ottawa foodies

These just popped into my head today. It has been years since I've even thought about them.
I always used to have a clear plastic cylinder of Moritz Icy Squares in the freezer ready for a quick snack.

Does anyone have any idea where I could find a carton of these?

Usually find the cartons around Christmas at various retailers. It’s our families tradition to get for my father.

But pretty sure I have seen them at the dollar store. Smaller packages.

Various dollar stores. Pretty sure most recently on Merivale.

Thanks. I've never actually been into a dollar store before. This should be fun.

I mentioned the same nostalgic pang last fall to my family and ended up getting some Icy Squares at xmas. They turned out to be awful to my chocolate-tuned adult palate. The hydrogenated coconut oil is nice in small amounts but the chocolateyness just doesn't keep up.

They taste like dollar store chocolate so that's appropriate. :P Let us know what you think!

Maybe I'll just go down to the market and get a bunch of truffles from Stubbe's.

I was going to make the same point about how awful they are. Cloying, no real chocolate flavour, and they make you feel a little sick. It is either a changed palate thing, or maybe they are made with worse ingredients than they used to be. Hydrogenated coconut oil is the first ingredient. A Zero bar (or Lindor chocolates, also available in small packages at Dollarama) will give you the 'icy' experience you are looking for (at a much higher quality level), caused by the different melting temperatures of the chocolate used in the filling and the covering.

Why did you have to bring up Zero bars? Damn you. . . . .

Damn. Zero bars.
Curse you, eight!

Also, I no longer have to go to a dollar store thus retaining my record.

Dollar stores have the Zero bars too. Usually 2/$1.
And they are totally better than Moritz.

Icy Cups / Icy Squares were my major candy as a kid, and I had them within the last couple of years and am happy to report they taste exactly as they always did, and they are still AWESOME!!!

I have also seen them at bulk barn

Dollar stores often have Zero bars in the silver and also gold wrappers.

Dollar Tree had BACI chocolate bars- the large ones for $1.25 and i only bought 2 :(
must go back.

Dollarama also often has some nice european candy like Nestle Fruitips.

There are also quite a few nice foodie finds at Dollarama- like that fancy balsamic syrup/sauce in a smaller bottle for cheap!

I unironically love their knock off bounty bars and mars bars. Dollarama is surprisingly good for candy.

Those knock-off Bounty are unironically almost identical to the real thing!

A great source of iron, lead, and other good stuff?

The knock-off Bounty are delicious (and dirt cheap!), the knock-off Mars doesn't quite get it (still edible). I'd like to see more higher end 100g bars (Dollar Tree has good Perugina bars for $1.25).

A great source of iron, lead, and other good stuff?

Don't knock the dollar store candy section until you try it! LOL I love good food but I also love my candy! High end or absolute junk :)

But in all seriousness they have lots of candy that is name brand for cheap, as well as weird random candy like neon sour worms and a Mars bar knock off called Meteor. The Dollarama on somerset had icy squares a couple weekends ago but might have been an Easter thing. If you are a gum chewer they also sell Excel brand for under 1$.

Dollarama also has 1$ Gatorade and weirdly enough vacuum sealed corn on the cob.

Also vacuum sealed baby beets.

Bulk barn!

Bulk Barn would be the ideal place to buy Icy Squares because you can buy just one if you want. I love Bulk Barn — both for its great selection of food items and because it offers customers the complete opposite of bulk purchasing. The less you buy the more you save!

Buy one Icy Square.

Yah, right.

Craving satisfied.
Thank you all.

How many did it take?

Craving SATISFIED, okay?

;)

I bought 4, but ate one. The others are still in the freezer awaiting their turn.

It was pretty much exactly what I remembered. A bit chocolatey, soft and smooth in the mouth. Not the best chocolate in the world, but pleasant. About what you'd expect for what you paid for it.