I ate a fair amount of See's candy while on the west coast in my young adulthood.
The brand is a longstanding California original and it is therefore appropriate that I first encountered it there.
I was known to frequent the mall at Huntington Beach and here I found the confection to be superior to Whitman's and others available locally.
While most of my cohorts were milk chocolate fans, I personally preferred the dark chocolates because I perceived them to be "less" sweet. Davey Davey quite contrary how does your garden grow ?
The variety of individual chocolates as well as available packages and boxes were astounding.
Today is National Choose Your Chocolate Day.
Back then I was sporting a 34 inch waist with a 56 inch chest and massive arms so I saw little need to diet.
It would seem that Mary See's popularity has survived her by a long shot.
Nowadays eating milk chocolate results in little more than a multitude of zits greeting me in the bathroom mirror the next day. Though I have been repeatedly assured by my physicians that chocolate does not cause acne, I attempt to abstain these days for that reason.
Though dark chocolate and cacao nibs indeed are — I only wish that all sweets were an actual health food !
Happy National Choose Your Chocolate Day, be your choice Whitman's, Sees, or any other.