mmmm banana and cherry..... so yummy… and they’re fun, what more could you want from a candy?
Does anyone know where to get the lego candy “candy blox” in the individual bags in a store here in LA? You get get them online but pay thruogh the nose for shipping. Thank you!
Adam - I got them here in LA:
Munchies
8859 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
They sell them in the bulk bins. Yeah, about $8 a pound, but you can just pick up what you need. I also saw them at Ralphs (in Glendale under the Cost Plus and Barnes & Noble).
Hello there my name is Eric and i live in Barcelona Spain at the moment and i would like to know if anyone can tell me ow i would be alble to order candy from the states to Europe barcelona spain? i checked out candywarehouse and its great but they only seem to deliver to the states… i use to live there and i miss all those candy that i cant get here i would be greatfull if someone can help me out…
thanks in advanced
Eric
I’m sooooooo sorryi havent been on lately! life is crud. Kinda like the blue lego candy. my favorites are the orange and white ones. nice blog by the way!
i really liked the pineaple ones.
I am lucky to have a world class bin section by my house to get stuff for the movies in candies, snacks and other things with free coffee. The Lego candy is part of it. Unfortunately I do not buy rip-offs, espeically when I have so much more to choose from at the section which is extensive and they encourage free sampling while Hugh Heffner Jazz is playing on the speaker. Anyway the major problem with the product is I can only build walls with it. I can see that if we are given a red brick and Chuck Brown and Linus in Lego form. But where are the windows, the roof pieces, the mini-trees, the doors, my god they should have a candy house for birthdays and a contest at stores to win one or something else. Concord Confections is either lazy or cheap- this is a really bad variation of starting to decorate your house for Christmas and then never finishing the job. Did Lego not license stuff? And then it’s a cool gimmick but why don’t I buy the real deal and make amazing stuff and get something that is good from Concord as a stand-alone product not because it is a knock-off of the original. I’d say I’d just go Pez but then you know you eat the whole packet from your dispenser of Pez in one short session and it’s like you barely notice the tang/sweet so for now I’ll have to move on from this one- but wait it is like a bang for the buck Pez/Spree so that’s cool but then you spend on the house and display it like you collect Sci-Fi action stuff and do you look at it or do you eat it- if I look at it I could have bought the real lego and built my own creation. If I eat it it could have been something else and not lego and whats the point in super decorating food to look like product when you are going to destroy it. Its cooler to look like the food you are not suposed to eat and that reminds you why it’s a classic in the junk/comfort world of eating. It’s like why do i want to use a battery machne with a lollipop- so I can feel like I’m doing something naughty- please....
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