Candy German is for candy lovers - like us and like you! As native Germans, we don’t take our homeland’s candy for granted. Germany turns out some of the finest confections in the world, but unfortunately, they can be quite hard to find outside of German borders.
Now you’ve got a friend on the inside. Let us bring you the authentic candies once reserved for Germans only. Your sweet tooth will thank you.
"native" "borders" "germans only" "homeland"
uh oh...
― scott seward, Saturday, 6 February 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
WOLLT IHR DAS TOTALE SÜßIGKEITSABO??????
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 6 February 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/eRUgCsG.png
― pplains, Saturday, 6 February 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
wow 30 euros a month is expensive. i was doing bocandy for a while and it cost half of that for what looks like bigger boxes. but that's based in america.
― qualx, Saturday, 6 February 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
also wtf germany
http://www.hitschler.de/sites/default/files/796-hitschies-kaubonbon-165g.png
― qualx, Saturday, 6 February 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
They will conquer your taste buds, then march down your throat and occupy your stomach!
― nickn, Sunday, 7 February 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RKuB4MZ.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
i carve my own frontier straws thank you very much.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
outdoor knots!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:06 (eight years ago) link
3 10-CL test tubes of wine for $35/month, plus shipping.
― mutually aquatinted (doo dah), Friday, February 5, 2016 9:54 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is basically the cost of actually going to the bar of a nice restaurant and ordering some good wines by the glass, minus the atmosphere, service and remote chance of getting laid.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
I was looking up natural/organic/biodynamic wines and found this sub box - https://dryfarmwines.com/$157/mo for six bottles of red wine that I'm willing to bet retail for $12-15
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, February 6, 2016 1:58 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
If the wines in their instagram feed are representative, my googling suggests you are correct!
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
So tell me more about bocandy
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 February 2016 02:29 (eight years ago) link
man, german candy really sucks
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
it was fun just prohibitively expensive (says the fuckhead paying $60 a week for homechef) and i think i signed up during a bit of a sugar high
it's not all candy, he usually throws in a savory snack or a packaged pastry-type thing (not as big as a hostess). it's actually a pretty diverse selection and not all just kit kats from japan (though japan, western europe and scandinavia still dominate the boxes). lots of uh 'eclectic flavors, i still have a couple boxes worth of stuff lying around because they look kinda gross and i'm squeamish but i'll get to them someday. he includes a printout with a paragraph about every item in every box. a random one i just picked up lists:
Daim double (sweden), a toffee barBalkan Kakao Cake Bar (Bulgaria) which is this, and apparently it only exists on the internet in reviews of this particular bocandy boxCheesecake Kit Kat (Japan) lol whoopsCactus Lakerol ("make in Slovakia but imported from Sweden"), cactus licoriceOrion Mini Cola (Japan) he did this one several times because they're delicious, little coke-flavored sugar candy pelletsTOMY El Clasico (Mexico) annoying little caramelsand he filled the rest with little leftovers from other months
it's always a pretty packed box. also i had trouble cancelling my subscription because the website wouldn't recognize my account but he (blake) took care of it ASAP and was very nice in email.
― qualx, Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
i was just looking at that site! man it seems weird that someone is making a living opening up bags of milkita and parcelling them out at four per subsciber
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
xp to myself speaking of being a fuckhead i'm going to do this: if you're interested in trying homechef you can use my referral link https://www.homechef.com/invite/zMmNxsX5M6aE and get half off the first week! you can also find coupon codes for half off the first week everywhere, but if you want to be awesome to me you can use that link too. tho imo the menus for the weeks of the 22nd and 29th look preferable to next week's.
we're liking it so far, some very good food and easy cooking. only problem is each recipe instructing us to rinse the fish and chicken. delegitimizes the whole thing a bit.
― qualx, Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
xp to thomp uh sure i guess but i don't really feel like buying a bag of milkita just to try it out, and he gets plenty of candies that take more effort than an amazon order. it's a good assortment and a very good amount of product for cheaper than most everything itt. doesn't really belong next to the big box o' knives and frontier straws
― qualx, Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:12 (eight years ago) link
no i mean sure, good on him
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:16 (eight years ago) link
there are so many millions of cheap weird are-you-wholesale-or-are-you-retail candy stores around here that it's kinda surplus but if those things are less available or more marked up then, well, sure
otoh i think the frontier straw may be a legit product, though admittedly not one i need shipped as a surprise. i suspect if ever i need a frontier straw it's going to be on a trip involving some quite protracted planning.
