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What is candy – It's that stuff in that little dish by the cash register that nobody makes color photocopies of, despite these items all being in these wonderful colored wrappers. Once in a while, someone pops one of these objects in their mouth, usually while drinking a bottle of water or a cup of some unknown hot beverage, and continues doing things around the storefront, eventually purchasing something – that's candy for you. First you are going to all the places that the managers of print shops shop at, in order to get ready to visit some of the real candy stores around Boston.

Trader Joe's stocks sugar-free candy bars and chocolates, and has their east coast headquarters in the Boston area. Trader Joe's stocks these incredible candies like pickled ginger slices, preserved in sugar, licorice, and tons of selections for the chocolate lover, such as chocolate covered apricots, chocolate covered raspberries, chocolate covered cherries, chocolate covered cashews, dark chocolate bars, yogurt covered fruits and nuts, and rice syrup sweet Japanese rice cracker treats – a few indulgences are to be found there for the less complex food lover. High-protein bars are readily available by the case, and the staff is friendly, will guide you towards quality product, and will tell you, the valued customer to avoid low-quality product. Candy is everywhere at Trader Joe's, in the frozen foods section, on top of the produce, next to the cereal, at the sample bar, which at Trader Joe's looks like a Tiki bar. There's chocolate sugar-free almonds, sugar-free European mints, sugar-free Trader Joe's mints, sugar-free chocolate mints – candy is to be found near the produce section, too. Boxes of high-protein bars bedeck some aisles, as do dried fruit containers, it's all good. Trader Joe's is also continually getting new products, the website this week is proclaiming that Massachusetts stores are now carrying Very Mini Vanilla Meringues made with egg whites, beet sugar and natural vanilla, only 1 calorie per cookie.

Stop and Shop has a huge candy aisle, as does Shaw's Market, and has an excellent return or exchange policy, as long as you hang on to the receipt, trading in the rejected sugared or sugar-free sweet treats should not be a problem. However, these places tend not to stock the latest and greatest of gourmet goodies for the eye appeal, if not the taste, of the candy fan, the selection is geared more towards children and holiday celebrations, so avoiding the treats is fairly easy, as long as you are not waiting a long time at the cashier stand. The treats in the bulk candy bins are temptation, as the offer to try just a few pieces in a bag is always there. Jelly Belly candies are frequently to be had by the box, or some such equally first-rate candy. The wait is the worst; candy, gum, how-to mini magazines, cookbooks loaded with pictures of desserts, women's magazines, and the shock magazines; the mini magazines are the best, and fit into your recipe box, are usually limited edition printings, too – although the invitation to indulge in red-line discontinued candies may be too much for some to withstand, taking a few of the discontinued boxes of candy at wholesale prices is good – resist temptation to fill up your whole cart with candy. Snickers sells a premium high-protein bar which looks like a chocolate bar, and many of the other high-protein bars such as Balance, Zone, Luna, Power Bar, Met Rx, are still things that onlookers and acquaintances will think are candy, that provide you with a meal's worth of protein. Trader Joe's sells the candy without a lot of ceremony or packaging, which helps us as consumers afford the price.

Whole Foods Markets also has an excellent selection of candies, gourmet goodies ranging from Lindt's chocolates to chocolate coated licorice, and sometimes even jalapeno chocolates , as well as a regular range of exclusive quantity imports – this Texas-based chain store has a fully-loaded self-indulgence department, the candy aisle is upscale, indeed. Brand names such as Godiva, Lindt, Toblerone, Perugina, DeLa Rocha, and more. The low lighting, the coffee bar in the center of the store with free samples, surrounded by chocolate decadence of the finest quality, all highly designed and planned for optimum sales is too much for the ordinary shopper to withstand without purchasing at least a box or so before moving on to the produce aisles, also full of nature's candy – dates, raisins, figs, dried fruit sweetened with turbinado sugar and more. There's the truth – the stuff is good, and difficult to avoid at Whole Foods, most customers take care to hide their secret goodies from other shoppers.

General Nutrition Centers stock things that are frequently mistaken for candies, the protein bar, right by the cashier's kiosk. Not everyone finds these to be tasty, in fact, the general public is no longer allowed to purchase the mint-sweetened, no sugar added (sugar-free) carob bars, which are THE BEST! After going here, you are ready for the candy bin, and can deal with all those discount designer chocolates at T.J. Maxx's or Filene's that are sold at half the price of this year's models on display at local candy stores.

The Children's Museum gift shop in Boston, Massachusetts is a wonderful place to get candies, on the way out of the museum, and is a great way to limit the quantity of products that are purchased to be consumed. If the price of admission is not pricey enough for you, and you do not want to become a museum member, take out one of your Andrew Jackson greenbacks, and try a few morsels of treats at the gift shop. So also a potentially eye and brain, as well as mouth candy haven is the North Shore Children's Museum gift shop in Salem, Massachusetts, if memory serves me correctly. There are loads of souvenir shops around Salem, as well as a salt water taffy shop by the waterfront. More about bringing your bevy of children or child-like beauties to this taffy shop in a bit.

A distributor of these products is Rand Candy of Canton, Massachusetts, a company that will deliver to you if you are in the Boston area, which does have a minimum order, and which carries Jelly Bellies, in the regular as well as the sugar-free variety. If you call a few days in advance, the friendly customer service personnel will get you anything your heart desires. If you are part of a family that orders candy by the case, for some unknown reason, this is the place to call.

