I have what is commonly known as a “sweet tooth”.
One of my favorite snacks to keep around my cubicle are Hershey’s Miniatures:
Hershey’s milk chocolate candy bar is probably my favorite. It is smooth and creamy. The dark chocolate bars are slightly bitter, yet still succulent and pleasing to my anxious tongue. Mr. Goodbar is the ugly stepchild. Chocolate with peanuts mixed in – too obvious and dull for my tastes, and its grating yellow wrapper screams for the attention and affection that I refuse to provide. I will often eat Mr. Goodbar in a rushed manner and chew swiftly, not giving him the pleasure that he demands by having me savor him.
Krackel is different altogether. Milk chocolate poured over crisped rice. Some would say that this formula is merely derivetive of a Crunch bar, but I disagree. The essence of Krackel is somehow different than Crunch. It has soul and vigor where Crunch by comparison is ordinary and flaccid.
But Krackel is elusive. As far as I can tell, it exists only within bags of Hershey’s Miniatures. My attempts to find a fresh, full-sized Krackel have proven futile. Why does Krackel hide from me? Have I wronged him somehow? Has society marginalized Krackel to the point where he is but a cult confectionary while Crunch is celebrated by the masses? Krackel, if you’re out there reading this, please know that I long only to consume you. I will savor you and treat you right. I will not lie to you like so many others have. I will not show you love only to cheat on you with a Crunch bar. I will hold you gently and say nurturing, affectionate things to you before and during the eating process. Please come back, Krackel. I need you so bad.
1. This post reminds me a bit of the book of Hosea…
2. I had such a craving for Krakel a few nights ago as I was getting ready to go to sleep that I had to hurriedly scavenge for some rice krispies and some of that chocolate sauce that hardens when you put it on ice cream. MMm…it was not the real thing, but it was close enough to satiate my desire temporarily.
LOL…
Peter, this was really funny…
You know, our blogs have absolutely nothing in common.
I dearly love the Krackel.
Maren, that’s hilarious that you made a homemade Krackel to satiate your desires. I need to do that sometime.
Geof, we need to somehow organize an underground network of Krackel fanatics.
they don’t call it KRACKel for nothing!
:innocent:
You said cubicle.
OFFICE SLAM!
(Ill advised.)
I’m here Peter waiting for you to find me. Don’t be long my dear Peter! Press on with you search and don’t lose faith that I am here waiting!!!
P.S. I’m a little frustrated that you are having an affair with my arch enemy Fig Newton, but all will be forgiven when you find your one true love.
Peter: consider the war upon the meek and mild chocolates of the world to have begun. WE MUST TAKE KRACKEL TO THE HIGHEST HEIGHTS!
I must admint I’ve been using Krackel for about 15 years now, and am unable to quit. I’ve sought professional help, but apparently there is some other substance that sounds simular to Krackel cause the meetings these people send me to are just plain strange. You’ll never meet a jumpyer angry group in your life.
Please keep me informed if any of you actually do start some sort of support group. I could really use someone to talk to when things get bad. I mean they never get “Pour Magic Shell over a bowl of Rice Crispies” Bad, but bad non the less.
thanks,
Scotty
BTW, I’m not sure if it matters, but my horoscope today said my lucky Cereal was “Cracklin’ Oat Bran”. Sweet!!
Krackel Rocks, Long live the awesome, asstastic krackel!Its becoming an underground movement that will eventually dominate the world…..
I was just travelling around the US and found at nearly every truck stop that you can get Krakel in a normal and a “king-size”sized bar. I have to say though that I think the minitures are arguably the best and the King size the worst. The king size is a bit too meaty for my taste and the ratio of crunch to chocolate is severly diminished. The normal bars have a very good ratio and look like their wrappers are from the 1950′s. My own Krakel “wet dream” would be a big bag of only Krakel minitures they are truly the best. Anyway here in New York City, where one can supposedly find anything, I cannot find Krakel and its gotten to the point where I find myself talking on a computer, which I hate, and I would much rather be eating a Krakel.
I’d like to add however that early on I made the mistake of getting a Crunch bar when there were no Krakel and I would go even further than Mr. Larroquette and say that Crunch bars are nauseating. Furthermore they give me an immediate headache.
So I have the 1-800 number for hersheys and I’m going to get them to ship me a shit load of miniture Krakel and if it goes well and I can work up the courage to write again I’ll let you all know how it went.
I’m glad to see there’s others like us out there John! Finding a big Krackel has become my friend and I’s obbsession. We’ve been on the hunt for about 3 weeks, with no luck. Hang in there, and good luck with your search. Now to go check out those truck stops…
I was just lamenting the lack of full sized Krackel as i picked thru my miniatures bag; so i started searching and I just Googled a place that sells Krackel bars by the case. I will be ordering some. here’s the site: http://www.candydirect.com/bars/Krackel.html
I continued down the page where i came upon your site and that’s how i got here.