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" Remember when you were a kid and your mom took your candy away a week after Halloween, claiming that it was &amp;quot;getting stale&amp;quot;? You always had a hunch that was bogus, and here&amp;#039;s final word that you were right: Candy bars are good for about a year, and perfectly safe for much longer than that, though less appetizing. Nuts and peanut butter will, generally speaking, get nasty sooner than pure chocolate, so you might want to dig into your Reese&amp;#039;s peanut-butter cups, Baby Ruths, Snickers, and what-have-you sooner rather than later. And those white dots that you sometimes find on older candy bars? Relax, it&amp;#039;s not mold! Just little bits of fat or sugar that have bubbled to the surface over time (but let&amp;#039;s not get too carried away \u2014 assuming you&amp;#039;re not trapped in a mineshaft, we recommend foregoing chocolate that is dull or splotchy for something, um, better). Anyway, happy Halloween from Eat Like A Man! Feel free to snack on your kids&amp;#039; confiscated loot from now until next year. [Slate] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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