Newbury Street in Boston hosts a number of candy shops, one of which is Sugar Haven, on Newbury Street, in Boston. The store opens at 11 am and closes at midnight most nights. The clear bins are there, stocking candy for $2.89 per quarter pound, and chocolates for $3.89 per quarter pound. The availability of sugar-free candies includes hard candies, gummi candies (gummi bears, gummi worms, and more), licorice, red and black, and more. If the customer service personnel can get it for you without damaging the store or themselves or you, and it is sweet, you have got it, for a reasonable market price. Free samples are generous, without being ridiculous, and the price paid for the candy is well worth the show of this retail storefront. Sugar Haven is the best, in my opinion. Maybe your opinion is different than my opinion is, though.

The best candy stores around Boston, I do not know, yet, there are so many of them to choose from, with names like Sugar Haven on Newbury Street, American Nut and Chocolate on New Market Square, Sweet-n-Nasty on Massachusetts Avenue, Gourmet Boutique on Huntington Avenue Street, Back Bay Chocolate on Marlboro Street, Rickard Chocolate on High Street, All Things Chocolate on St. James Avenue, Beau Chocolate on High Street in Boston, Dairy Fresh Candies on Salem Street, Lindt Chocolate on Boylston Street, Continental Card and Candyrama on Beacon Street in Brookline, LA Burdick Chocolate on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Serenade Chocolatier on Harvard Square in Brookline, Hidden Sweets on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Gourmet Boutique on Huntington Avenue, Sweet-n-Nasty on Massahusetts Avenue, Belgian Truffle House on Broadway in Somerville, Williams Candy Company on Main Street in Somerville, Camilla's Ice Cream and Candy on High Street in Medford, Johnson Candy Company on Jacques Street in Sommerville, Priscilla Candy on Walden Street in Concord, Candy Castle on Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington – plus there are more candy stores, not including the hotel gift shop, and that yummy candy dish at the front desk of the hotel, stocked with mints or hard candy or puffy candy, or perhaps sticky candy.

Looks like there are dozens of candy shops: shops that specialize in candy, in chocolate, in healthy candy alternatives, candy for children – many of these places carry sugar-free candy. There is rock candy, candy in the shape of jewelry, art candy, candy in the form of pens, pencils, papers, even pooping reindeer and pooping rabbit candy. There are adult candy shops, too, places that sell candy to adults only. Save these things for special occasions, and you will not need to heed the advice of a doctor on a regular basis regarding anything other than glucose consumption, nor worry about fruit and carbohydrate exchanges.

Sugar-free gummi donuts, or sugar-free gummi hamburgers, I have not gotten that far, yet. I've seen the gummi hamburger, the gummi snake, the gummi donut, the gummi breakfast – however, not the sugar-free variety yet. Fruit-juice sweetened fruit snacks are available in the breakfast aisle of most supermarkets, and contain less sucrose and more fructose than gummi candy does. Eye candy is available, some of it is pretty scary looking, if that is what you are looking for in the way of candy. Reading the labels to most of the candy packages is a scary experience, also.

Where is that salt water taffy store? Do you want to know? I have not found the salt water taffy store again, yet, either. You know, the one your grandparents or parents or best friends took you to for a little bit of a treat – that candy that was stickier than peanut butter. Let's see if the shop stocks the sugar-free variety, too, which I like for its light, fluffy texture. The salt-water taffy store on Tourist Row in Salem is excellent for its ability to get you or me to go in, sample a little, purchase a little, and get out of the candy store.

The 25 best candy shops listed in the latest Fodor's tourist guide, I don't know, I have not looked – however, the book is out there, it is published by Random House, and used copies are available at places like Raven's Book Store, or Barnes and Noble, which has an excellent selection of candy by the cashier booths at the suburban stores. The little truffles wrapped in gold, the fine silver chocolates, the clear boxes, the tins of candies – all so excellent and serving sized, too. I told you what candy store I like the best, it is Sugar Haven, and that's that, plus you have another 20 or so candy stores to pick and choose from, plus sensible alternatives to ordinary candy stores; not including Weight Watchers support groups, which hopefully you do not need if you are reading this.

Then, there's that national craze called Edible Arrangements: chocolate dipped apples, chocolate dipped strawberries, fruit arrangements, delivered – the sort of thing that is so expensive that it is annoying to receive it, yet it is a great gift to receive, as your family can use it as a centerpiece for a block party, as long as they are willing to purchase refills. There's a few Edible Arrangements stores in Boston, too – all promise delivery to the home or office.

More upscale, more individual, more Boston than Edible Arrangements is the Finale Dessert Company, with four locations in the Boston area. The signature blue box says “Boston”, and will conceal any sort of chocolate-covered, mouth-watering, light, sweet, delectable temptation you are able to afford, with locations slightly out of the way to keep out the browsers and the non-buyers.

A call to the Jelly Belly company reveals that one of their clients is Closetec, located on 45 Benjamin Street in Dedham, MA – so, if you do not know what a Jelly Belly is, you can go there to have your closet remodeled to hide your stash of Trader Joe's candies or Whole Foods designer label chocolates, while enjoying a handful of these variably tasty treats. Yes, we mean, hide your stash of most excellent goodies from your generic chocolate consuming people, if not, encourage your household to eat these luxuries as languidly and as hospitably as is humanly possible.

Here's a fact bit for you from Grolier's Encyclopedia, glucose is also called dextrose, this most simple form of sugar is important to fueling the human body. That is what the more complex sugars are supposed to eventually be in your body, glucose. Here's another fact from Grolier's, the human body stores sugar in the form of glycogen in your liver.

Reading this article will not cause you to gain weight, the article itself contains no sugar, no dairy, no wheat, and no gluten. It is safe reading for santosha vegans as well as kosha or kosher diets, and is readable by kyosha, and ryosha vegetarians, also. Warning: By the time you wade through this article, you may be overloaded with information about candy.