Friday, October 31, 2008

"Abba Zaba - You my only Friend"


With all that's going on, I thought I would lighten up the posts today. Halloween is fast approaching HERE , and I'm not a huge fan of a lot of dressing up, but as nostalgia whispers into my brain, I find myself dreaming of abba-zaba. I'm not really a huge candy fan. I couldn't care less about chocolate. All those funky Jolly Ranchers leave me cold. But this, my friend, is one of the most dreamy things (to eat) ever. The peanut butter filling is perfect consistency. The taffy chewy.

A little known trick with Abba-zaba: If you eat it rather cool (not warm it too much with your hands), you can break pieces off. The trick is to leave the wrapper intact. Using your thumb and forefinger, choose the section you want to break off, then slowly begin to bend it one way, and the abruptly bend it hard back the other. The piece between your thumb and forefinger should break with a clean break. Give it a try.

Everyone have a great halloween; enjoy your candy and your kids and be safe.


1 comment:

Rob P said...

Jim,
That is so funny. As a child, we used to love to go visit my Aunt Jenny, who lived right next to my Grandmother. She would always have boxes of Abba-Zaba bars around the house and it was several years before we realized why. It turned out that my Uncle Alex Doumak, was actually the inventor of the Abba Zaba candy. He had been a candy maker as a career, and in addition to Abba Zabas, he invented miniature marshmellows, colored marshmellows, and the process for making marshmellow shapes (i.e. Peeps) And now you know...the rest of the story.