Back to My Roots: !?!

I just discovered the one thing that will undoubtedly bring me back to that icky place from whence I came--more  commonly known as Pennsylvania.  It's Daffin's Candies, and it's the world's largest candy store.  Need I say more?  I think not...but I'm going to anyway.

Located in Sharon, PA, Daffin's has plenty to offer for candy lovers everywhere.  The store is massive--20,000 square feet--and the variety of sweet treats might as well be endless.  The Daffin family is best known for their chocolate-making skills, so you can indulge in every chocolate delight from milk chocolate molds to fudge to fruit-filled truffles.  And you absolutely must check out their Chocolate Kingdom in the store, which contains, among other things, a 400 pound chocolate turtle (yes, made entirely out of chocolate), a moving ferris wheel, a train, and village. 

Daffin's make the chocolate in their nearby Candy Factory in Farrell, PA; they offer factory tours throughout most of the year, excluding the summer months.

If chocolate is not your thing--worry not.  For chocolate is merely one genre, if you will, of candy Daffin's Candies offers.  They have rows and rows of buckets and barrels filled with a various candy treasures.  They have salt water taffy, jelly beans, lollipops, sugar-covered jellies, hard candy, soft candy, chewy candy, gummy candy, you want it, they've got it.  

Still not excited enough to jump in your car right now and head to Daffin's?  Then you must be crazy.  Or a diabetic. But listen close now, because I haven't even told you the best part about your one-stop-candy-shop haven.  So here it is:  You get to sample anything you want in the store, even if that means multiple tastings.  Free candy?! Delicious.