Visitors to Kandy X-Change can now claim 5% off for March 2008 just by placing their order and quoting the reference number “03356” (without the quotes).
The code can be used for an unlimited number of orders and for anything for sale at http://www.oldtimecandy.com/… see the Old Time Candy site for further details.
Look out for other great exclusive offers later this month.
Blue Smarties are to make a comeback, after being dropped nearly two years ago, and will now be made with a new colouring extracted from seaweed.
The blue sweets were first introduced in 1989 - and discontinued in 2006 as part of a drive to remove artificial ingredients in children’s food.
Makers Nestle say the new colouring comes from a seaweed called spirulina.
The firm says the other seven colours in the packs also have no artificial colours and flavourings.
Source: BBC
Well the new year is dawning and it is a time for reflection as well as looking forward.
2007 was a huge year, it was the year that saw the birth of Kandy X-Change and everything you see here. It has been a busy year for us. It has seen us create a solid platform for our site and our club from which we shall expand and grow.
2008 will see us grow as a web presence and as an online club. It will see more additions to the club and the services we offer our members. There are exciting times ahead for all candy lovers everywhere and we hope you will all stick around for the ride and help us build Kandy X-Change into the NUMBER 1 candy website in the world.
Thanks to everyone who has helped us in 2007 and we look forward to welcoming and meeting some new faces in 2008.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Visitors to Kandy X-Change can now claim 5% off for January 2008 just by placing their order and quoting the reference number “04597” (without the quotes).
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Visitors to Kandy X-Change can now claim 5% off for the rest of December 2007 just by placing their order and quoting the reference number “02154” (without the quotes).
The code can be used for an unlimited number of orders and for anything for sale at http://www.oldtimecandy.com/… there are no restrictions.
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I found this rather old but interesting news story from August 2004 from Orlando, Flodida,USA while trawling the net. Is this case of
knee-jerk over reaction or does the grandmother have a point?
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A bag of candy shocked a local grandmother and will most likely shock you.
The toy inside looks like a plane flying right into the Twin Towers. Now, that toy is off some local store shelves because of our story.
It doesn’t stop there, though. That grandmother was surprised, again, when she read the numbers imprinted on the toy.
Until Thursday afternoon, the little toys were on sale to kids around Central Florida — two towers with a jetliner in between that appears to be crashing into one of the buildings. They come in packages along with candy.
We talked to a grandmother who couldn’t believe what she’d inadvertently bought for her grandson.
“It makes me angry,” Anna Rodriguez says. “I was offended because I couldn’t believe that someone would give something like that to a kid.”
When Rodriguez let her grandson pick out a bag of toys and candy, she never realized what was inside until her own son noticed the disturbing toy.
“[He said] look at the toy. I said, ‘Let me see it,’ and when I looked at it I was outraged. I was like, what? No way,” Rodriguez says.
She purchased the toy at a local grocery store. We found more packages still hanging on the candy rack. The storeowners were appalled when they saw what a distributor for Lisy Corporation, based in Miami, brought to their store. The store pulled the bags from the shelf Thursday.
Rodriguez has pictures of the Twin Towers in her living room to remember the victims of 9/11. She says there is no mistake what the toy represents, especially when you look at the product number on every single toy: 9011.
“Everybody knows it’s about the twin towers and it’s nothing to be joking around about,” says Rodriguez. She believes someone out there did it on purpose. “Whoever did this knew what they were doing, they definitely knew.”
A company called Lisy Corporation distributes the candy bags. They said they are also offended by the toy and have pulled 17,000 of the toys.
Lisy says they bought the toys, sight unseen, from L and M Import/Export of Miami. We talked to L and M and they say they have no problem at all with the toy and don’t consider it offensive at all.
We even pointed out to the import company that every single toy has a stock number on the front that reads “9011.” L and M Imports didn’t find it all coincidental and said it’s just a toy. Asked if they’d talk on camera, they said there is nothing to talk about.
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Source: WFTV
Its the day after Halloween and my kids are three of the millions around the world still coming down from the sugar rush.
It seems a fitting time to post this rather serious item to show the way the USA gives an example maybe other nations should follow, but then again I am sure, here inthe UK at least, the human rights of the convicted paedophiles would be protected before the rights of our children!
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Halloween Warning For Paedophiles
Paedophiles in Maryland are being made to put signs on their houses to keep trick-or-treating children away over Halloween.
New plan to protect trick-or-treatersOffenders will have to post signs on their doors saying “No Candy At This Residence” in the hope that children will not inadvertently knock on their doors.
The holiday on October 31 traditionally sees many children, some unsupervised, take to the streets in costume and go from door to door asking for treats.
Maryland’s main city, Baltimore, is home to more than 200 offenders who are barred from contact with children.
Elizabeth Bartholomew, a spokeswoman for the Division of Parole and Probation said: “We actually print out the signs for the offenders and hand them to them, we expect them to post the signs.”
In addition to the signs, all such offenders have been advised in a letter to stay home from 6pm on Halloween until the next morning, and to leave their lights off and refuse to answer their doors.
The programme is based on similar initiatives in other states.
Ms Bartholomew said: “Last year, no sex offenders in Maryland violated their parole or probation.”
Several other states, including Delaware, New Jersey, Illinois, Virginia and Texas, ban registered sex offenders from handing out candy on Halloween or being on the streets.
