I had a tour of Nebraska Furniture Mart as part of my grad school trip to meet Warren Buffet! It was kind of amazing, especially coming from NYC grad school land.... And the business itself is a good story -- I'm pretty sure it was founded by the matriarch of the family that still runs it.

I don't remember what the red ones taste like. I always go for the purple first in any offering, if there's no chocolate. I have a terrible need to keep my mouth busy at work. I don't ever buy candy at home, but I do dip into the shared bowls here when I walk by. If they're purple enough.

I thought the yellow might be lemon because it was so bitter. Even more unrelated to the purported source than the purple.

Driving up to it was something too, there were many entrances with signs indicating what was close to the entrance. It was akin to going to a KCI airport gate.

Since the KCI airport doesn't mean much to most people. At this airport you can essentially drive up to your gate when dropping someone off or picking them up.

I'm getting the bed and the mattress from Gothic Cabinet Craft - since they mostly sell platform beds, their single mattresses are cheaper than dedicated mattress stores (which have good deals on sets but not on mattresses alone). And they have a very clear how-much-do-stairs-cost policy.

I hate the red Life Savers. Bad experiences with cherry cough syrup as a toddler seems to have turned me off any cherry flavored hard candy.

edit for clarity....

Bad experiences with cherry cough syrup as a toddler seems to have turned me off any cherry flavored hard candy.

For me, it's congesprin and orange flavored stuff.

There's a regional candy manufacturer that does old-fashioned candy that gets sold in wooden barrel halves in local stores. They've got horehound and sassafras and root beer and licorice and a very nice wild cherry. I have to monitor my purchase of those very carefully.

Root beer barrel candy--one of my favorites!!

I've got my g-shaft candy in the drawer, which I'm very slowly working my way through. Bought it in mid-October, so it should last through the winter, I hope.

Can anyone give me a polite way to say, "I've fixed this crap you gave me to the best of my ability, for the second time, and I'm not doing it again; if this isn't good enough, send me a better-quality original."? I'm getting tired of this woman; she's already basically accused me of ignoring her instruction to replace the figure because it didn't look any better so she assumed I hadn't done it, rather than consider she's given me exactly the same piece of shit graphic to work with every time.

Licorice candy is like wasabi to me. I can't understand how a human palate can tolerate it. It's not that I dislike it, it's that my GI tract will do everything it can to stop thusly-flavoured food's progress. Plus wasabi hurts the sinuses. Though I will happily chew on licorice root. That's very tasty and satisfying to a mild oral fixation.

Never had horehound or sassafras, hate root beer. Wild cherry--don't think I've ever had the real thing, but the candified essence isn't bad.

A lot of strawberry flavourings make me feel queasy, especially when they're just pink and sugar. My sister and I had a bad experience with strawberry syrup-flavoured milk when we were little, and it lingers.

If I could just rework the candy industry to take out half the sugar, I'd be a happy puppy.