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"If wandering the aisles on the last day of the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco doesn&amp;#039;t put you into a sugar stupor first \u2013 there&amp;#039;s a lot of candy and chocolate being handed out as samples \u2013 there are plenty of other things to distract you at just about every turn. Nostalgia, exoticism, and plain ol&amp;#039; fun pull at you from every direction. If you we   re a kid in the 1970s, you may remember Koogle, the flavored peanut butters produced by Kraft (&amp;quot;Pea-nutty-koogle with the koo-koo-koogly eyes&amp;quot;). Koogle hasn&amp;#039;t come back from the dead but a new and, arguably, better tasting, healthier version has arisen to take its place. Sunland Peanut Butter has introduced a full line of organic, flavored peanut butters ranging from chocolate, raspberry, and banana to more sophisticated options such as dark chocolate, chipotle chili, and Thai ginger and red pepper. The added flavors are actually nice background notes and don&amp;#039;t overwhelm the fresh peanut flavor. Sadly, the rep working the booth at the fair was too young to remember Koogle. Perhaps it&amp;#039;s just as well.  If you&amp;#039;re a gum fiend but dislike the ingredients found in many popular chewing gums (aspartame, sorbitol, and phenylalanine to name just a few) Glee Gum might just be your ticket to retro-chewing happiness. Made in a variety of flavors such as peppermint, tangerine, triple berry, and \u2013 of course \u2013 bubble gum, Glee is made without a   rtificial flavors, colors, or sweeteners but it is made with chicle, the original, natural resin from which pretty much all chewing gums were made until around the 1960s when American chewing gum makers began replacing chicle with synthetic rubber. Glee also offers a make-your-own chewing gum kit as well as kits for making chocolate and gummi candies.  Who doesn&amp;#039;t like a sassy, neon colored cocktail? Once you&amp;#039;ve finished making your own chewing gum, it&amp;#039;s time for a break: happy hour, to be precise. The El Paso Chile Company, which does make a full line of salsas and other chile-related products, also offers a full line of cocktail mixes \u2013 complete with cocktail shakers \u2013 and frozen drink tubs. Cocktail Rx and Desert Pepper Freezer Buckets offer a nice array of cocktails (Cosmo, anyone?) in an equally wide array of alarmingly bright colors.  Speaking of chilies, Tobasco \u2013 yes, the hot sauce people \u2013 are offering Tobasco Spicy Chocolate, dark chocolate flavored with that old American standby, Tobasco Sauce. It would be perfect for making brownies or cookies with a sweet, spicy kick.  Finally, you&amp;#039;ll need something to cool down afterward: how about an ube and red bean ice cream? Magnolia, based in Pittsburg, Calif., offers six different flavors of Filipino and Asian-inspired frozen desserts on a stick. Ube, a bright, purple yam grown in the tropics, and red beans \u2013 tiny little azuki beans sweetened with sugar \u2013 are just two of the flavors they offer but they also offer the two together in another dessert. Mango, coconut, and the even more scintillating Thai tea and Halo Halo (an eclectic mix of coconut, palm nuts, jackfruit, chickpeas, ube, and red beans) round out the line. Filipino foods have been on the cusp of moving into popular tastes over the past few years and Magnolia rep Susie Quesada is confident we&amp;#039;ll be seeing more of these flavors in the very near future. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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