T Stands for a Trip to the Candy Store

 Hi everyone. 

Hope the last week has gone well for you. Mine was busy with appointments and several things that needed to be done like taking my 87 year old mother-in-law to go get a haircut. 

Today I thought I would take you on a little shopping trip I made after one of those appointments.

A couple of weekends ago my sister-in-law was telling me about a new candy and ice cream store called Lickee's and Chewy's that opened in Dover New Hampshire. Since I ended up in the vicinity of this store one afternoon, I thought I would stop in and check it out.

I also want apologize in advance as I know some of you may not want to see so much sugar for various reasons.  And maybe some of these candies I find unusual are something you are already familiar with also.

Dover as a few other places here in New Hampshire (well New England in general) used to have some textile mills along the rivers, and now they have been converted into apartments and stores. Lickees and Chewys in one of those old mill  buildings.

They had a nice variety of nostalgic candies from my childhood. Maybe from yours also.

Necco wafers are one of my husband's favorites. Necco stands for New England Confection Company, and they had been in production under the name Necco since 1901. A few years back the company closed down, and Necco Wafers were no more.  It was a sad day for my husband, and he even hoarded a few rolls.

However, the candy was bought buy another company in 2018 and came back last year. I've seen them cheaper than the $1.50 price a few places on occasion, but they're still not the easiest to find, so I splurged and bought him up a couple of rolls as a special treat.

And there was candy for Harry Potter fans, including chocolate frogs. (I picked up one of those for my daughter as a treat when she comes home too.)

And they had some big gummy candies. A little too much gummy for my taste, but maybe not a kid's taste.

No thank you, although I like a little sour gummy on occasion.

As well as these, they had some more unusual candies. Hmmm. I don't think I'd want a whole container of these either, but I would like to taste one, just to know what they are like.

And they even carried  some candy for  you if like it hot.

My one complaint was that they didn't have enough chocolate candy choices. I did get myself a Coffee Crisp bar as well a a white KitKat bar.  I had never had either of those before. The Coffee Crisp was yummy if not a bit too sweet, and I'm keeping the white KitKat bar for another day.  I've never had a white KitKat before but when I came home from Japan I brought all kinds of flavors of these candies I've never seen. KitKats are huge in Japan, with specialty KitKat only stores.

And since this is a T day post, my ticket this week for a drink is some drink  related candies.  Be sure to stop by Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog.

Do any of these look tasty to you?

Although I might possibly try a beer pop, I'll probably pass on the rest of these,  especially on the big gummy cola.

Does anything catch your eye?

And besides candy store shopping,  I did have an exciting moment when we went out in my husband's boat this past weekend.

I know fishing isn't everybody's  thing, but I caught my first striped bass (striper) in the 11 years my husband has had his boat. Not that we always fish, and I don't always even fish when my husband does. Friday I decided to cast in a line.  And not 5 minutes later mine line started squealing and my line went  away from the boat. These fish are exciting to catch because they fight you the whole way in. We did the quick picture session, and then Mr. Striper went back into the ocean to grow bigger. They have to be 28 inches and not longer than 35 inches in New Hampshire to keep for dinner, but I think even if he had been within that size, I would have let him go. He deserves to swim with the other ocean creatures.

Hope  you have a wonderful T Day Tuesday. And thanks for visiting.