My Cravings for Sweets...

If there is one thing the author of this blog is known for, it's for having a GIGANTIC sweet tooth.  So is it a surprise to find a whole passel of Cherry Jolly Ranchers on my desk?  What do you have on yours?

How often does your candy jar stash change in flavor, type, color, or variety? Some days I crave hard candy, some days chocolate.  Some days I want a surprise, some days I want something reliable.  Some days Taffy, some days Gum. What about you?

The world of candy is as expansive and creative as your imagination.  So go ahead and fill that dish on your desk with the candy of choice for the mood you're in. Because as we like to say, candy is good for you - it makes you smile and laugh, and those things are what life is all about.  Right?

Caption Me?

Oh what I could say about you!

When you see a picture of something you enjoy, what comes to mind right away?

We recently asked this question about this picture on our Facebook page for our Chocolate store and got some cute responses that we enjoyed reading. The interaction with our fan base was stimulating, and the responses were thought provoking.

The picture is of a just completed, fresh as can be, batch (or as we call it, a loaf) of our Creamy Chocolate Kansas City FudgeTM. Next to it lies one of the tools of our trade. The loaf is approximately 23lbs and measures nearly 4 feet long.

What do YOU say about it?

Christmas Candy!!!

Oh boy!!  It's here and we are sooooo excited!!

Christmas is one of the best times of year for candy: colors, shapes, flavors, and emotions come alive with such a broad variety of candy.  Mellowcreme, chocolate, gummi, malt, and lots lots more.

One of our favorite new candy selections is our Christmas Mix from The Jelly Belly Company, which includes some of the best holiday candies to sink your sweet tooth into: Mellowcreme Santa's and holiday shapes, speckled malted milk chocolate balls, dark chocolate foil balls, pectin mint drops, chocolate Dutch mints, and Jelly Belly's in Red Apple and Sour Apple.  And not only does it taste great, but we just looooove the colors it brings out on our shelf.

Our Holiday candy selection includes over 25 new candies that have filled our shelves, including everything from sweet to sour to chocolate and all things in between.  We are thrilled to have new product, love the festivity it brings our store, and even better, love the joy it brings to people when they proclaim their joy for such a wonderful candy experience.

We look forward to welcoming you during the Holiday season..

I Voted.

Despite the grueling lines that formed even before the voting station opened, despite the cool weather that we waited in outside, despite the laundry list of things that I need to do, and despite my claustrophobic nature - I waited, I stood in line, I voted.

I took part in this election, as I do each and every year. I vote at every opportunity, every election, every time, without fail.

And I'm proud to do it.

Too Old to Dress Up?

What, you're too old to dress up for Halloween?

When did having fun become optional for adults? Here is your chance, perhaps one of the best chances, at being 10 yrs old again and totally getting away with it. Why not?

Office parties, neighborhood gatherings, family events, whatever. You can usually spot someone in costume just driving around!!!

So why not dress up, at least a little, and have some fun? If you do it in public chances are no one will recognize you, even!!

Have a little fun this Halloween - you won't regret it!!

Giant Krabby Patty

Okay, SpongeBob fans, this one's for YOU!!!!!

One of our most beloved modern cartoon icons has his own gummy candy, and if you haven't heard of or seen it, please be sure to pick up some of these Giant Krabby Patty's on your next visit.

Each candy piece is individually wrapped and comes in it's own package.  Sealed for freshness, we found the candy to be flavorful, chewy, and hard to stop at just one.




Fun to eat and great to give, SpongeBob Giant Krabby Patty Gummy candy is available in both traditional gummy fruit flavor...









...and 4 individual flavors/colors (cherry, grape, blue raspberry, and green apple).  Either way, the SpongeBob fan in your life will certainly enjoy their own piece of Krabby Patty happiness with these.




 

Chip's Candy Factory is pleased to include SpongeBob's Giant Krabby Patty in an inventory including over 450 different candy items.  Stop by on your next visit to Crown Center and your sweet tooth will thank you!!

Thirtysomething...

You meet a lot of people when you've been in business for nearly 30 years.  So who do we recognize as we approach our 30th anniversary?  Well, that's both easy AND difficult to answer...

Over the years we've met, entertained, smiled, laughed, negotiated, haggled, persuaded, comforted, talked to, and otherwise interacted with, well, a whole lot of people.  A basic estimate puts the number of people who have walked through our doors in nearly 10,900 days of doing business at over 2 million.  That's a lot of samples!!

We have customers every week who tell us their memories of visiting with their parents when they themselves were children, who are continuing the tradition by bringing in their own children.  It's especially endearing when they say they remember seeing one of our staff members in particular as a child who is still with us today.  These conversations are special, and a lasting currency of our efforts to be the best we can on every opportunity.

We've seen good, bad, ugly, and most things in between; and if we'd have the chance to do it all over again we would unequivocally respond with "YES!!".  What a journey we've had, and how fortunate we are to have the support of vendors, employees, bankers, city officials, landlords, and most importantly, our customers.

On this occasion of our 30th year, while it's nice to reminisce and reflect, what we most passionately understand and care about is the importance of our future.  We understand that to have the opportunity to celebrate 30 years takes incredibly hard work, buckets of sweat equity, and certainly some luck; we also understand that to celebrate ANOTHER 30 takes twice as much of what it took to get us here.

So how do we stay relevant, current, and on the leading edge of our business?  By taking to heart a special poem that includes the saying "Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a Mystery.  Today is a Gift. That's why it is called the present".

Thank you for being a part of something we hold near and dear to our hearts - now won't you join us for another 30 years?