Ep 35: Candy-Coated Chaos – Our Sweetest Episode Yet

This week, we’re overdosing on nostalgia and sugar. From king-size bars to childhood favorites, it’s a deep (and deeply unserious) dive into all things candy. Bring your cavities and your sweetest candies you can find.

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and Welcome to another episode of the Demon Babie Podcast. I’m Joey Lombardo aka Demon of Hollywood, and I'm sitting here with the, alabaster angels. The, Blond Babie, the candy, My candy crush. Emma Nilsson. Hello, demon. Daddy? What's going on? I just got home from work. a guy in a wheelchair eating in a restaurant. And I was like. I like that. Good for him. Good for him. Yeah. He's out there. Yeah. You go buddy. He got there. Get the food. Yeah. Get outside. That’s whats going on with me. Okay. I got my real ID today. That? That's huge. It's only taking you forever to get that. Five years. But I got it. Now we can go to New York. Now I can go to New York. You couldn't travel. Well, that's enough, back talk. This is the Candy Episode, and this is Demon Babie, the number one podcast in the world. Hit the music. First topic. Well, first of all, do you like candy? Oh, yeah. I have the biggest sweet tooth in the world, so this is a good episode for you. This is not like the lunch episode. Yeah. No, this is going to be a lot of. Emma's excited. You've got some answers. Yeah. I'll be ready for this one. Okay. First topic. Which candy deserves a rebrand. Rebrand for a candy. What Candy needs to come back, make its debut again. Maybe hit a new audience of kids. Ooh good question. I really didn't think about this one. Ah oh. Ah oh. You got the questions for the first time in advance. And I didn't really read them. Didn't read em. I didn't do my homework. You didn’t even look at‘em. No. I looked at like, three, and then I’ll figure it out. Maybe 100. Grand Bar. Hundred Grand Bar needs a rebrand? Yeah, I just feel like packaging, it needs, like, more marketing behind it. Like, it's. It's fine. The esthetic. I can picture it, I get it, but it's not as popular as it could be. It's Caramelly is chewy. It's got a little crunch. It's really good. Economy. It's probably only worth 50 grand now, maybe ten. I think it's funny that I always, Or does it go up in value? Is it a million? a million bar?? Yeah. With inflation, it would be the million grand bar. unless it devalues I don’t know. I always called it the thousand grand bar because my mom did, so I just did. So maybe it's a 1000 grand bar for real. Now that's the rebrand. That’s generational trauma. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think? Candy needs a rebrand. I think Butterfinger needs a rebrand. Butterfinger was is. Delicious. I don't think I've ever had a Butterfinger. You’ve had a Butterfinger we’ve had this conversation before. Oh. Off. Pod. Off Pod Made You eat a butterfinger. Oh, well, I don't remember eating one, so it wasn't memorable. So maybe it does need a rebrand, reformulation. That’s what I’m saying. All right, well, what would you rebrand it to look like? I just think they need a better marketing team. You know, follow the Mountain Dew or Oreo campaign style. They do good work. They do. Those are good camps. Yeah. All right, next topic. What candy did you hate as a kid? Almond joys. I have the same answer. Really. Really yeah almond joys as a kid you’re just like. When I would get that on Halloween. I was so pissed off because for some reason, my neighborhood had a lot of Almond Joys getting thrown in the bags. That was tough. I would always try and trade it away. The craziest part is what? Fuckin love an almond joy now. You've dipped back in. I haven't dipped back in. Oh my God, I get it. I'm on board. Almond joys are delicious. They're adult. They're an adult. Candy They’re a mans candy. Do you think they need a rebrand to be a little more luxurious, a little more manly, a little more adult coded because they're very childishly coded. That's not the point. The point of it all is. Well, you. You need a little joy. You're getting a divorce. You’re losing your job. Need a little Joy in your life. Get an almond joy Oh, I don't know. It was such a sad candy well a man's life. Is a sad life. Oh. That's