{"id":2437,"date":"2009-04-13T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:11:15","slug":"easter-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/04\/easter-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over to the right in &#8220;Snippets of Life&#8221;, I commented last week that I suddenly had a craving for a chocolate creme egg.  I had the wrong name and still not sure of the right name, but when I was a child we always had this rather large chocolate egg, dark chocolate on the outside and a creamier, lighter chocolate with nuts inside.  It was very rich and I remember being allowed to have a small slice daily.  It was in a box with a cellophane window.  That&#8217;s my memory &#8211; I don&#8217;t always get the details :) !<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, running a few errands, I stopped at a drug store that I knew would have a variety of Easter goodies.  I don&#8217;t know&#8230; drugstore lighting, the garish colors &#8211; and no &#8220;box&#8221; as I remembered.  Everything I saw just made me think of old, too sugary candy and I was not tempted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure of the exact date, but I think it is approaching a year since &#8220;<a target=\"The Apple Trolley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appletrolley.com\/\" title=\"The Apple Trolley\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Apple Trolley<\/a>&#8221; opened in Bigfork.  In a little retail space on the way out of town to the south, a young woman and her mother opened a &#8220;gourmet carmel apple&#8221; shop.  <\/p>\n<p>And it is thriving &#8211; Big Time!  And at $5 an apple.  I am thrilled for them and for Bigfork and for me &#8211; delicious treat, nice owners, pleasant little shop &#8211; it is fun.<\/p>\n<p>Standing in the drugstore with everything looking unappealing to me, I suddenly thought of &#8220;<a target=\"The Apple Trolley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appletrolley.com\/\" title=\"The Apple Trolley\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Apple Trolley<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Apple9410.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Apple9410400600.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"600\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 600px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Easter candy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Spacer65050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>**Lest you think they will not make it with $5 caramel apples, they were nearly sold out when I stopped just before noon on Saturday.  And they had made extra for Easter, along with special bags and baskets available.  Good on them!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over to the right in &#8220;Snippets of Life&#8221;, I commented last week that I suddenly had a craving for a chocolate creme egg. I had the wrong name and still not sure of the right name, but when I was a child we always had this rather large chocolate egg, dark chocolate on the outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22307,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions\/22307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}