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[V-Adore]

That's why I don't like mini M&Ms and am wary of the new giant Reese Cups.

The giant Reese's Cups have their own problems. They retain the same proportions (internal and external) as a regular Reese's Cup only increased to huge size. The result is that the volume of peanut butter near the middle and chocolate near the edges increase much more than the other element, and vice versa, which not only makes them taste funny but also makes them structurally unsound such that the middle sags out. It's a living, sugary embodiment of a mathematical principle I had previously only had reason to apply to bad science-fiction movies.

This is the best analogy about anything I've seen in a while. It's just plain rad, and it also evokes images of the Giant Peanut-Buttery Black Hole, ala "Event Horizon" if it had less Hell and more peanut butter.

[andalucia]

It made me think more of biological principles: that thing where if cells were bigger, they'd starve and fill up with garbage.  
But these comically oversized chocolate saucer-items, I have not encountered.  I shall have to look into it.  
My best Easter candy this year was something a friend's mom gave me: one of those things where you have to turn it so the small orbs go into the little depressions in a board, but EDIBLE.

[CortJstr]

I'm now sad at my home's criminal lack of pastel Spree/Nerds

[linnea]

That's why I don't like mini M&Ms and am wary of the new giant Reese Cups.

The giant Reese's Cups have their own problems. They retain the same proportions (internal and external) as a regular Reese's Cup only increased to huge size. The result is that the volume of peanut butter near the middle and chocolate near the edges increase much more than the other element, and vice versa, which not only makes them taste funny but also makes them structurally unsound such that the middle sags out. It's a living, sugary embodiment of a mathematical principle I had previously only had reason to apply to bad science-fiction movies.

Wait a minute...

There are... GIANT Reese's cups? For real? What the hell is wrong with my local grocer's? I haven't seen them yet. I shall have to troll the intarweb to purchase vast quantities of said sugary-embodiment-of-wonder.

[AlohaDawg]

The sweetie convinced me to go out and buy huge quantites of Cadbury eggs at like 9:00 last night - so we have some 15 boxes of them in our refrigerator. Once we got them all home she looked in there, at them, and turned to me and said "I'm not eating any of those - I'm too fat". I'd get all bent out of shape about her not actually being fat, and it being a waste of money to go buy them and everything, but I get to eat 'em so the hell with it.

This happened to me. It could be a trap. The way it went down in my case was she then proceeded to eat them anyway and, in a piquish fit of history revision, blamed me for buying them in the first place. Not that this is the only way it can go down.....but you never know.....

[Ben-San]

It made me think more of biological principles: that thing where if cells were bigger, they'd starve and fill up with garbage.  

I'm pretty sure we're thinking of the same principle here. The square/cube law, which is the thing where if you take a cube and double the length of the sides, you quadruple the surface area and octuple the volume. The upshot tends to be that a lot of things that are structurally sound on a small scale need to be redesigned on a larger scale as the mass being supported by load-bearing chocolate (for example) increases faster than the amount of chocolate underneath it. It generally gets applied to bad science-fiction movies in the format of "how does the Amazing Colossal Man breathe, much less stand up" and similar such.

(Note: Anyone who is an Actual Structural Engineer or Actual Mathematician can correct me on anything I may have gotten wrong here.)

[CortJstr]

Wait a minute...

There are... GIANT Reese's cups? For real? What the hell is wrong with my local grocer's? I haven't seen them yet. :( I shall have to troll the intarweb to purchase vast quantities of said sugary-embodiment-of-wonder.

I've only seen them at 7-11.  You only get one in the package but it's like 3"

[Carlos del Vaca]

Hey, I LIKE those giant Reese's.  I am more into the peanut butter than the chocolate, and in my experience the large size increases the PB-to-choc ratio.  

If you don't like them, SEND ME YOURS.

[V-Adore]

It generally gets applied to bad science-fiction movies in the format of "how does the Amazing Colossal Man breathe, much less stand up" and similar such.

Well, with the Amazing Colossal Man, you have the much more pressing issue that apparently the "embiggening" process made his heart a single cell. This seems troublesome.

[arkabee]

i gave up chocolate years ago.  rarely i will dip into the confectionare's bag of sinful chocolate temptation, but when i do it is usually for reesy cups.

easter-style chocolate never made me fill the pit of emptiness i had on the inside.

[Choop]

WELL AREN'T YOU JUST THE HOODLY-HOO!!?

[V-Adore]

I don't eat Easter chocolate to fill the pit of emptiness I have on the inside. I eat Easter chocolate because it's really very, very tasty, and because chocolate is a gift from Whatever Deity You Prefer.

[slink]

i gave up chocolate years ago.  rarely i will dip into the confectionare's bag of sinful chocolate temptation, but when i do it is usually for reesy cups.

easter-style chocolate never made me fill the pit of emptiness i had on the inside.

Similarly, I gave up chocolate, and rarely succumb. I did for two tiny blocks of orange and spice high cocoa content chocolate the other day, which was rather good. But, I just feel bad when I have a chocolate binge.

[arkabee]

I don't eat Easter chocolate to fill the pit of emptiness I have on the inside. I eat Easter chocolate because it's really very, very tasty, and because chocolate is a gift from Whatever Deity You Prefer.

i had always found Easter Chocolate to be sub par as compared to every day average chocolate as found in a Hershey's Bar et. al.

maybe my tiny child-brane could not deal with the spatial anomalies inre: a hollowed out curved piece of chocolate in the shape of a bunny,
but it DID always SEEM to taste different to me.

plus, it was always so freakin' hard.

and slink, i too feel dirty and demeaned whenever i succumb to the junkie's urge to binge and purge.


non-chocolate Easter Candy: i like jelly beans, though. not the licorice ones, they're not right.

the most beautiful woman in the world connived me into trying those Malted Eggs.  that must be the most horrid tast SENSATION to ever be inside me.  it's not just that the taste buds of my tounge went "*wretch*", but every fiber of my body went "*wretch*", as in "you fookin' wretch, how dare you let this in, your diaphragm will now spasm painfully".

i always preferred Halloween to Easter.  but then i like candy corn.

[wombat]

Someone gave me a package of something called Bunny Corn.  It looks like candy corn, but in pastel colors.  Highly unnatural.  It doesn't taste the same to me (even if I close my eyes), but that might just be because it's the wrong brand.