I want Lollies!

Zombie Chews

candy tops that spin

Father's Day chocolates

The Lolly Centre of our world

A really key cultural experience is food.  Just reading the names of lollies (candy) is a cultural learning experience.  The names range from Willy Wonka fantastic to something that would NEVER make it in a US market.

Ben is still working through a nasty virus so going out for a big adventure is not really possible.  To cheer ourselves up on day 4 after the big quake we watched the new Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (yay electricity!) & then went to a well stocked lolly store, the local Ilam Dairy (convenience store).  It's also an interesting coincidence that the electric toothbrush my mom sent us arrived today!

Here are some of the lolly types:

Snakes (gummi snakes they are in most stores)

Pink Smokers:  Grandpa’s recipe  (small pink sugar candies)

Red Skins: stretchastically long lasting candy

Sucks: with full on fruit flavours
Pods: ingeniously crunchy
Scorched Peanuts
Maltesers

Chupa Chups lollipop magics: sherbert flavoured

Pineapple Lumps
Pebbles
Milk Bottles: the real milk chew
Wine Gums: life in brilliant colour
Fairy Mushrooms
Jaffas or Jaffa Oranges (chocolate balls with hard orange coating) Allsorts
Fruit Jubes
Oddfellows Strong Mints
Jersey Caramels
Passionfruit Twister: terrifically twisted
Raspberry Bullets
Cherry Ripe
Eskimos
Cherry Roll
Dairy Milk Buttons 

various types of chocolate bars

Gummi Snakes

Flake

Bubbly

Picnic

Twirl

Vault

Coco Heaven

Grades of Chocolate

Dairy Milk, Dark Block, Dark Ghana, Dark Cacao

gummi chicken feet

gummi dentures (you will need them after all these lollies)