Candy shop owner makes 'misfit chocolates' with broken Easter candy

[FSogol]

Easter is a busy time for chocolatier Andy Karandzieff (aka "Andy Candy&quot . He expects to sell over 10K chocolate bunnies this month at his candy shop, a St. Louis institution since 1913.

However, when one of his hand-poured chocolates breaks coming out of its mold, the Crown Candy Kitchen owner doesn't toss it or re-melt the chocolate. He instead takes the broken pieces and starts franken-ing them together, forming "misfit chocolates."

He told KSDK, "You can start getting creative and you get these oddball, misfit things that come out of my demented imagination sometimes."

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/13/candy-shop-owner-makes-misfi.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?26=&v=84Zyusjn96k

[Historic NY]

1. ...

[X_Digger]

2. That's not disturbing, no, not at all. No nightmare fuel there, nosiree. n/t

[FSogol]

4. It fits right in with empty tombs, rising from the dead, etc.

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. I love this idea!

Not much of a chocolate eater, but I would buy the Frankenstein bunnies over the 'normal' ones anyday. I am attracted to the odd in life.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. If kids got a chance to eat chocolate zombies, this guy would make a fortune. n/t

[ProudLib72]

9. War on christianity! War on chrisitianity!

First it was xmas, and now it's easter! You want to turn the godly easter bunny into a flesh eating zombie?! Oh wait, communion kind of suggests that already, doesn't it? Hmmm, my ranting kind of lost its point.

[blugbox]

7. If it gets too creepy to handle

Just eat the sucker right then and there haha

[Angry Dragon]

3. LOVE CHOCOLATE

[ProudLib72]

10. Eat a lot of it. Get a tummy ache. Blame it on the creepiness of the figures

Claim you need to eat a bunch of "normal" chocolate to balance it all out. It's a very solid logical argument.

[Tanuki]

5. Jelly Belly sells their slightly irregular jelly beans as "Belly Flops"

I sometimes see them at discount stores like Big Lots or Dollar Tree, and Jelly Belly also has them on their website.

https://www.jellybelly.com/belly-flops-reg-jelly-beans-2-lb-bag/p/95698

[Brother Buzz]

11. Jelly Belly is down the road from me

Back in the day, like thirty years ago, they sold five pound bags for the price of a sack of sugar. Times have been better.

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. I don't see a whole lot of creativity in what he does with his leftover broken pieces. Very little

creativity in fact, (just a couple of mix match eyeballs), so I wouldn't care what he does with his broken leftovers pieces. If he can find a way to recoup his losses from the leftover scrap in his chocolate candy business, good for him. Based on what I saw, I wouldn't pay any premium for the leftovers, so whatever he can get for broken leftover pieces is fine with me. Now to make sure he's not discriminating, I would expect to see some of those white chocolate pieces show up in his demented pieces collection as well, since I'd expect scraps to occur similarly with the white chocolate bunnies. If they don't, then I'd have a problem with his product concept if only the brown pieces find their way into his 'demented collection'.

[FSogol]

14. LOL, Snap judgement much? Creativity is in the eye of the beholder, but you obviously

failed to look at any of the pictures. Also, any broken chocolate pieces can easily be melted down and dumped into molds again which makes your "recouping his losses" comment ridiculous. Lastly, they don't make or sell white chocolate (from a quick look at his store) so you'll probably never see white pieces show up.

[onethatcares]

13. great idea.

One of my firstest ever jobs was working for Schrafts candy in Reading PA. This time of year we'd be making peeps out the ass, and I'd be lifting 50 lb bags of sugar into mixing vats.....8 hours a day......5 days a week..... with overtime if you wanted it. Big pay checks, at 1.65/hr.