The Surf Candy started life as a bluefish fly.
"Candy, candy, candy I can't let you go All my life you're haunting me" -Iggy Pop.
These altars, adorned with flowers and skulls and purified with incense, include pictures of loved ones who have died, and offerings of the trinkets and indulgences that they enjoyed in life: candy, toys, bread and tequila.
It holds the two most important things in a modern woman's life: candy and contraceptives. .
Forty-four yeago ago, the film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" brought Roald Dahl's magical candy wonderland to life.
Researchers from Harvard and the University of British Columbia have demonstrated this effect, called hedonic adaptation, in a study using real-life candy bars.
"I been in the candy business all my life," he said.
Artificial coloring is present in popular products like Froot Loops cereal, Jell-O, Life Savers candy and Hostess Twinkies.
For a person who had not stolen so much as a candy bar all her life to walk coolly out of a client's house with such a valuable object might signal insanity.
Her wounds have left her limping through life, selling candy on the buses she used to rob because her gang tattoos disqualify her from most other forms of employment.
