"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!" Lucy Van Pelt, Peanuts
"You can enjoy it for the both of us." Talmadge Q. Gleck
A few years ago, our office received a box from a lender rep. Inside were some square-shaped lollypops in various flavors - vanilla, butterscotch and....CHOCOLATE........I of course went for the chocolate one, skeptically, because I have tried chocolate-flavored hard candies before and, well......ecccch would be a good way to describe it. But this was different, it was as if I had taken a square of chocolate and let it slowly melt in my mouth. Now, I don't know about you guys, but I truly do have trouble letting a square of chocolate slowly melt in my mouth. I can for a tiny bit, but after a few seconds I have to chew. I can't help it! That's one thing I love about these lollypops, too hard to chew up so you can enjoy them for a long time!
Anyway, they were made by See's Candies, which has been featured before on The Food Network. Ever since we'd received the lollypops, I've been wanting to order a box of them but never really got around to it. Well, I recently learned that See's has a temporary kiosk in one of the local malls and you better bet that I hightailed it over there the first chance I got. Seraphim went home with a bakers' dozen of those wonderful chocolate confections!
Now, for the good news. Out of curiosity, I emailed See's Candies for the nutrional information on the chocolate lollys. I wanted to compare it to other chocolate treats to see the benefit of having one of these long-lasting lollys as opposed to a short-lived chocolate bar. (BTW, it usually takes me about 30 minutes to finish off one of these lollys. In the same amount of time, I could probably polish off an entire bag of Hershey's kisses!) Anyway, here are the results:
| Candy | CALORIES | FAT CALORIES | FAT GRAMS | SUGAR GRAMS |
| See’s Chocolate Gourmet Lollypop (1 lolly - yep just one!) | 90 | 35 | 4.5 | 9 |
| Hershey’s Kisses (9 kisses) | 230 | 126 | 14 | 19 |
| Hershey’s Bar – milk chocolate (1 regular bar) | 270 | 140 | 16 | 31 |
| Hershey’s Special Dark (1 regular bar) | 180 | 110 | 12 | 20 |
| Hershey’s Antioxidant Chocolate (1 bar) | 180 | 100 | 11 | 19 |
| Dove Dark Chocolate Miniatures (5 pieces) | 210 | 120 | 13 | 19 |
| Dove Milk Chocolate Miniatures (5 pieces) | 220 | 110 | 13 | 22 |
| Dove Sugar Free w/ Chocolate Crème filling (5 pieces) | 190 | 140 | 15 | 0 |
So there you have it! Enjoy!
-S.G.