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
It's weird how so many of these businesses (all of them?) have a business plan that consists of "we can definitely charge a gigantic markup and make tons of profit merely by putting different stuff together in a fancy box'" -- as though the gift basket industry metastasized. It's like people think that just because now there is this thing called the internet and new businesses are called "startups" that old bad business ideas with limited appeal suddenly have limitless potential. I'm sure no one will notice that they are paying 200% of retail for some snacks because we "curated" them.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:32 (eight years ago) link
I can't imagine any of these companies lasting very long.
― Raffi, Master of the Pan Flute (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link
i would hope most people understand that they're paying mainly for a service
most of these boxes are fucking stupid and drain disposable income for ridiculous combinations of luxuries people have no use for, but it's pretty reasonable for a cheap box of little shit you generally intend to use. i'd gladly pay a 200% markup for candy worth $7.50 if someone else were to find them, organize them and ship them out to me with paragraphs explaining each one. or i wouldn't, because i cancelled, but it was still a better alternative than doing all that myself. and paying much more anyway because it's not like i have access to small amounts of bulgarian food products. you have to be sort of intransigent to treat all of these services like they're just fleecing people.
and i like surprises, sue me
― qualx, Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:55 (eight years ago) link
qualx otm
― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 February 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
You may have sold me on this
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 February 2016 05:45 (eight years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E05/793291.jpg
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Thursday, 11 February 2016 06:55 (eight years ago) link
otm
― qualx, Thursday, 11 February 2016 07:31 (eight years ago) link
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, February 11, 2016 4:44 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Wronger words were never posted.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 11 February 2016 09:29 (eight years ago) link
Feelin' smug that I out-Trayced Trayce.
A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month
― pplains, Thursday, 11 February 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
pplains rn
http://britfa.gs/b/src/144283371594.png
― écorché (S-), Monday, 22 February 2016 11:32 (eight years ago) link
Dammit I dont know how I missed that.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/michaeljhudson/status/713494984402604034
― 龜, Monday, 28 March 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
http://spongeclub.com/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
lol
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
http://spongeclub.com/faqs/
You can write a message which can be particularly useful if it’s a gift or for a client/tenant (ex. from your loving mother, from your neighborhood realtor 555-555-5555) however we will screen messages for profanity or inappropriate language because cursing in your message is bullshit.
― ulysses, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Even sponges get cute nowadays.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
Jeez.
I saw an offer for a company that would ship you home air filters - no shipping cost and the price was actually less than what they sell 'em for at Home Depot.
Hell, that's not so bad, I thought. I went through the process, adding in how many I would need, what weird sizes they are, etc.
Got to the end and they were all "Great! Just hit confirm and we'll start sending you filters every two months!" and I was all ok, so there's the catch, slow down cowboys.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
https://mysteryexperiences.cratejoy.com/
― gr8080, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
literally "A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month"
"How do I pay?!!! No really, where can I get one?!! Take my money!" - Jane C. from Massachusetts.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
crtl+f "mystery" replace with "disappointment" - solved
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61xwsu7QyOQ
― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
lol, this is the one I desperately wanted as a kidhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqgH9ji0oY
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
ah shit, now i wanna go find those on ebay
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
― gr8080, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 1:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/DgQAV6U.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
i had safari cards!!! those were great
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
not sure what pplains has there, but it reminds me of a "hot dog cooker" that was in my grandparents basement when I was a kid that was apparently a school project my dad made as a youth
it was a board with two metal pieces sticking up (it looked like two segments of a metal clotheshanger) and an electrical cord that looked like it was stolen from a lamp. each of the wires connected to one of the metal pieces. don't even think it had a switch, you just put the hot dog on the clotheshanger and plug it into the wall to electrocute your hot dog
there must have been a much lower creativity/safety threshold in the 1960s
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link
This is like the second reference to a household hot dog cooker I've heard you make in the past 24 hours.
The pic's a model of one of the Unabomer bombs. Could cook a whole pack of hot dogs at once.
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
can't speak for mh but if my dad was the unabomber this is NOT the way i would've wanted to find out
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 20:06 (eight years ago) link
xp true, but my reaction to convenience store rollers is "this is an excellent idea"
I'm thinking the direct electrocution method might not work on taquitos and I'm not going to try
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
guys, safari cards thohttp://www.atlaspicturecards.com/safari_cards.html
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
http://i1.wp.com/www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/safari-cards.jpg