Give Me Five!

The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to share fun information with each other in a simple short list! Here's how it works. Each week, Becca will put out a random topic and you share 5 answers of your choice on the given topic and link back to her. Join us; it's fun!

Funny you should ask! Not too long ago, right around Valentine's Day, I blogged about my favorite sweets. Not all of them were candy, but a few were. Here are the candies I really like, not in any particular order.

1. I love anything chocolate, but especially M & M's. Melt in your mouth, not in your hand! They are so much better than Kissables, which have a really thick candy shell that has an after-taste. The candy shell of M & M's really does melt in your mouth giving way to wonderful, creamy chocolate!

2. I like Reese's peanut butter cups - a lot. I couldn't stand them when I was a kid. In fact, I wouldn't eat anything with peanut butter while I was growing up. Strange how our tastes change. Peanut butter and chocolate really are two great tastes that taste great together. I especially love them mixed in with Coldstone Creamery chocolate ice cream. What a decadent treat.

3. Russell Stover's strawberry cream chocolates are a treat I don't get often. I think they should make a whole box of JUST the chocolates with the sweet, strawberry cream center. And I don't even like strawberries.

4. I love Sweet-Tarts, particularly the pink and purple ones. My teeth don't love them, but I do. Do you remember when they used to package two extra large Sweet-Tarts, one purple and one pink? I was in love with those.

5. Last, but not least, watermelon Jolly Ranchers. My students and my own kids love any flavor of Jolly Rancher, but I will only eat the watermelon kind. And no, I don't like watermelon, either. Only watermelon candy!

Thursday Thirteen # 19

13 Sweet Things!

1. Sweet Alyssum – a short garden plant with tiny flowers.

2. Sweet Bread – the thymus of pancreas of a lamb when used for food.

3. Sweet Cicely – an herb whose leaves are used for flavoring.

4. Sweet Clover – plants of the pea family grown for hay, forage, or green manure.

5. Sweet Corn – strains of Indian corn with kernels rich in sugar.

6. Sweet Fern – a flowering shrub with fern-like leaves.

7. Sweet Gum – a North American tree with spiny balls.

8. Sweet Meat – a meat prepared with honey or sugar.

9. Sweet Pea – a climbing plant with butterfly-shaped flowers.

10.Sweet Potato – tropical plant whose tuberlike root is used for a vegetable.

11.Sweet Sop – a tropical American tree with edible, green fruit.

12.Sweet Talk – to talk in a flattering way.

13.Sweet Tooth – a fondness or craving for sweets.

Thursday Thirteen # 18

In Honor of the upcoming Valentine’s Day Holiday,
13 Sweets to Satisfy My Sweet Tooth

1. Cold Stone Creamery – chocolate ice cream with Reese’s peanut butter cup mix-ins

2. Blue Bell Dutch chocolate ice cream
3. Russell Stover Strawberry Cream Chocolates
4. 3 Musketeers candy bar
5. M & M’s – They are so much better than Kissables!
6. Lawler’s Turtle Cheesecake
7. Hershey’s Special Dark
8. Twix candy bar
9. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – melt in your mouth!
10. Nestle Tollhouse cookies – homemade and still warm
11. Borden or Oak Farms chocolate milk
12. Sweet Tarts, especially pink and purple, not the chewy kind, though.
13. Watermelon jolly ranchers (yep, only the watermelon ones!)