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I went inside a Circle K yesterday, for the first time in probably six months to a year. Candy bars were $2.99 🤯 I thought I entered the twilight zone. The small candy bars were $2.19
I remember when they were $.79 and $1.29 🤷♀️
Well let me be the yin to your yang
went to my local grocery store today (Price Chopper if you're a fren in my neck of the woods...so you know usually youre spending more than you would at Walmart kek) and managed to slide away with a 12 pack of soda and an energy drink for 5 dollars. I didn't even know either of them were on a discount so that was a happy accident as Bob Ross would put it.
Yep, candy prices have become ridiculous. If you want just one or two bars check grocery store checkout area. Many times it’s two for $ or bogo. As ash 🐶 said, they aren’t healthy. I believe Hershey brand is made in china. If I can’t fight my craving I get Lindt brand it’s got soy, I try to avoid, but it’s a little better quality. Plus the tax on candy is higher than the other food tax.
We’ve switched to Feastables. Delicious.
I’ve never heard of this.
Availabke at WalMart by the registers. I recommend the almond.
...they are really "bad" for your health now...
...howls...
I know… I totally get it because like I said it’s been six months or a year since I’ve actually been inside a Circle K. If I have a sweet tooth, I bake my own baked goods, so I know what’s in them.
I think it was last Halloween. We had a harvest festival at our church, and I got some free candy. I don’t think I even ate it because it didn’t taste the same. My mom said the same thing. So not only is the candy more expensive now, it doesn’t even taste good.
It’s no secret here I have a sweet tooth, even after changing my diet. I used to love brown sugar and would taste it when baking. I tasted some recently and it tasted like chemicals. Funny after you stop eating the toxic food it doesn’t taste good anymore.
This is so spot on!
The other day, I bought a pizza special that includes a drink, so I got a Dr Pepper. When I got home I told my mom this tastes likes chemicals. 🤢
Because we don’t eat and drink this way every day, it’s so obvious.
I occasionally enjoy a soda especially in summer, a few years ago, (more than a few but time flies when you are as old as I am), I stopped drinking or eating anything with high fructose corn syrup. After doing that for just the first 6 months, I was at a BBQ and thats all the kind of soda they had in the big cooler, I drank liked 2 sips of the high fructose and it tasted toxic to me. When I want a coke, like the 3 I drink in a year, the local general store carries "mexican" cokes, made with cane sugar, and the bottles are glass, in a "normal" sized bottle, 12oz.
...that would "bug" me...
Yep 🙌