awful. I didn't like any of that. Next topic. Thank you. Obviously, you can't talk candy. And not bring up Halloween. Yeah. What was your basket situation as a Halloween candy? No, this whole basket thing is kind of funny, so I didn't basket I I'll tell you what I had. So I had a Frankenstein hand with the purple bag under it. And you would, like, put the hand out. Also, I never dressed up as Frankenstein. It was just a hand. Held its own bag No. Like, you no. it was like the palm. And then the palm was a bag, and it was really cool. And then I think I eventually switched off of that to just a pillowcase. that was insane that first thing though. I know, it was a really cool Halloween bag. worth a billion dollars if you had that. Yeah, you would think, but they're not. That's crazy. What was your candy sack? Pillowcase. Ripping that thing around. Whipping it? Yeah, beat somebody up like a bag of oranges. Did you go with, like, all the neighborhood kids when you were growing up? No. What? No. Oh, my God, my neighborhood was so much fun because there were kids, like, around the same age and all the houses. So one house would host, like, a little pre-game and then one house we'd go to for, like, a dinner thing, and then we'd all go trick or treating, and then we'd go back to another house and all trade candy. What a nice lovely childhood. It was really fun. Yeah, no nothing like mine.. That stopped at about third grade. Went out. Fourth grade. By myself. Parents came for a little until I was like ten and then by myself.‘n then died off. Are you going to bring any joy to the podcast today, or are you going to just say that Almond Joys are for divorcing man and Halloween you spent alone? No, I'm going to be a debby downer. Wow. Okay. What was your favorite halloween candy? Wait, hit me with that next topic. What was your favorite Halloween Candy? Candy. Candy. Ooh, tough I. Well, this is going to be, rude. Take considering any king size anything is the best Halloween candy. What's the best king size then? Doesn't matter. Yes it does. No, because you got the king size. You won Halloween. King Size Almond Joy. that didn't happen. Yes it did. I never got. One. Full size Almond Joy. They exist like a king size Twix. Okay, so a big Twix. Like the four pack for Joey. Joey, do you not? You don't know your candy like I do. There is a special run of candy that's literally labeled King size. I don’t think That's true. I will put it up. Put it up. Who was right about king size. King size, candy normal size. You're wrong. Put it up. Emma. Put it up. Joey. What's your favorite Halloween candy. Mine. As a kid was Butterfinger. And I hate to be bringing her back into this relationship again already ya Butterfinger. Loved it. I like the crunch. Original flavor. Really deserves it’s time on the throne. Oh, I have a good Halloween candy. Ok. Those, caramel apple lollipops. Yeah. I didn't really have the teeth situation to do it. Oh the lollipop. The lollipop. Those are delicious. I thought you meant a real caramel apple. That's fun too. Very Halloween also very carnival. Very carnival, but very Halloween with those caramel apple lollipops. Those are delicious. Yeah. Fuck heavy with those. I still fuck with those. I'm like, Ikes sandwiches gives you those when you get their orders to go I think they’re flirting with me when they give me those. I'm like, did you think I'm pretty? You ordered it on Postmates. They can't see. You Who the hell saw my postmates face. Next topic. Switching holidays. We're going to Christmas is your Christmas stocking candy. Oh, we would always get gold coins. Gold coins here too. Do you fuck with the gold coins. I did growing up? Now I don't. Really. I still think that's a delicious chocolate. In there. It’s is pretty good, but it's a little, it’s white trash elegance and I will not accept any other. Okay. Sorry. It’s delicious. I like how thin they are. Yeah, they are really. They have a nice crunch bite. They have good bite and I like to balance them like a coin. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Next topic. We're hitting another holiday. Oh Easter. back to back holidays Easter. So my family has a really fun tradition at Easter. If you're a candy head like my entire family is, they do a special order of candies for everyone. It used to be a surprise order. Now we all know it's coming, so we place our orders used with surprise order. Everyone got their own box of chocolates from Ester Price candies in Ohio. They're so good. They're so good. They’re not that good. Fuck off. They're so good. They make a chocolate covered potato chip. That's so fire. put you those did. Exactly. They make an opera cream, fire the honeycombs. Opera cream Is literally the most perverted thing you could ever order. Sorry. I like a little cream in my mouth. Go home. And then I also would get the honeycombs. Those are fire. That’s like a butterfinger. But it's not. It's a honeycomb. And then I would also like the the solid dark chocolates. Okay. Can I talk about my easter a little bit? No, because that was just the box of candies we got. Then we got baskets and then in the baskets we would get, chocolate eggs and then peeps. I like those robin eggs. I did not like the robin eggs. We have such different taste in candy. You don’t like robin eggs? No, God. loser. And then, I would we would always do those big chocolate, bunnies. Hollow or solid? Hollow. I like em hollow. Yeah, we got a solid one once. It’s too hard. You can't really eat it. Yeah. Okay. So. Yeah. Go on. What's in? What was in your basket? Just peeps no wonder. You're such a peep fiend. What was the best thing we did with our peeps this last Easter? I don’t remember what flavor they were. I don't remember what flavor of the peep was, but no it matters it matters. We were dipping our peep in orange wine, and it was delicious. I think it was vanilla. No. It wasn't until, it was, ugh I can't remember. I don't remember. It was a specialty flavor peep though. It was. So good. There might have been s’more. No, I don't thinkx it was either. I don’t remember I love a s’more. Yeah you do. Man you are gonna have a sweet a tooth after this. Oh, yeah. I'm. I'm getting something. There's no way. There's no way I don't get candy. After this alright. Last holiday hit me with it next topic. Valentines day best And worst. I think Valentine's Day overall is the worst candy holiday. I agree. I don't know why I think the chocolate quality goes down. It's terrible. Chocolate strawberries always melted, never cold enough. That’s probably the best I’ll say. No. That is the best dessert that you get for Valentine's Day. But it's always just like weird Ferrero Rocher chocolates. Not that great. Okay, what the worst? Maybe. Actually, I was going to say Ferrero, but maybe, you know those chocolate boxes that they sell at the grocery store with the like off brand. Everything that those all just taste weird. You don’t like those. Those creamy ones? No. That's like a guy who eats taco bell and drinks monster all day. That’s what that tastes like. Yeah, it's gross. He’s a little sicky whickey. What's your favorite Valentine's Day candy? Favorite. ferrero rocher. ferrero rocher I don't know. ferrero rocher ferrero rocher. Enter the chat. Prove me wrong. Yeah. The worst I would agree. Like a shitty Hershey's box of chocolate. That damn corner. Hershey's. Yeah Hershey’s specific. Fuck them. Damn. All right. This is a Good question. Next topic. Maybe it was a better next topic. Topic. One more. One more please. Next topic. What? Candy should be fun sized or even smaller? Reese's really tiny little. Muy pequeno. the ones they put in ice cream? Yeah. You should be able to buy those mini teeny weeny pequeno Reese's. I didn't even preplan that answer. Yeah, I would eat a fuckin thousand of those. Just nom nom nom nom. I mean, they. Have mini ones but you. no smaller. Yeah I know I'm salivating. Yeah that’s pretty good. What about you. Oh I want, I want to a kit kat but I want to reconstruct it to be like a shoestring French fry. Oh fun. Yeah. Even smaller. Thinner crispier. Damn Kit-Kat reformed into that. I like it. But that's not really mini it. It's thinner. It's thinner and smaller. But my mini is mini. Teeny weeny tiny. I’m saying one kit kat Too. Not two. okay. And the big stick pile. big I would want like a bucket of that. Yeah. Yeah. Love it. Next topic. What candy should be bigger. Bigger. What should be enlargered. Ooh I don't know. Maybe a jelly bean. That's a crazy pull. I like it though. Yeah I could. That’s kind of a good pull. Like, give it a, how big?like a rock? jelly beans. Like this big, like a, like maybe like this big like you could bite. You could eat it in 2 to 3 bites. The size of a tide pod. Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. A jelly bean size? No, a tide pod size jelly bean. That would be cool. Yes, I. I think I would try that. Thank you. What do you think needs to be enlarged? Oh, I want a warhead. Oh, the size of a Jawbreaker. Oh. I want to rub y tongue raw. Okay. That's crazy. Yeah. I don't like warheads. I love warheads. Next topic. Jawbreakers. What about em? Did you eat those growing up? Would you go to lick it like a dog. was it 7-Eleven or where would you go? And you could get, like, a whole bunch of them That was not 7-11. I don't know what it where. It was just the candy store. So they had ultra mini sized jawbreakers. Ultra Mini size jawbreakers are probably one of my favorite candies too. Really. Oh my god. The I mean, we're talking like. bbs. Yeah. Oh my God, those things are so fucking good. so good. But they also make like like you're saying about the warheads. They make jumbo size jawbreakers. Like golf ball size. Tennis ball size. I want a warhead the size of that. That's crazy. Did you ever try. And widdle one of those down in one go? Cause I did it. It was bad a couple days. You did? It didn't hurt your jaw. No I’m not a pussy. All right, next topic. If you had to invent your own candy what would it be? Okay I think I would do like the reverse of a chocolate covered strawberry. And I would do chocolate but with like a strawberry is my favorite fruit. Like leave me alone. I would do like freeze dried strawberries or like dehydrated strawberries, like cut down and then inside the chocolate, like it'd be a filling. strawberry filling, strawberry jam basically. No, but I don't want it to jammy. I want it a little more on the dry side. Okay, okay. You see what I'm saying? I think it could be good. Like powder? no, no, no, it's still chunks. Okay. Like jam. No, that's liquid dry chunks. Jelly or Jam neither. Dehydrated strawberries. But little wet still.. No. Okay. What what would you make. I you know I think I gotta go back to my shoestring. Twix or kit kat idea. really. that just sounds Delicious. I made an original candy. I don't know what to tell you. All right. How about chocolate dipped flaming hot Cheetos. Oh I’d try that. That just came out of my brain. I might even want to try that right now. tonight. Let's pods over, We got to get to cooking. Chocolate dipped Flaming hot cheetoh.. that dark chocolate? probably delicious. Yeah. Milk chocolates probably. Pretty good white chocolate trash. Don't put it like it. Put in the trash. Next topic. What candy did you love as a kid? But you wouldn't eat it now? Oh. Oh, I know milk. duds. You were fucking around with milk duds back then? Mhm. As a kid? I ripped. That seems like an adults. No, I ripped a whole, cap off with one, I ripped, I ripped it, I ripped a cap off. I ripped a retainer out. Okay, but lets say your teeth are up to par. My teeth. Will never be up to par. but lets say they Were. Yeah. Titanium Kanye bites. Would you hit the milk duds for the Flavor. they're really good. Damn that’s crazy. My teeth are just too fucked. I couldn’t even tell you what a milk dud tastes like. Just thinking about that makes my teeth hurt. Yeah, I can't. What about you? Nerds. Oh, yeah, I can't. I don't fuck with nerds. No. But I fucking loved them as a kid. I like I did too pink or purple. I think I was more into the purple. I was in the pink. We'd be a good nerd box split. Yeah. We could really We could share a box. divy it up. Yeah. Wait, what weren’t they mixed. Some of them? They were split. I think later in life they came split. They segregated. Like I said in the lunch episode I got candy in my lunch box through high school. So I probably had kid candy longer than you. I thought you were going to say, like I said, in the lunch episode.I believe in segregation. Yeah. Next topic. Is there anything you always wanted to try but you couldn’t? Always no, but recently wanted to try but can't? Yes. Dubai chocolate. Wow. Have you