Monthly Archives: April 2012

Tru Blood: All flavour. No bite.

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Salute! Candy Amigos,

I may be talking a lot about soda just recently, but that’s because we’re all so super-excited about the massive range that’s just landed across our six stores, and of course on our special new website. Today though, it’s time to introduce a soda that’s been a long time coming! Oh, yes! A vamptastic soda straight from the heart of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Drum roll please! Tru Blood.

I’ll say it again, just because it sounds so cool.

Tru Blood!

There. Not quite out of my system yet, but that’s helped a lot.

Obviously, it’s not actual blood as I’m pretty sure that’s not an acceptable thing to do around these parts. It’s also not really the Japanese-engineered synthesised blood that features in the show either, although there’s no harm in pretending, right? Tru Blood is a carbonated blood-orange flavoured soda of deliciousness, sweetened with cane sugar for that sugary tang, and packed with vitamin B3 and B12 as a natural invigorator. It’s got a little poke of caffeine in there too for that extra lift.

The bottle is crafted to be an exact replica of Vampire Bill’s favourite tipple, even down the blood type printed on the labelling. What’s more, we’re selling the red delicious in both glass and plastic versions. There’s a 4-pack available too, in a branded carry pack so you can stock up on your O-Positive and drink ’til your heart’s content. Unlike the Tru Blood featured in the show though, I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to heat them up and drink them warm, in fact they are much better poured over ice. However, if you’re feeling extra vamped up, why not try a unique cocktail of something a little stronger, with a Tru Blood base:

Death on the Beach: Tru Blood, peach schnapps, pineapple juice, vodka
Plasmapolitan: Tru Blood, Citron, Cointreau, fresh lime juice

Talking of Sookie, Vampire Bill and Eric (I know I wasn’t, but I should have been), you may have seen the post on our Facebook wall on Thursday of last week, offering up a sneaky preview of the forthcoming series five of the hit HBO show, which premiers in the US in June. In case you missed it, here it is again. Enjoy!

Remember: Friends don’t let friends drink friends. Now there’s Tru Blood, you won’t have to!

‘til next week , keep being sweet!

Sodaliciousness

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Buon giorno Candy Friends,

Last week I mentioned that we’re bringing in over 200 new lines of soda to the Cybercandy kingdom. By now, some of them would have landed in your favourite Cybercandy store, and of course we’re loading them all up to our rather fabulous new website so you can fill your baskets with sweet fizzy pop. Oh, yum! It’s gonna be liquid heaven in a real glass bottle.

So, who writes up these descriptions of deliciousness for the Cybercandy website, I hear you ask? It must be an awesome job. Well, that it is. As the Underlord of all things Candy, it’s my job to put on my research hat, scour every corner of the internet and bring you the information you need to make your sodalicious choices. I probably have the coolest job in the world! Yay!

Dudes of Thirstiness…
As you can imagine, writing up descriptions for over 200 sodas (241 to be exact) has kept me out of trouble from dusk ‘til dawn over the last few weeks. During my journey across the inter web I’ve come across some amazing information on some pretty cool websites that I didn’t know existed until just recently. Thirsty Dudes is one such site. Run by three, erm… thirsty dudes… Jason, Derek and Mike, who have reviewed the good, the bad and the ugly of over 2000 soft drinks! Now that’s a lot of bubbles, juice and calories. But at least they’re hydrated. The Thirsty Dudes are my new favourite trio of geeky coolness. Fact.

Do I have favourites? Why yes, yes I do…
I couldn’t possibly write up this many soda descriptions without having a couple of favourites and it would be rude if I didn’t share them with you, right? See, there are some benefits of reading the Cybercandy blog, and make sure you keep reading too as plenty more gems may well be revealed in the coming weeks! If you don’t know which of our new soda’s to try first, then let me help you out…

Have you got the BAWLS?
Hehe. We all love BAWLS soda at the Cybercandy castle, no matter what the flavour. The exoticness is the biggest draw, not to mention the awesome packaging. Hats off to the BAWLS soda marketing people, especially for the bottles that look like they should contain some harder stuff like…hmm… Archers schnapps for instance. Wow, do you remember that? I wonder if they still make it…

It’s also made with some pretty exotic ingredients – BAWLS that is, not Archers. The caffeine is derived from the Guarana berry, a tasty fruit about the size of a blueberry that’s found deep in the South American Amazon. Pretty cool, huh?

BAWLS is probably the iconic drink for all you caffeine addicts. Plus, it has an awesome name. Do you have the BAWLS to give it a try?

The best Buckin’ Root Beer in the whole dang country!
Okay, so, if you’ve always wanted to give root beer a try, or if you’re already a root beer fan, then this is the one for you. Buckin’ root beer has even won awards for its delicious root-beeriness. Uhuh. True that. To top it all off, it just looks great doesn’t it? A real old-fashioned glass bottle with a super-cool label. Plus, this root beer is drunk by real life, horse-ridin’, chaps-wearin’ cowboys!

