At Candyland I first discovered the nasty truth about US food. There's sugar in EVERYTHING here. We got tons and tons of chocolate and other sweets at Candyland, but some of it seemed to not taste quite right (although the fudge was intensly amazing!) I realized later, after experiencing other foods that turned out to not be as sweet as I remembered, that the missing ingredient was beautiful raw sugar. For instance, I had no idea that peanut butter had sugar added to it until I bought a small jar in New Zealand. It tasted like mushed up peanuts. OUR peanut butter tastes like mushed up peanuts doused with wonderful beautiful processed sugar. In the US, if something has no extra sugar added to it, that fact is proudly and boldy trumpeted on the front of the packaging; "NO SUGAR ADDED!!!!" In NZ, that's the norm. I'm surprised they don't have labels that say "CONTAINS EXTRA SUGAR!!!!", although I suspect only US tourists would buy those prod> I'm going to let you in on a secret. I have a bad memory. That's not the secret. Everyone knows that. The secret is that Sam's memory isn't as good as everyone else is led to believe. Oh sure, he's got a much better memory than I have by a long shot. But if you've been reading his series of posts about our trip, you've probably been thinking "Wow, this guy remembers EVERYTHING!"

Fantastic! Was searching my website, candyland.co.nz and came across this diary of your visit to us! Yes American food is alot sweeter than ours (having lived in the US for 3 years I was thrilled to get home and eat food as it comes naturally!) Glad to see you liked our fudge! Funnily enough it's based on an american soft fudge recipe!