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This certainly sounds like a fantastic idea to me.
Source: Sky News
While walking in town a couple of days ago I spotted a chocolate bar wrapper on the ground. Usually I would tut-tut at this littering but in this case I became quite excited for all the right reasons. The reason for my excitement? The wrapper was from a long discontinued product called the ‘Cadbury Wispa bar’.
So there I stood in the street pointing at the ground and excitedly shouting at my wife, “Look ,look it’s a Wispa! It’s a Wispa!”
Obviously this earned me nothing but blank looks from my wife, passers-by and other “chocolately unenlightened people”.
This wonderful Cadbury product was such a huge favourite of mine when it was around in the 1980’s and the wrapper was exactly how I remember it, it was even just as large as I remember which is a rarity when it comes to chocolate bars from my younger days. Close inspection showed that this wrapper was fresh and had recently been opened so it was not a remnant from the 1980’s.
So obviously it was my mission to hunt down the source of this find. Not a problem, the first newsagent I visited had a box on the counter so I purchased one and within ten minutes was savouring a taste from my past. As the velvet chocolate melted and swirled in my mouth I swear I could hear the faint sound of Duran Duran, and the clickety-click of 1000 Rubic Cubes.
The Wispa is Back 
Ahhhhh the joy! Find out more at the Cadbury Wispa Website. Its well worth a visit if you love Wispa or if you are a child of the 80’s like me.
For the attention of nut allergy sufferers
Cadbury is recalling one of its products due to a printing error resulting in the absence of appropriate nut allergy labelling.
The product affected is:
250g Cadbury Dairy Milk Double Choc “Win a Prize and a Half” promotional bar.
The affected product is clearly identifiable by the “Win a Prize and a Half” flash on the front of the package. Only the promotional 250g Double Choc product is affected, no other Cadbury Dairy Milk products are affected nor any other “Prize and a Half” promotional products.
Please note, this product is perfectly safe for those who are not allergic to nuts and has not been distributed or sold outside of the UK.
ALL OTHER CADBURY PRODUCTS ARE UNAFFECTED
This product may contain traces of nuts. As a precaution, we advise nut allergy sufferers not to eat any of this product and call the Helpline number or log on to the website below for further information.
To obtain a full refund, please return the products to:
Cadbury Recall, Freepost MID 20061, Birmingham B30 2QZ
Or see www.cadbury.co.uk/doublechoc/FAQs
Or ring our Helpline number on 0800 818181
Cadbury wants all consumers to be able to enjoy our products and would therefore like to apologise to any consumers inconvenienced.
UK News - Confectionery giant Cadbury Schweppes is to close its Keynsham factory, near Bristol, by 2010 with the loss of about 500 jobs.
It said a further 200 jobs would go at its Bournville plant, in Birmingham.
Staff in Keynsham were told during an emergency meeting early on Wednesday the phased closure would begin in 2009.
The Keynsham production will be moved to factories in Poland and Bournville as part of a wider cost reduction plan announced in June.
As part of the move the Bournville plant will receive a £40m investment.
Earlier this year, Cadbury Schweppes had said it would cut 7,500 jobs and close about 15% of its manufacturing sites.
Cadbury said its other two UK chocolate manufacturing sites, at Chirk in North Wales and Leominster in Herefordshire, would be “unaffected” by the plans.
‘Productive site’
The phased closure of Keynsham is set to be completed in 2010.
One worker who heard the announcement said: “I live in Keynsham and this will have a huge impact. I depend on this (job) for my mortgage and the town’s economy will suffer when it (the factory) closes.
“Mind you I have to take my hat off to them (Cadbury Schweppes) because we’ve been told we will get help to find another job.”
The union Unite which represents workers at the Keynsham plant said selling the site would raise millions for Cadbury.
“Somerdale {Keynsham] is a profitable site, a productive plant and part of Bristol’s heritage as well as our manufacturing history,” said Brian Revell, Unite national organiser for food and agriculture condemning the company’s behaviour.
‘Very sad day’
“Now in a move which could realise millions in land value a key UK manufacturing operation is to be exported to Poland.
“We were always told Keynsham was safe because there was no capacity to make its products elsewhere,” he added.
“It seems the truth is that means no capacity in the UK but plenty in Poland.”
“We will support our members in fighting this decision,” he added.
Show gratitude
The Conservative councillor for Keynsham, on Bath and North East Somerset Council Charles Gerrish said: “This is a shock, a bolt from the blue and very disappointing. We thought the factory was secure. It’s a very, very sad day.”
In 2003, 170 jobs were cut from the Keynsham factory. At the same time a two-year programme to install new technology and increase efficiency was announced.
“News of the factory’s closure is a hard and heavy blow, not just to the workforce, but to the Keynsham community as a whole,” said the Labour MP for Wansdyke, Dan Norris.
“I have held a series of meetings and discussions with senior Cadbury Schweppes directors over the summer where I have been arguing that any closure should be implemented over years rather than months.
“I shall be meeting Cadbury again today [Wednesday] following my last meeting with directors yesterday evening and will urge the company directors to show their gratitude to the people of Keynsham by spending heavily on projects to benefit the local community before they leave us, and I hope, for a long time after.
“Given the hard work and dedication of the [Keynsham] workforce over four generations, it is frankly, the very least Cadbury can do.”
Source: BBC News
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