Chief Candy Officer. Think about that for a minute.

Candy Funhouse has a work-at-home position open for the head of the “Candy Intelligence Agency” — or as the company calls it, the CIA. It’s tough work that everyone will want to do. Your official assignment is taste test the company’s candy and give it a thumbs up, or thumbs down.

You can register right here at the Candy Funhouse site for a job that a) let’s you eat candy for a living and b) pays $100,000 a year. Let me know how it goes!

Then there’s this. For a brief moment, chocohalics all over the world had a brief freak out when Reuters published a story about a possible candy shortage for Halloween at Hershey’s. Hershey’s response says nope, we’re fine. But how much that candy will cost is still to be seen.

But if you want to talk about freak-outs, try this week’s news on the demise of the Choco-Taco. That indulgent treat from Klondike is a thing of candy history now. A statement from the company said “Over the past 2 years, we have experienced an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio and have had to make very tough decisions to ensure availability of our full portfolio nationwide.” No one I know it happy and has swept through stores in search of whatever is left and I sense some hoarding.

WORDS OF WISDOM FROM ANN KELLY’S KITCHEN

“Candy is natures way of making up for Mondays.” ~Unknown Author”― Rebecca Gober

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