Cadbury Mini Eggs are milk chocolate egg-shaped candies coated in a sugar shell. In the United States this product is manufactured by The Hershey Company of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Each egg is about 3/4 inch long and about 1/2 inch wide at its base. The chocolate inside each egg has a buttery and slightly salty taste to it which makes eating a reasonable number of the eggs pretty much impossible.

The sugar shells are in a variety of pastel colors, with tiny purple speckles on the eggs to give them a robin’s egg appearance. If your hands are warm at all the sugar shell will very quickly dissolve in your hand, so be prepared to lick some sugar off your palm if you decide to hold onto them for any length of time. (Extra treat!)

Cadbury Mini Eggs are only sold during the Western Easter holiday, so it’s a good idea to stock up as soon as you see them in stores. If you participate in Lent and choose to give up chocolate just remember that Sundays are your feast days so you can totally eat these eggs on Sundays! Yay, you!

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An ice-cold Coke goes best with this chocolate. (See? We’re soda neutral here!)

Risky Business is the perfect movie to watch while you snack on this treat. It’s always fun to bite into these eggs while you watch Joel dive through the air to catch his mom’s Fabergé egg!

Popularity: 8% [?]

Guinness is a dry stout that originated in the St. James Gate Brewery of Dublin, Ireland. Its distinctive dark ruby color and flavor is the result of unfermented roasted barley used in the process. The stout is named after its brewer, Arthur Guinness, who began brewing it based on the porter style that had originated in London in the late 18th Century. Guinness first exported his brew in 1769 to London, England itself. Since then, Guinness has been recognized around the world through creative advertising and its promotion of Proposition 3-17 to make St. Patrick’s Day an official holiday

Guinness is a heavy brew whether from draft or the can. Its healthy head of light foam covers the liquid below that is heavy to the tongue, and bitter to the palate. Many first time Guinness drinkers will turn away from it, having spent to many years consuming inferior “light” brews. However, once the first pint is down (a pint is the only way to drink Guinness… unless you wish to take the challenge of drinking a yard of it) the second pint, and every one thereafter goes down much smoother. While Guinness has been described as a “meal in a glass”, it actually is not as high in calories as one might think. At only 198 calories per Imperial Pint (20 fl. oz.), it has less calories than the same size bottle of Coca-Cola (240 calories).

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What? Recommending a drink with another drink? This may be the only time this happens… but we need to recommend Bass Ale with Guinness in the form of a Black and Tan. A Black and Tan is a traditionally American drink that features the Guinness layered over the Bass Ale. The two do not mix due to the density of Guinness. The American Black and Tan is made by first filling half the glass with Bass Ale, then pouring the Guinness into the glass over a tablespoon to prevent splashing and the mixing of the layers.

We recommend watching the story of Irish immigrants in Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) while drinking Guinness either straight up, or the American style Black and Tan.

It’s a meal in a glass for pete’s sake! The only thing we may recommend to have on hand would be Emerald Nuts Mixed Nuts. Other than that… the only other thing we can recommend is a designated driver… but you should have one of those for whatever it is that your drinking.

Popularity: 38% [?]

These chips are the perfect amount of salty and sweet with lots of great barbecue flavor on every chip. The mesquite is not overpowering, just enough to make the chip entertaining, but not too much to make it taste like you’re in a smokehouse.

Each chip is cooked in 100% sunflower oil in small batches so they’re extra crunchy. Extra crunchy makes me extra happy, but does not equal extra mess. Sure, there’s a film of barbecue goodness on your fingers when you’re done eating them, but that just means you get to lick your fingers!

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Fried Green Tomatoes (Extended Anniversary Edition) goes well with these chips since, let’s face it, they were making some mighty tasty barbecue in that movie!

Have a Coke and a smile!

Popularity: 7% [?]

Reese’s Pieces have been a special treat of mine since way before a certain extraterrestrial made them popular. These candy-coated confections come in a muted color palate of yellow, orange, and black — like the leftover colors that kids don’t really want to eat, which I never understood, but to each his marketing own.

Pieces don’t have quite enough peanut buttery goodness inside to counteract the domination of the hard candy shell. Each Pieces should be twice as filled, or I should be more patient and let the outer shell dissolve on my tongue first. Also, for some reason it never seems like there’s quite enough Pieces in the single serving bag — better get two bags!

No mess, unless it’s a really hot summer day and you leave them in your hand for several minutes. But, who does that? Put them in your mouth, silly!

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I have two favorite beverages I enjoy with this delicious candy: Ice-cold milk and Coca-Cola. Both merry perfectly with the peanut butter to hit that refreshing spot. Besides, double-fisting your beverages is fun!

Of course the perfect film for these candies is E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition). Gertie bets her hamburger on it!

Popularity: 5% [?]

Ah, Coca-Cola… the nectar of the gods! Invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton as a medicinal cure. Coca-Cola has gone on to naturally dominate the soft drink industry that it practically created, and definitely revolutionized. Coca-Cola was originally manufactured using coca leaf (the leaf that is used to create the drug cocaine), but today’s formula uses a non-narcotic coca leaf extract. Yet, there are those (including myself) who will admit an addiction.

As a dark brown carbonated beverage, Coca-Cola is sweet to the taste and flows down the gullet smoothly. A glass filled with Coca-Cola and ice on a hot summer day is both refreshing and re-invigorating.

Unfortunately where Coca-Cola falls short, as do most soft drinks, is in its high sugar content (hence why it is so sweet) and its high calorie count that provides little to no nutrition. Luckily, we don’t give a shit about nutrition here and neither do you!

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What better movie to watch at home while drinking a Coca-Cola other than The Coca-Cola Kid? Yeah, we couldn’t think of another one either.

By choosing the full calorie beverage, we recommend the slightly healthier yet still flavorful Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Microwavable Popcorn, Natural Simply Salted 50% Less Fat.

Popularity: 5% [?]