Well, here it is Sunday and I am only just posting the Japanese Candy Friday for this week. What a terrible candy correspondent I am. I hope you'll excuse the lapse; I was just too busy with an eighth-grade-style all-girl sleepover on Friday and an American-Brazilian wedding on Saturday. Candy couldn't compete with hours of making daikon-leg jokes and dancing shoeless with my favorite knit club girls (who I know are reading this...stalkers). It was a good weekend.

Now back to the candy! First, the winners of last week's candy giveaway are Sera, Jhoanna and Sasha. They will all soon be receiving some winter/early spring candy as well as an assortment of candies I've reviewed lately. Thanks for taking my candy, you three!

No formal review today, but I did want to share one of my favorite recent finds: Cubyrop Gummy. When you were a little kid, did you have grand dreams of snack mash-ups you wish so badly existed, like maybe a version of Swiss Miss hot cocoa dotted with Lucky Charms marshmallows or something? (My own snack mash-up ideas were usually disgustingly sugary.) Well, when I first tried Cubyrop, I wished so badly a gummy version existed, so much that I even mentioned it in the comments, but I had little hope that my dream would come true.

Lo and behold, I found a small packet of Cubyrop Gummy the other day and have been happily eating them ever since. They aren't exactly what I had hoped for, since there are only three flavors (grape, peach and lemon) and I could do without the sour powder dusting each piece, but I can't complain. It's not often my candy dreams come true.