MoQ 3: Contemporary Commercial Candy

This is inspired by my inability to find a chewing gum that does not have either of the gutter sweeteners: aspartame (NutraSweet) or High Fructose Corn Syrup.  Aspartame metabolizes into formaldehyde and HFCS simply, clearly is flying against nature.  There is no healthy way to placate your oral fixation (none that can be misconstrued as pervy, anyway).

Let us now reminisce and dwell on the strange coincidence of the emergence of candy in stick form (or ring form or baby bottle form) and National (US) events in the late nineties.

Hershey's Special Dark should be the minimum standard of what chocolate can be.

"Even before he had taken it he knew by the smell that it was very unusual chocolate. It was dark and shiny, and was wrapped in silver paper. Chocolate normally was dullbrown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire. But at some time or another he had tasted chocolate like the piece she had given him. The first whiff of its scent had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down, but which was powerful and troubling." (Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part II, Chapter 2)

Also inspired by this journal: http://liquidsilk.deviantart.com/journal/19574918/