Jocelyn's good friend Claudia, a defender of Candy Corn and bringer of Cherry Mash, joins us for part one of a marathon candy test taste. In this episode we have a variety of candy corn products, try Missouri's own Cherry Mash and talk about the regional differences in our Midwestern high school proms. Next week we continue with Claudia and finally taste the Pearson's Salted Nut Roll.

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Show Links

• Fiestaware color history

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Montreal's own Doug Liberman is back this week with part two of our interview. We learn more about how his team developed Chocolate First, we all have a Coffee Crisp together and Doug answers more than a few questions about cannabis-infused confectionery products.

Chocolate First available on Amazon in milk chocolate: Plain, chia seeds, and hemp hearts. You can also learn more on AlwaysChocolateFirst.com

Show Notes

• Why does chocolate melt in your hands?

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Doug Liberman, President of Splendid Chocolates in Montreal, joins as our first expert to answer all of our questions about manufacturing chocolates, tasting candy and more. This is part one of a two part interview.

Chocolate First available on Amazon in milk chocolate: Plain, chia seeds, and hemp hearts. You can also learn more on AlwaysChocolateFirst.com

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• Mock chestnut torte for Passover

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Scott Smith, aka @OurManInChicago, is back for part 2 of the Chocolate Brackets with Leah and Jocelyn. We do a rapid fire through the remaining part of the brackets and spend a LOT of time talking about movies from the 1970s that none of us have ever seen.

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Chocolate Brackets

• Oh Henry! vs Cadbury Milk Chocolate

Show Notes

• Looking for Mr. Goodbar

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Scott Smith, a writer and raconteur known as Our Man In Chicago, joined Leah and Jocelyn to keep working through the chocolate brackets. We had so much fun and so many tangents, that this interview will be split into two weeks and each includes a Canadian candy taste test.

With Scott, we talk about...

• Banana Babies

We battle the brackets for

• Clark Bar vs Almond Joy

Canadian Taste Test

• Crispy Crunch

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Jocelyn loves a bracket and runs the Facebook group The Bracketeers for people who love brackets! Play along with our debate of the first 32 chocolate bars in a 64 team bracket. Plus we try the first of ten Canadian treats that Shai from Friday Night Movie Podcast sent us to sample.

Round 1 match-ups

• Special Dark vs Dove Bar

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Shai Korman, co-host of Friday Night Movie Podcast, joins Leah Jones and Jocelyn Geboy this week to talk about hotel snacks, road trip candy, and his top Canadian candies. Do we talk about GoPuff and Combos again? Yes.

Canadian Candy that we talk about...

• Crunchie

Trypophobia is real!

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On the first full episode of Candy Chat, hosts Leah Jones and Jocelyn Geboy get into the rules of the road. What makes good candy for road trips, what are winter-only options and then they compare their top ten lists for the ultimate road trip showdown.

When Jocelyn Geboy returned to Finding Favorites to talk about candy, Leah did not realize that a new podcast was about to be born. That episode is now considered the backdoor pilot for Candy Chat!