tried? Well, you probably haven't tried it. Have you heard of it? You haven't tried it? It's an answer for later in the episode for me. But yeah, I want to try that as well. So I saw, but that’s not my answer for this topic. well I want to talk about it go on. I it's, I learned about it a little more today today today. Oh this is. Fresh. Well I've wanted to try it for a while, but I didn't really know what was in it. And it's pistachio phyllo dough filling and then some other very specific thing from the Middle East. That is like hard to source.. It’s exotic. And that's what the green is, is from the pistachio. Yeah I want to try one. So bad. But we can probably order some right now. I probably will after this pod. Demon Babie Tries Stuff. I almost ordered one for this. Are you going to. Are you ready to be jealous of my answer? Yeah. Ask me. What is something you didn't try but want to try? Is there a candy you've always wanted to try, but you haven’t. Okay. I'm sorry, I don't have the question right in front of me. Yeah i know. i do. I wrote it. Jimmy. Neutrons. Candy. Oh. Those clusters. Yeah. That tastes like everything. Yeah. And they got addicted and everyone was an addict. they went after‘em. You? That's what you want. Yeah, but you never wanted to try that. I forgot about it. That's such a deep cut. I don't even think it was that deep of a cut. It was so on the surface for me. Wow. Well I was ready for it. that's crazy. First thing i thought of. Wow. All right, next topic. Well, this might go along with the last thing you said, but we're going to ask it anyway. Maybe you have a different answer. Okay. What international or niche candy. Are you curious about that. the Dubai. The Dubai chocolate. That’s what my answer was As. Well. Yeah. But I’ll add in a new one. More of the Twix is, kitkats from Japan. More of ones we couldn’t get here. Yeah, I would, I would agree with that. We tried the matcha one. We tried strawberry, but there's more out there. I'd like to try them all. I would love more Asian flavored. I wonder if they do only special flavors for Japan, or if they do special flavors for other countries too. I think it's mostly Japan. that’s where the market is. Kit Kats in Japan are the best. Next topic. Gas station candy pick. Kit kat. True. I love Kit Kats. I get them all the time when we go to a gas station. That's why I didn't work for my, or liquor store. Or liquor. Didn't work for my lunch pull. That's all I get at the gas station or liquor store is a Kit Kat. It's not lunch. That's just candy. That’s true. What's your, gas station? Candy Reeces sticks. Oh, the stick is the best product Reese's makes. The stick is good. best product reeces makes. I disagree, that's not the best one. I like reeces thins. thins? they make a thin. oh the thin peanut butter cup? Yeah, get out of here. okay. you’re a fool. Whatever. That's delicious. That's crazy. There’s no crunch! There is! You're absolutely wrong. There's literally there's snap. There's no crunch. Disagree. How? Where's the crunch? In the snap. No. Then you keep biting through it crunch crunch crunch. There's not crunch. You're wrong in. A Reeces!? Yes. It’s Peanut butter and chocolate. What's crunchy. What's crunchy. In the normal one. They have wafer. No. Only in the sticks. Yeah. In the sticks I’m saying. Then get a kick out if you want a wafer. No, I like the peanut butter. I'm not that big of a peanut butter fan. Then stay out of my lane of reeces okay lady. But see your, M&M peanut butter kind of guy, aren't you? I’m an m&m peanut kinda guy. not peanut butter. Those are gross. Those are. Gross. Peanuts. Delicious. Next topic. Movie theater. Candy choice. Popcorn. Bunch of crunch. Buncha Crunch and watermelon sour patch. Oh, that's good milk duds. Before I ripped everything out of my mouth. That was a big movie theater. Candy for me. and snow caps if you're gross. That's gross. No, Yeah those are gross. there was a period at the movie theater where they had, ice cream dibs. Yeah, that was really good. that was Pretty. that was pretty crazy. that was pretty crazy because it’d always melt too. And then you just got the grossest hands. Sticky hands. Oh I had sticky hands for a few reasons at the movie theatre. Next topic. Road trip candy. Road trip. Candy. I didn't really. Candy on road trips. I would get a bag of puffy Cheetos. That's not candy. You're going on a road trip today? Tomorrow. And I got to bring candy. You got to candy. Kit kat and a Twix. King size. King size. Because I'm on a road trip. I'm going to be in the car a long time. I would do a bucket of peanut. m&ms.