Give it a try with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream to make a delicious float. Yum!

Capone family secrets…
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this brand on the list. I love a bit of history with my candy, it makes it all the yummier somehow, like a candy/history sandwich.

What could possibly be trendier than a brand of drinks invented by the family of Al Capone!

The coolest gangster of the 1920’s notoriously got on the wrong side of the law with his moonshine business in the midst of American prohibition, and rumour has it that the Feds raided Capone’s warehouses 137 times looking for illegal booze. Not that they found it of course. All they found was a stash of soda made with the Capone secret family recipe. Now you can taste it too!

Don’t worry if you can’t find what you’re looking on our website of wonder just yet as we’ve not finished loading everything up. Keep your eyes open though, and come back regularly. Also, you can leave us a comment here or on our Facebook page and we’ll do our best to help you out.

‘til next week my lovelies, keep being sweet!

Loadsa Soda!

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Hey Candy Lovers,

Have we got a treat in store for you this week!

A real old-fashioned taste of America is coming to your favourite Cybercandy store, and online too. Over 200 brand spanking new varieties of American soda have landed in the Cybercandy kingdom and we can’t wait to have your feedback on these delicious little beauties.

In fact, we’re so excited by their arrival, that we thought we’d give you a little history lesson.

What? A history lesson? Oh yes! Every day’s a school day when you’re living the American dream…

Now an all-American classic, in the early-to-mid-1800’s root beer and similar soda’s such as birch beer and sarsaparilla used to be drunk medicinally and sold from old-fashioned drug stores across North America as root/plant extract flavoured mineral water. A bit like leeches (ewww!), these drinks were prescribed to cure ailments such as the common cold and headaches.

By this reasoning, you can’t drink too much root beer, birch beer or sarsaparilla soda as it’s made from plants, and is therefore good for you. Fact! We’ll back you up with scientific proof. You can’t argue with logic that’s over 200 years old!

Flavoured mineral water soon became so popular that sugar and carbonation (that’s bubbles to you and me) were added and the soda industry was born. In just a few years, thousands of bottles were sold on a daily basis and in the late 1800′s brands such as Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper and Pepsi Cola were invented.

Soda was a popular soft drink across America for most of the 1800’s and early 1900’s, especially during the prohibition days of Al Capone and the Untouchables, but of course it all really kicked off its dancing shoes in the 1940’s and 1950’s with the rise of the American diner (although the first ‘diner’ was invented some fifty years before… uhuh, it’s true!).

Some of the coolest cats in American history such as Elvis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Chubby Checker were proudly seen swigging down a Pepsi Cola or an ice-cream float. You know what they say, if it’s good enough for them…

With brands such as Avery’s, Hosmer and Langers, we’ve really stocked up on some the most enticing flavours, smells and colours known to soda-kind. Fancy a bit of purple? Or a drink made from the purest blood orange? Or how about some Kickapoo Joy Juice? Packaged up in real glass bottles for that old-fashioned taste of America, whatever your poison, you’re gonna love ‘em. Thanks Uncle Sam!

‘til next week, keep being sweet!

Candy Weirdness

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Aloha Candy Fans,

As you know, we can often be found scouring the far flung corners of planet Earth in search of your favourite candy treats. If we taste-test a few along the way, it’s all in the name of research, right? Sometimes though, we come across the weird stuff that walks that fine line between total genius and complete insanity and we think it’s only fair that we share it with you.

If you love candy weirdness as much as we do, then you’re gonna love this…

Insect Candy 

Yes, it’s true. Sweet on the outside, crunchy on the inside. It’s not an Armadillo, it’s a genuine insect in a lolly pop.

Cool fact: In most Asian countries, insects such as crickets are considered a delicacy and are rumoured to be packed with nutritious goodness. Some insects are even bred specifically for human consumption!

Fancy getting your freak on and giving it a lick? We have a whole range of these suckers.

Foie Gras Bubblegum

You know when you have those cravings for goose liver that you just can’t satisfy? A bit like when you have an itchy bum and you’re stuck in a lift full of strangers.

Well, we’ve found the answer! (No, not to your itchy bum problem). Now you can experience all of the taste of foie gras with none of the expense or snobbery of those fancy French restaurants. You don’t even need to wear a tie, unless that’s your thing…

No need to feel guilty either, as these foie gras flavoured gumballs have never even seen a real duck or goose.

Duck, duck, goose.  Delicious!

Space Food

Most kids dream of being an astronaut. Well, at least I did… either that, or a unicorn.

Now you can literally grab a taste of what it would be like to eat ice cream in space. How cool is that?

Freeze dried ice-cream comes in three awesome flavours – chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. It’s an out of this world taste sensation, right here on planet Earth. A dessert fit for a spaceman.

There is so much more candy weirdness than we can cram into one blog post, so why not go and search our web store (search word hint:  bacon, pickle, curry, garlic and wasabi might give you more than you bargained for) or drop in at any of our six candy shops in London, Brighton or Birmingham.

‘til next week, keep being sweet!