#2-Milk Duds
Vote for Your Favorite Movie Candy…and Why Are They Called Milk Duds?
Want to vote for your favorite movie-eating candy? I’m doing a poll. You can vote below.
My favorite? Milk Duds.
Dud is a great word. It means something that fails to work properly or is otherwise unsatisfactory or worthless.
“The firecracker was a dud. It didn’t explode or anything.”
It can also refer to a person.
“Our quarterback is such a dud. He can barely throw a pass.”
Since the word is so negative, why would a candy maker name its product Milk Duds?
This is what the box looked like when Granpa was a kid
I looked it up, and it’s because back in the 1920s the company that invented them wanted perfectly round caramels coated with milk chocolate…and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t make them look like that. So they called them Milk (chocolate) Duds.
Granpa ate Milk Duds at the movies when he was a kid. The package was different then because they were made by a different company. I wondered if today’s Milk Duds were the same as in the olden days, so I gave him one of mine to taste. Here is his review:
“Not like I remember. The caramel’s the same, but I don’t know…the chocolate tastes different.”
So Granpa and I did some research and found out that Hershey’s doesn’t use cocoa butter (that’s the oily part of the cocoa bean) anymore. Now they use vegetable oil. Without cocoa butter—the government says—chocolate isn’t really chocolate. So Hershey’s is not allowed to say Milk Duds are covered with chocolate. All they can say (look at the box at the top) is “chocolatey covered.”
Granpa says that proves they really are duds.
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(Voting is below the images.)
Here’s my movie-eating candy poll. The choices are in alphabetical order. Pick one!
But if you or anyone else in your house has already voted, you don’t get to vote again (all the voting choices will disappear…cool, huh?). You can come back to look at the poll results as many times as you want.
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I like bubble gum best. Too bad it is often too loud to smack it at the movies!
nice name
i loved your first book i cant wait to read the second!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, Daniela! Come back and comment again after you read #2.
stickers are m&m’s are and milk duds
I say other because i like a lot of candy so i will tell you like this. My favorite candies are: cookie dough bites, junior mints, m&ms, popcorn[but i cant eat it because i have braces]:[. I also love some other candy that i cant think of at the moment but i will think of them later.
Don’t eat too much candy or your teeth will rot!
I love love love candy bars but i also love junior mints and york peppermint patties yum!!!
i LOVE starbursts even though im not allowed to have them!
wow i didn’t know Georgie could post. I’m in love with your books, Cheesie. BTW: I saw the picture of Georgie on page 35, he IS alot taller than you!
Georgie doesn’t post much, but sometimes… And, duh, he is WAAAAY taller
than I am. He is second tallest in our school.
The reason that they call milk duds,milk duds in my opinion is because they are duds. I just don’t like them for some reason.
I love chocolate covered raisins. Does that count as the “raisins” on the voting thingy?
Absolutely! That’s what Raisinets are!
i love milk duds
I love gummy bears.
I love sourpatchkids awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I looove movie candy. By the way, I like the drawings of Georgie and Cheesie in the book. If Cheesie (or Georgie…) drew them, then he is a GREAT artist!!
The drawings in my books were NOT done by Georgie. Some of those on my website were, however.
Can Georgie, Uncle bud, Lana, or Marci write to me
Marci lives in New York City.
Lana has never been inside my house.
Uncle Bud is actually the same as Granpa…and maybe yeah, he could.
But Georgie is right here, so here goes.
Hi, Amber.
I didn’t now Georgie replies too!
me niether!!!!!!!!
OMG
I chose sour patch kids but i like the sourpatch watermelons better, but they both taste really good!
milk duds are awesome did you Know milk duds are the most forgiving candy
I don’t get it. Why are Milk Duds “forgiving”?
I don’t know I saw it on a tv show I think it means when you do something rong you give them milk duds
sour patch kids yay
cheesie can you tell this to Goon.i just wanted to say that goon is really nasty,really ugly?,and rreeaeaaalllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyykjunfjhwbfjkgujhfbvkhudyfhgvbhligkfsbvjb.tnx cheesie
You are right she is nasty to me. But she is not ugly. My sister is actually very pretty. I would never say that to her, but it’s kind of true.
the only reason i choose this is because of the chcolate.i really love chcolate.
hi cheesie. can goon write to me.
Absolutely not. She is NEVER allowed to write anything on my website because the last time I did, she was rude, insulting, nasty, and mean.
i feel really bad for you chessie
When are you going to stop the point battle?
That’s a good question. Maybe when I’m way ahead…or when Goon turns into a nice sister. Or maybe NEVER!