*gag*.*gag*.*gag*. Don’t gag in my mic.*gag*. Yuck. We have such different taste in candy. It's crazy. Yeah. It's crazy we’re even together at this point. It doesn't make sense. This is. This is the end. Thank you for watching the demon babie. This will be the last episode. The candy one is what breaks us up. Sorry. I really didn't think it was going to be this. Well, let's finish on a high. We have two more questions. Great. Next topic. Thank you. Jeez, forget your own, you have one catch phrase and almost forgot it. I didn't. What candy screams rich kid. Oh I don't know. Tony's chocolate Tony's Tony's Tony's the fuckin, uneven the big thick bar of chocolate. Yeah that’s unevenly broken. yeah because. The uneven distribution of wealth and the money in the candy industry or whatever. Yeah, but I only see rich people buying it. Oh, that is a good answer. Yeah. I said ferrero rocher. when I was a kid, I thought that tinfoil might actually be gold, there’s no way, my mom would’ve bought, that stuff. I didn’t have one until I was 18. if she was presented with two things a Tony's and a Ferrero Rocher, she'd buy the Ferrero. Okay. You think so? Yeah, why? because I bet the Tony's is more expensive. But yeah, she's gettin whatevers cheapest. I'm not saying we're going off the most expensive. I'm saying, oh, what gives the energy of I stand by what I said. And I didn't have a ferrero rocher until I was an adult. Next topic. What's old people Candy? Hard caramels. Yeah. The**Werthers** Werthers Weathers. Withers feathers. My grandma had those. Those are Delicious. Yeah. Your grandma doesn't have stuff like that. My grandma was like a real classic old lady. No I have a granola grandma. Yeah, my grandma was a classical lady. She had a jar of them. What's gonna to be your own person Candy. When you're an old lady, what are you going to have? You’re a chocolate girl! I'm a chocolate girl. It's not going to change. So we'll see. What do you mean we’ll see? I don't know, because I don't just keep candy in the house like that. Probably cookies, I don't know, it's not really a candy. Well, who said I had to keep candy in the house like that? The question. I'll be a chocolate almonds kind of girl. Okay, that's what I am right now. So what about you? Yeah. I haven't had one. I literally I might have never had one. No, I've had one in like Halloween candy. Okay. But I couldn't tell you what it tasted like. I have no memory. Okay. And I think I would need to redive to fully commit to this lifestyle. But I’m scared. Okay. A pay day. Oh. I haven’t had a pay day. I don't. Know it tastes like. I don't think I've ever had a payday. But I feel like a. Guy who gets a pay day now that's a man. That's an old man. That's an old man. Because that's the only candy he had growing up. Then get a payday. When you’re getting paid? Get a pay day. Is that they're. Saying, no, I don't know. I don't know anything about the company, all right? I don't even know what's in it, what it tastes like. I don't know anything about a payday. So. Me either. That's crazy. Crazy that that was your answer. Yeah, I don't know. I just I like the mystery of it all. It's. Yeah, that one's a big mystery. Seductive. I don’t what doing over there. What do you look like under all that wrapping. I want to take it off. Ew.*slurps* No. You can act like you like me during the episode. It’s fine. Yeah. And that's our show. That is our show. Thats our last topic. Are we going to try Dubai chocolate tonight. If you want. Maybe Are we leaving the camera up?. Maybe stay tuned to see if Demon Babie tries Dubai chocolate. That's our episode folks. Thanks for watching. This is the number one podcast in the world, and if you think otherwise, you're an idiot. Check your stats. And we love you. Bye. See you next week. Like comment. Tell us what you want us to talk about next week. Follow me on instagram! it's good.