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#Candy

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taxet

One more post for this Easter. Here’s a neat curiosity that I highly recommend everyone to try at least once if you’ve never experienced it: the mignon eggs from Fazer!

It’s a fun one! The idea is that they take real eggs, make a small hole on the bottom and suck out the contents—which is further then pasteurized and used in Fazer bakeries for something—and wash the egg shells properly, and then fill it with almond chocolate nougat. Then they plug the hole with some sugar thingy, pack it up and off it goes.

They make these fully by hand, and they make around 1.5 million eggs each year in a span of around 3-4 months. It’s unlike anything I’ve heard of and it might be pretty much wholly unique to Finland and Fazer more specifically, which is why I really want people to know about it more. You usually get these around Easter only so it’s sort of seasonal but you might find some leftover eggs around other times during the year as well.

Now the thing you need to know, if you intend to get your hands on one of these bad boys is that you really need to be careful and not go crazy with them. You only need one and that should cover your needs for the entire year. It’s so god damn heavily packed with fat and sugar that having more than one is nearly impossible, and very much not recommended.

One good idea is to get some hot milk and melt half an egg per cup for some delicious hot chocolate, but just digging your teeth into one is so… decadent that you really should give that one a go at least once as well. I say once because you’ll probably regret it after and never want to do it again, but it feels so good-but-so-wrong that I still recommend doing it.

So if you can find these, get one! If you have Finnish friends, ask them to send you one. This is worth the effort.

Mignon egg in it’s cardboard packaging.
An egg standing up on a table. It’s the mignon egg outside its packaging, displaying the blue Fazer sticker on the shell so you can tell it’s not just any egg.
Mignon egg with some of the shell broken off, showing off the sweet brown contents. Egg shell pieces are laying next to the egg.
#Easter#Finland#Egg
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Steve Tanner

An Australian website describes an American candy:

"Offers a perfectly balanced cocoa taste with a subtle fruit-flavored undertone, all wrapped into a delicious treat."

Oddly, I couldn't find it during my recent trip to Sydney. 🇦🇺

What candy do you think is being described? 🍬

A colorful assortment of various candy packages is displayed, including brands like Mike and Ike, Butterfinger, Snickers, and M&M's, among others. A large question mark is overlaid on the image, adding a playful element.
#Candy
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Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#Candy fridge freezers are crap.

"While the general lifespan of a fridge freezer is around 10 years, factors like proper maintenance can impact how long it lasts." they say.

We have a thirty year old freezer. The only maintenance it has had is being de-frosted two or three times. It's fine.

My parents had the same fridge for at least forty years, and it was fine. They died before their fridge.

The Candy brothers are billionaires. They sell crap.

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Dudley Storey
"Summer on a Stick, No. 2: Candy Apple"

In Calgary, summer is associated with Stampede and the fairground. As we start to warm up, I wanted to create a series of quick fair food renders in Blender, a series I call “Summer on a Stick”.

This is the second one, a candy apple. I found the candy apple shader particularly hard to get right; in the end, I used a combination of approaches I've previously used for car and oil paint, although I'm still less than perfectly pleased with the result.

#fediart #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #b3d #blender #Blender3D #geometrynodes #candy #blendercycles #fairground #cyclesrender #blendercommunity #geonodes #3dartwork #3dart #digitalart #fair #fairground #summer #food #candy #sweet #illustration #digitalillustration
A 3D rendering of a red candy apple, sitting in a pool of candy, with a single green leaf.
#digitalillustration
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Flipboard Culture Desk

Mostly you expect food items to be named something delicious-sounding — and not something that your kids would come up with if they were playing a game about a swamp. So what's with the new chocolate bar, the Hormbles Chormbles? Jaya Saxena of @Eater attempts to understand this product intended to "disrupt the candy industry." Just for fun and because we're nosy, tell us in the comments what you think a Hormbles Chormbles sounds like it would be.

flip.it/SLXdAZ

A collage of yellow candy bar wrappers reading “hormbles chormbles” on each
Eater · Hormbles Chormbles Is a New Candy Bar With the Weirdest Possible NameBy Jaya Saxena
#Food#FoodCulture#Lifestyle
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Dudley Storey
"Summer on a Stick, No. 1: Cotton Candy"

Here in Calgary, the warmth of summer is associated with Stampede and its fairground. As a distraction from the current chill, I wanted to create a series of quick fair food renders in Blender, a series I call “Summer on a Stick”.

This is the first one, cotton candy (aka candy floss). I used geometry nodes, with a Toon shader to achieve an illustrative style.

#fediart #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #b3d #blender #Blender3D #geometrynodes #candy #blendercycles #fairground #cyclesrender #blendercommunity #geonodes #3dartwork #3dart #digitalart #fair #fairground #summer #food #candy #sweet #illustration #digitalillustration
#digitalillustration
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