Valentines Day Candy - Hearts Of Course

Valentine’s day candy has began as a tradition during Saint Valentine’s Day to send or present sentimental love messages on colorful heart shapes since the Civil War. Offering candy to loved ones on Valentine’s Day is another custom that has been around for decades.

Taking these two well received and still maintained traditions into consideration, several visionary companies in the early part of the 1900s began designing and manufacturing small multicolored heart shaped candies with short imprinted messages of love and passion. A few of such messages were and still remain today: “I love you,” “I want you,” “I need you,” “Be mine,” “Take me home,” “Kiss me,” “Hug me,” “Love me,” “I am yours,” “I.L.U.,” “EZ 2 love,” “U.R.A.Q.T.,” “U R hot,” and so on and on.

Understanding the linguistic and generational trends, many messages have been discontinued through the years while many others have been added. In addition, management of these companies had a clear understanding that different people appreciate and favor different flavors thus their heart shaped candy comes is enough flavors to please just about anyone: Pink tastes like cherries; yellow is flavored like bananas; orange tastes like, yes you guessed it, oranges; green is tart like lemons; purple is reminiscent of grapes; white tastes like, of course, wintergreen; and brown is what else but chocolate. As I said, there is a flavor or two to delight just about anyone’s palate.

Today, or rather for your next Saint Valentine’s Day, you will find such heart shaped candy in a wide variety of packaging and you can order them online at http://www.necco.com/OurProducts/Products.asp?ProductSubCategoryID=1. And if, by the way, your loved one objects to candy because of a weight control diet, do grant permission to indulge on this very special occasion that comes around only once a year—Saint Valentine’s Day is a time to pamper oneself and one’s lover. If your loved one is diabetic, there is a wide variety of similar heart shaped candies that are sugar free:

Sweethearts Boxes contain sugary treats of six different colors and flavors that are cut in the shape of hearts imprinted with sentimental sayings.
Sweethearts Tart Boxes are filled with heart shaped treats in six different colors and six different tart and tangy flavors. Each treat is imprinted with its own love message.
Sweethearts Chocolate Boxes included chocolate flavored treats bearing heartfelt messages.
Sweethearts Hispanic Boxes contain treats of six assorted colors and flavor and the messages they bring are in Spanish.
Sweethearts Sugar free Boxes contains the same heart shaped sugary treats in six different colors and flavors that are artificially sweetened. These too include imprinted love messages.
Sweethearts 4-Pack Boxes include heart shaped candies in all the colors and flavors that are available along with their respective sayings in four pack blocks.
Sweethearts Laydown Bags come in various sizes and each one of them contains heart shaped sugar treats in six colors and flavors with imprinted sentimental little phrases.

At http://www.candywarehouse.com/alloccasions.html you will find a huge assortment of candies manufactured by various companies for Saint Valentine’s Day gifts as well as, of course, for all other occasions. Be careful not to drool all over your keyboard as you peruse through this eye catching, lip smacking and saliva stimulating yummy website. Personally, I gain three or more pounds just by entering this website although thinking about it only increases my weight by one or two pounds.

Have a sweet Saint Valentine’s Day and please do not forget to floss.

Spread The Love ;-)